Mia Sarah

Joey, the owner of television show "Merungkai Misteri", has been called to Kampung Bonang to investigate the mystery surrounding the gruesome death of Cikgu Hassan. Following his death, the villagers claim that his spirit can be seen wandering the village looking for a new successor. At the same time, his daughter Julia often doesn't feel well now as she is disturbed by supernatural entities. To clear Cikgu Hassan's name, Joey kidnaps Lufty, a man who is unwittily roped into this while looking for a job, to be his crew during the investigation. The mystery deepens when Joey and Lufty, joined by Julia, are disturbed by the spirit Penunggu Busut while on the way to Busut and they lost their way.

Unlike anything else you will see in this year or any other, 'The Decline of the West' is a groundbreaking social allegory that challenges its audience to explore the effects of contemporary conditioning; of the stereotypes, and counter-stereotypes surrounding race and ethnicity. By employing a unique blend of absurdist humor and dry, dark comedy, both the insularity and the inertia of progressive society are put on trial and hanged in this bold film that goes places few have ever gone. The film maintains its extended, detailed allegory, in which the physical layout of Manhattan comes to life as its symbols of Progress slowly turn into a comic liberal hypocrisy. Anything that "isn't allowed" is used to confront the audience with hypocrisy. Make-up plays a crucial role throughout the film, as a hinge that simultaneously showcases characters and the existential reality of the players behind them. An absurd narrative built from this symbolic city becomes progressively more absurd until it spirals completely out of control into a reality that is dark in every way. Look around you - the film is horror and this is where you really live. As the veil of denial is removed in every way, process and narrative merge into Godardian/Faulknerian Auteurism and as social trends are taken to their logical ends through the microcosm of insane characters...finally, what is brought about? The Decline of the West, as Oswald Spengler boldly predicted in his freakish, but brilliant 1922 metanarrative that shares its title with this film that rattles the fabric of society and exposes its rotten core, using simultaneous absurdism, allegory and existential metanarrative as armor portraying an aversive aesthetic as if the only worthy vessel for truth that hits you in the face this hard.

The body of Abang J has been safely buried, but he reappears with an important message that is only told to Zain Jusoh, a person with a forgetful disease.