Irul: Ghost Hotel
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A group of ambitious filmmakers, aided by paranormal activity specialists, is headed to the Penang island in Northern Malaysia. Led by their highly-motivated producer Punitah, the crew is eager to investigate the secrets lurking in the infamous deserted hotel Crag, clearly forgetting how these stories usually end. Will the trap set for the evil born out of a decades-old injustice work this time around?
Irul: Ghost Hotel, the first Tamil found footage film made in Malaysia, is a passionate, energetic horror, impressing with a creative use of different video formats and the surprisingly successful special effects. The Crag Hotel, in which the story is set, is an authentic 19th-century building with a rich colonial past. It has been abandoned and slowly decaying for many years, because the islanders believe that… It's haunted.
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Marcin Krasnowolski
M.S. Prem Nath
Malay director and editor of Tamil origins, living in Kuala Lumpur. Creator of innovative horrors – Vere Vazhi Ille was the first Tamil-language zombie movie, and Irul: Ghost Hotel was the first Tamil found footage film made in Malaysia.
2005 Uyir The Soul
2015 Vere Vazhi Ille
2018 Rise: Ini Kalilah
2021 Irul: Nawiedzony hotel / Irul: Ghost Hotel