Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic (2024)

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When we talk about the

world of horror movies,

there are names identified with

horror, like:

But there is another name that I think

surpasses every one of them.

And her name is...

Suzzanna.

Dominating horror films

produced in the 19805 and '905.

Miss Suzzanna

can never be replaced.

She could play a role

with just her gaze.

It was so powerful.

Wow.

Her piercing stare

and cold expression

made the late Suzzanna

such a mysterious figure.

She was fully into the world

of traditional rural mysticism.

Suzzanna was not

only a horror actress,

but also a symbol

of our audience's devotion

to Indonesian films.

This was Suzzanna's room.

These were her clothes,

the ones that she wore

in her final films.

These were a source

of pride for Suzzanna.

And this was Suzzanna's favorite:

water with jasmine in it.

This is the water she usually drank

to nourish her soul.

Smells good.

She drank the water,

and she ate the jasmine.

Like chewing candy or peanuts.

The taste was sweet.

It was her favorite.

Suzzanna died here.

When we are "called home,"

we are prepared.

We are not afraid.

Our shaman is dead.

I'm Murni...

Queen of black magic.

Everyone still talks about her

because she represents

many good things

about Indonesian film.

If I want to scare you, it must

come from here, from within.

It's the same as declaring

love for someone in a movie.

Say it with your heart.

When I worked with Suzzanna,

her movies had a huge audience.

Your mother right here

is the most powerful in this world.

A lot of people watched.

I don't know how many.

Millions of people.

Suzzanna bathed here.

Meditated here, bathed here.

The prayers,

the wishes.

When we were done,

we'd open our mouths.

Three times.

Three drops on our tongues.

It meant our wishes

would come true.

But if we missed one drop,

we'd have to repeat the process

for at least 35 more days.

Her name was

Suzanna Martha Frederika van Osch.

It sounds Dutch.

But she's actually mixed race.

When Indonesia was

colonized by the Dutch,

there was assimilation.

Suzzanna's father was a soldier

in the Dutch army.

He was on duty in

Subang, West Java,

when he was shot by the Japanese.

Dead.

Her mother was six

months pregnant at the time.

Heard the news...

Shocked.

She started bleeding

and was admitted

to the hospital.

Suzzanna was born

in Bogor.

October 13, 1942.

Her birth was premature.

For six months,

she had a yellow body

and stayed in an incubator.

Her mother returned to Holland.

From childhood,

she was cared for by her grandmother.

She was just called "Susi."

I loved to pick flowers with her.

"Let's pick some flowers."

If there was a car passing,

we both got down on the ground.

Her father was Dutch,

but her grandma was Javanese.

So she got along fine.

We went to different schools.

She was in Pendowo,

at a Catholic school.

Suzzanna was quickly popular

because she was lively.

During recess

she'd suddenly do

the splits!

With her legs, you know.

Yes, indeed.

She loved to tell her friends,

"I'm going to be a famous movie star."

In the second year,

she suddenly disappeared.

Later, I heard she was

in Jakarta, acting in movies.

There was a search for

new, young actresses

and celebrity faces.

Then she was cast in

ASRAMA DARA.

That's where Suzzanna first got

recognition as an actress.

And it was in that environment

that she learned a lot,

maybe because she

was tutored by Usmar Ismail.

The one I like the most is

Mom's movie ASRAMA DARA.

How old are you?

Eighteen!

Me, I'm nineteen,

minus...

Minus a little bit.

It best represented Mom.

That was what her daily life looked like.

Since she was a little girl, the whole

family knew what she wanted to be.

"I want to be a movie star."

But it turned out to be true.

Look at my mom,

she has become a respected woman.

Yes, all of her

friends watched it.

Of course,

she was so happy.

"Am I good?"

"You're good, Suz."

In 1960, the second

Indonesian Film Festival took place.

She was awarded

Best Child Actress.

Then the movie went to

the Asia Pacific Film Festival

where she also won

Best Child Actress.

My first film was ASRAMA DARA,

after I was chosen

as runner-up-- sorry, champion--

in a talent contest.

It was a teen film.

I mean, a drama film

about teenagers from broken homes

living in a dormitory.

I was also close to Dicky.

