Compared with the relatively simple plots of "The Conjuring", the stories of the two "Hidden" films are much more complicated. "Hidden 1" was watched last year, and the horror atmosphere was created well, but the story is relatively simple, and some plots seem to have not been explained clearly. , I thought the last foreshadowing was just a gimmick for the sequel. In short, after watching "Hidden 1", I feel that I still stay in the traditional American horror film, which is mainly based on sensory stimulation. But "Insidious 2" surprised us as soon as it came up, oh... that's what happened.
The stories of "Hidden" are arranged as follows in chronological order:
The male protagonist Josh often had nightmares when he was a teenager, saying that he could see how he looked when he was sleeping, and ghosts often appeared in the photos. So the male protagonist's mother invited the female psychic medium Elise and the male psychic medium Karl to help exorcism. Elise judged that Josh had a talent for out-of-body souls. When he was "out-of-body", he could see ghosts that ordinary people couldn't see, but he was easily "possessed" by ghosts. Now he has a powerful "parasitic spirit" Want to possess Josh. With nothing to do, Elise decided to seal Josh's ability to "out of the body" so that the "parasitic spirit" could not be possessed, and at the same time deprive Josh of his memory during this time.
In a blink of an eye, more than 20 years have passed, and Josh has grown up and has three children and a beautiful wife. Everything seems peaceful. But strange things happened one after another. The eldest son, Dalton, showed similar out-of-body abilities to his father's childhood, and gradually fell into a coma. So Josh's mother re-invited the female psychic Elise to help. Elise judges that Dalton has inherited his father's talent. The reason for the coma is that the soul wanders in the "liguan" and cannot return to the body after going out of the body. Now another "parasitic spirit" thinks of possessing him, and the situation is very dangerous. , there must be a soul to "Liguan" to bring him back. So in desperation, Elise could only lift the seal for Josh and let him go out of his body to find his son. After some twists and turns, Josh defeated the "parasitic spirit" who tried to occupy his son's body and successfully rescued his son. This is the plot of the first part, seeing a happy ending, but the film sold out at the end. The female psychic medium Elise discovered that at some point, a "parasitic spirit" possessed Josh and came to the world and killed herself, ending the first part.
After Elise died, the Josh family seemed to return to peace and moved into the house of Josh's mother, the house where Josh grew up. However, strange things still happened, and the wife and mother even saw the ghost in white wafting in the room with their own eyes. To this end, the male protagonist's mother still came to rescue the soldiers - the male spirit medium Carl and the two assistants in front of Elise formed a four-person ghost hunt team to start investigating the case. Following the vine, the four finally found that the "female ghost" possessed by Josh turned out to be a man named Parker. In front of him is a perverted murderer. Before his death, he was treated in the hospital where Josh's mother worked because of self-harm, and he met Josh when he was young by coincidence. It should also be at that time that he decided to possess Josh, and it was unsuccessful because of Elise's intervention and the ability to seal Josh's ability, but the sneak attack succeeded and killed Ellie when Josh was briefly unsealed in the first movie. Silk. That is to say, from the second part, Josh is Parker, and the real Josh wanders in "Liguan" and cannot come back.
And the female ghost in white wandering in Josh's house is actually the mother of the male ghost Parker. She is extremely perverted in her heart. She abused Parker since childhood, made him a transvestite, and hated women. It can be said that Parker is "evil" in his heart. source, and this ghost has great magic power, not only can it appear in reality in reality, knocking out Josh's wife, but also wandering in the heart of Parker, who has become a ghost. Parker, who has been successfully possessed, has his wife and children to accompany him and feels that it is good to be a human being and he doesn't want to be a ghost anymore, but his ghost mother is not only very controlling and even has a love affair with her son, she is very upset when she sees her son happy, and at the same time Josh's body begins to collapse. . The ghost mother told Parker that the only way to save his body was to kill everyone.
The male psychic Karl was knocked out by Parker, and came to "Liguan" by coincidence, and met the wandering soul of Josh and the female psychic Elise who had become a soul. ”, in order to end his resentment and escape from Josh’s body. So the camera returned to the scene where the young Josh was hypnotized at the beginning of the film. Through the mouth of Josh before his memory was washed away, the three learned that the source of Parker's resentment was in a storage room in the old house. Virtual space behind a red door. The beginning of this paragraph is the core part of the plot, from which we know that the "Liguan" world in the movie is not an ordinary "underworld", it also has two functions: travel through time and space and enter the memory of the ghost Parker. The "Liguan" in the wild is actually a "underworld" in a broad sense, and there are many unknown ghosts in it. After entering the red door, he entered Parker's original memory or his heart. Inside the red door we see that teen Parker was abused by his mother, which is the root of his psychopath, and Parker's mother was able to scare off Elise and Carl proving that it's not just a memory, the ghost of Parker's mother is so powerful that she can even Materialized in the memory of the ghost of her dead son, her control over her son is not only the psychological trauma caused by the painful childhood experience, but also the mental control of the entity's existence, our self-talk after Parker's upper body Josh And the struggle to get out of control in the bathroom can be seen. Finding the cancer was only half the battle. The female ghost knew that the psychic was not easy to deal with, but the male protagonist Josh was a useless master, so she singled him out. At the critical moment, I have to rely on Elise, because this is a virtual space constructed by the memory of the young Parker. At that time, Parker was not abnormal, and was still a pure boy. Elise let Parker fight with his heart and resist ghosts. After the invasion of his mother, after struggling, Parker finally opened his heart, allowing Elise to defeat her inner demon. She lost the painful memories of her childhood, and of course there was no resentment of the perverted after death. The "black robe bride" disappeared, Josh The family returned to peace.
The reason why this horror film is good is that it adds two new themes to the general traditional ghost films: spiritual and psychological elements and time travel. The first big boss, Parker, turned out to be a victim too. The real mastermind behind the scenes was his haunted old lady. The psychological shadow of childhood made him resentful even after his death as an adult. It can be said that the psychological element makes the plot of the whole film thicker, more plausible, and more attractive. Time and space travel is the key that can finally end the plot, and it is also the bridge that builds the turning point of the plot. The combination of "traditional horror, psychological thriller, and sci-fi-like time travel" has made an excellent horror film.
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