Dika Sri Pandanari, Widyan Hirzi Wibowo, Firmansyah Sundana, Yogi Timor Ardani
Horror films are a trend currently attracting film lovers' attention worldwide and in Indonesia. This trend not only affects the market but also people's understanding of what they enjoy. This people's understanding is based on previous research revealing that horror films influence human perspective. Most Indonesian horror films use folklore, included in the rural-occult sub-genre, as the story's core. In the rural-occult subgenre, the concepts that always appear in the story are religious, ghost, and spiritual concepts. Therefore, this research aims to explain people's conceptions of religion, ghosts, and spirituality using Indonesia's rural-occult horror film approach. This research uses survey and interview methods to extract data. Apart from that, this research uses statistical correlation tests and literature analysis. This research shows that rural-occult horror films in Indonesia can logically reduce spiritual concepts. Reduction in spiritual concepts is reinforced by scenes or backgrounds in rural-occult horror stories, which directly show a reduction in religious, and ghost concepts. © Proceedings of International Conference on Research in Education and Science 2024.
Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia; University State of Malang, Indonesia; Brawijaya University, Indonesia; University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia
