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Film Magazine ‘Sumpah Pontianak’

Title

Year/Period

1950s

Region

Singapore

Material

Paper

Dimension

Object size: 25.2 x 19.1 cm

Accession No.

2006-00296

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

NLB Type

Book

In 1957, the hit Malay film ‘Sumpah Pontianak’ (Curse of the Vampire) sparked a craze for home-grown horror films. Based on popular Malay folklore and ‘bangsawan’ (Malay opera) stories, these films used special make-up and cinematic effects to depict the supernatural beings that the local audience had long feared.