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When we talk about the world of horror movies,

there are names identified with horror, like:

Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi.

But there is another name that I think

surpasses every one of them.

And her name is...

Suzzanna.

[ominous music]

[eerie laughter]

She's the real queen of horror.

She's not acting in her movies; she's just herself.

She was very famous. Everyone knows Suzzanna.

Dominating horror films...

[screams]

...produced in the 1980s and ’90s.

[eerie laughter]

Miss Suzzanna can never be replaced.

She could play a role with just her gaze.

It was so powerful.

Wow.

Her piercing stare

and cold expression

made the late Suzzanna such a mysterious figure.

She was fully into the world of traditional rural mysticism.

She had pictures she used to do before the start of the horror movies.

Suzzanna was not only a horror actress,

but also a symbol

of our audience’s devotion to Indonesian films.

[ominous music]

[music continues]

[tranquil music]

[gentle nature sounds]

[upbeat music]

[motor purring]

[upbeat music]

[foreign language vocal music]

[gentle music]

[dog barking]

- Hi. - Hello.

[indistinct overlapping voices]

- Hello. - Hello.

Nice to see you.

[dog barking]

This was Suzzanna’s room.

These were her clothes,

the ones that she wore in her final films.

These were a source of pride for Suzzanna.

And this was Suzzanna’s favorite:

water with jasmine in it.

This is the water she usually drank

to nourish her soul. Smells good.

She drank the water, and she ate the jasmine.

Like chewing candy or peanuts.

The taste was sweet. It was her favorite.

Suzzanna died here.

When we are “called home,”

we are prepared.

We are not afraid.

[startling music]

Our shaman is dead.

[screams]

I’m Murni.

Queen of black magic.

Everyone still talks about her because she represents

many good things about Indonesian film.

[ominous music]

[screams]

If I want to scare you, it must come from here, from within.

It’s the same as declaring love for someone in a movie.

Say it with your heart.

[tense music]

She was happy to be a horror star.

[exciting music]

Suzzanna felt that readiness,

and she became like a family friend.

[upbeat music]

When I worked with Suzzanna,

her movies had a huge audience.

Your mother right here

is the most powerful in this world.

[explosion]

A lot of people watched.

I don't know how many. Millions of people.

It's not necessarily the movies in which she plays,

but the person that she was made her big.

She was a very difficult person to talk to

for newspaper people.

They would ask always about her private life,

which she didn't like.

She wanted to talk about the movies.

"Don't talk about my private life."

[mysterious music]

[exotic music]

Suzzanna bathed here.

Meditated here, bathed here.

The prayers,

the wishes.

When we were done, we’d open our mouths.

Three times.

Three drops on our tongues.

It meant our wishes would come true.

But if we missed one drop, we’d have to repeat the process

for at least 35 more days.

Her name was Suzanna Martha Frederika van Osch.

It sounds Dutch.

But she’s actually mixed race.

Indonesia is a massive archipelago of thousands of islands.

and hundreds of different ethnic groups, like 350 plus.

We're talkind different languages, different cultures, different religions.

The Balinese are predominantly Hindu.

The Sundanese from West Java are predominantly Muslim.

So there's a big range.

When Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch,

there was assimilation.

Then there was Pearl Harbor.

[explosions rumbling]

And the Japanese occupation.

The Dutch people were put into camps.

In 1945, the Japanese capitulated.

The Americans freed Indonesia from Japan,

and a few days later, Sukarno announced a proclamation of independence.

It was 17 August 1945

The nationalization process was a process of bringing disparate groups together

under one flag.

That was in stark contrast to kicking the Dutch out,

who had, for hundreds of years,

told us that we were less than,

told us that we were going to be extracted and controlled forever.

[martial drumming]

Suzzanna’s father was a soldier

in the Dutch army.

He was on duty in Subang, West Java, when

he was shot by the Japanese.

Dead.

Her mother was six months pregnant at the time.

Heard the news...

shocked.

She started bleeding...

[dissonant music]

...and was admitted to the hospital.

Suzzanna was born

in Bogor.

October 13, 1942.

Her birth was premature.

For six months she had a yellow body

and stayed in an incubator.

Her mother returned to Holland.

From childhood, she was cared for by her grandmother.

She was just called Susi.

I loved to pick flowers with her.

"Let’s pick some flowers."

If there was a car passing,

we both got down on the ground.

Her father was Dutch,

but her grandma was Javanese.

So she got along fine.

We went to different schools.

She was in Pendowo,

at a Catholic school.

[church bells tolling]

Suzzanna was quickly popular because she was lively.

During recess she’d suddenly do

the splits! With her legs, you know.

Suzzanna is the youngest daughter of Johanna Bojoh,

who has a brief singing career in the late 1940s

under the name Miss Joppi.

Suzzanna finds herself kind of following in her mother's footsteps.

Yes indeed. She loved to tell her friends,

"I’m going to be a famous movie star."

In the second year she suddenly disappeared.

Later, I heard she was in Jakarta, acting in movies.

There was a search for new, young actresses

and celebrity faces.

She enters this talent contest, which are quite common and quite popular.

And often producers and others will spot and recruit new talent.

She is noticed by a director and producer, Usmar Ismail,

the father of Indonesian cinema.

Then she was cast in ASRAMA DARA.

That's where Suzzanna first got recognition as an actress.

And it was in that environment

that she learned a lot,

maybe because she was tutored by Usmar Ismail.

[singing in foreign language]

The one I like the most is Mom's movie ASRAMA DARA.

How old are you?

Eighteen!

Me? I’m nineteen,

minus...

minus a little bit.

It best represented Mom.

That was what her daily life looked like.

Since she was a little girl, the whole family knew what she wanted to be.

"I want to be a movie star."

But it turned out to be true.

Look at my mom, she has become a respected woman.

And she has this amazing debut. She's a real standout in the film.

Yes, all of her friends watched it.

Of course, she was so happy.

"Am I good?"

"You’re good, Suz."

In 1960, the second Indonesian Film Festival took place.

She was awarded Best Child Actress.

Then the movie went to the Asia Pacific Film Festival

where she also won Best Child Actress.

My first film was ASRAMA DARA, after I was chosen

as runner-up - sorry - champion, in a talent contest.

It was a teen film. I mean a drama film

about teenagers from broken homes living in a dormitory.

She's seventeen and her family arrange a marriage for her

with a young man from her own village, a guy called Dicky Suprapto.

I was also close to Dicky. Dicky was also my friend.

