(The film doesn't actually mention whether the ghost occupying the boy's body is a demon, but I'm used to calling this kind of ghost that has no entanglement with the victim, but is possessed by chance, as a demon, who is killed and turned into a ghost to take revenge on people, and others break in. Those who kill people in their former residence are called resentful spirits)
Spiritual bodies in Western horror movies are generally dominated by demons, and real resentful souls are rarely seen, and the two types of spirits hurt people differently.
Taking this film as an example, when the little boy hurts someone, he slaps the table, and all five people fly out. The lights are bright and dark, and the devil shows up. Is it scary? fear! But I will not be afraid, because the plot is too close to real life, because I will not be out of body, and my family has no similar ability
Wronged spirits hurting people can be much scarier. Usually ghosts appear, and the hands-on process is omitted. In the end, there is a ghastly corpse that was frightened to death, and the wronged spirits attack when the victim is alone, or use illusions, or frighten to death alive. , giving people endless space for reverie, didn't some people say that people's fear of ghosts comes from awe of mystery, this is not much more pragmatic than the devil's small hand waving his neck and breaking it
The ghost movie in Thailand really makes me shudder just looking at the stills. Half of the demons in the west have to fight with the priest in the end. In the end, it is just like a superhero movie. Justice vs. Evil, Darkness vs. Light, the Holy Water Bible of the Cross, the Devil is just like The experiments that escaped from the hell lab are also stuffed back into hell (although few of the movies I've seen are successful in exorcism)
Compared with Wraith, the stamina is much worse. The TV series "The Power of Evil" that I like very much, the Wraith that appeared at the beginning all fell into madness to kill for the obsession before death. The later seasons are really more and more stupid, the last season. The ghost released from hell was able to hold a tm ghost conference, and Yazhen found the inner ghost in the organization. It is true that the more the focus of this drama is, the more horror it is completely out of the way.
In addition, I will give a special example about DC comics: Batman's famous villain, the Joker, in the new 52 series, he is wandering and acting crazy like a ghost, which greatly deepens the charm of the character. The Joker after the V3 issue is simply.... Indescribable..
It's far too far away, such as "The Village Old Corpse", "The Grudge", "Ghost Shadow" and other films, absolutely can give people a psychological shadow, because the ghost is still more mysterious than the devil, and it has a "breath of life" , maybe a person does not believe in Christianity, but he still believes that there is a soul after death, and the stamina of the demon movie is far from it. This movie is definitely a well-made and excellent horror movie. There is absolutely no doubt about this, but the comparison Thailand's "Ghost Shadow", or "Three Watches" (I can't remember which country for a while), the audience can easily feel which movie is more terrifying.
When you admit the devil, you admit hell, you indirectly admit that the destination of people after death is hell, and the resentful soul does not belong to the pure source of fear without any religious elements. Where do you go after death? Unknown, why the ghosts appeared
So I think Western horror movies still need this kind of mystery, let the audience complete the task of scaring themselves, after all, only they know themselves best
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