Kak Limah on set

Hari ni hari lepak. Tapi I came down with this horrible migraine. Sebenarnya hari Rabu arituh da kena one attack.

But ari ni memang teruk. Sampai lose orientation terus, rasa dizzy dan nak pengsan, black out terus. Entah sebab apa. Popped some Panadols and tido terus...

Lepas beberapa jam bangun pon masih sikit agik wooziness. Esok je ke klinik.

Ni nak share some pics masa kat Kuala Kangsar tuk shooting Hantu Kak Limah Balik Ke Rumah, written and directed by Mamat Khalid and produced by Tayangan Unggul.

Nak gak ucap tima kasih for the hospitality of all there (especially Gaya and Ira of course).

Walaopon duduk resort pelik ni. Pelik camna? Heh... tengok la...




Tuh dia... ko hado? Tak paham sangat konsep glass door ada chain lock tu tuk added security. Lagik pelik telefon yang dok side table tapi nun jauh dari outlet dia yang tetiba tinggi je placement. Tu lom agik wifi yang konon ada walaopon ado. And makanan dia yang ala ala dua minggu disimpan dan direheat.

Heh... tapi tak kisah. It was all fun still.

Ni some pics from the two days sana. Malam pertama kita kat sana was malam Khamis. Tapi eerie gak masa dua malam sana. Mana tak nya. Shooting malam. Pastu full moon lak. And then tengah kampung yang sunyi.

Tapi beza ngan set Jalan Lama di hutan Belum, tempat shooting kat Kampung Guar, Kuala Kangsar takde 'warga warga' yang tak nampak. So aku ok je...



Scene orang kampung mob (bukan flash mob - walaopon ada benda yang kelakar gila time ni)



Props - this is reason number one why good hair care is very important. Matilah!


Awie's Harley Davidson


Vogue tak wheelchair ni?


Ni dia calon Pelakon Pembantu Lelaki Popular - Eds Edrina (atau nama sebenarnya Fuad Aripin! - matilah aku!) Ed of course kalao ko baca sini previously mesti tau dia ni special effects artist. Ni dia wat bullet wound tuk kak Delimawati yang pegang title character Kak Limah


Entry point - bukan cam sparuh make up artist main tempek prosthetic dibeli atau lekat entah haper benda je ok.


Are you grossed out? Ni lom the other side wat exit point for the bullet.


Abang Mamat and wife on set


Ni scene pas kak Limah kena tembak kat kaki





Ni scene terbang kak Limah


Creepy!


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In between take - Awie ngan Johan layan buah. Gila senang dapat rambutan dan durian. Tima kasih orang Kampung Guar!


Hantu Kak Limah Balik Ke Rumah will be released dalam suku ketiga 2010. Tapi memang besh.

Of course sebagai sequel to Zombi Kampung Pisang, memang takyah cakap la.. kelakar gila. In fact, this is was more funnier than Zombi. Korang look out je.

By the way - bukan sequel je ok.. dengar abang Mamat awal tahun depan nak shoot bahagian ketiga dah tuk the Zombi trilogi. Gila hebat.

Me likey... ouch... aduh sakit pala balik. Sambung tido...

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Sudah

Ni baru bangun nak sahur pas dua hari tak posa. Which brings the grand total to lima hari aku tak 'sempat' posa. Respek my Muslim friends who stick to theirs. Bukan senang ok nak posa pastuh nak function as usual in the day. I know for me, tak merokok tuh yang paling teruk... time keja stress, automatic je capai rokok.

Anyway, ni some pics I uploaded of the shooting kat Belum on Saturday.



The picture above is part of a village created.

Story Jalan Lama ni is quite interesting. Very fantasy! I like!

Basically it's about two brothers on a roadtrip. Both Que Haidar dan Hans Isaac play the brothers, who pas their father passes away, si Hans nya watak ni kena bawak balik watak Que untuk di 'kembalikan' to asal usul dia on his 25th birthday (something his dad would have been supposed to do tapi sebab da kiok takleh) - to a perkampungan belonging to a tribe deep in the forests.

A lot of strange, spooky stuff happens before and during the roadtrip and Que's character realises who he really is.

Best jalan cita dia.

