Munafik 2016

Adam, a traditional religious medical practitioner, and his wife are swept into tragedy when a devastating accident claims her life. The loss shakes the core of his faith and his sense of purpose, leaving him questioning the very calling that once defined him. He finds himself unable to continue offering help to others, feeling an aching doubt about his own competence in the wake of grief.

During this dark period, he crosses paths with Maria, a woman grappling with deep depression. What begins as a quiet encounter of shared pain soon spirals into something far more frightening. Maria is seized by an evil spirit, and compelled by a sense of duty he can’t ignore, Adam steps forward to help cure her. The healing journey quickly turns supernatural as he discovers disturbing signs tying Maria to the accident that killed his wife. The mystery deepens as he and a trusted ally attempt a home-based exorcism, where Maria’s spirit exults with unsettling laughter and a threatening presence that seems to relish the fear it stirs. The friend’s prayers falter under the force of the entity, and the scene escalates until Adam persists, reciting his prayers with quiet resolve and finally exorcising the demon from Maria’s body.

Even as the immediate danger seems to subside, the broader ache of loss gnaws at Adam. He cannot accept that his wife is gone, and he longs to know who was truly responsible for the crash. The village’s uneasy calm is broken by another shock: Imam Ali is found dead. The news reaches Adam through a circle of friends, jolting him with the fear that there is a hidden pattern behind the misfortunes now plaguing their community. A phone call from his son reveals another tremor in the family’s world: his grandfather has left the house, and his mother has been a steady presence for his child since his father disappeared. The tension spikes as Adam, furious at the reemergence of his wife’s death in conversation, yells during the call and ends the line in a storm of emotion. A troubling vision follows—Adam dreams of digging up his wife’s grave to prove, even to his son, that she is truly gone.

Convinced that Maria’s disturbances lie at the heart of the village’s ill fortune, Adam asserts that all the strange events—Imam Ali’s death and Pak Osman’s disappearance—are connected to the same dark force. Yet the fragile trust he builds with others is tested when Azman shows overt hostility toward him and when Fazli enters the picture with a venomous distrust. Then a breakthrough arrives: Zati and Maria claim they have identified the mastermind behind the disturbances. But the moment Adam pushes to follow the lead, Pak Osman’s room reveals a chilling deception—Pak Osman is not simply missing; the apparitions around him are part of a ruse orchestrated by the demon masquerading as reality, fooling Adam into stepping further into danger.

In the hospital, Maria’s ordeal continues as she remains haunted by malevolent presences that relentlessly chase her. She seeks a moment of peace in the mortuary, only to feel the spirits close in tighter, while Adam holds fast to the belief that a talisman once in Imam Ali’s hands might hold the key to understanding the latest wave of chaos. The revelation that Maria has harbored a grim secret grows heavier as she reaches out, confessing her torment and a willingness to reveal the truth she can no longer bear.

Racing to Maria’s location despite a strained family dynamic and a call from his father urging a return, Adam finds Maria once more, but the confrontation erupts in violence as demonic forces strike. A brutal fall from a height fatally wounds her, and as Adam arrives at her side, the final, devastating truth crashes down: Maria has been the instrument through which the same vile force that haunted the village—Pak Osman—manipulated events and even contributed to the fatal crash that killed his wife. Pak Osman declares that he sold his soul to the Devil for earthly riches and used Maria as a willing instrument to ruin Adam, intending to end his life in the car accident. A bolt of lightning sears through the scene, signaling the end of Pak Osman’s violence.

The truth-telling continues with the arrival of Adam’s father, who helps untangle the final strands of misunderstanding. He explains that Shah’s uncanny behavior has stemmed from a heartbreaking belief—that his son Amir is alive after all—only to confront the grim reality that Amir, like Adam’s wife, did not survive the same accident. With this sobering revelation, Adam’s world shifts again, leaving him to face an unanswerable ache and seek strength through faith as he comes to terms with the losses that have carved lines of sorrow across his life. In the quiet aftermath, he turns to God, hoping for the resilience to carry on in a world where light and darkness clash in every corner of their shared life.