In 1992, under then Information Minister Datuk Mohamed Rahmat, a set of Violence-Horror-Sex guidelines was drawn up for TV, videos and advertisements. For a long time after that, Malaysians never got to see any horror films on TV or in the cinema.
Gone then, were the days of the pontianak, orang minyak and other classic local nasties.
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