East Asian monster movies therefore don't focus on heroic characters as much as their Western counterparts do. Instead, they focus on the thin line separating the living from the dead, and on the importance of folk religious beliefs and traditions such as karma, reincarnation and the transmigration of the soul.
東方鬼片因此不像西方那麼強調個人英雄，反而著墨於人鬼間一線之隔的相似性，以及「善惡報應」、「轉世」、「輪迴」等傳統民間信仰以及人性價值觀的重要性。