According to IMDb, the shooting locations were in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. I was wondering when I watched the opening scene. There were stilt houses (=rumah panggung) and lots of coconut trees. The black magician and his client were dressed like people here. His hair was covered with what looked like a blangkon from a far (but in close ups it was not) and he wore sarong. I think if these two characters were dubbed in bahasa Indonesia (or Malay), none would have believed they were watching a movie produced by Shaw Brothers.
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| From this distance, the man looks like a Javanese |
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| In close-up: the head cover is not a blangkon |
However, the paper charms used in the next scene were typically Chinese.
The story was not much different from Indonesian horror movies in the same era. Ku Feng played a black magicians who put love spells, death spells, etc. A rich merry widow (Tanny) wanted a man (Ti Lung) who had already had a fiancée (Lily Li). The widow hired the black magician to put a spell on the man. The spell would only be broken if the black magician died.
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| Ti Lung and Lily Li. She is upset after finding another woman's powder compact in his car |
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| Tanny and Lo Lieh. He is trying to get some strands of her hair and its root |
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| Tanny sees a big portrait of Lily Li in Ti Lung's house. Would you really give this your boyfriend? "Put this on your wall." |
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| Ti Lung parks his car near a little book store named 'Kedai Buku Dunia' or 'Universal Book Store' |
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