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Supernaturalism In Thailand Analysis

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“The prominent positioning of horror within Thai culture,” was the main focus of this article, Horror films as extensions of Thai supernaturalism chapter 5, which regarded horror films as portrayals of Thai supernatural beliefs. This article discussed about how horror movies are resulted from Thai supernaturalism, whereby local Thai superstitions were embedded into horror films, showcasing a portion of Thailand’s culture. Supernaturalism refers to the beliefs in forces, such as spirits, demons and souls, shaping the physical world. Thailand has a culture filled with such mystical beliefs, from appeasing violent spirits (Phii tai hong) by building shrines to believing in curses. This essay would cover the positive and negative points, potential improvements for article, personal examples with respect to this article and how this article fits with the themes of this.
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Although the author made a remark that the horror films were still “stubbornly unchanged”, he should still state the areas in which future changes might occur. (Aquilia, 2006) As seen by the case of Paul, who was not a Thai but was the director of a horror Thai film, the Thai movie industry is always changing along with opening of transnational Thai markets, which could translate to a higher degree of westernisation. Non-Thai audiences might gain a bigger influence in such films as they are a growing group of consumers, so Thai supernaturalism could weaken in its foothold, thus hindering the ties between Thai horror films to Thai beliefs of the supernatural. There had even been inclusion of foreign elements such as western cultural beliefs of Dracula involved in those Thai horror films nowadays in which the material spirits where changed to become more symbolic in meaning, mostly due to the changing economic and social landscape of Thailand. (Ancuta,

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