The pontianak, or kuntilanak, has long been a staple of Malay horror. In addition to serving as an allegory for the tension between traditional and modern cultural and spiritual practices, ...

History of the Pontianak. In Malay and Indonesian folklore, the Pontianak is known to be a female vampire or a ghost of a woman who has died in childbirth. Some researchers argue that the Pontianak ...

Pontianak lies on the banks of Indonesia’s longest river, the Kapuas, which rises about 1,140 kilometers upstream in central Borneo, the ancestral homeland of the Dayak, ...

In his latest flick, director Osman Ali mixes romance and horror by looking at the Malay folklore being called Langsuir.

I did not expect to feel unsafe in the safest nation-state in the world. It was 9 p.m., early for a Saturday night. I had ordered a cab home and the driver was friendly, too friendly; creepily ...