SINGAPORE – There's no denying the appeal of the pontianak when it comes to anything horror-related — she's probably the most famous supernatural creature we have in the country besides the Merlion.

The video recording doesn't show any figures or apparitions, but you can hear the laugh of a girl breaking the quiet of the night. The recording was made at 1.48am at an old abandoned Chinese cemetery ...

Malaysian actress Nur Fazura as the pontianak in Singaporean director Glen Goei's "Revenge of the Pontianak". (Photo: Tiger Tiger Pictures) SINGAPORE — Director Glen Goei’s third feature film will be ...

The last time 8 DAYS spoke to Glen Goei was in 2009, back when he was busy promoting his second directorial feature, The Blue Mansion. That Adrian Pang-starring dysfunctional family black comedy was ...

Some warn of a Pontianak's presence through barking dogs, the sudden waft of sweet floral scents, and the eerie echoes of female laughter. (Photo: Getty Images) In the heart of Southeast Asia's deep ...

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These lines from the West Kalimantan folk song Aek Kapuas (aek means ‘water’ in the local Malay dialect) softly played in the writer’s mind upon setting foot in Pontianak - a city offering more than ...

A street performer dressed up as a traditional Indonesian ghost popularly known as "kuntilanak", waits for tourists to pose for a photo with him for a small tip in ...

Sun, January 22, 2012 Published on Jan. 22, 2012 Published on 2012-01-22T07:00:00+07:00 ontianak lies on the banks of Indonesia’s longest river, the Kapuas, which rises about 1,140 kilometers upstream ...