M'sian Movie 'Talbis Iblis' Is the Second Movie Picked to Debut at Far East Film Festival in Italy

The horror movie follows Hajar (Azira Shafinaz), who is pregnant out of wedlock and is being forced by her mother to have the baby far away from Kuala Lumpur. After several tries of aborting the child, her baby is still alive, but now with a cleft lip, which only caused Hajar to further despise her unborn child.

Hajar and her husband, Arshad (Zul Ariffin), meet a midwife, Mak Ju (Nasha Aziz), who specializes in providing the best care before and after childbirth to fulfil her family's request.

After spending a few days under her care, Hajar finds in Mak Ju the mother she never had – someone loving and motherly. Eventually, Hajar begins to feel love for her baby, inspired by the motherly love Mak Ju had shown to Hajar herself. But unbeknownst to Hajar, Mak Ju’s ill intentions would soon come to harm Hajar and her precious child.

Inspired by The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, and Sinister, as well as Joko Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves and Impetigore, director Kabir Bhatia has crafted a folk horror tale that extends the recent wave of Malaysian genre films making an international splash.

The film will debut at the Far East Film Festival in Italy on 29 April and was made in collaboration with Infinitus Gold, Astro Shaw, Jazzy Pictures, A Next Star Productions, MM2 Entertainment, and Chain FX.

We wish the film all the best at the festival and when it opens in Malaysia in the fourth quarter of 2022.