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Tengkorak Hidoep is a film of genre Adventure directed by Tan Tjoei Hock with Mohamad Mochtar
Tengkorak Hidoep (1941)
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Add to a movie listTengkorak Hidoep (literally The Living Skull) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) directed by Tan Tjoei Hock. It has been called Indonesia's first domestic horror film.
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Raden Darmadji and several of his friends go to the island of Mustika in search of Darmadji's brother, who was lost in a shipwreck ten years earlier. There, they discover that the god Maha Daru, who was locked away on the island 2,000 years before after losing a battle to the goddess Gumba. Darmadji, while exploring a cave, notices a huge rain storm. The earth rips asunder and Maha Daru escapes his prison.Actors
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