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Nightmare Fuel / Lawang Sewu Dendam Kuntilanak

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It is a movie set in a haunted house all along.
  • Diska's dreams which shows a woman in white committing suicide in a well.
  • Lawang Sewu's appearance: a centuries-old Dutch colonial house shrouded in fog and overgrown with vines. There are also eerily-lit lanterns adorning the building.
  • Mbah Dharmo's warnings when one should enter Lawang Sewu is ominous enough to deter a smart person from entering that abandoned house to begin with. Naturally, the drunk teens save for Diska violate it.
  • Cika goes inside Lawang Sewu to take a piss then comes into contact with the kuntilanak.
  • Put yourself in the group's shoes: their friend Cika foolishly wanders inside an abandoned house and her screams could be heard from the outside. Their fears are justified.
  • Once they enter, Dinda gets possessed by the ghost of a Dutchwoman and begins speaking perfect Dutch, angrily yelling at them for violating the place. Then the ghosts of Lawang Sewu show up.
  • One of the ghosts of Lawang Sewu is a man beheaded by the Japanese during World War II. He carries his head around with him. At one scene, Onil picks his head up.
  • They soon find Cika's body, sans missing one eye-ball. The eyeball was then hanged in a vine. The next morning, the police state they could not find Cika's remains.
  • Dinda tries to escape the kuntilanak's wrath by taking the midnight train to Jakarta. Then the kuntilanak appears. She tries to head to a train car full of people, but it does not work in deterring the ghost. She is then cornered and killed, living only streaks of blood and her bag.
  • Naya is pulled up into the air and is never seen again.
  • Asshole Victim he was, Armen shitting his pants and begging for mercy to the ghost still counts as terrifying. The ghost later gets her justice on Armen.
  • The Spooky Séance could also count as such, as all the ghosts appear before the identity of the kuntilanak is revealed.
  • Onil gets a strange phone call with only an eerie whisper on the other end. He later opens up a cabinet to see the kuntilanak, which hisses at him.
  • Yugo too sees the kuntilanak in the other end of the hallway and shits his pants. In the climax, Yugo is almost killed by the kuntilanak and is only saved by Diska who closed the lid of the well to contain the vengeful spirit's wrath.
  • Non-horror example: Ratih's situation.
    • She used to date Armen and had one-night stand with him, resulting in her being pregnant. She brings this up to Armen to take responsibility. But Armen shoos her off, stating he would never date a provincial girl like her.
    • Cika, Naya, and Dinda then proceed to humiliate her by ordering her to strip naked and have the photos leaked online.
    • Once the photos have been leaked, Ratih is banished by her father. This leads to her committing suicide in Lawang Sewu.

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