They met when playing with friends.

I was asked to sit together with her.

Her grandma trusted me.

Dicky's background is not quite clear,

but he comes to develop an interest in the entertainment industry himself.

Becomes a producer and an actor, often alongside Suzzanna.

Dicky Suprapto was not only Suzzanna's husband and producer,

he also managed Suzzanna's career.

[eerie organ music; coughing]

[speaking foreing language]

Suzzanna’s attachment to Dicky Suprapto paved the way for her “hot films.”

As a married couple, and they have two children together,

Ari Adrianus Suprapto, who's born 6 July 1960,

and Kiki Maria, born 10 September 1962.

Mom and Dad were actors, but they had a desire to produce movies

with their preferred themes.

[upbeat music]

In the 1950s and 1960s there were various upheavals.

[crowd noise]

There was an ideological war between communists and non-communists.

So they protested against Hollywood films.

From 1964-1966,

no Hollywood films were shown in Indonesia.

The focus was more on movies about the struggle for independence,

getting the Dutch out, and what they went through in that period.

It wasn't really movies for all the people.

It was really a class thing.

[explosion sound]

[percussive music]

People have upheld the transfer of executive power from

President Sukarno to Lieutenant General Suharto.

There had been reports that Sukarno would try to regain the authority

he gave to Suharto after last year's attempted communist coup.

But today's action places Suharto firmly in charge.

Which gave birth to

The New Order regime.

Suharto, the dictator Suharto who is the second president of Indonesia,

had a whole philosophy of government called Orde Baru,

which means "The New Order."

The government didn't want Indonesia to become too western,

especially the village people.

They were supposed to really know their own culture.

That level of state repression that existed under The New Order

was massive, and because it was a military dictatorship,

they had the ability to enter so many different parts of a person's life,

including using as part of its economic ideal of how to elevate Indonesia

really strictly and quite deliberately

required women to be subservient to men.

The popular phrase was, “The Mattress, The Well, and The Kitchen.”

According to The New Order, women should be good mothers,

good wives, good children, and good citizens.

Everything was about domestication.

After Suharto came to power and was close to the United States,

Indonesia's economy began to improve

with many investments from the United States,

including Hollywood films.

Once the economy and political situation stabilized,

The New Order reveals its approach to popular culture,

and in particular, cinema.

It adopts what is called "the quantity approach,"

and this means bringing in

imported films from across the world:

Japan, Europe, the US, other places, to fill the cinemas and bring people back.

Maybe the government thought,

“Just let them have something

where they feel they can escape from the reality that we've created.”

Because of that, censorship was softened.

These are often B-grade exploitation films,

and lots of the importers bringing these films in

turned to producing films themselves.

To import three movies from abroad, they had to make one movie themselves.

So many films were made.

The popular cinema becomes this kind of genre cinema:

horror, action, romance. This is also the era of sex films.

Suzzanna, in the 1970s,

started to get into exploitation movies,

especially sex-themed movies.

She was called the “Queen of Bed.”

Actually, “Queen of Sex.”

What we deem as sexy now is

probably different than back then.

And of course you have to look at it in Indonesian context.

I mean because it's a relatively conservative country

Seeing a lot of thigh or a bit of breast can already be sexy.

But with Suzzanna, less of that. The sexiness is way more subtle.

Maybe the initial idea was to make a serious drama

with BREATHING IN MUD.

Also THE EARTH IS GETTING HOTTER which wasn’t just a drama about prostitutes,

but also about emerging sexual lives.

Shut up, you whore! - You womanizer!

The film used a moral frame,

to justify the presence of hot scenes.

The film captured the urbanizing spirit of the time.

The title is very judgmental: the life of a prostitute is considered that of

a woman who breathes in mud and is very dirty.

You begin to get the sense that Dicky's leveraging her fame

and building a kind of family business.

Dicky and Suzzanna have a music career together.

They release a single called "Salah Sangka" ('Misunderstood').

[singing in foreign language]

And release two albums.

[singing in foreign language]

They release a third album called "Family 3,"

and this one brings in their daughter.

[singing in foreign language]

Kiki Maria will go on to have her own singing career.

[singing continues]

There isn’t much of an age difference between me and my mother.

We stayed in one place

because our home was also our office.

Our studio was elsewhere.

[singing in foreign language]

Where are the supplies which should have been delivered yesterday?

Wasn't Grandpa coming here yesterday?

[exciting music]

Throw your gun to me

or I will separate this kid's head from his neck.

Interestingly, in the 1970s, as far as I know,

Suzzanna only made one horror film:

BIRTH IN THE GRAVE.

[thunderstorm sounds]

[screams]

This became the forerunner of the iconic “Queen of Horror” movies.

These horror things originated from Dad's movie back then,

BIRTH IN THE GRAVE, around 1971 or ‘72.

But actually it was not a ghost movie.

[speaking in foreign language]

It was about a pregnant woman who was stricken by an acid attack.

Make it short and sweet, soon you will feel nothing.

[screams]

Then she lost consciousness and was buried alive.

But before she was completely buried, her baby was born.

[thunder]

The voice of the baby scared everyone.

[eerie laughter]

[screams]

[ominous music]

[thunder]

[music continues]

[gentle piano music]

In a cover story of Aneka Ria magazine,

Suzzanna said that she was picky about roles.

so she didn't act much.

But we suspected that she had problems.

Domestic troubles and personal problems.

Dicky is at a nightclub around 1973 or 1974,

where he meets Rachmawati Sukarnopoutri,

the recently divorced daughter of Indonesia's first president,

President Sukarno.

Dicky and Rachmawati fall in love,

and then get married,

an Islamic marriage.

Suzzanna, with her two children,

is now abandoned by her husband.

Dicky claims they had never been married,

then at the same time will not give Suzzanna a divorce.

This gets very messy for Suzzanna.

As a Catholic, she can actually not divorce.

She retreats from public life.

Suzzanna confesses to journalists

that she had attempted murder-suicide with her children.

She claims that she had prepared a room

by dousing it in petrol and had prepared a gun.

She doesn't go through with this because,

according to her story, Ari turns to her and says, "Mom, don't do this.

I haven't yet had a chance to make you happy."

And it turns out that he's a troubled youth.

He's seventeen, he's dropped out of school.

Reportedly, he's a morphine addict.

By day, he works fixing cars or bikes.

At night, he's out racing cars or motorbikes in this kind of gang.

He's attacked outside their family home by a group of youths.

Suzzanna rushes him to hospital.