And a lot of other names involved too. Afdlin and Christina, his wife was responsible for the script if I'm not mistaken. Afdlin directs too and holds a small part in the movie.

Starring is Que, Hans, Vanidah Imran... and ramai involved termasuk Namron, Ahmad Tarmimi Siregar, Liyana Jasmay, Corrie... ni some pics of the scenes masa shooting at Belum.

Que arrived about 6pm. Ni the start of the day about 6pm


Gaya, Afdlin... why is there an abandoned Giant shopping trolley in the middle of Belum? *larikkk*


11pm - Gaya pops out the M&Ms. Seb baik beg dia very the kuasa Doraemon. Ada je makanan.


10pm on. Que moving into second ke third scene.


11.30pm or so... Afdlin perah otak jap. Getting his creative mojo


Helmi - a killer director of photography


Some of the extras in one of the village scenes


Setting up for Hans and Que nya scene with the mysterious tribe


1am - just before the wrap of the scene to move into the fight scene


A very preggers Linda. Maintain cantik walaopon tengah ngandung (and she spent the whole time on set... loving sangat)


Extras sempat cam whore sat sementara menunggu set up


Helmi sempat tea break...


Sebelom lari balik ke station dia


Vanidah... fresh walaopon da masuk 2 pagi!


Que pondering his scene, Linda borak ngan Juan and Hans gets a back rub from the crew


Gaya - still cheery!


What a job! Dress up scary, in the middle of the jungle - in the middle of the night... rehearsing lines


Being fitted for her look




Rocking the horror freak look


It was fun walaopon tiring.

First of all, one thing I have to say. Nak shooting dalam hutan tengah malam is HORRIFIC! Memang bukan aku je, tapi everyone I think, could pretty much sense we were being watched.

Tapi takde benda pelik berlaku, even though aku as usual 'nampak' lelebih.

Seronok nya pasal though, tak perasan pe pe sangat. The last set of pics tuh, Vee tengah siap make up prosthetics tuk watak dia. Nice!

Make up artist nya si Edd. Kebetulan, si Edd ni dak junior aku masa ACS Klang. And memang dulu rapat gila ngan dia. Dengar khabar dia da gi London ke haper dua tahun lebih belajar make up. Tup tup... after years tak jumpa, serempak once dia balik ni.

Memang dia effects work cantik. Takde main campak sos tomato je ok. Sebab aku into effects make up, especially more to horror and gore (tengok je my Halloween pics last year yang wat sendiri), banyak la curi tips dari dia.

I think the end result is going to be quite grand.

Tanak give anything away for the moment. The movie is expected to be out only in 2011 tahun depan.

Aku lepak on location for the shoot (yang delay because hujan ketika berbuka - sempat rush balik resort) sampai takleh tahan.. ngantuk sangat.

Tapi the 50 something strong crew, and the artistes, serta over 80 extras bertahan. Salute!

Pagi smalam masa aku nak gerak da, heard bebudak semua balik pas wrap scenes kat Belum about 9am or so. Aiyo! Koma la sekor sekor nih. Plus, Monday dengar meka da sambung shoot balik kat KL. Dengar ada lagik shots kat hutan kat Gombak dan Hulu Langat lagi nak settlekan.

Wrap shoot by 8hb. Hans ajak tuk PC Cuci The Musical di, while Afdlin reminded of the preview screening of Papadom on 10th.

Takde masa lor nak cuti sebelom Raya nih. Pe pon, story banyak nak abih. Esok.. make it later today, banyak nak abihkan. Nanti je update lagik.

Masuk utan ni stressful lak. Heh... tapi nak sangat balik cuti kat Belum. Cantik abih! Everything was so... green!

Ok la.. nak sahur jap pastuh nak tido. Ta all.

PS - Tengah layan single baru Samsons - Tak Ada Tempat Seperti Surga. It's been on permanent repeat for the past few days dah sejak Irfan bagitau. Heh... Bams messaged too. Samsons the best! Siap hapal da nyanyi skali. Heh! Memang their songs semua simple, but poetic dan mendalam.

