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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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