‘Revenge Of The Pontianak’ Took In $256,000 In First Weekend, Best For Any Recent Malay Movie In Singapore1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Revenge Of The Pontianak, a horror movie co-directed by Singaporean film-maker Glen Goei, has scored the highest-grossing weekend take of any Malay-language movie in recent years.
Since it opened last Thursday (Aug 29), the story of a ghost that haunts a village in the 1960s has grossed $256,000, as of Sunday. It opened across 24 screens.
The weekend take surpasses that of recent Malay-language titles, such as Satan’s Slaves (2017), Dukun (2018) and Hantu Kak Limah (2018), which are all horror titles.
Photo credit: Golden Village Pictures