2017 | 77 minutes | English and Malay | Malaysia

Directed by: James Lee, Shamaine Othman, Gavin Yap

Featuring: Sharifah Amani, Azman Hassan, Joseph Germani, Pete Teo, Sue Tan, Fatimah Abu Bakar 

Halaloween Horror Rating 2/5 - Contains mature content. Mostly humorous horror, zombie sex, fake blood and zombie violence. 

A flu infection that turns into a zombie outbreak has taken over KL city (Kuala Lumpur). The movie follows three intersecting stories of survivors fleeing for safety after KL city has fallen.

Join us Thursday, October 28 4-6 PM ET fo a live panel discussion as we wrap up Halaloween with a discussion on Muslim horror, the use (and misuse) of Islam and the Quran in the horror genre, feminist politics in horror, and how each region differs in its creation of horror films. This panel will feature experts and scholars: Dr. Karla Mallette, Dr. Kristian Petersen, Sena Duran, Dr. Alireza Doostdar, and Dr. Alicia Izharuddin. RSVP here: bit.ly/halaltalks

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Thank you for joining our annual Halaloween: A Muslim Film Festival presented by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) at the University of Michigan.

What's Halaloween? In 2019 during the month of October, we launched the first ever Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween. Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims with the hopes of understanding ‘What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?’. The previous Halaloween Festivals featured A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Dachra, Siccin 4 and more.

This year we are hosting the festival online and screening one film a week for the month of October. We're giving you the remote and allowing viewers to watch on their own time: each film will be available for a whole week. We're also inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most of the films, to those who love the gore - we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for a better sense on how scary each film will be.

The festival remains free, and will come to you wherever you are (though some films may not be available in certain countries). Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film. We'll wrap up the month of October with a live panel discussion on Muslim Horror, the use of Islam and the Quran, and how each region differs in its creation of horror films (sign up to our newsletter below to stay updated on this event, or check our social media).

The 2021 Halaloween Lineup:

October 1 - 122 | 2019 | Egypt

October 8 - KL24: Zombies | 2017 | Malaysia

October 15 - Kandisha | 2008 | Morocco

October 22 - Madayen | 2016 | Saudi Arabia

October 29 - Impetigore | 2019 | Indonesia

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center, and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the African Studies Center, the Center for South Asian Studies, the Center for Arab American Studies (UM-Dearborn), the Arab American National Museum, and Shudder.

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