Puzzling `Pontianak' From: The Malay Mail | Date: May 29, 2004| Author: | Copyright 2004 The Malay Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

WARNING: This film contains images that some viewers may find shocking - but they have nothing to do with the pontianak!

Shuhaimi Baba's Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam (PHSM) is one of the most talked-about and anticipated films of this year.

It's also the latest local film bold enough to touch on a risky genre - the supernatural.

Unfortunately, after watching the movie, the images that yours truly found disturbing (and is still giving him nightmares) were not of Maya Karin's pontianak - but of Azri Iskandar in drag!

Imagine the hunky actor putting on mascara, lipstick and a tiara before ...

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