"Mom": the mind of a live-action ghost mother

The family is in financial crisis. After a desperate husband kills his wife, he and his two young daughters flee into the wild woods and take refuge in an abandoned house. The husband, who was in despair and uncontrollable, was sucked away by a powerful force the moment he raised his gun, leaving his daughters alone beside the bonfire. Five years later, people found a girl with a strange nature in an abandoned house, acting like a beast, and her language was completely dehumanized. Their uncles and aunts adopted them back home, and psychiatrists took care of them. When the four of them were in the same villa, strange and bizarre incidents happened one after another. First, the uncle did not push down the stairs for no reason and fell seriously and was hospitalized, and then the psychiatrist fled the villa in a panic. In the end, my aunt found out that since he brought the two girls home At the same time, they also brought back another uninvited guest. The two girls not only played with this terrifying guest for a long time, but also communicated with each other, and even affectionately called him "Mom"! Whether she is a monster or a monster, my aunt will launch an unprecedented battle with her for her nieces.

The film is adapted from the short film of the same name shot by Spanish director Anders Muschietti in 2008, led by Jessica Chastain in "Hunting Bin Laden", leading two little girls to fight against evil spirits. invasion. This is another story involving real ghosts and fake ghosts. It can be said that in the first half of the weird, the horror atmosphere is very well created, and the sense of substitution is full. The creativity of the two girls living like beasts is ingenious and fascinating. The haunting of ghosts in the middle part increases the horror index, and the faint flashes are terrifying. It's just that in the latter part, when the identity of the evil spirits is thoroughly figured out, the hideous faces are revealed, and after playing the game of mutual capture, it stands to reason that it should be the climax of the film. As a result, the overly realistic CG special effects suddenly broke the terrifying atmosphere created with good intentions. In the end, the ghosts grabbed the ending of the little girl, which greatly reduced the whole horror effect.

In the period when European and American bloody horror films are nothing new, the Spanish genre films with humanistic concern have sprung up, which is expected and reasonable. When some viewers watch ghost movies, they always watch it with the mentality that they can't see the real ghost and don't give up. In fact, the greatest joy of watching ghost movies, and the highest state is not whether there are real ghosts, but being frightened is a "good ghost". The Spanish thriller, which has always focused on showing ghosts from a human perspective, has always adhered to this exploration route, thus producing countless classics. Needless to say, "The Orphanage" and "Death Video", "Julia's Eyes", "The Dark Side" and "The Skin of My Residence" in recent years are all horror films with a full humanistic flavor. These are all examples worthy of further study by those mainland horror film directors who are still trapped in hospitals, ancient houses, and dark nights. Of course, Japanese horror films are out of the discussion of human horror movies.

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