Kuntilanak (film)

Kuntilanak is a 2006 Indonesian horror film directed by Rizal Mantovani. The English title is The Chanting, although this is not a direct translation as Kuntilanak or Pontianak is a type of ghost in Indonesian and wider Malay folklore. In this movie, a student whose stepfather molested her moves to a boarding house in a haunted area, this is followed by a series of killings.

One day, Sam breaks the rule about the mirror, glimpsing a Kuntilanak in the process. Her neighbor, Mawar, who is with her boyfriend when males are forbidden to step on the third floor, threatens to kill Sam, but Sam suddenly enters a trance and chants durmo, making her puke maggots and materialize a strange scar as well as causing Mawar to have nosebleed. At a motel, Mawar is killed when an electric fan drops on her neck. The next night, Sam tries to peek on the second floor, but is harassed by a neighbor, Alfon. She enters into a trance and chants durmo again. Haunted by terrifying apparitions, Alfon tries to escape but is killed in a car accident. In the light of recent events, Sri Sukma pays visit to the house. Yanti apologizes for her foolish act in introducing durmo to Sam, although Sri Sukma says that it is her destiny to keep it. While reading a book about Mangkoedjiwo factory in Iwanks house, Sam spots the sentence Sing kuat sing melihara the strong one is the one that masters Kuntilanak. During a conflict with Agung, Sam chants durmo the next day, she learns Agung has disappeared. She hears Agungs faint cries from the second floor. Sam discusses Agungs disappearance with Dinda, but misunderstands Dindas comfort as her being attracted to Agung. Chanting durmo, Sam passes out when Dinda goes out to take shower where she is killed by Kuntilanak.Having had enough, Sam breaks over to the second floor and finds Agung bleeding in front of the fourth mirror Dinda previously forgot to mention. She is confronted by Sri Sukma, who explains that the Mangkoedjiwo does indeed maintain a Kuntilanak summoned by a wangsit a supernatural mandate kept by their heirs, but since Sri Sukma is unable to bear children, she has chosen Sam as the next carrier of the wangsit. When Sam refuses, Sri Sukma chants durmo to summon Kuntilanak, though Sam counters with her own durmo, eventually winning out when Sri Sukma has nosebleed. Pleading Sam not to kill her, Sri Sukma says that the

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