Dicky was also my friend.

They met when playing with friends.

I was asked to

sit together with her.

Her grandma trusted me.

Dicky Suprapto was not only

Suzzanna's husband and producer,

he also managed Suzzanna's career.

Suzzanna's attachment to Dicky Suprapto

paved the way for her "hot films."

Mom and Dad were actors,

but they had a desire to produce movies

with their preferred themes.

In the 19505 and 19605

there were various upheavals.

There was an ideological w*r between

communists and non-communists.

So they protested against Hollywood films.

From 1964-1966,

no Hollywood films

were shown in Indonesia.

Which gave birth to

The New Order regime.

The popular phrase was,

"The Mattress, The Well, and The Kitchen."

According to The New Order,

women should be good mothers,

good wives, good children,

and good citizens.

Everything was about domestication.

After Suharto came to power

and was close to the United States,

Indonesia's economy

began to improve

with many investments

from the United States,

including Hollywood films.

Maybe the government thought,

Just let them have something

where they feel they can escape

from the reality that we've created."

Because of that,

censorship was softened.

To import three movies from abroad,

they had to make one movie themselves,

so many films were made.

Suzzanna, in the 19705,

started to get into

exploitation movies,

especially sex-themed movies.

She was called the "Queen of Bed."

Actually, "Queen of Sex."

Maybe the initial idea was

to make a serious drama

with BREATHING IN MUD.

Also, THE EARTH IS GETTING HOTTER, which

wasn't just a drama about prostit*tes,

but also about emerging sexual lives.

- Shut up, you wh*re!

- You womanizer!

The film used a moral frame,

to justify the presence

of hot scenes.

The film captured

the urbanizing spirit of the time.

The title is very judgmental: the life

of a prost*tute is considered that of

a woman who breathes in mud

and is very dirty.

There isn't much of an age

difference between me and my mother.

We stayed in one place

because our home

was also our office.

Our studio was elsewhere.

Where are the supplies which should

have been delivered yesterday?

Wasn't Grandpa coming here yesterday?

Throw your g*n to me

or I will separate this kid's

head from his neck.

Interestingly, in the 19705,

as far as I know,

Suzzanna only

made one horror film:

This became the forerunner

of the iconic Queen of Horror" movies.

These horror things originated

from Dad's movie back then,

BIRTH IN THE GRAVE,

around 1971 or '72.

But actually it was not

a ghost movie.

It was about a pregnant woman

who was stricken by an acid attack.

Make it short and sweet,

soon you will feel nothing.

Then she lost consciousness

and was buried alive.

But before she was completely buried,

her baby was born.

The voice of the baby scared everyone.

In a cover story of

Aneka Ria magazine,

Suzzanna said that

she was picky about roles.

So she didn't act much.

But we suspected

that she had problems.

Domestic troubles

and personal problems.

It was really unbelievable.

My brother was also my best friend.

We couldn't believe it,

but we lived with it day by day.

And my mom was

extremely shocked at the time.

The reality that she lost her son,

it made her not...

She said she didn't want

to act in movies anymore.

She didn't want to.

It was 2006

when she started to get sick.

When Miss Suzzanna would come here,

when she was still alive,

my mom was taking care of it.

From 2009 until now, it's me.

Three times I dreamed of

Miss Suzzanna asking for help.

"Help, help, help."

Three times I answered, "Ma'am, why

are you asking for help?

Suzzanna didn't answer.

I swear on her grave it's true.

I dreamed of Suzzanna.

She threw me a scarf.

A long, blue scarf.

Then I came here.

There was a blue scarf

tied to Suzzanna's grave,

just like in my dream.

So she gave me a scarf.

Not directly in my sleep,

on the grave.

Tied to Miss Beatrix's and Mr. Ari's.

Also, once, on my

child's third birthday,

there was a clown

entertaining.

He saw her.

He saw Miss Suzzanna

under a frangipani tree

wearing a very beautiful bun.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, we have

no jasmine. Here are some roses."

We offered,

but she was gone already.

It gave me goosebumps.

I didn't see her, but the clown did.

My gosh, she was there

at my child's birthday.

Horror films in Indonesia, according to

Karl Heider, are always related to

mystical stories,

ghosts, and supernatural things.

