Dear Asian Horror Movie Makers

[intertribal]

Here is a thing that needs to stop:

1. Girl violates some group norm (usually liking/going after/not repudiating a guy who is "off limits," but this varies).
2. Group organizes revenge/punitive attack on girl that almost always involves rape.
3. Girl commits suicide for multiple reasons (shame, hurt, desire for revenge).
4. Girl becomes horrible, terrifying, evil

Comments

[handful_ofdust]

I agree that rape-and-revenge is far less interesting than straight up revenge, for example. At the moment, I'm watching Mondo Macabro's re-release of Queen of Black Magic, in which the moral seems to be: "Don't throw over a girl, then accuse her of being a witch and have people burn down her house with her mother inside it, because...she'll train, become a witch, and come back and kill you using the same black magic you originally yet inaccurately thought she was using." (That being said, nothing thus far has explained who actually did bewitch the asshole fiance's wife-to-be, in the first place. Maybe the guy who later teaches our heroine black magic?)

[intertribal]

LOL that reminds me of the Simpsons Halloween episode where the townspeople (seemingly unfairly) accuse Marge of being a witch by throwing her off a cliff, and then she ascends on her broomstick and is like, "Okay, okay, you were right!"

[handful_ofdust]

And they throw her over a cliff here, too! Right into Black Magic Tutor's arms. People are dumb.

[intertribal]

Like.