He dies on the way.

[gentle piano music]

It was really unbelievable.

My brother was also my best friend.

We couldn't believe it, but we lived with it day by day.

And my mom was extremely shocked at the time.

The reality that she lost her son, it made her not...

She said she didn't want to act in movies anymore.

She didn't want to.

[gentle piano music]

[rustling footsteps]

It was 2006 when she started to get sick.

[sweeping sounds]

From there to over there is all the family of Suzzanna.

My next grave...

I don't know when, but I already bought.

Because it's difficult to find empty land.

[sweeping sounds]

When Miss Suzzanna would come here, when she was still alive,

my mom was taking care of it.

From 2009 until now, it’s me.

Three times I dreamed of Miss Suzzanna asking for help.

“Help, help, help.”

Three times I answered, "Maam, why are you asking for help?”

Suzzanna didn’t answer.

I swear on her grave it’s true. I dreamed of Suzzanna.

She threw me a scarf.

A long, blue scarf.

[birds chirping]

Then I came here.

There was a blue scarf tied to Suzzanna’s grave,

just like in my dream.

So she gave me a scarf.

Not directly in my sleep, on the grave.

Tied to Miss Beatrix’s and Mr. Ari’s.

Also once, on my child's third birthday,

there was a clown entertaining.

He saw her. He saw Miss Suzzanna

under a frangipani tree

wearing a very beautiful bun.

“I’m sorry, ma’am, we have no jasmine. Here are some roses.”

We offered, but she was gone already.

It gave me goosebumps. I didn’t see her, but the clown did.

My gosh, she was there at my child’s birthday.

[eerie music]

The veil between worlds is actually very thin in Indonesia.

Horror films in Indonesia, according to Karl Heider, are always related to

mystical stories, ghosts, and supernatural things.

Of course, this has a connection to our culture.

Keeping a harmonious balance

is part of Javanese tradition. With oneself,

the environment, and also harmony

with something that is supernatural or transcendent.

Moreover, we are also a highly imaginative society.

That led to the emergence of stories about spirits,

stories about revenants,

stories about ghosts, and so on.

Indonesian films, especially horror films, usually

take stories that are rooted in our beliefs.

Indonesia is very intimate with mythology and folklore.

Indonesia, last time I checked,

We have 44 horror characters,

not including their derivatives.

[suspenseful music]

And you have so many types of horror legends.

[music continues]

We have Kuntilanak. We have Toyol, the small boy ghost.

We have Ratu Ilmu Hitam.

[tense music]

Suster Ngesot the nurse, she crawls around.

My fear is reflected in characters like Wewe Gombel,

who has the origin story of a woman

who couldn’t have a kid when she was alive,

then was betrayed by her husband and killed herself.

After she becomes a ghost, she’s obsessed with

taking kids that are not loved by their parents.

My most terrifying ghost when I was growing up was the Kuntilanak,

known in Malaysia and across Singapore as Pontianak.

And I would sit in Jakarta, where I grew up,

the main city by the mountains,

and when I would go up to the mountains,

there'd be like this fog that would come through,

and my terror that I would find the fog would clear,

and there would be the Kuntilanak

just standing there, looking at me with her long black hair and her black gown.

[wailing]

Kuntilanaks always wear white dresses, and their hair is long and messy.

There are some whose faces are smashed.

Some say there are also red Kuntilanaks, allegedly very powerful,

extremely angry maybe.

And they mostly have the same story.

Kuntilanak, or Pontilanak as she's known in Malaysia and Singapore,

is a ghost of a woman who has died in childbirth.

[thunder]

In some versions, she's buried and they baby is born underground.

So there's all different versions of this folktale.

She comes back and haunts children, so I was terrified of her.

Women who are pregnant

and also men. Very closely related to Sundel Bolong.

The similarity is that they are long-haired female ghosts

who have a high-pitched laugh

and fly in the trees.

Sundel Bolong and Kuntilanak are actually women who die in childbirth

or while pregnant, and wander around with unfinished business.

Not only when I grew up, but almost all my life, I heard mystical stories.

If we compare ourselves with, excuse me, foreigners from abroad,

in believing these things, it is more difficult

for them to accept such things as reality.

But since I was a kid, I’ve gotten used to such things.

It’s something that’s inseparable from our culture.

We always lived side by side with it.

There were many at my home. We called it “The Ghost’s Nest.”

We would be asleep, and suddenly a stone would move or someone would walk by.

There were knocks or scratching at my bedroom window.

I have good friends who have had Kuntilanaks in their house,

who have been kissed by Kuntilanaks.

There was also a creature, this small, walking on the roof,

hopping, not walking, but this small.

Have you ever experienced a ghostly apparition firsthand?

I can’t tell you.

There are things that have happened that I can talk about,

but there are things that, if I tell you,

I will be considered crazy.

[lively music]

Rapi Films, for me, is not only a film company.

Every time I stepped into a cinema… Back then, when we watched movies,

we didn’t pay attention to the production company.

But every time that logo popped up,

[mimics theme song]

I felt like I was entering heaven.

[groans]

PRIMITIF was the first picture of Barry Prima with us.

The picture did well, and then we could sell a few characters overseas.

[screams]

[exciting music]

And then after that, we did JAKA SEMBUNG, also with Barry Prima.

[light mysterious music]

[whooshing]

[fire roaring]

And there was a very good gimmick in the movie

where the opponent's head was cut off.

It comes back and joins to the body again.

[menacing laughter]

[strange warbling noise]

And that was very nicely done by Sisworo Gautama Putra.

The greatest

director in Indonesia:

Sisworo Gautama Putra.

He was a very hard-working man,

and he always came up with new ideas.

How could you kill Pretl!

You're mean!

[exploding sounds]

But I think Sisworo Gautama Putra made good films.

They walked the line between exploitation and art.

[ominous music]

Yes, they were exploitations.

But these films couldn’t be duplicated or imitated by other filmmakers.

[thumping]

[dramatic music]

[screams]

[gentle music[

It is through the effort of her friend, the film director Ali Shahab,

that Suzzanna returns to acting.

She did a 1978 film called PULAU CINTA.

This begins the next phase of her career and in her life.

[dramatic music]

SUNDELBOLONG was the first horror that's a common story everybody knows.

SUNDELBOLONG was the first legend to be taken to screen.

Suzzanna was suggested by Sisworo Gautama Putra, the director,

who saw that her appearance was very good

and that she can do well.

So we took her.

[evil laughter]

Sundel means a very bad word, like a prostitute.

