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  • He falls (rather than jumps) and finds the suitcase, releasing the kuntilanak.

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  • The kuntilanak has been one of the more frustrating vampire types I have looked at on Taliesin

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  • The figure stands and turns her head to camera, revealing our first glimpse of the kuntilanak (Dewi Perssik); greyed skin and black eyes. monstrous face

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  • The kuntilanak attacks her, biting her neck and drinking her blood.

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  • Actually Dewi Perssik is the best thing about this film, cackling away and bestowing the kuntilanak with all sorts of weird.

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  • This is some new kuntilanak lore for us but in absolute keeping with tradition.

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  • Kuntilanak, along with pontianak, matianak or boentianak, are vampire-like personages from Malay and Indonesian folklore.

    February 23, 2010

  • All contain the element anak, child. Pontianak is also the name of a city in Kalimantan.

    February 23, 2010