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The Cambodian horror film generally features a ghost story, old mythology and some form of revenge directed at one (or more) people. A popular subject is Krasue; Khmer Cinema has more than five projects about Krasue with one released in 2009. Films featuring ghost stories, mythology and blood rituals include Ghost Banana Tree and The Kantong Kiev Witch. Another horror film, The Haunted House, is loosely based on legend.
Cambodian horror films focus on their characters' suffering and anguish and (unlike Korean Horror or Japanese horror) feature over-the-top gore effects. Popular horror films such as The Weird Villa and Secret Well (from Ángkor Wat Productions) emphasize psychological terror. Also, Khmer Mekong Films now brings an upcoming contemporary and psychological thriller, Heart Talk, which many strongly believe will be successful.
For revengeful version of the horror genre, illustrates the wills of vengeance, love and some argument. The films' repeated talking about the dead comes alive to take the revenge from the living or unfinished business but still subduced by the good thing or spirit doctor, well known as the Monk Character. The famous ones, Villa Horror, Annoyed or Moheagita.
The monstrous projects can be found on Cambodia horror films and considered the new genre, ever seem for local films. A Campro box office hit's graphic title, The Forest, also the ones including some from FCI Production such as Queen of Cobra and People eating Lizard. The style of Khmer monster films just only the low special effect in production including more natural cinematic as well. Like the Hollywood stylish, the characters for the monster film are focus on teen adventure within adults freedom. It mightily introduces a visiting with journey. Some part of the title also links to slasher film refers the final girl with a creature or killer who stalks and graphically murders a series of mostly adolescent victims in a typically random, unprovoked fashion, killing many within a single night. The first slasher film for Cambodia screen, The Waterfall of Death, which its plot has similarities to the murder thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer combined with Thailand psychological killer film Scared.
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