Bolong means old.

The Sundel Bolong is always wearing a white gown.

She has long black hair, like very long. It comes down to her hips,

because it's got to cover her back.

And the reason it has to cover her back

is because there's always a hole in her back.

It's believed that she gave birth to the baby

and the baby was born from the back.

[tense music]

[moans]

[baby crying]

That's a key component of the Sundel Bolong ghost

is that there's this hole,

which has maggots. It's kind of rotting.

[screams]

[dramatic music]

[evil laughter]

And usually she's floating, so you either can't see her feet,

or if you look down, you'll see that she's actually floating off the ground.

Floating.

[dramatic music]

She has died in childbirth,

and usually that is born of rape.

So that's quite a specific thing to Sundel Bolong.

She's very scary and terrifying, but she's also very pretty.

But the thing that we have that I think is quite interesting

is that she can actually come back to life, and not like a zombie.

If it's nailed down, it's a beautiful person.

If a man takes a nail

and hammers it either into her head or sometimes the back of her neck,

then she can become incredibly beautiful and be tamed.

So she can return back to life and be your wife.

She's afraid of me.

Anyway, if she's around here...

The story is about Alisa,

played by Suzzanna,

a woman who’s a former sex worker.

She gets married and…

Alisa is raped and she gets pregnant.

It’s a heavy burden, so she wants an abortion,

which is not safe, resulting in her death and making her a Sundel Bolong.

She's a very interesting ghost for what she has to say about the patriarchy.

Remember the main witness, Mrs. Alisa Herdanto,

is a former prostitute.

Thus it is impossible for these two defendants to commit rape.

What she has to say about how women are controlled.

The lady has sinned against her husband.

If I fulfill the lady's request,

I’ll have sinned against God.

Know, Madam, abortion is murder.

In SUNDELBOLONG, there are some very disturbing things.

There is an abortion scene.

The abortion itself was not a problem; I think I’m used to seeing blood.

But, when she is about to have the abortion, she sees babies with disabilities

or hydrocephalus lying around everywhere.

Oh my God, this is so scary

and the stigma is that if you have an abortion, and the abortion fails,

the child will be born disabled. That was very disturbing.

Wow, wow, no, no, no. I can’t.

I have to skip that part.

SUNDELBOLONG is probably most famous because of Suzzanna.

We’re all very familiar

with the close-up of Suzzanna’s face.

Her glare.

Especially for SUNDELBOLONG.

It’s iconic, I think.

Her stare. It’s so influential.

Suzzanna staring...

Even though I had a scary stare,

I was never angry.

I don’t think Suzzanna’s stare

is her biggest strength.

Yes, it’s very powerful,

but her biggest strength is her melancholic face.

Even when she was using that trademark stare...

Those two children

must die.

...she’s still sad.

I was her makeup artist.

For SUNDELBOLONG, I put a black makeup effect around her eyes.

Suzzanna asked me to make a special arch for her eyebrow,

slightly broken in the middle of it.

Her make-up became her trademark.

Black make-up around the eyes, dark hair and a pale face.

I was perplexed at first about how to make a hole in Sundel Bolong’s back.

I bought several t-shirts and then foam for the hole was taped on a t-shirt.

So the t-shirt was worn by Miss Suzie and I measured the hole,

and then taped it with foam.

To remove the foam, I used pliers, not my hands.

I made the hole look like meat and put some white maggots in it.

And it was good.

She goes to the place...

What do you want?

...and asks for chicken satay.

They serve her, and she was eating not like a normal human being.

[chomping]

The person who is serving her is so shocked they think she must be a ghost.

The 200-stick satay scene is a meme everywhere.

It's really everywhere.

- Huh? - Satay.

When someone says it, everybody knows what you're talking about.

Soto.

And then the Soto in that movie!

[gulping]

[dramatic music]

[splashing]

I'm afraid, sir. She looks scary, sir.

What? Like me?

And usually,

even though it's scary, it always plays out with humor.

The meet the ghost, they meet Suzzanna, and they're really so scared

they don't know what to do.

They usually run away

That's very much part of the interplay.

Sundelbolong! Sundelbolong!

Nowadays, the jokes and the comedy might seem dated.

But at that time, that was the kind of comedy that Indonesians wanted.

That was the kind of horror that Indonesians wanted.

What is that?

That’s why SUNDELBOLONG was so big.

Huh?

It captured the imagination of the Indonesian audience.

Dead body!

The first of Suzzanna’s movies that I watched was SUNDELBOLONG.

So it might be why it’s the most special to me,

and the one that got me hooked on Suzzanna.

You are a cursed human!

[screams]

[flames roaring]

It then made me interested in

issues such as gender, which made me later think,

"Oh, this is kind of representative, when we talk about

gender equality, or stigma, or those things."

I could use SUNDELBOLONG for my analysis.

We see her change her name from "Suzanna" with one Z to "Suzzanna" with two Zs.

And she'll begin to take on more mystical and supernatural qualities.

We were confident after we saw her in SUNDELBOLONG.

In the 1980s,

she chose the horror genre.

Early on, I acted in dramas, comedies, sad films.

But why was my own life full of drama? Every day, I was dealing with sadness.

But then along came SUNDELBOLONG. I don’t know why, but my instinct said to take it.

So I took it, and from then, I became addicted to horror films.

I will make you the queen of black magic.

THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC and SUNDELBOLONG were both made in 1981.

[frightening music]

What interested me when I started watching Suzzanna’s movies

was the portrayal of women as representing monsters.

[echoing sound effect]

[explosions]

In horror movies, you could show so many things

as long as, at the end, you show it was a figure,

for the most part it was a kiai or a religious figure,

who said something like "Well, you cannot do everything that you just saw."

Murders happened, nudity...

Everything which was not allowed happend.

[explosion]

And then the kiai at the end of the movie would say,

"Please repent, return to God."

In the name of Allah, the most gracious and the most merciful.

And often also, Suzzanna would convert to a more pious woman.

Perhaps by conquering these supernatural beings, who are depicted as women,

their existence as men will be elevated.

The characters Suzzanna played always begin as a woman who’s wronged

and then takes revenge.

These films emphasize the question, "Can women only fight after they die?"

[creepy organ music]

After that, we did NYI BLORONG.

In NYI BLORONG, she's the daughter of Nyi Roro Kidul.

She is a deity. She lives under the sea.

And she lures in men.

You can cut deals with her in order to get riches as well.

Nyi Blorong is like "Queen of the Snakes."

