What with Japanese horror movies using hair?

[dre]

I've noticed a lot of Japanese horror movies ghost always become some thick black hair to take engulf there victims lol how is that scary? I've watched maybe ten movies that use that effect to date.

 

[Huckleberried]

 

[moecat]

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Damn girl, get off da crack!!!!

 

[dre]

 

[Huckleberried]

Yeah, my hair won't do that. Well. I don't know why they do that. It's not exactly really scary. But I've also never been entrapped by wicked hair.

 

[Adrienne]

Duh! It's clearly a feminist protest against a patriarchal society that seeks to domesticate and infantalize women through control of the body as metonymically signified here by the hair! Who could miss that?! - http://www.academia.edu/706281/It_s_Alive_Disorderly_and_dangerous_hair_in_Japanese_Horror_Cinema.

Thanks, dre, now I'm up on Japanese Yūrei. Had yet to learn my new thing for the day, so .

 

[dre]

I think unruly pubes would be scariest of all hair

 

[Petyr]

I think that the Japanese simply love it, because it scared them the first time and since it obviously works they don't change the formula.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Well, it's a bit of a change from tentacle porn ... so, there's that.