"Horror Cruise", this high-scoring movie ranks in the list of suspense movies, but I haven't wanted to watch it many times, because I'm a suspense movie lover, I can watch all types of suspense movies, but I don't watch horror movies. I have also had the courage to watch horror movies, but since I watched a deliberately scary PPT without warning, I have a psychological shadow, and I never dare to watch horror movies again. Although some suspense films also have an atmosphere of horror, these are actually two types of films.
Horror movies are designed to scare people, usually ghosts (special ghosts, female ghosts, resentful ghosts), demons, zombies, zombies, vampires, etc. appear in extremely terrifying, tragic, and ferocious appearances. Reasonable explanation in line with human cognition. The suspense film is to arouse the audience's strong exploration psychology, and finally there must be a logical and reasonable explanation of the ins and outs.
The key to suspense is that the audience must have a certain imagination, which can also be called guessing. For example, if there is a murder scene, if the camera only shows the murder scene, it will be bloody, cruel, and disgusting at most, and it will not be scary. The key to making people fearful is to let the audience have associations and imaginations first. Creates an evocative (guessing) atmosphere through penetrating music, terrifying environments, bizarre characters, and clues in the background. If one knows that a person is going to die, but not when, how, or why it will happen, the audience will be apprehensive and fearful. The moment when the lid of a black box is unlocked is not the most fearful thing, but the most fearful thing is that people don't know what they will touch before they put their hands in it. Of course, suspense films are not all terrifying films, but they must be the ones that the audience is most puzzled about, and the mystery that is not solved until the end of the film (the best is the last minute) is the excellent suspense film that is widely praised.
This kind of suspense film that finally solves the mystery usually has the following six types:
A fantasy/hallucination type: manifested as hallucinations of mentally ill people or stories made up by someone deliberately. The former is represented as "Shutter Island", "American Psycho", and "Xenomenal Space", and the latter is represented as "The Very Suspect". The stories presented in the film are all hallucinations or imaginations of the protagonist, which never happened at all.
B Dead person's perspective type: The film is presented from the perspective of the dead person. When it is finally discovered that the protagonist who told the story has actually died, the previous plot has a reasonable explanation. Some plots are real and some plots are only seen by the protagonist. Represented as "The Sixth Sense". This angle is ingenious, with pearls in the front, and it is difficult to have outliers in the back.
C Schizotypal: This common pattern is that the killer is an alternate personality of the protagonist himself. Representative works "Psycho", "First Degree Fear", "Deadly ID". In this mode, the plot is real.
D type of amnesia: the masterpiece "Memento", this kind of story also happened, but from the perspective of the protagonist, it is necessary to gradually piece together the fragmented memory into a full picture.
E Parallel world type: Self-killing caused by the intersection of time and space of characters in parallel worlds, the representative work is "The Night When the Comet Came", and the Spanish version with the same plot.
F Time-space shuttle type: The protagonist from the future comes to the present world through some kind of time-space tunnel and interferes with his own behavior. As the representative of "Previous Destination", this film has achieved the ultimate, all the characters are one person, enough to burn the brain. "Butterfly Effect" also goes back to the past, but in the process it shows that it is going back to the past, and strictly speaking, it cannot belong to this category. The biggest difficulty and the biggest vulnerability in time-travel films is how to arrange for the protagonist who has experienced the story to return to the starting point, remove the memory, and start over in a reasonable way.
In addition, there are also works that jump out of these six common types of films, which requires screenwriters and directors to create a world whose rules conform to human cognitive logic. Representatives as "Inception", "Deadly Magic", "Escape from the Dead Town" can be described as whimsical and logical.
well, let's get back to business. The film is a mix of A, B, and F genres.
The poster of "Terrorist Cruise" has leaked the mystery. The shadow of the heroine with the axe is the murderer with the mask, and it has been revealed that the masked person is the heroine Jess, so my first guess is a parallel world or a time and space shuttle. At the beginning of the film, looking at Jess who is disengaged and lethargic, I wonder if it is the type of unhinged fantasy? When they got on the empty cruise ship, the eerie atmosphere scared me a bit, but I knew the bad guy was Jess himself, so what was I scared of? That's when I realized what I had learned in the third paragraph above—the audience's imagination is the best source of fear.
Regarding the decryption of this film, the first film review has explained it completely. There is only one thing that I think is a bit unreasonable, that is, Jess, who experienced returning from the boat to the land, when he came to the shore and met Victor who was about to get on the boat with something, he asked "Do you know me?" According to her Later, holding the plot of Greg saying Sorry, she should have not lost the memory of the experience on the ship, why did she say "Do you know me?" to Victor. Of course, it can be explained that she fell asleep in the taxi and lost some memory, but she still clearly remembers going back to the boat and trying to start over. Why did she ask Victor that? I do not quite understand. In the end, her total loss of memory was after sleeping on the yacht for a few hours, so she could start from scratch, perfectly solving the biggest problem of time travel.
Overall, this is a novel and flawless suspense film. A good suspense film not only makes people experience a journey of conjecture with logic and carefulness, but also gives a little insight from it at the end. This film tells us that people suffer all the time because of their own desires, and desires make you entangled in the sea of misery and cannot escape. Even if you know that it may be an illusion or an illusion, you are not willing to expose it or face it, hoping to live in an illusion to give yourself some comfort, so only by conquering desire, giving up the past, and letting go of yourself can you create a new future.
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