Of course, this has

a connection to our culture.

Keeping a harmonious balance

is part of Javanese tradition.

With oneself,

the environment,

and also harmony

with something that is

supernatural or transcendent.

Moreover, we are also

a highly imaginative society.

That led to the emergence

of stories about spirits,

stories about revenants,

stories about ghosts,

and so on.

Indonesian films, especially

horror films, usually

take stories that

are rooted in our beliefs.

Indonesia is very intimate

with mythology and folklore.

We have 44 horror characters,

not including their derivatives.

My fear is reflected in

characters like Wewe Gombel,

who has the origin

story of a woman

who couldn't have a kid

when she was alive,

then was betrayed by her

husband and k*lled herself.

After she becomes a

ghost, she's obsessed with

taking kids that are not

loved by their parents.

Kuntilanaks always wear white dresses,

and their hair is long and messy.

There are some whose

faces are smashed.

Some say there are also red Kuntilanaks,

allegedly very powerful,

extremely angry maybe.

And they mostly have the same story.

The similarity is that they

are long-haired female ghosts

who have a high-pitched laugh

and fly in the trees.

Sundel Bolong and Kuntilanak are actually

women who die in childbirth

or while pregnant, and wander

around with unfinished business.

Not only when I grew up, but almost

all my life, I heard mystical stories.

If we compare ourselves with,

excuse me, foreigners from abroad,

in believing these

things, it is more difficult

for them to accept

such things as reality.

But since I was a kid,

I've gotten used to such things.

It's something that's

inseparable from our culture.

We always lived

side by side with it.

There were many at my home.

We called it "The Ghost's Nest."

We would be asleep, and suddenly a

stone would move or someone would walk by.

There were knocks or

scratching at my bedroom window.

There was also a creature,

this small, walking on the roof,

hopping, not walking, but this small.

Have you ever experienced

a ghostly apparition firsthand?

I can't tell you.

There are things that have happened

that I can talk about,

but there are things that, if I tell you,

I will be considered crazy.

Rapi Films, for me,

is not only a film company.

Every time I stepped into a cinema...

Back then, when we watched movies,

we didn't pay attention to

the production company.

But every time that logo popped up,

I felt like I was entering heaven.

The greatest

director in Indonesia:

Sisworo Gautama Putra.

How could you k*ll Pretl!

You're mean!

But I think Sisworo Gautama Putra

made good films.

They walked the line between

exploitation and art.

But these films couldn't be duplicated

or imitated by other filmmakers.

Floating.

If it's nailed down,

it's a beautiful person.

She's afraid of me.

Anyway, if she's around here...

The story is about Alisa,

played by Suzzanna...

A woman who's a former sex worker.

She gets married and...

Alisa is r*ped and she gets pregnant.

It's a heavy burden,

so she wants an ab*rtion,

which is not safe, resulting in her death

and making her a Sundel Bolong.

Remember the main witness,

Mrs. Alisa Herdanto,

is a former prost*tute.

Thus it is impossible for these

two defendants to commit r*pe.

The lady has sinned

against her husband.

If I fulfill the lady's request,

I'll have sinned against God.

Know, madam,

ab*rtion is m*rder.

In SUNDELBOLONG,

there are some very disturbing things.

There is an ab*rtion scene.

The ab*rtion itself was not a problem;

I think I'm used to seeing blood.

But, when she is about to have the

ab*rtion, she sees babies with disabilities

or hydrocephalus lying

around everywhere.

Oh, my God, this is so scary!

And the stigma is that if you have

an ab*rtion and the ab*rtion fails,

the child will be born disabled.

That was very disturbing.

Wow, wow...

No, no, no. I can't.

I have to skip that part.

SUNDELBOLONG is probably

most famous because of Suzzanna.

We're all very familiar

with the close-up of Suzzanna's face.

Her glare.

It's iconic, I think.

Her stare. It's so influential.

Even though I had a scary stare,

I was never angry.

I don't think Suzzanna's stare

is her biggest strength.

Yes, it's very powerful,

but her biggest strength

is her melancholic face.

Those two children

must die.

...she's still sad.

I was her make-up artist.

