the restless dead theme
A departed person's spirit somehow bothers the living world because the person feels they have unfinished business there, of one sort or another.
Notes
This theme is not necessarily used when zombies and other undead beings are featured except if it is made clear that those beings are restless due to some unfinished business from when they were alive. Corpses raised as zombies by a virus or a necromancer, for example, do not match this criteria.
3 total · 2 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| rbt1985e1x06 | major | The titular banshee, the ghost of a woman who dwelt in the woods outside of John's lodge, could not find peace until she was reunited with her lover. |
| tftc1989e6x11 | major | The deceased partygoers could not find peace until Ray paid the ultimate price for this father's crime. |
| movie: Hamlet (1948) | minor | The ghost of King Hamlet explained that it was "doomed for a certain time to walk the night... and for the day confined to fast in fires... till the foul crimes done in my days of nature... are burned and purged away.". |