Pusaka (film)
Pusaka | |
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Directed by | Razaisyam Rashid |
Written by | Anwari Ashraf Alfie Palermo Zulaikha Zakaria Natasha Azlan Luqman Ghazali |
Produced by | Dato’ Khairul Anwar Salleh Raja Jastina Raja Arshad Maurice Noone Priya Narayanan |
Starring | Syafiq Kyle Mimi Lana Hafidz Roshdi Farhanna Qismina Ogy Ahmad Daud Faizal Hussein |
Cinematography | Madnor Kassim |
Edited by | Razaisyam Rashid |
Music by | Ricky Lionardi |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Astro Shaw |
Release date | 31 October 2019 (Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) |
Running time | 1 hour 34 minutes |
Country | Malaysia |
Language | Malay |
Budget | RM 2 Million |
Box office | RM 13.7 Million |
Pusaka is a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language horror film directed by Razaisyam Rashid and written by Anwari Ashraf and Alfie Palermo. Syafiq Kyle stars as Inspector Nuar Ishak who discovers twins Balqis and Qistina, one dead and one alive, trapped in an abandoned house. Since heading the investigation for this case, Inspector Nuar begins experiencing paranormal disturbances and although he realises his judgement is progressively affected and also has problems with his own twin, Nur, he must solve the case before more lives are lost.
It was released on 31 October 2019 in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.[1][2][3]
Plot[]
Nuar and Nur were born as the twins. Nuar was a skilled cop was finding his sister Nur at the warehouse, who is the drug addict. Nuar has tired of Nur because she always leaves the rehab center and hide in the warehouse. After a heat argument, Nuar sends Nur back to the rehab center. The police dispatch calls Nuar about the smell of corpses, Nuar went to the abandoned house. Nuar goes inside the house and encounters a few sightings and weird sounds (sound of a dropping marble on a floor), but he thinks nothing of it. On the second level, he finds a girl, being chained and holding a corpse.
Later, he learns that the survivor, Balqis, is a part of twin sisters and the deceased is Qistina, and they are twin daughters of Megat Mahmud. Nuar becomes more interested in the case as nobody ever reported the twins were abducted and leads to the death of one of the twins, which is quite weird. When Nuar returns home, things started to feel weird - he hears and sees things. Up to a point that his hand was grabbed by a ghost and the marks turn blue.
Later that evening, Balqis was possessed and pukes out the blood along with note. The note discovers that Faizah's spirit attacks Khaleeda. Nuar, Lokman and police member rushes to Faizah's house. Nuar tries to save her, but was pushed by Faizah's spirit. Lokman recites his prayers to exorcises Faizah's spirit out of her body and she was arrested.
The next morning, Nuar interviews Faizah at police station. After Faizah got possessed, she attacks Nuar and runs away. Nuar tries to chase her but was died by the car of accident. Nuar meets Balqis and she explains that their parents was killed due to the road accident. Opah locks Balqis and Qistina at the abandoned house. Faizah went to the abandoned house along with some food, but however, she shocked that Qistina was killed along with skulls.
Nuar was suspected and arrested by ASP Mansor due to the murders of Opah and Megat Mahmud. He was send to the jail.
At the abandoned house, Nuar and Lokman were find Khaleeda has brought by Balqis. Lokman was attacked by spirit of Balqis. Nuar finally meets Nur along with Balqis's spirit, attacking Nuar. As Nuar shots Balqis, she fells down. But Nur's spirit, also attacking Nuar. The cabinet seems to be fall down to Balqis, allowing Nuar pulls Balqis's ring in front of her finger before rushes to save Nur. Finally, Luqman saves Khaleeda while Nur was cured but Nuar was injured.
Two months later, Nuar was recovered and brought back to the police force, while Nur's arm are broken due to injuries. Nuar and Nur enjoying sitting on the brench, along with Luqman. In the mid-credits scene, Khaleeda goes inside the bus, but somehow behind Balqis after came back.
Cast[]
- Syafiq Kyle as Inspektor Nuar Ishak
- as Nur Ishak
- Hafidz Roshdi as Luqman
- Faizal Hussein as ASP Mansor
- Sweet Qismina as Balqis Megat Mahmud/Qistina Megat Mahmud
- as Megat Mahmud
- as Opah/ Puteri Najwa
- as Faizah
- as Khaleeda
- as Haikal
- as Hanif
- as Salman
Box office[]
Pusaka has grossed over RM 11 Million after 18 days of theatrical release.
References[]
- ^ "Pusaka Could very well be the scariest local horror film this year". Rojak Daily.
- ^ "A Look at Pusaka". Utusan Borneo.
- ^ "An unexpected haunting". The Sun.
External links[]
- Pusaka in Cinema.com.my
- Malay-language films
- Malaysian horror films
- Malaysian films