For SUNDELBOLONG, I put a black

make-up effect around her eyes.

Suzzanna asked me to make

a special arch for her eyebrow,

slightly broken

in the middle of it.

Her make-up became her trademark.

Black make-up around the eyes,

dark hair and a pale face.

I was perplexed at first about how to

make a hole in Sundel Bolong's back.

I bought several t-shirts and then

foam for the hole was taped on a t-shirt.

So the t-shirt was worn by Miss Suzie

and I measured the hole,

and then taped it with foam.

To remove the foam,

I used pliers, not my hands.

I made the hole look like meat

and put some white maggots in it.

And it was good.

What do you want?

The ZOO-stick satay scene

is a meme everywhere.

Soto.

And then the soto

in that movie!

I'm afraid, sir.

She looks scary, sir.

What? Like me?

And usually,

even though it's scary,

it always plays out with humor.

Nowadays, the jokes and the comedy

might seem dated.

But at that time, that was the kind

of comedy that Indonesians wanted.

That was the kind of horror

that Indonesians wanted.

What is that?

That's why

SUNDELBOLONG was so big.

Huh?

It captured the imagination

of the Indonesian audience.

Dead body!

The first of Suzzanna's movies

that I watched was SUNDELBOLONG.

So that might be why

it's the most special to me,

and the one that got

me hooked on Suzzanna.

You are a cursed human!

It then made me interested in

issues such as gender,

which made me later think,

"Oh, this is kind of representative,

when we talk about

gender equality, or

stigma, or those things."

I could use SUNDELBOLONG

for my analysis.

In the 19805,

she chose the horror genre.

Early on, I acted in

dramas, comedies, sad films.

But why was my own life full of drama?

Every day, I was dealing with sadness.

But then along came SUNDELBOLONG. I don't

know why, but my instinct said to take it.

So I took it, and from then, I

became addicted to horror films.

I will make you the

queen of black magic.

THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC and

SUNDELBOLONG were both made in 1981.

What interested me when

I started watching Suzzanna's movies

was the portrayal of women

as representing monsters.

In the name of Allah, the most

gracious and the most merciful.

Perhaps by conquering these supernatural

beings, who are depicted as women,

their existence as men

will be elevated.

The characters Suzzanna played

always begin as a woman who's wronged

and then takes revenge.

These films emphasize the question,

"Can women only fight after they die?"

She's a beautiful woman

with the body of a snake.

That was one of the

interesting consequences

of Suzzanna going

into horror movies.

And that became her niche.

So that's the interesting thing,

that in the 19805,

Suzzanna's position

modernized folklore and fantasy.

She wasn't afraid.

Usually women

are afraid of snakes, right?

Yes, the snakes were all alive.

Don't ask whether she was afraid or not.

She was.

She certainly was.

She was careful.

Try using fake snakes on the head

when the camera is close up.

It would look odd.

When the snake is real,

its tongue will come out of its mouth.

That's what makes it scary.

If you use fake snakes, it will be bland.

Maybe it would work in a long shot.

But Suzzanna wanted to use real snakes.

It wasn't the director's request.

We made a wire

loop around her head.

The wire was covered by hair

so that it wasn't visible.

The snakes moved all the way to her face.

I shuddered.

She would embody

the characters she played.

All the way to the rituals

and deep explorations of them,

since she played major characters.

Often people would say

she had supernatural powers.

They believed there was some kind

of entity entwined with her.

I choose to just believe this

without investigating further.

Your mouth will speak wise words fluently.

Maybe it's the fact that she

was so mysterious in real life

because we can never know

what really transpired, what she felt

or what she herself believed.

Suzzanna did rituals

such as fasting, pilgrimage.

When she was doing a movie

like NYI BLORONG,

she usually made a pilgrimage

to the Samudera Beach Hotel.

Some say it's polytheism,

some disagree.

But understand, it's not polytheism.

It's not devil worship.

We are not worshiping the devil.

She asked for permission there,

because she wanted to play the character.

And of course we did some fasting first.

We would then communicate with the

Queen of the South Sea.

We brought two coconuts.

One we gave to the

Queen of the South Sea

and the other

was drunk by Suzzanna.

And there would be prayers.

