Suzzanna

Acting

Suzzanna

Born — Died

1942-10-13 — 2008-10-15

Place of birth

Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Suzzanna Martha Frederika van Osch (13 October 1942 – 15 October 2008), better known as Suzzanna, was an Indonesian actress of Indo descent. Known as the "horror queen of Indonesian cinema", she is well known in particular in Indonesia for portraying spirits, witches, and other supernatural beings.

Known for

Sundel Bolong poster
5.3

A newly-married woman and former prostitute whose husband, a ship's captain, has gone to sea, is pressured into returning to her old profession. When she refuses, she is violently gang-raped and left pregnant and despondent. She kills herself while attempting to abort the fetus but returns as a vengeful Sundel Bolong, a ghost with a putrid, rotting hole in her back. When the rapists and conspirers start turning up dead, her husband and the police try to put a stop to the violence, once and for all.

Sundel Bolong

1981

The Snake Queen poster
7.5

A wealthy businessman gains his fortune through Nyi Blorong, sacrificing his wife and child in return, and later offers his daughter's boyfriend to satisfy her demand for more. His daughter, learning the truth in a dream, seeks help from a cleric to destroy Nyi Blorong.

The Snake Queen

1982

The Hungry Snake Woman poster
5.2

A man, convinced that money and power can secure love, flees into the woods after attempting to rape his ex-girlfriend. He encounters the Snake Queen, who promises him immense wealth in exchange for his servitude.

The Hungry Snake Woman

1986

December Game poster
NR

Anton accidentally stumbles upon a girl being raped. He attempts to intervene, but when the rapist manages to escape, Anton finds himself a fugitive wanted by the police. While on the run, poor visibility and heavy rain cause Anton to crash his car into a truck. At the hospital, he meets a beautiful nurse named Yosi. Although Anton is eventually cleared of the charges and hopes to pursue a romance with Yosi, he discovers that she has become a nun. Following the accident, Yosi has become emotionally withdrawn, while Anton grows increasingly reckless.

December Game

1980

The Long March poster
8.0

It tells the story of an Indonesian revolutionary who falls in love with one of his Dutch prisoners.

The Long March

1950

Ghost Ambulance poster
6.5

Gina, Rano’s mother, made a pact with the devil to have more wealth for her family, on condition that she has to sacrifice lives. When she fails to meet the condition on one occasion, the devil kills her family, leaving just her son, Rano. Years after, Rano and his friends, Dicky, Ocha, and Popi, decide to study in a university in Bandung. They agree to live together in a rented house that was actually Rano’s old family home. At the house, an ambulance is parked that is rumored to be haunted. Then they start to experience strange and horrifying incidents, especially since the ambulance keeps claiming victims. Finally, the secret of Rano’s family is revealed by Widya, his grandmother. Rano is sad and disappointed, especially as his friends also became victims. Rano intends to break the curse but then unexpectedly, Fiona, his ex-girlfriend, comes to visit. Rano, who loves Popi, now has to decide which of the two girls, he must sacrifice.

Ghost Ambulance

2008

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 20 titles

Sundel Bolong poster
5.3

A newly-married woman and former prostitute whose husband, a ship's captain, has gone to sea, is pressured into returning to her old profession. When she refuses, she is violently gang-raped and left pregnant and despondent. She kills herself while attempting to abort the fetus but returns as a vengeful Sundel Bolong, a ghost with a putrid, rotting hole in her back. When the rapists and conspirers start turning up dead, her husband and the police try to put a stop to the violence, once and for all.

Sundel Bolong

1981

The Snake Queen poster
7.5

A wealthy businessman gains his fortune through Nyi Blorong, sacrificing his wife and child in return, and later offers his daughter's boyfriend to satisfy her demand for more. His daughter, learning the truth in a dream, seeks help from a cleric to destroy Nyi Blorong.

The Snake Queen

1982

The Hungry Snake Woman poster
5.2

A man, convinced that money and power can secure love, flees into the woods after attempting to rape his ex-girlfriend. He encounters the Snake Queen, who promises him immense wealth in exchange for his servitude.

