‘Pendatang’ film racks up views, wows audiences


PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s first entirely crowdfunded movie, Pendatang, which premiered on YouTube at 9pm Thursday, has garnered over 100,000 views as of 4pm yesterday, while drawing rave reviews from viewers.

The Cantonese-language movie by Kuman Pictures, which specialises in low-budget horror and thrillers, is set in a dystopian Malaysia in which the different races are forbidden to mix.

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