Why are western horror films keen on using puppets as a symbol of terror?

"Horror film" is a kind of film aimed at creating terror. The content of the story is absurd and bizarre, causing terror. For example, the development of photography technology provides more favorable conditions for showing horror pictures, and some so-called disaster films that render earthquakes and nuclear wars also belong to this category.

Horror film is actually the style closest to the artistic characteristics of film. Because movies need to create suspense, only suspense can make the audience have strong expectations.

Horror movies are often intended to arouse the audience's original negative emotions such as fear, fear, anxiety and fear, and let the audience get an entertainment experience by venting these emotions. Horror movies often have scary or disgusting monsters, evil animals or humans, supernatural ghosts and a lot of violence.

European and American horror films: They are based on thrilling pictures and shocking sound effects, rendering bloody scenes, with profound cultural background and strong religious color. He is good at using a lot of special effects to create a horrible and bloody picture, but the overall plot is monotonous.

Japanese and Korean horror films: mainly to create a scary atmosphere, with compact plot, deep reasoning and strong logic. Generally speaking, it starts from the supernatural and spreads at different levels, and its stimulation often comes from the imagination of the audience. Even after leaving the cinema for a long time, the excitement still lingers. In recent years, the appearance rate of Korean horror films is relatively large, which continues the story routine of Japanese horror films in style and absorbs the picture production and music collocation of European and American departments.

Horror films in Southeast Asia: At first, it was mainly magic, and then it gradually evolved into a plot, and developed its own regional cultural characteristics, absorbing the essence of Japanese, Korean and European films, among which Thai horror films were the representative. There is a tendency to catch up.