She’s a beautiful woman

with the body of a snake.

Suzzanna played a big role in disseminating the stories

and also in aiding to have images with those stories.

That was one of the interesting consequences

of Suzzanna going into horror movies.

And that became her niche.

[bubbling water]

Nyi Blorong strikes a deal with a man.

Anything.

He has to kill members of his family, which he does.

Eat it.

So that's the interesting thing, that in the 1980s,

Suzzanna's position modernized folklore and fantasy.

[evil laughter]

Even though we had a makeup man,

she always wanted to check her makeup, her hairstyle, and everything.

She want to have the real snakes. She said, "No, I want real snakes."

[mysterious music]

She wasn't afraid.

Usually women are afraid of snakes, right?

Yes, the snakes were all alive. Don't ask whether she was afraid or not.

She was.

She certainly was. She was careful.

Try using fake snakes on the head when the camera is close up.

It would look odd.

When the snake is real, its tongue will come out of its mouth.

That's what makes it scary. If you use fake snakes, it will be bland.

Maybe it would work in a long shot.

But Suzzanna wanted to use real snakes. It wasn’t the director's request.

We made a wire loop around her head.

The wire was covered by hair so that it wasn’t visible.

The snakes moved all the way to her face.

I shuddered.

She would embody the characters she played.

All the way to the rituals,

and deep explorations of them, since she played major characters.

She's bigger than life.

The fact that she could play in those different types of horror movies

also had a lot of legends surrounding her.

So she herself was also seen as a... well, a...

almost supernatural being and not really just a human.

[mystical music]

Often people would say she had supernatural powers.

They believed there was some kind of entity entwined with her.

I choose to just believe this

without investigating further.

Your mouth will speak wise words fluently.

Maybe it’s the fact that she was so mysterious in real life

because we can never know what really transpired, what she felt

or what she herself believed.

Suzzanna did rituals such as fasting, pilgrimage.

When she was doing a movie like NYI BLORONG,

she usually made a pilgrimage to the Samudera Beach Hotel.

Some say it's polytheism, some disagree.

But understand, it’s not polytheism. It’s not devil worship.

We are not worshiping the devil.

[waves crashing]

She asked for permission there,

because she wanted to play the character.

And of course we did some fasting first.

We would then communicate with the Queen of the South Sea.

We brought two coconuts.

One we gave to the Queen of the South Sea

and the other was drunk by Suzzanna.

And there would be prayers.

And then the mystical whisper would communicate with her.

“During the shooting, you have to be like this."

“The taboos are this, this, and this.”

There are also many rituals, not just one.

There are various kinds of rituals, right?

One ritual is that we are not allowed to have sex during a shoot.

[sizzling]

I did hear the rumors.

But I never witnessed her doing anything like that.

My ancestors are from Java,

so I do meditate.

But I don’t present offerings.

Offerings are these little gifts.

So I just pray and meditate,

because I think every inch of soil is owned by God.

So every time before we prepare to shoot,

we have to pray, according to our own faith.

[enchanting music]

There were rumors out there about Suzzanna eating flowers.

Like roses, magnolias and so on.

Actually, in Indonesia, there's a certain type of flower

which it's believed has some mystical energy in it.

My Mom liked to eat jasmine flowers.

Yes, I knew she liked it, but she wasn’t obsessed with it.

So not only in the movie she played that role,

but outside the movie, she believed in that ritual.

Yes, I still do. Jasmine and wild roses, not fancy roses.

My grandmother taught me.

There were lots of jasmine flowers below my window.

So I picked them and ate them. I also brought them to school.

I don't know exactly what she'd get from them,

but I think she'd get that secret power, I think.

There were believers in the mythology.

Maybe it’s true there were some people who experienced it.

It’s not because I have supernatural powers, like people say.

It’s just a habit of mine.

But she still had that

aura of mystery.

Even if it was something that was made up,

that she created for her image as a horror actress.

She was very successful in doing that.

[evil laughter]

In the 1980s,

more than 60 percent of Indonesian films were horror films.

There was massive growth,

especially with demonic horror and horror stories with ghosts in them.

And when I’d watch mainstream American horror films,

they looked very clean, very neat. And so I didn’t think they were scary.

It’s just that I love horror movies from that period.

Watching those films gave me joy and made me forget that

I grew up in a tough environment with a lot of problems.

My peers doing drugs, not going to school,

ending up in jail at 14 was a normal thing.

But with cinema, I found a whole new world.

[screams]

Why are we afraid of horror movies?

Horror is entertainment.

Horror is entertainment,

which nourishes our hearts.

Why do I have to do it?

It's your duty.

Rakyat is like the commoners or the normal people,

and in Indonesia, it's always the rakyat against the people in power.

They identified with her struggle, because in the movie,

when she was the victim, she had that struggle with normal people also have

in day to day life. They don't have the power to haunt people

and settle their scores.

There were so many incidents of the upper middle class,

the Indonesian elite class...

[screams]

Give her back!

...walking free from their criminal acts.

But then Suzzanna avenges them in her movies.

[gasps in surprise]

I killed all of them.

You're the only one left, Burhan.

It was a catharsis.

Usually corrupt characters, criminals from the bourgeoisie,

meet the fate of being killed

by the avenging ghost played by Suzzanna.

So maybe it's also their own anger,

which is repressed, gets settled by her.

In Indonesion, the number of cinemas per population is very low.

There are cinemas in the main cities and urban centers,

These are often divided into Class 1, 2, and 3.

When a film is released, it goes to Class 1.

Hollywood films go to Class 1,

and Class 2 and Class 3 get the films subsequently.

The films are then released to layar tancap.

[upbeat dance music]

The 70s, 80s, and 90s, and even in present day sometimes,

there are places where they have what is called layar tancap,

and that's where they put sticks in the ground with a big white screen

in the middle of the village.

When a new Suzzanna movie came out in 1980,

it could be booked immediately by touring cinemas.

That's why she has staying power. It’s her niche with the lower class.

Layar tancap is a kindof entertainment for the masses in Indonesia.

The audiences range from children to teenagers, adults, and even the elderly.

It's usually very carnivalesque.

There are a lot of people selling food and drink.

People are talking and interacting.

You know, there are village singers, people selling bakpao,

200 skewers of satay at roadside stalls.

[eerie music]

[chomping]

And then they watch movies together.

There are often a couple of movies in one go.

It was an all-night event, a live celebration, very celebratory.

Because it's not like in a movie theater where you sit quietly.

