In a Ghost-Horror do you want to Understand the Ghost?

When I watch a movie, I'm not watching it hoping the filmmaker is trying to appease every single one of my whims. Never make a film for the audience. You're not going to please EVERYONE so why try. Some people will want one way while another group the opposite. While a third group wouldn't be happy either way.

Don't ask us what should happen next. What do you want to happen next? It's your film.

In what direction do you want this ghost story to go? In what direction do you feel more strongly suits your strength?

I like your thinking:
Stephen King:
Write what you like: cause probably nobody else will like it anyway.

Totally agree with the tsar. When you're writing a script, you shouldn't ask, "What would the audience like to see?" Ask instead, "What is the point of the story I'm trying to tell?"

As to your specific ghostly quandry, the answer depends on the answer to that question -- what do you want to show? Is it just a slasher flick where the important chracers are the mortal people threatened by the ghost's depradations? Then you don't need much motivation for the spook. Or is the ghost itself an important chracter, a revenant doomed to roam the earth in search of new victims to atone for some past misdeed? Then, of course, the ghost's motivation becomes important and the audience may well begin to identify with the ghost, rather than the mortals.

In either case, you have to be clear in your own mind what it is you are trying to show.

Of course.
That 's the logic of the plot.





David

That is NOT an explanation. It is a mere observation of incomplete information.