Suzzanna: Buried Alive

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Suzzanna: Bernapas dalam Kubur (Suzzanna: Buried Alive)
Directed byRocky Soraya
Anggy Umbara
Written byBene Dion Rajagukguk
Starring Luna Maya
Herjunot Ali
Teuku Rifnu Wikana
Distributed by Netflix
Release date
  • November 15, 2018 (2018-11-15)
CountryIndonesia
LanguageIndonesian

Suzzanna: Bernapas dalam Kubur (Suzzanna: Buried Alive) is a 2018 Indonesian horror film directed by Rocky Soraya and Anggy Umbara and written by Bene Dion Rajagukguk. [1] It is a remake to the 1981 film titled Sundelbolong directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra, and a homage to its star, "queen of Indonesian horror" Suzzanna.

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Plot

In the spring of 1989, Satria, director of a cable manufacturing factory, and his wife Suzzanna are eagerly expecting their first child. At his plant, Satria invokes the chagrin of two of his workers, Umar and Jonal, who have been demanding wage raises. When Satria leaves for a business trip to Japan, Umar and Jonal conspire with two other dissatisfied co-workers, Dudun and Gino, to raid Satria's house. Suzzanna, who went to an outdoor cinema, returns amid their burglary, and when they make noise, she investigates. Panickedly fighting the burglars, she unmasks them, and in another attempt to fight back, she is accidentally impaled on a sharp bamboo pole. Believing her dead, the culprits begin burying her, but are shocked to discover that she is still alive. Unwilling to go to prison, they nevertheless continue filling her grave, burying her alive.

Suzzanna awakens inside her house and realizes to her shock that she has become a sundel bolong. When Satria returns shortly afterwards, Suzzanna, though torn by sadness, leaves him oblivious. However, the house servants eventually discover her nature, and Suzzanna lets them flee the mansion. Seeking revenge, Suzzanna begins stalking her killers one by one, starting with Dudun, whom she lures from his work dormitory into the factory to decapitate him. Umar, Jonal and Gino seek out the services of Gino's witch doctor uncle Mbah Turu, who declares that while it is taboo for a sundel bolong to directly kill someone, she can scare or trick them into making them kill themselves or each other. When Suzzanna haunts Jonal, he begins stabbing her, only to find that she has deceived him with an illusion into killing Gino. Umar, Jonal and Turu devise a plan to trap and exorcise her by destroying her home and killing her husband, since it is her love for him that keeps her spirit on Earth. After hearing village gossip about Suzzanna's hauntings, Satria is made fully aware of Suzzanna's condition when he reads from the Quran and she cries out in pain, as well as when he finds and unearths her body.

The same night, Umar and Jonal lead a mob of villagers to the house, burning it. They incapacitate Suzzanna by driving a kris into her head, then lure Satria into Turu's abode for the final stage of the exorcism, claiming that Suzzanna has been possessed by a demon. However, when Jonal tries to kill him, Satria realizes that this is really his wife, murdered by these men, and releases her. While Jonal and Turu flee into the woods, Satria fights and kills Umar, but is stabbed in the back. Suzzanna chases down Turu, blinding him and causing him to impale his head on a pointed tree branch, and then kills Jonal by burying him alive. By personally slaying a human, Suzzanna's ties to the Earth are severed, and she dies in Satria's arms after they exchange sorrowful goodbyes. Soon, however, Satria discovers that his wound is fatal, and he dies as well, rejoining his wife in the afterlife.

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Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
Bandung Film Festival22 November 2019Best FilmSuzzanna: Buried AliveNominated [2] [3]
Best Actress Luna Maya Won
Best Original Music ScoreAndhika TriyadiWon
Best Art DirectionTommy D. Setyanto, Rico MarpaungNominated
Best Editing Sastha Sunu Nominated
Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards5 April 2019Best Actress Luna Maya Nominated [4] [5]
Best Supporting ActorVerdi SolaimanNominated
Best Ensemble CastSuzzanna: Buried AliveNominated
Best Film PosterWon
Best Film TrailerNominated
Best Original Soundtrack Vina Panduwinata (Selamat Malam)Nominated
Indonesian Movie Actors Awards 14 March 2019Best Actress Luna Maya Nominated [6] [7]
Best Supporting Actor Teuku Rifnu Wikana Nominated
Best EnsembleSuzzanna: Buried AliveNominated
Favorite Actress Luna Maya Won
Favorite Supporting Actor Teuku Rifnu Wikana Nominated
Maya Awards 19 January 2019Best Actress Luna Maya Won [8] [9]
Best Supporting ActorVerdi SolaimanNominated
Best Art DirectionTommy D. Setyanto, Rico MarpaungNominated
Best Sound DesignKhikmawan Santosa, Madun, Anhar Moha & SuhadiNominated
Best Makeup & HairstylingAdi Wahono, Peter Gorshenin & Tatiana MelkomovaWon
Best Special EffectsSuzzanna: Buried AliveNominated
Best Costume DesignNominated
Best Poster DesignNominated

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