Details for Sundel Bolong

Here's the details for the first design for Corpse Eaters' Indonesian ghost stories and urban legends series (what the hell is that? click here [link])

This t-shirt will be available soon on January 2010

Sundel Bolong is an old, Indonesian urban legend, a ghost which appears in the form a beautiful woman with long back hair and a white gown, similar to the appearance of other Asian ghosts made recognisable from the influx of J-horror to the western world, and indeed everywhere else, by movies like Ju-on and Ringu.

Sundel Bolong, however, is different, with a gaping hole in her back exposing her rotting entrails and spine, the wound itself disguised and hidden behind her long black hair.

Legend has it, that Sundel Bolong is the ghost of girl who died following her rape and gave birth in the grave. Her ghost is said to haunt and kidnap newborn babies.
She also appears to frighten people, disguised as a beautiful woman only to show her true form later.

The illustration of this T-shirt is taken from a famous story, which was also a scene in a local Indonesian classic horror film simply titled “Sundel Bolong” staring the local horror queen herself, Suzzanna, in 1982. Check it on IMDB -> [link]

In the scene she appears and acts like a human being, ordering a traditional meal of Satay, 200 to be precise, and a pan of boiling hot soup. The food sellers watch in disbelief before running off in fear as she eats the inhuman amount of Satay and drinks the boiling soup as it falls through the gaping wound in her back and spills onto the ground beneath her.

ink on paper / colored in photoshop
2009