And then the mystical whisper

would communicate with her.

During the sh**ting,

you have to be like this."

"The taboos are this, this, and this."

There are also many rituals, not just one.

There are various kinds of rituals, right?

One ritual is that we are not allowed

to have sex during a sh**t.

I did hear the rumors.

But I never witnessed

her doing anything like that.

My ancestors are from Java,

so I do meditate.

But I don't present offerings.

Offerings are these little gifts.

So I just pray and meditate,

because I think every

inch of soil is owned by God.

So every time

before we prepare to sh**t,

we have to pray,

according to our own faith.

There were rumors out there about

Suzzanna eating flowers.

Like roses, magnolias and so on.

My mom liked to eat jasmine flowers.

Yes, I knew she liked it,

but she wasn't obsessed with it.

Yes, I still do. Jasmine

and wild roses, not fancy roses.

My grandmother taught me.

There were lots of jasmine flowers

below my window.

So I picked them and ate them.

I also brought them to school.

There were believers

in the mythology.

Maybe it's true there were

some people who experienced it.

It's not because I have

supernatural powers, like people say.

It's just a habit of mine.

But she still had that

aura of mystery.

Even if it was something

that was made up,

that she created for her image

as a horror actress.

In the 19805,

more than 60 percent of

Indonesian films were horror films.

There was massive growth,

especially with demonic horror

and horror stories with ghosts in them.

And when I'd watch

mainstream American horror films,

they looked very clean, very neat.

And so I didn't think they were scary.

It's just that I love

horror movies from that period.

Watching those films gave

me joy and made me forget that

I grew up in a tough environment

with a lot of problems.

My peers doing drugs, not going to school,

ending up in jail at 14 was a normal thing.

But with cinema, I found a whole new world.

Why are we afraid of horror movies?

Horror is entertainment.

Horror is entertainment,

which nourishes our hearts.

Why do I have to do it?

It's your duty.

There were so many incidents

of the upper middle class,

the Indonesian elite class...

Give her back!

Walking free from their criminal acts.

But then Suzzanna

avenges them in her movies.

I k*lled all of them.

You're the only one left, Burhan.

It was a catharsis.

Usually corrupt characters,

criminals from the bourgeoisie,

meet the fate of being k*lled

by the avenging ghost

played by Suzzanna.

When a new Suzzanna

movie came out in 1980,

it could be booked

immediately by touring cinemas.

That's why she has staying power.

It's her niche with the lower class.

The audiences range from children

to teenagers, adults, and even the elderly.

You know, there are village singers,

people selling bakpao,

200 skewers of satay at roadside stalls.

It was an all-night event,

a live celebration, very celebratory,

because it's not like in a movie

theater where you sit quietly.

When we watch a movie

at a theater, it's different.

In a theater, we can't cheer.

We can't yell,

"Hooray, hooray!" and stuff.

Suzzanna's films, at the beginning

when they're screened, all would be normal.

But as soon as the scares hit,

the demon comes out...

People get really scared,

screaming and stuff, you know.

The government has been regulating

layar tan cap since the 1970s.

Layar tan cap must be 5 kilometers

from the nearest cinema.

Then it has to be censored again.

It has to be an Indonesian movie.

The goal is the establishment

of a "cultural fence."

It was believed that the lower

classes in the countryside

or outside of the city could not absorb

the negative impacts of globalization.

But this was paradoxical,

because at the same time,

layar tan cap became the outlet for

the screening of exploitation films.

Indeed, when we still had

the Department of Information,

films were a bit difficult to get.

Thank God, I got my collection from

friends in the film community.

Praise the Lord, there are around

450 titles from various genres.

There are Western, Indian, domestic,

Mandarin, and Thai movies.

This is destiny.

Humans aren't supposed to refuse it.

Mother!

He is your own flesh and blood.

- m*rder*r!

- Forgive me!

Forgive me!

A terrible child! Get lost!

When I was in junior high,

my mother took me to see SUNDELBOLONG.

As soon as I saw her,

"Oh my God, this woman is so beautiful!

Why can't she be my wife?"

That's what I said to myself.

Maybe at that time, an angel

passed by and heard my wish.

It's a miracle, really.