When we watch a movie at a theater, it’s different.

In a theater, we can’t cheer.

We can’t yell, “Hooray, hooray!” and stuff.

[foreign language dialogue]

Suzzanna’s films, at the beginning when they’re screened, all would be normal.

But as soon as the scares hit,

the demon comes out...

[explosion]

People get really scared, screaming and stuff, you know.

The government has been regulating layar tancap since the 1970s.

Layar tancap must be 5 kilometers from the nearest cinema.

Then it has to be censored again. It has to be an Indonesian movie.

The goal is the establishment of a “cultural fence."

It was believed that the lower classes in the countryside

or outside of the city could not absorb the negative impacts of globalization.

But this was paradoxical, because at the same time,

layar tancap became the outlet for the screening of exploitation films.

Indeed, when we still had the Department of Information,

films were a bit difficult to get.

Thank God, I got my collection from friends in the film community.

Praise the Lord, there are around 450 titles from various genres.

There are western, Indian, domestic, Mandarin, and Thai movies.

Yes, there were rules what kind of films you can screen,

but a lot of people show the films that they want to show

and don't really abide to any rules.

[upbeat dance music]

And it is here that we the kind of building of a kind of collective memory about her

and her importance to Indonesia.

This is destiny.

Humans aren't supposed to refuse it.

[faint mysterious music]

SANGKURIANG was suggested by Suzzanna.

I don't know why, but the legend was that the son...

Mother!

...falls in love with the mother

without knowing this is the mother.

We thought that would be very good.

So we bought the rights to do this movie.

He is your own flesh and blood.

- Murderer! - Forgive me!

Forgive me!

A terrible child! Get lost!

We needed somebody with a tough body and soul.

When I was in junior high,

my mother took me to see SUNDELBOLONG.

As soon as I saw her,

“Oh my God, this woman is so beautiful!

Why can't she be my wife?”

That’s what I said to myself.

Maybe at that time, an angel passed by and heard my wish.

It’s a miracle, really.

[horse galloping]

Sisworo Gautama Putra, he always

talked to me that we have to find all the time the new actors.

It began when I came home from school one day

and someone followed me to my home.

Mother...Mother...

He said I'd been summoned by a director from Jakarta.

At first, I told him

he must be at the wrong address. I wasn’t in the movies; I was a student.

I said, “I can’t act! I'm not an actor!”

“It’s easy, I'll teach you. The important thing is you want to be in a movie.”

He was also a Taekwondo instructor at Santa Maria Elementary School.

[fighting sounds]

“We'll do some tests. We’ll bring you to Jakarta.

If you pass the various tests,

then I will hire you to be in the movie.”

Besides that, must be approved with Suzzanna.

Then, for the final test, I was going to meet

the number one film star in Indonesia: Suzzanna.

So Clift Sangra is one of her kind,

which is handsome. If he's not handsome, she don't know...

Who are you?

And she say, "Okay, yes.

Rapi picked Clift Sangra from that day

and he becomes...

[fight sounds]

[sword whooshing]

[screams]

She did introduce me to him.

As time went by,

Mom was getting closer to Clift as an actor.

She started to spend her days joyfully again.

Clift is 17, the same age as when Ari died.

Well, it was like being with a mother.

You know, she was 23 years older than me.

And Suzzanna was a seasoned artist.

A seasoned artist who was highly respected, while I was nothing, a nobody.

I didn't interfere and can't say...

I couldn't tell you how she felt.

However, I saw happiness. That was all.

Until, one day, it was the last scene on the last day, the last shot.

A kissing scene.

On that last day, during the kissing scene, we had chemistry.

I was scared they’d scold me, thinking I took advantage, kissing Suzzanna.

So I just kept quiet. Then Suzzanna asked, “How was it?”

“Uh, yeah...” I was shy. Afraid to answer.

She said, “Well, I'm happy.

It gave me shivers.”

Suzzanna said that. “So I’m not the only one?”

“No,” she said.

Okay then, that’s all. I stopped right there.

[pleasant piano music]

The Almighty has fated us to meet each other.

For three nights, I couldn’t sleep.

I kept thinking about that kissing scene.

I mean, I hadn’t gone on a date ever, you know.

I was still in high school. I was 17 years old.

Finally, after three days, I found the courage to try calling Suzzanna.

There is insinuation that their love affair

is part of a publicity campaign for the film.

Both deny it.

[soft piano music]

One thing, in that movie, Clift Sangra dared to be nude.

It became a talking point, a controversy.

People were talking that she is much older to him,

but he didn't care. He was in love and he wanted to get married to her.

Of course, people were asking questions all over

since a lot of anonymous letters came in, lots of them.

People said I was going after her wealth, all kinds of things.

Suzzanna also doubted me.

I'm ready to marry you.

No way. How can a mother marry her child?

You're not my mother.

I’m the one who wants to get married, not someone else.

And I’m really sincere. I love you, truly, the way you are.

I have no other intention. Let’s not overthink it, let’s prove it.

We met because of God’s will.

Clift is still 17.

Suzzanna is not officially divorced.

And as a Roman Catholic, she is in fact not allowed to divorce.

She petitions the pope to try and have her marriage annulled.

Somehow, this is successful.

I will make him my husband.

In about 1982, when Clift is about 20, they marry.

In my opinion, it really illustrated her position,

that she had power and authority in the film industry.

Meanwhile, I can never seem

to feel fulfilled or satisfied.

I know that Suzzanna's movies are playing very well.

I don't know what is happening

between them and Rapi.

But one day she calls me and say, "I want to see you."

When we talked to her, we noticed a kind of difference than the other actresses.

She told us she has an offer, and we said,

"Okay, we don't have a lifetime contract with her, so it's fine."

She went to Soraya Films.

The baby you are carrying deserves a life too.

[upbeat soft rock music]

[screams]

[mysterious music fades in]

You are an evil woman with a rotten heart.

Here, take that.

[strange sound effects]

Gobble that up!

[upbeat music]

[screams]

[music continues]

[frightened moans]

[music continues]

[evil laughter]

Meanwhile, Rapi Films

developed the stories of THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC and NYI BLORONG

with their own new star, Joice Erna.

[dramatic music]

But after I watched it, there was no NYI BLORONG aura in Joice Erna.

The aura was in Suzzanna, from her eyes to everything else.

[upbeat soft rock music]

[screams]

[music continues]

[mysterious music fades in]

[upbeat soft rock music]

[screams]

I once asked her, “How do you feel

about this title, 'The Queen of Horror'?"