The Hungry Snake Woman

1986

December Game poster
NR

Anton accidentally stumbles upon a girl being raped. He attempts to intervene, but when the rapist manages to escape, Anton finds himself a fugitive wanted by the police. While on the run, poor visibility and heavy rain cause Anton to crash his car into a truck. At the hospital, he meets a beautiful nurse named Yosi. Although Anton is eventually cleared of the charges and hopes to pursue a romance with Yosi, he discovers that she has become a nun. Following the accident, Yosi has become emotionally withdrawn, while Anton grows increasingly reckless.

December Game

1980

Lake Eerie poster
6.5

Indonesian genre actress Suzzanna headlines this Sisworo Gautama Putra directed vengeful ghost yarn that has a shroud clad female spirit who is summoned to pursue after a group of thuggish thieves who kill the parents and grandmother of a young boy after they get into a martial arts brawl with the father.

Lake Eerie

1984

Sangkuriang poster
4.0

After swearing an oath to marry the one who picks up her weaving stick, Dayang Sumba embarks on an unexpected romance with a royal staff member.

Sangkuriang

1982

Santet poster
5.7

After poisoning his wife, local gangster Bisman blames her death on the village cleric and instigates an outraged mob to burn down his hut, killing him in the process. The cleric’s wife Katemi escapes into the jungle, eventually meeting Nyi Angker, a half-crocodile half-witch who gives Katemi diabolical powers, thus allowing her to commence a bloody revenge.

Santet

1988

The Queen of Black Magic poster
6.4

A woman is seduced by and cast aside by a fickle lover. When the lover marries another woman who starts hallucinating during their wedding, she is accused of being a witch and thrown to her death over a cliff. A strange man rescues her, nurses her back to health, and is told that she must master black magic in order to exact vengeance on her tormentors. She casts a variety of spells over the populace--with the male population as her favorite target, and becomes the queen of black magic. But who, exactly, is the man, and does he have other plans?

The Queen of Black Magic

1981

Kliwon Friday Night poster
NR

Ayu Sutrisna, a novelist, is suffering from a phobia that causes her hands to shake and cold sweats to break out. Her boyfriend, Anton, suggests a more laid-back atmosphere. So, she takes a retreat in an old house that the two find abandoned on an exploration. Soon, she discovers that the house hides a secret and is haunted by the legendary sundel balong, a vengeful spirit with a strange anatomical anomaly.

Kliwon Friday Night

1986

Calon Arang the Powerful Queen poster
8.0

The evil witch Calon Arang uses black magic and strikes fear in the population in Bali during the 1000's. Her daughter Manggali, who can not find a man because everyone is afraid of her mother, instead of being nice to people and use their magic for good purposes.

Calon Arang the Powerful Queen

1985

The Age of Turmoil poster
NR

With her marriage to the unfaithful Iskandar already in the toilet, Susy goes cougar and tries her luck with several younger men. Leading lady Suzzanna gets a brief reprieve from starring in nothing but horror flicks in this Private Lessons-inspired drama.

The Age of Turmoil

1986

Santet 2: Wanita Harimau poster
4.3

Katemi, shunned for past murders, is cursed by Nyi Angker's mentor, transforming her into a vicious tiger each night, brutally slaughtering villagers. Madness ensues as Katemi's nightly rampages continue, ripping people limb from limb.

Santet 2: Wanita Harimau

1989

The Snake Queen's Wedding poster
5.0

A great duel erupts between Tejo Arum, Nyi Blorong's lover, and King Dewacengkar, as rivals seek her affection. When Tejo Arum is defeated, Nyi Blorong aids him by transforming him into a giant powerful enough to crush his enemies. To regain his human form, Tejo Arum is forced to meditate for 350 years.

The Snake Queen's Wedding

1983

Satu Suro Night poster
6.7

Malam Satu Suro is a romantic Indonesian horror movie directed by Gautama Putra Sisworo and starring Suzanna and Fendy Pradana. The film is known for its unique story line because it does not highlight the ghost as an antagonist but as the main character / protagonist. The film was distributed by Soraya Intercine Films.

Satu Suro Night

1988

Valley of Sorrow poster
NR

Tells the story of a couple who live a mediocre life with various burdens. When Marsudi is found guilty and imprisoned, Susanti decides to take the forbidden path. The relationship between husband and wife becomes cold.

