Razak and his Rumah Pontianak

From: The Malay Mail | Date: June 14, 2004 | Copyright information

JOHOR BARU: The gentle breeze at Danga Bay became still with eerie screaming at a makeshift vampire house.

No, it wasn't Van Helsing in action.

Just outside the rundown makeshift Rumah Pontia- nak, sat an old man, A. Razak Sheikh Mohammed, the man who wrote and produced the original classic Pontianak the movie in 1954.

At 86, eyesight failing and using a hearing aid, Razak was full of enthusiasm.

"This house?" he laughed. "I am a promoter. I take it with me wherever...