She said, “I’m proud. I’m happy. What I’ve done hasn’t been in vain.

It means that what I’ve strived for has been successful.”

When I act in horror movies and scare lots of people, why do I feel good?

I feel happy to have so many fans. Even though I

scared them, they still ask for pictures with me.

Many of the young ones call me, “Aunt Suzzanna.”

In her career, she's achieved the most.

After 1981, she wanted to slow down.

Some say that after Sisworo passed away in 1993,

Suzzanna did not want to make movies with anyone else.

At this time, she's living in Magallan, in Java.

They end up adopting a son, Rama Yohanes.

Born around 1994.

As their adopted child, he becomes important

as part of the conflict and debate around inheritance.

Suzzanna’s Mother used to live in Holland as a Dutch citizen.

When she was old, Suzzanna was afraid that no one would take care of her mother.

So she came to Indonesia

and stayed here at our home.

Actually, Suzzanna don't want to retire,

but I told her that the market now is crashed for theaters.

Out of 120 film companies in Indonesia, if I’m not mistaken, only 4 remained.

116 companies went out of business.

People stopped making movies, including me.

And we go to TV.

So that's why she came here to make two or three series.

The golden age of soap operas.

Princess Jasmine, who was torn apart, has come back.

Like 100 episodes or something.

My life has no meaning anymore.

Actually, I have a hint that she is not too well.

"What kind of illness?" I asked.

That’s what friends were wondering.

Suzzanna was sick with diabetes.

In detail, we did not discuss,

because sometimes, when you discuss something,

you tend to bring the spirit down.

I told her, "Why are you not going to the doctor properly?

She said, "I'm all right. I can do anything."

She treat herself as if she's never sick.

She don't want to share that she is sick.

She don't want to believe that.

No, I didn’t know anything right away.

I also seldom met with Clift.

Clift wouldn’t open the door.

We rarely socialized.

Clift is the one counting the time,

getting the food, the medicine.

From head to toe,

I brought everything Suzzanna needed.

And Kiki Maria, her daughter,

lives also in Magelang, across town with her husband,

Abriyarso Boyoh.

I lived in Jakarta at the time. Mom had moved to Magelang.

Then I relocated in 2005,

actually because Mom asked me to.

My dad didn't agree with this.

He considered Magelang to be a city for retirement.

He said, "You're still young. Move there later when you're retired."

But Mom said, "Do it now. I'm lonely."

Kiki doesn’t work; her husband doesn’t work.

No income. No money.

Suzzanna supplies $1000 every month.

Kiki Maria and Clift Sangra had been feuding for a long time.

I lent them my house for them to live in.

There were builders in the house.

I wanted to see what the workers were doing, what they were making.

I went there and I found two workers there.

Suddenly, one of them said to me,

“Sir, how come you want to have an old wife?

“You're handsome, rich, lots of money, an artist.

“If you want to find a young one, it's easy.”

“What do you mean by that?” I asked.

"Yes sir, I can help you.

“You can get a young wife, a beautiful one.”

"What does that mean?"

"To get rid of Miss Suzzanna.”

"What do you mean?"

"To kill her, sir."

[dark electronic music]

Suzzanna was dealing with a family conflict.

There was a fight involving a gun.

[gunshot]

[dark electronic music]

[music continues]

The reporters asked a lot of questions, most of which were answered by Suzzanna.

There was an indication that Kiki hated Clift

because Clift was going to get her inheritance.

Let’s not talk about Kiki. Kiki is my Daughter.

I know her. However mean she got with me,

she doesn’t want to know me...

I know my daughter.

But Abri...

since the beginning, I have never liked him.

An altercation takes place between Clift and Abriyarso

that results in Abriyarso in hospital.

Suzzanna said she missed her grandchild.

“I want to see my grandchild, I miss him," she said.

We knock on the door, nobody answered.

Finally, Suzzanna said, "Try calling.” So I called.

"Kiki, your mother is at the door of the house.”

They immediately hung up.

Well, the door to the house opened.

The gate was opened.

Kiki, her daughter, points at me.

"You're not coming in!"

Suzzanna went inside.

Suddenly her son-in-law was screaming,

“Listen Mom, you have to trust Kiki!

Clift wants to kill you, Mom!”

Finally, the door opened and I was told to come in.

“What’s going on? You want to kill Mother?!”

“Not me!" I said.

“I swear in the name of Jesus.

Call the handyman.

We’ll discuss it and go to court if we need to. Call the Police.”

Clift was told to leave the house again.

When Clift was stepping out of the room,

Abri immediately charged at him,

wanting to fight, attacking his stomach.

His hands were punching and struck Clift a couple of times.

Then Kiki grabbed a helmet.

And hit him on the side of the head a lot of times.

I got a wound here,

torn from nose to eye.

It’s torn open from the the beating of that helmet.

Blood was everywhere.

Kiki ran in front of me

and climbed onto a table and took something from the top of the cupboard.

When she made this movement, it was sharp, like a knife.

When I saw the knife, my heart sank. She gave it to Abri.

I remembered I carried a weapon. I’ll give a warning shot.

It all stopped for a moment. Abri stopped punching.

But then, when he saw the pistol,

he immediately started attacking Clift again with his knife!

Once blood spurted from Clift, I couldn’t talk anymore,

I couldn’t scream. My mouth felt dry.

My heart felt flighty.

I shot him in the leg.

But he didn’t react!

I thought, “Is this person invulnerable or what?”

I aimed again. I wanted to shoot him in the other leg, the right leg,

but he grabbed the gun

and it went off,

hitting him in the stomach.

To my knowledge, Kiki and Abri also made a Police report.

The information was inconsistent. From what I gathered,

Clift shot someone.

So, when this news was published, it exploded.

I think the whole country was stirred up.

The case goes to court in early 2006,

initially to charge Abriyarso with assault,

but as the facts come out, Clift is also accused

of plotting to murder Suzzanna.

Clift had supposedly tried to recruit some of the housekeepers

to kill Suzzanna for him

and paid them 50 million Rupiah,

which is about $5000 in today's money.

They had refused,

and they had told Suzzanna, and once this came back to Clift,

there was this confrontation.

Clift spends about four months in jail,

is fined a very nominal 2500 Rupiah,

which about the cost of a bus ticket,

and Abriyarso is released. He's not charged.

For a while, if there was an unexpected call, if there was any problem,

if their family was falling apart, Clift was always blamed.

So I’m not surprised.

