# Suzzanna: Buried Alive

Suzzanna: Bernapas dalam Kubur (Suzzanna: Buried Alive) is a 2018 Indonesian horror film directed by Rocky Soraya and Anggy Umbara and written by Bene Dion Rajagukguk. It is a remake to the 1981 film titled Sundelbolong directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra, and a homage to its star, "queen of Indonesian horror" Suzzanna.

## Plot

In the spring of 1989, Satria, director of a cable manufacturing factory, and his wife Suzzanna are eagerly expecting their first child. At his plant, Satria invokes the chagrin of two of his workers, Umar and Jonal, who have been demanding wage raises. When Satria leaves for a business trip to Japan, Umar and Jonal conspire with two other dissatisfied co-workers, Dudun and Gino, to raid Satria's house. Suzzanna, who went to an outdoor cinema, returns amid their burglary, and when they make noise, she investigates. Panickedly fighting the burglars, she unmasks them, and in another attempt to fight back, she is accidentally impaled on a sharp bamboo pole. Believing her dead, the culprits begin burying her, but are shocked to discover that she is still alive. Unwilling to go to prison, they nevertheless continue filling her grave, burying her alive.
Suzzanna awakens inside her house and realizes to her shock that she has become a sundel bolong. When Satria returns shortly afterwards, Suzzanna, though torn by sadness, leaves him oblivious. However, the house servants eventually discover her nature, and Suzzanna lets them flee the mansion. Seeking revenge, Suzzanna begins stalking her killers one by one, starting with Dudun, whom she lures from his work dormitory into the factory to decapitate him. Umar, Jonal and Gino seek out the services of Gino's witch doctor uncle Mbah Turu, who declares that while it is taboo for a sundel bolong to directly kill someone, she can scare or trick them into making them kill themselves or each other. When Suzzanna haunts Jonal, he begins stabbing her, only to find that she has deceived him with an illusion into killing Gino. Umar, Jonal and Turu devise a plan to trap and exorcise her by destroying her home and killing her husband, since it is her love for him that keeps her spirit on Earth. After hearing village gossip about Suzzanna's hauntings, Satria is made fully aware of Suzzanna's condition when he reads from the Quran and she cries out in pain, as well as when he finds and unearths her body.
The same night, Umar and Jonal lead a mob of villagers to the house, burning it. They incapacitate Suzzanna by driving a kris into her head, then lure Satria into Turu's abode for the final stage of the exorcism, claiming that Suzzanna has been possessed by a demon. However, when Jonal tries to kill him, Satria realizes that this is really his wife, murdered by these men, and releases her. While Jonal and Turu flee into the woods, Satria fights and kills Umar, but is stabbed in the back. Suzzanna chases down Turu, blinding him and causing him to impale his head on a pointed tree branch, and then kills Jonal by burying him alive. By personally slaying a human, Suzzanna's ties to the Earth are severed, and she dies in Satria's arms after they exchange sorrowful goodbyes. Soon, however, Satria discovers that his wound is fatal, and he dies as well, rejoining his wife in the afterlife.

## Cast

* Luna Maya as Suzzanna
* Herjunot Ali as Satria
* Teuku Rifnu Wikana as Umar
* Verdi Solaiman as Jonal
* Kiki Narendra as Gino
* Alex Abbad as Dudun
* Asri Welas as Mia
* Opie Kumis as Pak Rojali
* Ence Bagus as Tohir
* Norman R. Akyuwen as Mbah Turu
* Clift Sangra as Pak Bekti

## Accolades

| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
| Bandung Film Festival | 22 November 2019 | Best Film | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Nominated |
| Bandung Film Festival | 22 November 2019 | Best Actress | Luna Maya | Won |
| Bandung Film Festival | 22 November 2019 | Best Original Music Score | Andhika Triyadi | Won |
| Bandung Film Festival | 22 November 2019 | Best Art Direction | Tommy D. Setyanto, Rico Marpaung | Nominated |
| Bandung Film Festival | 22 November 2019 | Best Editing | Sastha Sunu | Nominated |
| Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards | 5 April 2019 | Best Actress | Luna Maya | Nominated |
| Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards | 5 April 2019 | Best Supporting Actor | Verdi Solaiman | Nominated |
| Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards | 5 April 2019 | Best Ensemble Cast | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Nominated |
| Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards | 5 April 2019 | Best Film Poster | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Won |
| Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards | 5 April 2019 | Best Film Trailer | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Nominated |
| Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards | 5 April 2019 | Best Original Soundtrack | Vina Panduwinata (Selamat Malam) | Nominated |
| Indonesian Movie Actors Awards | 14 March 2019 | Best Actress | Luna Maya | Nominated |
| Indonesian Movie Actors Awards | 14 March 2019 | Best Supporting Actor | Teuku Rifnu Wikana | Nominated |
| Indonesian Movie Actors Awards | 14 March 2019 | Best Ensemble | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Nominated |
| Indonesian Movie Actors Awards | 14 March 2019 | Favorite Actress | Luna Maya | Won |
| Indonesian Movie Actors Awards | 14 March 2019 | Favorite Supporting Actor | Teuku Rifnu Wikana | Nominated |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Actress | Luna Maya | Won |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Supporting Actor | Verdi Solaiman | Nominated |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Art Direction | Tommy D. Setyanto, Rico Marpaung | Nominated |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Sound Design | Khikmawan Santosa, Madun, Anhar Moha & Suhadi | Nominated |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Makeup & Hairstyling | Adi Wahono, Peter Gorshenin & Tatiana Melkomova | Won |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Special Effects | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Nominated |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Costume Design | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Nominated |
| Maya Awards | 19 January 2019 | Best Poster Design | Suzzanna: Buried Alive | Nominated |