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Misteri Dilaila (2019)

Misteri Dilaila poster
Directed by
Syafiq Yusof
Genre
horror film
Country
Malaysia
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A couple stays at a family bungalow in Fraser's Hill. The wife goes missing after the husband experiences strange events. Another woman appears and claims to be the wife.

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What happens

Misteri Dilaila (English: The Mystery of Dilaila) is a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language psychological horror thriller film directed by Syafiq Yusof starring Zul Ariffin, Elizabeth Tan, Namron, Rosyam Nor and Sasqia Dahuri. The film follows a couple as the wife (Elizabeth Tan) goes missing after the husband (Zul Ariffin) experiences strange events during their first night staying at the family bungalow in Fraser's Hill. Things get complicated when another woman (Sasqia Dahuri) appears and claims to be the wife. The film was released in two versions on 21 February 2019 in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, making it to be the first Malaysian film to have two versions that has different alternate endings. The movie is an adaptation of the 1986 TV movie Vanishing Act which itself was based on the 1958 movie Chase A Crooked Shadow. Viewers claimed that nearly 80 per cent of Misteri Dilaila’s storyline bore similarities to the David Green-directed film which starred Mike Farrel and Margot Kidder. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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