Samsons – Tak Ada Tempat Seperti Surga
Tak ada tempat seperti Surga
Untuk kuhabiskan hidupku denganmu
Senandung alunan terindah
Akan kulakukan teruntuk dirimu cinta
Separuh darah hidupku

Tak ada tempat seperti Surga
Untuk kuabadikan hidupku denganmu
Barisan syair yang terindah
Akan kulakukan untuk dirimu cinta
Separuh sukma jiwaku

Ku persembahkan hidupku
Tuk selamanya padamu
Kan kuserahkan cintaku hanya untukmu
Selamanya

Ku abadikan hatiku
Tuk selamanya padamu
Kan kuserahkan ragaku hanya untukmu
Selamanya

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Maut - the review

So after having hung about the shooting of Maut, then named Malaikat Maut before the change in title some two years ago ketika shooting kat Sentul - did Maut live up to my expectations?

Yes and no.

It's not really a horror as the title would directly suggest. In fact, being a lover of horror movies, I was hardly - not even mildly horrified by any part of it - apart from the atrocious use of lighting which was as good as shoving a floodlight up someone's bum and asking them to direct it randomly. Matilah awal awal da nak carut... kannnnn!!!

Like I said, hampir dua tahun lepas, aku penah cover shooting adengan car crash yang korang akan dapat tengok dalam cita ketiga yang melibatkan Que, Sherry, Awal dan Nana. Lapan jam lebih gak dok set tengok meka wat. Also had a long talk with abang Bade over his vision for the movie then.

Ok... let's see. Opening the movie, and in between, the graphics of a tree, yang gugur daun tiap kali tuh, as a non Muslim aku memang tak paham... sehingga kengkawan explain. So the tree is life, and tiap kali daun gugur tuh there's a death, and malaikat maut akan menjalankan tugas. Erm... ok then.

Mai start filem ni yang ala syampu Rejoice 3 in 1.

STORY #1
Si Lina ni naik bas, kebetulan si Fadilah is on it as well... looking bored to death. Maybe she is dead cause lakonan ia memang tahap mayat bergerak. Oops!

Tetiba, kat umah, si Lina dapat tamu. Rupanya si Fadilah ketok pintu mintak tolong sebab beg dia kena ragut and she needs shelter for the night sebab dia tak dapat teruskan perjalanan dia balik ke rumah makcik dia.

Esoknya, si Fadilah vanishes into thin air. Ilang terus without a trace, dan takde orang percaya cita si Lina. Especially bila kuar berita yang Fadilah nih missing.

At the end of it, rupanya si Fadilah has been raped and murdered and her body is found by Lina yang guided to look for answers.

What did I think?
Well, first of all, the premise of the story was quite interesting, though not exactly unique. Berapa banyak cita da kita layan pasal souls returning to guide the living with the agenda to seek peace over their untimely demise. So as the opening number gituh, I don't think this was a good lead in, as it didn't bear any promise of the other two stories to come.

The problems with continuity didn't help. Konon Lina dan si housemate dia tengok berita, and she realises it was the girl that had slept over - ngarut sangat. Tatau la aku missed something, tapi tanpa imej perempuan tu, aku wonder how the hell did Lina figure out it was the same girl.

Also the character of Lina ni tak strong and there is no related spooking to make it believable yang dia sanggup go through all the problems of finding out what happened to Fadilah.

Back soal conti, I wonder how Lina found Fadilah's parents' home, and leh percaya ke yang stakat berbekalkan info Fadilah dia sanggup redah carik tempat yang Fadilah kata nak headed.

Bab kawasan kubur tuh - it was laughable to imagine one area yang Bukit haper si Fadilah tuh bagitau, takde rumah bagai... I mean.. oh never mind.

What's even more laughable is that with her body being out in the elements for days, decomposition would have set into quite advanced stages, but part mayat ditunjuk sikit nampak flawless je. And yet leh terbau? Someone who wants to do stuff like this please do your homework. Jangan lak pasni alasan - tu la... strange circumstances... ko kena paham... tu yang peliknya. Puh-lease.

Erm... and dare I mention the abuse of the KLCC skyline and sound effect nak horrify orang yang nan ado jadiknya?

