This black-and-white film backed by Sir Run Run Shaw (who also co-produced Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner) tells the story of a grotesquely disfigured hunchback who falls in love with a village beauty. After painting her a picture made with love, the villagers decide to attack him. He fights back and a villager dies. The gods get angry, he makes a pact with the devil and is transformed into the Oily Man. Then he returns, bent on revenge!
Image copyright: The Shaw Organisation Pte Ltd
In Malay with English subtitles
Where: National Museum of Singapore Gallery Theatre
When: 11 Jul; 8.30pm
Costs: $8 (excluding SISTIC fee).
This screening is held in conjunction with this year’s Night Festival
Length: 90 minutes
Country of origin: Malaysia/Singapore
Year of production: 1958
Director: P Ramlee
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