Every murder raises questions concerning the nature of the crime and the motif. But if there is a sequence of murders, these questions seem to be even more nagging. What if the legends are true and there is a demon who can kill innocent souls in the blink of an eye? Who can you trust and who keeps secrets, desperately hiding a darker past? What really connects people from one little gloomy village? What hides behind the legend of a Sleepy Hollow? Hilarious Johnny Depp against one scary headless ghost. Sleepy Hollow.
We have this inherent human quality of feeling better than the animal kind. We surrounded ourselves by technology, stuck our heads in our computers and applications, deprived ourselves of the strength of our muscles by making use of cars, trains, and planes. We conquered the world. But, as history proved us wrong, showing that who was once the master can very soon be a servant, the order of things might be reversed. There are places where we are the inferior and the animals are the superior. There are lands where mistreatment and slavery involve the white man. There are planets which suffered the reverse of roles and you have to deal with it. From the 1963 science fiction novel to 1968, 2001 and 2014 subsequent films, the concept seems still very much alive. Can you be a human treated worse than an animal? Can you accept the loss of your dominance? Can you feel secure in Planet of the Apes?
You'd think that having a haunted house is a problem. But having a house haunted by people seems to be even a bigger disaster. As your death is quick and sudden, sometimes the state of your life doesn't really change that much after crossing the line. However, the new life can involve different rules, a lot of red tape and dozens of new friends in similar circumstances. Some doors get closed while a lot of others seem to be opened. Occasionally, being dead can bring far more problems than being alive, showing you that there are varied forms of fear. Beetlejuice.