It began when I came

home from school one day

and someone

followed me to my home.

He said I'd been summoned

by a director from Jakarta.

At first, I told him

he must be at the wrong address.

I wasn't in the movies, I was a student.

I said, "I can't act! I'm not an actor!

"It's easy, I'll teach you. The important

thing is you want to be in a movie."

He was also a Taekwondo instructor at

Santa Maria Elementary School.

We'll do some tests.

We'll bring you to Jakarta.

If you pass the various tests,

then I will hire you

to be in the movie."

Then, for the final test,

I was going to meet

the number one film star

in Indonesia: Suzzanna.

Who are you?

She did introduce me to him.

As time went by,

Mom was getting

closer to Clift as an actor.

She started to spend

her days joyfully again.

Well, it was like

being with a mother.

You know, she was

23 years older than me.

And Suzzanna was a seasoned artist.

A seasoned artist who was highly respected,

while I was nothing, a nobody.

I didn't interfere

and can't say...

I couldn't tell you

how she felt.

However, I saw happiness.

That was all.

Until, one day, it was the

last scene on the last day, the last shot.

A kissing scene.

On that last day, during the

kissing scene, we had chemistry.

I was scared they'd scold me, thinking

I took advantage, kissing Suzzanna.

So I just kept quiet.

Then Suzzanna asked, "How was it?"

Uh, yeah..." I was shy.

Afraid to answer.

She said, "Well, I'm happy.

It gave me shivers."

Suzzanna said that.

"So I'm not the only one?"

"No," she said.

Okay then, that's all.

I stopped right there.

The Almighty has fated us

to meet each other.

For three nights,

I couldn't sleep.

I kept thinking

about that kissing scene.

I mean, I hadn't gone on a

date ever, you know.

I was still in high school.

I was 17 years old.

Finally, after three days, I found

the courage to try calling Suzzanna.

One thing, in that movie,

(ft Sangra dared to be nude.

It became a talking point, a controversy.

Of course, people were

asking questions all over,

since a lot of anonymous

letters came in, lots of them.

People said I was going after

her wealth, all kinds of things.

Suzzanna also doubted me.

I'm ready to marry you.

No way. How can a mother marry her child?

You're not my mother.

I'm the one who wants to get married,

not someone else.

And I'm really sincere.

I love you, truly, the way you are.

I have no other intention.

Let's not overthink it, let's prove it.

We met because of God's will.

I will make him my husband.

In my opinion,

it really illustrated her position,

that she had power

and authority in the film industry.

Meanwhile, I can never seem

to feel fulfilled or satisfied.

The baby you are

carrying deserves a life, too.

You are an evil woman with a rotten heart.

Here, take that.

Gobble that up!

Meanwhile, Rapi Films

developed the stories of

THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC and NYI BLORONG

with their own new star, Joice Erna.

But after I watched it, there was no

NYI BLORONG aura in Joice Erna.

The aura was in Suzzanna,

from her eyes to everything else.

I once asked her, "How do you feel

about this title,

'The Queen of Horror'?"

She said, "I'm proud. I'm happy.

What I've done hasn't been in vain.

It means that what I've

strived for has been successful.

When I act in horror movies and

scare lots of people, why do I feel good?

I feel happy to have so

many fans. Even though

I scared them, they still

ask for pictures with me.

Many of the young ones

call me, "Aunt Suzzanna.

Some say that after

Sisworo passed away in 1993,

Suzzanna did not want to

make movies with anyone else.

Suzzanna's mother used to live

in Holland as a Dutch citizen.

When she was old, Suzzanna was afraid

that no one would take care of her mother.

So she came to Indonesia

and stayed here at our home.

Out of 120 film companies in Indonesia,

if I'm not mistaken, only 4 remained.

116 companies went out of business.

The golden age of soap operas.

Princess Jasmine, who was torn apart,

has come back.

My life has no meaning anymore.

What kind of illness?"

I asked.

That's what friends were wondering.

Suzzanna was sick with diabetes.

No, I didn't know

anything right away.

I also seldom met with Clift.

Clift wouldn't open the door.

We rarely socialized.

From head to toe,

I brought everything Suzzanna needed.

I lived in Jakarta at the time.

