KUALA LUMPUR: The National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas) has issued Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC), which is the distributor for the Indonesian horror film Sijjin, to retract and replace the poster.
In a news report yesterday, its CEO Datuk Azmir Saifuddin Mutalib was quoted as saying that the official poster, which featured a possessed woman draped with a black cloth, with some verses in Arabic, including the word "Allah", could be seen as too sensitive for the Muslim community here.
"We're aware of the issue raised by some netizens who are not comfortable with the film (as well as its poster and the trailer released, ahead of its opening on Thursday), which is said to have overlooked the sensitivity which may concern the Muslim community here.
"So we've directed GSC to replace the poster," he said of the film which had its media preview on Dec 22, and the trailer released on social media in October.
Apart from the poster, glimpses from the trailer, which also showed women draped in telekung (prayer garment worn by Muslim women) sitting around a corpse already encased in a white shroud, also drew criticisms as netizens claimed that the scene could give the wrong impression of women in telekung to non-Muslim moviegoers.
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