Suzzanna: Bernapas Dalam Kubur / Buried Alive
Rating
M18 Violence and Gore
Language
Bahasa Indonesia with English & Chinese subtitles
Director
Rocky Soraya, Anggy Umbara
Cast
Luna Maya, Herjunot Ali
Synopsis
After seven years of marriage, Suzzanna finally gets pregnant. Her husband, Satria, is out of town on a work trip when robbers break into their house. They attack Suzzanna and bury her body in the backyard.
Strangely, Suzzanna appears the next day at home, as if the previous day’s events did not happen. Will she exact bloody revenge on her murderers?
Reviews
By Say Peng 02 Jan 2019
A horror comedy, ‘Suzzanna: Buried Alive’ does not take itself too seriously and audiences should approach it with the same mentality and will enjoy its silliness and campiness.
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‘Suzzanna: Buried Alive’ is a tribute to the late Indonesian actress, Suzzanna Martha Frederika van Osch, who was famous during her time for being a scream queen, having acted in many iconic Indonesian horror films.
‘Buried Alive’ is, in fact, based on the Suzzanna’s famous 1981 horror film ‘Sundel Bolong’, in which Suzzanna played the sundel bolong, a vengeful female spirit who had died whilst pregnant.
Indonesian model-actress Luna Maya plays Suzzanna, who recently discovers that she’s pregnant. Her husband leaves town on a work trip and three burglars break into her house and end up attacking and accidentally impaling, but not killing, Suzzanna. Nevertheless, they bury Suzzanna alive, who then returns from the dead as a sundel bolong to exact her revenge.
Fans of Suzzanna Osch will definitely enjoy the homage to her and her films. The cinematography and production design harken back to the old Indonesian horror films of the 80s, even Maya’s acting, which is intentionally melodramatic and over-the-top. Maya has also undergone extensive prosthetics and makeup sessions to the extent that she looks remarkably like Suzzanna herself.
Admittedly, despite its billing as a horror film, ‘Buried Alive’ has more laughs than scares. The source of comedy is the trio of domestic helpers who work at Suzzanna’s house. Their reactions and one-liners are comedic gold and never fails to get a laugh. A horror comedy, ‘Suzzanna: Buried Alive’ does not take itself too seriously and audiences should approach it with the same mentality and will enjoy its silliness and campiness.
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