Suzzanna: Buried Alive

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 Raja Gukguk.^[1] It is a remake to the 1981 film titled Sundelbolong directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra.

Plot summary[]

In the spring of 1989, Satria, director of a cable manufacturing factory, and his wife Suzzanna are eagerly expecting their first child. However, at his plant Satria invokes the chagrin of two of his workers, Umar and Jonal, who have been consistently 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 has left the mansion with the house's servants for a movie, returns in the midst of their burglary, however, and when they make noise, she investigates. Fighting the burglars panickedly, she ends unmasking them, and in another attempt to fight back, she is accidentally impaled on a pointed 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.

To her shock, Suzzanna awakens inside her house and realizes 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 true nature, and Suzzanna lets them flee the mansion. Seeking revenge, Suzzanna begins stalking her slayers one by one, starting with Dudun, whom she eventually lures from his work dormitory into the factory and who ends up killing himself by constricting his neck with a cable and winch, decapitating him. Umar, Jonal and Gino seek out the services of Gino's uncle Mbah Turu, a witch doctor, 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.

Next, Suzzanna haunts Jonal. In an attempt to fight her off, Jonal begins stabbing her, only to find that she has deceived him with an illusion into killing Gino. Umar, Jonal and Turu begin to devise a plan in order 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 the earthly plane. Satria eventually begins to suspect something is amiss upon hearing village gossip about Suzzanna's hauntings, and is made fully aware of Suzzanna's condition when he reads from the Quran and she cries out in pain. He discovers the final proof when he finds and unearths her body, but the same night Umar and Jonal lead a mob of villagers to the house, putting it to the torch.

Jonal and Turu 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 mortal world are severed, and she expires in Satria's arms after both exchanging sorrowful goodbyes. Moments later, however, Satria discovers that his wound is fatal, and he dies as well, rejoining his wife in the afterlife.

Cast[]

• Luna Maya as Suzzanna
• Herjunot Ali as Satria
• Teuku Rifnu Wikana as Umar
• Verdi Solaiman as Jonal
• Kiki Narendra as Gino
• Alex Abbad as Dudun
• Asri Welas as Mia
• Opie Kumis as Pak Rojali
• Ence Bagus as Tohir
• Norman R. Akyuwen as Mbah Turu
• Clift Sangra as Pak Bekti

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External links[]

• Suzzanna: Buried Alive. Netflix.
• Suzzanna: Buried Alive at IMDb
• Suzzanna: Buried Alive at Rotten Tomatoes