By closely analyzing the narrative structure of these films a temporal gap is evident between the original violent incident (rape murder suicide generally ‘crimes of passion’) and the reappearance of the ghost. In this paper I argue that when post-1998 horror films are subjected to greater scrutiny they reveal an insight into what haunts contemporary Indonesian society. Whilst these horror films have been popular with audiences critics have dismissed them as cheap commercial derivative and simplistic. Almost all of these horror films have deployed the familiar kuntilanak ghost a grotesque avenging female spirit whose desire for justice propels the film’s narrative. Significantly a third of all films produced over the last decade have been horror films. In the decade following the end of the New Order regime in 1998 feature film making in Indonesia returned to both productivity and popularity after a hiatus in the 1990s.
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