The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of...

I assume that those of you that didn't think at all about the title of this bullshit experience would be surprised at my line of thinking. Basically, the word "trip" could in some cases be attributed to drugs that cause vision quests and other religious crap. So I'm going to say that this is not a "religious experience" or even an "eye opener." It's just a mushrooms trip. Secondly, a zoo does not refer to the entire human race in their cities and "villages." Then again, during the drug trip one of my friends spews hatred for human civilization and claims that humans live in a "concrete...