Mom had moved to Magelang.

Then I relocated in 2005,

actually because Mom asked me to.

My dad didn't agree with this.

He considered Magelang

to be a city for retirement.

He said, "You're still young.

Move there later when you're retired."

But Mom said,

"Do it now. I'm lonely."

KM doesn't work;

her husband doesn't work.

No income. No money.

Suzzanna supplies

$1000 every month.

Kiki Maria and Clift Sangra

had been feuding for a long time.

I lent them my house for them to live in.

There were builders in the house.

I wanted to see what the workers

were doing, what they were making.

I went there and I found two workers there.

Suddenly, one of them said to me,

"Sir, how come you

want to have an old wife?

You're handsome, rich,

lots of money, an artist.

If you want to find

a young one, it's easy."

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

"Yes, sir, I can help you.

You can get a young wife,

a beautiful one."

"What does that mean?"

"To get rid of Miss Suzzanna."

"What do you mean?"

"To k*ll her, sir."

Suzzanna was dealing

with a family conflict.

There was a fight

involving a g*n.

The reporters asked a lot of questions,

most of which were answered by Suzzanna.

There was an indication

that Kiki hated Clift

because (fit was going

to get her inheritance.

Let's not tam about Kim.

KM is my daughter.

I know her.

However mean she got with me,

she doesn't want to know me...

I know my daughter.

But Abri...

Since the beginning,

I have never liked him.

Suzzanna said

she missed her grandchild.

"I want to see my grandchild.

I miss him," she said.

We knock on the door,

nobody answered.

Finally, Suzzanna said,

"Try calling." So I called.

Km, your mother is

at the door of the house.

They immediately hung up.

Well, the door to the house opened.

The gate was opened.

KM, her daughter, points at me.

"You're not coming in!"

Suzzanna went inside.

Suddenly her son-in-law

was screaming,

"Listen, Mom,

you have to trust Kiki!

(Ft wants to km you, Mom!

Finally, the door opened

and I was told to come in.

"What's going on?

You want to k*ll Mother?!"

"Not me!" I said.

"I swear in the name of Jesus.

Call the handyman.

We'll discuss it and go to court

if we need to. Call the police."

Clift was told to leave the house again.

When (fit was

stepping out of the room,

Abri immediately charged at him,

wanting to fight,

attacking his stomach.

His hands were punching

and struck Clift a couple of times.

Then Kiki grabbed a helmet,

and hit him on the side

of the head a lot of times.

I got a wound here,

torn from nose to eye.

It tore open from the

beating of that helmet.

Blood was everywhere.

Kim ran in front of me

and climbed onto a table and took

something from the top of the cupboard.

When she made this movement,

it was sharp, like a knife.

When I saw the knife, my heart sank.

She gave it to Abri.

I remembered I carried a weapon.

I'll give a warning shot.

It all stopped for a moment.

Abri stopped punching.

But then, when he saw the p*stol,

he immediate; started attacking

(lift again with his knife!

Once blood spurted from Clift,

I couldn't talk anymore.

I couldn't scream.

My mouth felt dry.

My heart felt flighty.

I shot him in the leg.

But he didn't react!

I thought, "Is this person

invulnerable or what?"

I aimed again. I wanted to sh**t him in

the other leg, the right leg,

but he grabbed the g*n

and it went off,

hitting him in the stomach.

To my knowledge, Kiki and Abri

also made a police report.

The information was inconsistent.

From what I gathered,

Gift shot someone.

So, when this news was published,

it exploded.

I think the whole country was stirred up.

For a while, if there was an

unexpected call, if there was any problem,

if their family was falling apart,

Clift was always blamed.

So I'm not surprised.

I once asked, "Name just one of

Clift's mistakes. Prove one of his crimes.

Not just hearsay, but from ten

witnesses, five witnesses.

Prove one of Clift's

infractions. One witness.

Prove it so that I know.

Before I die, I want to know.

The conflict between

Abfi Arse and (lift Sangra

led Suzzanna's family to move

Arie's skeleton from a cemetery in Bogor.

The relocation of Arie's remains

shocked the entire family.

Meanwhile, Suzzanna has

recently isolated herself.

