Kolong (film)

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Kolong
Directed byZul Abu Kassim
Written byEllyna Ahmad
StarringWan Raja
Luthya Sury Widjaja
Annie Arifin
Distributed byEmpire Film Solution
Release date
  • 17 October 2019 (2019-10-17)(Malaysia)
Running time
82 minutes
Country Malaysia
Language Malay
Box office MYR 27000

Kolong (English: Under) is a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language horror film directed by Zul Abu Kassim. It is released on 17 October 2019 in Malaysia. [1] [2] [3]

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Suri dreams of becoming an actress but her money, which she has borrowed from a "money lender", gets stolen by a travel agency. The thugs are now hunting her down to force her to pay her debt. She plans to get her mother's grant to pay for it but she is stopped by her sister. In dire need of money, she decides to accept a high-paying job as a caretaker of a blind man, since she has experience taking care of her blind mother. She encourages herself to go to the man's bungalow, even though it is supposedly haunted by the spirit of his late wife.

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References

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  2. "Galaksi Media". Kolong press conference.
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