Supernatural vs Mundane

Th other week, me and my friends watched a (rather shitty and conservative^[1]) Thai horror film. It's rather refreshing to have a film just accept that there's supernatural stuff going on, instead of dealing with a B-plot where a character tries to convince the others that something's afoot, all while being called stupid and crazy.

The song-and-dance gets annoying after a while. It's only a problem when they have to completely give up a mundane solution to pursue supernatural ones, but in reality it's usually possible to pursue both.

There's probably some USAmerican cultural thing about belief. Some expectation that anything you believe in, you believe in the most literal sense, and to the exclusion of all other possible ideas and actions. Or at least, it's more common in USAmerican films. They also tend to portray the one person pushing for supernatural actions as a nutjob who ignores common sense.

IDK, it's just more common to act on both here.

Sudden unexplainable bout of fever after fucking about a forest? Take some paracetamol and apologize to the tree or anthill you might have trespassed or vandalized. Your loved ones might even pray to god for protection from malicious spirits. And if it doesn't let up, you just go to the doctor. If recovery takes strangely longer than usually you might also hire the services of a local witch or witch doctor, all while continuing medical treatment. Just stacking the deck to your advantage.