There is news that

Suzzanna is currently in a coma.

She was just released after being

hospitalized for 14 days

and in a coma for two days.

Previously, as you know, she was

once in a coma for four days

and hospitalized for one month.

Well, that just happened again.

Suzi's condition is unpredictable.

More dramatically, viewers,

Suzzanna intends

to be buried in the

same grave as Arie.

Like a scene from a horror film,

Suzzanna's life becomes increasingly tense.

Is this the end of the horror story

of Suzzanna's life?

GHOST AMBULANCE

I have to do things that

make me happy.

I knew from her doctor that

she was actually seriously ill at the time.

So, she wasn't fit to film,

but she made a cameo appearance.

They would just call me,

"Suzzanna, Suzzanna!"

When I stare at the mirror,

I sometimes wonder,

"I get told I'm beautiful

and look young. Is it really so?"

"How old are you?"

"65 years and 3 months."

It's because of Clift. His love and

affection for me keeps me young.

In my first film,

Suzzanna was my mother.

In Suzzanna's last film,

Suzzanna played my mother.

It matched.

Now Clift and I are

repeating the film SANGKURIANG

where I was the mother

and Clift was my son.

Your aspiration to love me

has been fulfilled.

For me, this is an incredible thing.

It's hard to say what I'm feeling.

I'm more than happy; I'm

more touched. There's sadness.

It's not sadness where I feel down,

but a sadness that makes me think,

"How can I go

through all this?"

I haven't got my cemetery plot just yet.

I have tasks I need to complete first.

Right after GHOST AMBULANCE,

she said,

"I think my time is about to come.

I miss Mommy, I miss Daddy,

I miss Arie."

She asked me to hold her hand.

After she said it, she suddenly

inhaled and exhaled.

I thought she was tired. But again, she

took a deep breath and let it out.

Predictably, suspicions

fell on Clift Sangra.

It was inevitable, because they

were the only ones there.

I went to her house,

but the door was locked.

They had already gone to the cemetery.

I quickly went to the cemetery.

I wanted to attend the

Catholic Rite of Committal.

By the time I arrived at the

cemetery, the funeral was over.

Why should it be such

a hidden event?

They said it was

because her will requested it.

She might want to avoid other people,

but to avoid her own family, too?

It raised a few questions, of course,

with the very simple funeral.

But, yeah, we never knew

what really happened.

When she was dying, Suzzanna

didn't want it revealed to the public.

So, it was Suzzanna's request.

She didn't want to be exposed,

didn't want to be seen as a

pale body in the coffin.

She wanted the public to remember

the beautiful Suzzanna.

The news said that her

funeral was hidden by me.

I don't care what people say.

I don't have anything to say back to them.

They said I wanted to

k*ll Suzzanna. It's okay.

I have nothing to lose

from their words.

There's a letter from

the Magelang police and

the doctor, stating her

death was due to illness.

People's curiosity went beyond speculation.

There was an outcry for an autopsy,

but I didn't let it happen.

I didn't do it,

because she was already dead.

We used to sleep in the same room,

but I snored when I slept.

When Suzzanna got sick,

she'd become annoyed by this.

She said, "Darling, will you please

move to another room? I can't sleep.

So I moved rooms. "Okay, I'll move,

but what if you need anything?"

"If I need anything,

I'll just knock, knock on the wall."

Knock, knock, knock.

That was her call to me.

So, once she was gone, she had died,

and she had been buried here,

the wall in my room would still get

the knock, knock, knock.

The knocks on the wall went

on for about two years.

During that period, she would appear,

in front of the bedroom, in the TV room.

So, even after she died,

she wasn't gone immediately.

No, she lingered in our home.

There are even remakes,

reboots, rebirths.

SUZZAN NA:

BURIED ALIVE

They said the ghost of Mrs. Suzzanna.

I really saw Suzzanna.

She has become a...

Sundel bolong'.!

They wouldn't change the look

of the person playing Suzzanna.

Always with the mole in the same place.

They don't want to stray from that,

because of how iconic Suzzanna is.

And not only because of her legacy,

the movies that she made,

but because she represents not only

the past but also the future.

Hope.

The hope that Indonesian films can

connect to their audience.