If you're a thriller fan watching this movie alone at night, this movie will suit your appetite.
Viewing conditions This is a movie with extremely harsh viewing conditions. If you watch this movie during the day, you will have no feelings, or even be a little bored and sleepy. I was alone at night. At twelve o'clock, I turned on the projector and watched it quietly. Since my viewing conditions are silent and late at night, I can well substitute the feeling of the dark invasion of the film, as if I am exploring the darkness with the protagonist. My emotions were completely following the rhythm of the film, until I finally escaped from the hole and saw the light outside again, the sun seemed to shine into my heart, which made me relax for a while.
Trust me, when you watch this movie under these conditions, you're going to have a deep shadow on the spelunking scene. After watching the movie, I tried to turn off the lights in the bathroom to experience the feeling of this darkness swallowing. My mind was full of the plot of the movie, like I was in a cave. And I kept fantasizing, what would I do if my house collapsed and I was trapped underneath? This kind of emotion after watching the movie is quite interesting.
After reading the relevant information, the filming location of the film is deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a mountain in eastern North America. The overall budget does not exceed 3.5 million pounds, and it has recovered all the box office in the UK, which is considered a small cost and a big return. The film spends most of its time in the cave, where the director arranges green canes, yellow torches, and blood pools, which are quite eye-catching in the dark.
The visual impact of the film is very strong, not only headshots, blood-sucking scenes fill the entire screen, there are endless dark caves and weak torches to create an atmosphere of despair and panic, and finally the scene of Juno rising up to fight monsters also stimulates the viewing of the movie. The adrenaline of the user shocks the senses.
Although it follows the usual mode of confined spaces in American horror films, it is different from the simple and rude American fright. In addition to the sensory horror, the film is interspersed with in-depth depictions of human nature, with dramatic twists and turns. Especially at the last moment, when the heroine escaped and returned to the jungle, the whole picture came back to life. But the image of a female ghost in the car suddenly scared the heroine back to the cave. It turned out that the heroine never escaped from beginning to end, and was always underground. Such a sudden hope is suddenly extinguished, making people rise from the ground and fall heavily on the ground, making people discouraged.
The visual and auditory sensory stimulation of the film is very strong, but the story is weak, and the portrayal of human nature can be more in-depth. For example, more strokes depict the contradiction between them. Overall, a top-notch thriller.
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