I once asked, “Name just one of Clift’s mistakes. Prove one of his crimes.

Not just hearsay, but from 10 witnesses, 5 witnesses.

Prove one of Clift’s infractions. One witness.

Prove it so that I know.

Before I die, I want to know.”

The conflict between Abri Arso and Clift Sangra

led Suzzanna’s family to move Arie’s skeleton from a cemetery in Bogor.

The relocation of Arie's remains shocked the entire family.

Meanwhile, Suzzanna has recently isolated herself.

There is news that Suzzanna is currently in a coma.

She was just released after being hospitalized for 14 days

and in a coma for 2 days.

Previously, as you know, she was once in a coma for 4 days

and hospitalized for one month. Well, that just happened again.

Suzi’s condition is unpredictable.

More dramatically, viewers, Suzzanna intends

to be buried in the same grave as Arie.

Like a scene from a horror film, Suzzanna's life becomes increasingly tense.

Is this the end of the horror story of Suzzanna's life?

Her last movie was in 1991.

In 2008, I tried to contact her.

That time, we were having options for the artists.

Then I said, "Suzzanna." My crew team said, "No, impossible.

She's out already. She's retired."

I spoke myself to Clift

as I'm planning everything.

"How's Suzzanna?" "She's not well. She's sick. She's quite sick."

I said, "Okay, can you talk to her and maybe

from here, a conversation to her.

Maybe she gets the spirit of life, to live again.

She doesn't need to be a ghost.

She can come as herself.

The feeling from the audience is already so strong.

After one hour, he called me. He said, "Suzzanna wants to speak to you."

She said yes.

GHOST AMBULANCE

I have to do things that make me happy.

I knew from her doctor that she was actually seriously ill at the time.

So, she wasn't fit to film, but she made a cameo appearance.

Number one, her condition was weak.

She cannot be tired.

In front of the camera for 15 minutes, she has to sit down.

So there was one scene that she did many times.

[door creaking]

[sudden horror music]

She said, "I'm not satisfied. I want to do a retake again."

She was very tired, but she said, "No, no, I want to finish this one,

then I'll take a rest."

She came and met all the press people.

They're very interested. "Suzzanna, Suzzanna, Suzzanna..."

They would just call me, “Suzzanna, Suzzanna!”

When I stare at the mirror, I sometimes wonder,

“I get told I’m beautiful and look young. Is it really so?”

“How old are you?”

"65 years and 3 months."

It’s because of Clift. His love and affection for me keeps me young.

[laughter]

In my first film, Suzzanna was my mother.

In Suzzanna’s last film,

Suzzanna played my mother.

It matched.

Now Clift and I are repeating the film SANGKURIANG

where I was the mother and Clift was my son.

[startling noise]

Your aspiration to love me has been fulfilled.

For me, this is an incredible thing.

It’s hard to say what I’m feeling.

I’m more than happy; I'm more touched. There’s sadness.

It’s not sadness where I feel down, but a sadness that makes me think,

“How can I go through all this?”

It's something great that she can come back

after 17 or 18 years of retirement.

I haven’t got my cemetery plot just yet. I have tasks I need to complete first.

Right after GHOST AMBULANCE,

she said, “I think my time is about to come.

I miss Mommy, I miss Daddy, I miss Arie.”

She asked me to hold her hand.

After she said it, she suddenly inhaled and exhaled.

I thought she was tired. But again, she took a deep breath and let it out.

[exhales]

[sad string music]

Of course the news to people is that she is passed away,

but they don't have the news why she pass away.

She was sick. That's it.

Predicatably, suspicions fell on Clift Sangra.

It was inevitable, because they were the only ones there.

I went to her house, but the door was locked.

They had already gone to the cemetery.

I quickly went to the cemetery.

I wanted to attend the Catholic Rite of Committal.

By the time I arrived at the cemetery, the funeral was over.

Why should it be such a hidden event?

They said it was because her will requested it.

She might want to avoid other people, but to avoid her own family too?

It raised a few questions, of course, with the very simple funeral.

But, yeah, we never knew what really happened.

When she was dying, Suzzanna didn’t want it revealed to the public.

So, it was Suzzanna’s request, she didn’t want to be exposed,

didn’t want to be seen as a pale body in the coffin.

She wanted the public to remember the beautiful Suzzanna.

The news said that her funeral was hidden by me.

I don’t care what people say. I don't have anything to say back to them.

They said I wanted to kill Suzzanna. It’s okay.

I have nothing to lose from their words.

There’s a letter from the Magelang Police and

the doctor, stating her death was due to illness.

People’s curiosity went beyond speculation.

There was an outcry for an autopsy, but I didn't let it happen.

I didn't do it,

because she was already dead.

[soft keyboard music]

We used to sleep in the same room,

but I snored when I slept.

When Suzzanna got sick, she’d become annoyed by this.

She said, “Darling, will you please move to another room? I can’t sleep.”

So I moved rooms. “Okay I'll move, but what if you need anything?”

“If I need anything, I’ll just knock, knock on the wall.”

Knock, knock, knock. That was her call to me.

So, once she was gone, she had died, and she had been buried here.

The wall in my room would still get the knock, knock, knock.

The knocks on the wall went on for about two years.

During that period, she would appear, in front of the bedroom, in the TV room.

So, even after she died,

she wasn’t gone immediately.

No. She lingered in our home.

Once, a person told me, "Yeah, I saw a ghost

You know, like Suzzanna."

So the image of the ghost was Suzzanna.

She now has become her own horror legend.

Her legacy will remain forever.

Now the new generation will still talk about Suzzanna,

because it's been passed on to the younger generation.

There are even remakes, reboots, rebirths.

The movie was made called SUZZANNA.

The storyline was almost exactly as the stories of Suzzanna's movies.

SUZZANNA: BURIED ALIVE

They said the ghost of Mrs. Suzzanna.

I really saw Suzzanna, she has become a...

...sundel bolong!

They wouldn’t change the look

of the person playing Suzzanna.

Always with the mole in the same place.

They don’t want to stray from that, because of how iconic Suzzanna is.

We are trying to get that kind of expression,

that kind of aura through some other actress,

but to tell you frankly, no, we cannot get that.

You can put on so much makeup and look like her,

but you cannot have her soul.

Her soul was very special.

She is immortal.

And not only because of her legacy, the movies that she made,

but because she represents not only the past but also the future.

Hope.

The hope that Indonesian films can connect to their audience.

So she's not just special.

She will always live.

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