The aspect of secret missions and the cultural standing within them is normally about how do you inflect genre. What "The Burial" does is turn it on its head and uses folklore in a way to mask some very real human approaches, behavior and setbacks, many of which are lost to time.

In "The Djinn", this aspect is given a darker turn with metaphors that abound. But what the film really creates is a haunted house movie in the middle of urban sprawl.