Japanese horror movies are strongly associated with familiar objects in life (video tapes in Sadako, TV, and photos/an ordinary house in The Grudge) It can be said that horror comes from the sudden collapse of such familiar objects/no The symbol and carrier of certainty/sudden awareness of evil (Sadako's video tapes and photos): The female ghost has nothing to do with whether she was a human or not, and is materialized/deadized/dehumanized. And ghosts in Thailand are still people in essence, and terror is just the revealing (rediscovery)/alienation of the relationship between people (from people to people to people and ghosts, from people's love to ghosts' resentment)/to the final "attachment" body" (the backlash against the human subject). The photos and photography here are for the first link, so although there are photos in Sadako and Ghost Shadow, the essence is different.
In contrast, Western horror films cover a wider range. After all, they have the unique advantage of religion/spirit. In a sense, they focus on symbols: the symbol itself is the synthesis of the two: God/world spirit The nature of our own (e.g. Zombie/Lazarus/Jesus' resurrection, the mad old god of Cthulhu mythology) and our own nature (Witchcraft (Witch)/Demon (Exorcism)/Crazy (The Shining) ). I won't say more here.
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