Overall - it was tahap drama TV je, and lakonan kesemua pelakon kayu abih, even Liyana (sorry gurl... you know I love you but this is not our best)

Maybe it's just me, but seriously there was no direction nor build up for the second story. And what's with Danny's character balak takleh pakai tuh? Waste of time, and space, which like so many things in the story - brought nothing to the storyline at all.


STORY #2
Ni lak cita si Farah yang pramugari. Dia kawin ngan mamat omputeh sekor ni and hidup dia bergelumang dosa gituh - bila hidup nya Islam pada nama saja bukan amalan.

Waking up in a hospital - Farah cita pada sorang minah ni yang helps her out, about how she died and was tormented in hell before given a second chance.

Ok... honestly this story paling sesuai tuk slot drama swasta Very TV drama quality.

It's preachy, overdrawn and just cliched!

Dari dialog, ke adengan meka melakukan memacam maksiat, it seemed so fake and composed in the mind of someone who must have envisioned a typecast lifestyle.

The CGI ok ok though... tapi masuk bab dia diseksa tuh, cam a cartoon version of Mummy Returns lak. I don't know... maybe the visual effects were better, but with a huge freaking disclaimer plastered taking up half the screen, I couldn't tell.

Acting skills were virtually non existent - and at this point, technical issues including out of focus shots and really bad lighting direction was enough to get me shaking my head. Which was a step up from laughing at the really bad script.


STORY #3
If you thought cita ketiga ni was going to save everything, tajuk albumnya NAN ADOOOO!!!

Cita ni mengenai JJ yang feeling black metal dan bertatu dan bergaul bebas... semua bebas la sampai ngongkek sana sini. Of course no scenes of that lor.

Dalam perjalanan balik dari konsert black metal yang sebenarnya lebih meyerupai konsert Siti Nurhaliza tapi cuma lighting gelap with a very bad singer screeching again cliched lines of worshiping the dark lord - JJ dan kengkawan dia kemalangan.

At this point I must add, yang like the second story, everything seems so contrived and cliched.

Sambung balik, kematian JJ tak aman langsung, sampai lubang kubur pun tanak tima. Very the local urban legend tau... this me likey. Localised content for our brand of horror. Cuba lebihkan elemen camni tuk identiti kita sendiri.

I really have to commend Que Haidar. His performance made the whole movie worth watching with him being in his element - just like in Syaitan. Sakit bontot aku nak alih kiri kanan nak elak kebas, tak sabar movie ni habih, berbaloi hanya kerana dapat tengok lakonan dia yang bebetol menjadi tuk hidupkan watak JJ.

Lain dari tuh... this film menjadi horror - sebab aku tak caya they still can make this kind of movies.

It's not as bad as Congkak - which was I think one of those movies yang bebetol memalukan filem Melayu. Maut has promise, just maybe the direction was too cliched, and too drawn from things we've all seen too much off by someone who may not have done enough homework into relevant topics that was to be potrayed.

At the end of the day, the moral of the whole film aku leh summarise is this :
Story #1 - This shit COULD happen to you!
Story #2 - This shit NEARLY happened to you!
Story #3 - Damn you bitches! Da warning ngan dua story masih tak sedar diri - nih diaaaaa one way tiket ke neraka lahanat oiii!!!

Heh... matilah pepandai je aku.

So is Maut worth going to the cinemas for? Yeah well.... it is. If only for Que Haidar's acting and the occasionally interesting camera work selain niat menyokong filem Malaysia. Just keep your expectations low. I know aku for one, wished abang Bade tak wat filem ni after he amazed me with Syaitan which I thought was an interesting piece of work.

Korang gi layan Maut ok. The movie from Tayangan Unggul has a mixed cast of new and upcoming and more experienced names in Liyana Jasmay, Sabrina Hassan, Que Haidar, Eja, Hasnul Rahmat, Hamidah Wahab, Awal Ashaari, Diana Danielle, Mohamad Bathich, Raja Farah,
Noreminadiya, Mohd Kardanie, Danny, Fauziah Nawi dan ramai lagik kot yang aku tak ingat.

It opens 15 Januari. Korang gi tengok.. pastu mai komen balik korang setuju ke tak pandangan aku ek.

Sokong filem tempatan!!! (ni statement wajib selagik lom busuk tahap Congkak)


PS - For more info and images from maut - KLIK SINI

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