Valley of Sorrow

1981

No artwork available
NR

Students Ario, Joshua and Dudi investigate the legend of Nyi Roro Kidul ("The South Seas Queen") in South Lauta. They dive underwater, find the body of a dead woman, bring it ashore and it comes back to life as the beautiful Neneng (Suzzanna). Trouble and death follow.

Awakening of the South Seas Queen

1985

White Crocodile Queen poster
NR

There's gore from weapon attacks, gore from crocodile attacks, goofy humor, lots of rubber crocodiles, a guy gets pissed on, a woman gives birth to a crocodile, strange dance/music video that's surprisingly good, a child is plowed over by a motorbike and hell, there's even a glimpse of some boobies. This is fine Indonesian exploit craziness

White Crocodile Queen

1988

Nyi Ageng the Decoy Queen poster
NR

Increasingly jaded by how men treat women (including how her own mother is casually abused by her father), Nyi Ageng (Suzanna) decides that's not going to be the path for her. She's forced to marry a wealthy man who later dies under mysterious circumstances.

Nyi Ageng the Decoy Queen

1983

Dia Sang Penakluk poster
NR

Yessi, a wealthy plantation heiress with a scorned heart, takes pleasure in manipulating the men who fall for her. When her cruel games drive a young admirer named Anton to the brink of suicide, his older brother, Dr. Norman, decides to intervene with drastic measures. He kidnaps Yessi and takes her to his remote medical post in the jungles of Irian Jaya. Far from her life of luxury, Yessi is forced to endure a harsh new reality under Norman's strict guidance—a journey that challenges her arrogance and gradually transforms her perspective on life and love.

Dia Sang Penakluk

1984

Samson Dan Delilah poster
4.8

Gory indonesian version of "Samson & Dalilah", starring Suzanna, the indonesian scream queen and directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra (the psycho who made Jaka Sembung, among others). In fact, this works like a rip off of Jaka Sembung but with Samson instead of Jaka. Gore and cheesyness for everybody!!!

Samson Dan Delilah

1985

1970s · 7 titles

Crazy Desire poster
7.0

A nurse begins working at a retirement home and soon after the residents start turning up dead.

Crazy Desire

1973

Island of Love poster
NR

Widowed lighthouse keeper Maria (Suzanna) and her daughter Kiki (Nur Afni Octavia) live on a small island in the grip of Karto (Parto Tegal).

Island of Love

1978

The Master of Kedawung poster
7.0

Set in the era of Dutch colonialism, Landlord Kedawung is devastated by his first wife’s death. But apparently, her death is something that the second wife, Zubaedah, has been waiting for.

The Master of Kedawung

1970

The Earth Gets Hotter poster
NR

Maria (Suzzanna) goes to prison for murdering her own father. Upon release, she becomes a prostitute and then has a difficult time maintaining a romantic relationship with a young painter once she decides to get out of the business.

The Earth Gets Hotter

1973

No artwork available
NR

Driven by shame and the fear of losing her prospective husband, Marlia conceals her past. She entrusts her daughter, Jamila—whose father remains unknown—to the care of Mak Zaenab, a woman with whom her connection is also unclear. Johan, a man twice widowed due to his childlessness, eventually marries Marlia under pressure from his mother. After seven childless years, Johan marries again at his mother's insistence. Although not divorced, Marlia feels like a failure and is devastated; she returns to check on her daughter, only to find Mak Zaenab on her deathbed and Jamila—who has gone missing—nearly blind following a sand-play accident.

Ratapan dan Rintihan

1974

The Longest Dark poster
8.0

Supinah, a prostitute, is picked up by a kindly rich man, Budi. They fall in love and she recounts how she, as a naive willage woman, was lured into prostitution when she came to Jakarta in search of her husband, who in turns out remarried. Budi wants her to quit her job but her vicious pimp has other ideas.

The Longest Dark

1970

Birth in the Grave poster
10.0

The story of two sisters, one evil, one good. The evil sister will go to any lengths to inherit the family wealth

Birth in the Grave

1972

1950s · 2 titles