The horror movie god Wen Ziren who has tortured you thousands of times has recently made a new move. The "Conjuring 3" supervised by him is already in production, and the film is scheduled to be released on June 4, 2021. This film will change the haunted house theme in the first two "Conjuring" series works, but will combine court trial scenes and exorcism scenes, and new changes will be made in both content and form, which is also in line with Wen Ziren, who claims to "don't like repetition", has always had a tonality.
Presumably, many fans of Wen Ziren will turn out "The Conjuring 1" and "The Conjuring 2" to watch it repeatedly during the Halloween month of each year. Although these two films are both haunted house themes, they do not repeat in content. Wen Ziren devotes endless creative ideas to the audience, making his soul-conscious universe never dim.
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Heavy traps in the house maze
Since "The Conjuring 1", the audience has been locked in the house by Wen Ziren and never came out again. Both The Conjuring tells the bizarre events that happen after a family moves into a big house. At the beginning of the two films, there is always a strange perspective watching the arrival of the family through the window in the darkness, as if the house has life, it secretly stands behind the audience's perspective, and is here early. Waiting for the "prey".
The family who moved into the new house rejoiced, but none of them knew that the big empty house was crowded with invisible evil spirits. They carry evil forces on all furniture objects, eroding their lives through close daily contact with human beings.
So, where do evil spirits like to possess?
Not to mention the United States, there must be a wardrobe next to the bed in every family bedroom all over the world. Has anyone noticed the darkness inside the wardrobe door? When you put down all your defenses and go to sleep, the evil spirit can reach its claws from the closet, or run to the end of your bed to rip off your sheets and hook your feet.
When you were drying the sheets, the sheet wrapped with the evil spirit was blown out of shape by the wind, and then flew in from the bedroom window and spit out a mouthful of dirty blood into your sleeping mouth.
When you wake up and drink water at night, the curtains flutter weirdly and the swing swings inexplicably.
They hide behind hidden doors and spy secretly, and sometimes they drag you directly into their "base" - the basement, in a piece of junk, isolating you from the earth and the world, making you cry every day. should not.
After watching "The Conjuring", maybe you have forgotten what the evil spirit looks like, but you will not forget those curtains, wardrobes, sheets, and dark attics or basements that are also in your life and accompany you every day and night. . They may all be carriers of evil spirits. These objects that should have been stationary move quietly, and when you look back, you feel as if something happened and as if nothing happened.
Such a haunted house setting completely breaks the sense of comfort and security in the audience's perception of "home", which makes the audience, like the characters in the film, lose control over the things that they originally get along with. If the home is not safe, then Even if you flee to the ends of the earth, there will be no peace.
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Deadly game time
The Conjuring Universe includes not only the "Conjuring" series, but also the "Annabelle" trilogy, "The Nun" and "The Hunchback". The evil spirits in these films not only stay in the films in which they are the protagonists, but are also frequently brought out by Wen Ziren to visit in his various films. You can see Anna Bell's shadow in The Conjuring 1, and the Hunchback in The Conjuring 2.
In "The Conjuring 1" and "The Conjuring 2", in addition to the powerful evil spirits, there are also many ghosts who have been mutilated by evil spirits in the house. We will collectively call them evil spirits for the time being. And what the evil spirits with different styles like to do the most is to play games. Each evil spirit in The Conjuring Universe has its own unique game preferences, and their preferences determine how they appear.
In The Conjuring 1, the boy who once lived in the house and was killed by his witch mother liked the music box he owned before his death. If you want to make him appear, you only need to open the music box and stare at the mirror in the music box. With the beautiful bell and the dizziness of the spiral pattern on the mirror, the ghost boy will appear.
In "The Conjuring 2", the running hunchback figure in the toy box turned into a solid body, sometimes hiding in the dark and playing car games with the little boy, and sometimes appearing directly in front of the little girl with a cane. The hunchback is also the only special effect image in the current "Conjuring" series, and Wen Ziren appears directly as the protagonist in another movie that will be released in 2021.
Also from "The Conjuring 2", the old man who climbed out of the grave to "visit family" likes to sit on the sofa in the corner and watch TV with the little girl. He doesn't like the little girl's sand sculpture comedy talk show. Obviously, Mrs Thatcher His political preaching interested him even more.
Even more unforgettable is Valak, the ghost nun who took her own portrait straight to the exorcist. It originated from the demon volac in "The Key of Solomon", and the image in the film was adapted by Wen Ziren.
Different from the laughter and slapstick we usually play with our friends in games, playing games with evil spirits may kill you while playing.
On the one hand, this kind of plot setting makes the image of each evil spirit no longer simplistic. They are not conjured out of thin air just to be scary evil spirits. They were once human beings. On the other hand, it makes some purely playful folk games more strange and uncontrollable.
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blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction
In the Conjuring Universe, Wen Ziren placed countless real supernatural events in it, most of which were adapted from the real cases of the Warrens (the only certified exorcists in Catholicism for a hundred years).
Among them, Anna Bell, who appeared in many films, is the most unforgettable case of the Warrens. In the United States in the 1970s, a mother bought her daughter a second-hand doll. Soon after, the daughter discovered that the doll would move on its own. Later, a psychic told them that the doll used to be a girl named Anna Bell. Yes, after the girl died, the mysterious power was attached to the doll. Later, Anna Bell was locked away by the Warrens in her own museum of paranormal objects, and is now housed in a museum in Connecticut. Unlike Anna Bell, who has a terrifying appearance in the film, the real Anna Bell doll is very cute, just like an ordinary doll.
Another very famous true event was adapted into "The Conjuring 2", that is, the Enfield Ghost Incident in England.
In August 1977, single mother Peggy Hodgson and her four children moved into a house in the small town of Enfield, and since then there has been a spate of paranormal events in the house. As shown in the film, under the impetus of unknown forces, the furniture will move on its own, and the girl Janet is also tortured by evil spirits.
In addition to the above two events, there are more other real events cited in the "Conjuring" series of movies, and interested friends can search for them by themselves. Returning to the film itself, Wen Ziren very cleverly mixes real events with fictional stories, blurring the boundary between reality and fiction in the form of film.
At the beginning of "The Conjuring 1" and "The Conjuring 2", there is a text prompt "based on the true story". At the same time, many photos are placed at the beginning and end of these films, these photos include not only photos taken from real events but also plot photos of fictional characters in the film, both of which are modulated into very old photos. The tone of the feeling makes the audience unable to distinguish the real from the fake. In addition, in the middle of the film, Wen Ziren inserted many interview clips in the form of pseudo-documentaries. Through these methods, it can be imagined that Wen Ziren fully understands how sharp and poignant the authenticity of horror movies is for the audience.
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