It must be said that this movie was quite unexpected to me. Before watching it, I thought it was similar to the type of "Horror Extreme Game", but the movie actually told a lot of issues in a relatively relaxed way and in a relatively tense atmosphere.
I liked the pilot at the beginning very much, the obvious old castle environment, retro and magnificent and tasteful, I have to say that this movie really pokes me in terms of tone. And the two boys were trying to avoid anything, which made the nerves tense all of a sudden, only to find out that they were hiding from a man, and this man was scarred and inoffensive. The older boy was called Daniel, and the younger one was called Alex. When the man called for help, Daniel hid his younger brother and betrayed the man decisively, calling for someone else to shoot the man and drag him away. So the first question comes, are they hiding from men, or the conscience and humanity that cannot be discarded in their hearts.
Then 30 years later, the little boys in the past all grew up. Alex was getting married, and only after the marriage did Alex tell the bride Grace that there was a traditional entrance ceremony in their house, which was more important than the wedding. , You need to draw lots to play the game, and you must play whichever game you draw, otherwise the consequences will be serious. As a result, the bride played hide and seek, only to find that as long as she was caught, she would die, and if she didn't play, she would die. She blamed Daniel for not telling her beforehand, and Daniel said that if I tell you you will not be with me, I can't lose you, but I can protect you. Here comes the second question. Daniel knew that the bride might be drawn to a game of hide-and-seek, but he didn't tell him in advance, did he really love the bride?
What is even more ironic is that the performance of the groom's family on the wedding day, except for the white-haired aunt and the groom's father, almost everyone praised the bride and liked her very much. Alex's mother, sisters and brothers all showed great performance. of goodwill. And when the bride draws the card of the game of hide-and-seek at midnight, almost everyone removes their gentle faces the next moment, picks up weapons and starts hunting without hesitation, because they know that if the bride does not die at dawn, they will suffer cursed to death.
All of this can be attributed to the fact that the male protagonist and the male protagonist's family are members of the wealthy family in the guise of hypocrisy. Thirty years ago, Daniel betrayed an innocent man against his conscience. Thirty years later, he finally sided with the heroine under guilt. As for the male protagonist, the seemingly kind-hearted Alex is actually extremely selfish, only considering his own feelings and not caring about the safety of others at all. His family was equally selfish and indifferent. After all, they may really like the heroine, but in the face of their own lives and the interests of protecting the family's continued wealth, what's the point of liking it? And the white-haired aunt, the reason why she didn't like the female protagonist's sullen face from beginning to end, turned out to be the innocent man who was hunted thirty years ago, precisely her new husband. In fact, I can understand this woman's thoughts. Since I can't be happy, why should I let you go. Therefore, in this family, except for Daniel who is atonement, everyone else is a sanctimonious villain.
This movie is described as a horror thriller movie. The first half of the horror atmosphere has indeed been created, but since the family started hunting the heroine, I couldn't stop laughing. If "Escape from the Dead" is a well-designed conspiracy, then this is really a temporary intention, and it is estimated that no one has drawn hide-and-seek cards for decades, and everyone has been born. This family's killing skills It's the worst of all the murder families I've seen in the movies so far, it's like a joke. Especially the short-haired tall and slender daughter-in-law and the fat son-in-law who just entered the house didn't know how to play at first, and Fat Zhi now turned his phone to find out how to kill. And the youngest daughter, Emily, accidentally killed the maid again and again. She didn't die, but she didn't die. Every time Daniel counted down the number of maids, I couldn't help laughing. Sure enough, not long after the game started, the maids were all "accidentally" killed.
Apart from the film's use of terrifying atmosphere and nonsensical hunting actions to express some problems, several scenes in it are handled very beautifully, aside from the violent aesthetic scenes, the scene where the heroine wears a wedding dress and goes down the spiral staircase , it is suffocating in the dim yellow light. And when the dawn came later, everyone's bodies exploded, which reminded me of the "Ace Agent" two years ago, the dark human nature during the hunt, the hypocritical sigh after the wrong killing, and the panic and joy of everyone during the explosion. This contrast The collisions are intertwined very eye-catching. The key themes are not old-fashioned, the heroine's performance is real and reasonable, and the atmosphere is properly rendered. It is still a movie worth watching.
PS: Strong suspicion that this film is a comedy in horror?
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