Saw the screening of Overcast on Halloween last night, it's the movie I'm most looking forward to this year, and overall it's satisfying. The horror atmosphere is still very suitable for Halloween.
The plot of the movie may not seem particularly amazing now. Just like the original, it still tells the story of the heroine Susie going to a dance school and discovering that the school is actually a gathering place for evil witches. Dance is still the main background of the film, and there are also many wonderful dance scenes in the film. The plot is not exactly the same as the original 40 years ago. In the end, the heroine took control of the whole situation, and a group of witches were all killed. One thing I don't quite understand about the plot is the depiction of the historical background of the story. I have never understood the close connection between the background events of the hijacking that appeared many times in the form of broadcast in the film and the story.
But the main point of this movie is the same as the previous work, not the plot. I believe everyone will feel that there are bugs in the plot of both the previous work and the new work. To pay tribute to the classics, you must make tricks in scene shooting, color tone, and soundtrack. It is said to be a horror movie, but the movie itself does not have very scary scenes, unlike the nuns or genetic doom before this year, which often directly frighten the audience. And this film mainly expresses the tense atmosphere with the atmosphere, I think it is more appropriate to call it a thriller, and it is a literary thriller. The tone of the film is icy and cold, with cool colors as the main focus. A large number of shadows are used to render the scene in the shooting to express the eerie atmosphere of the school. The weather is mainly rainy or snowy. But at the climax of the sixth act, the heroine enters a gathering of witches and witnesses a wicked dance ritual, followed by a killing spree. This scene is presented in red tones throughout, and it may not have a strong sense of blood, but it is full of blood. As for the soundtrack, I'm not very professional with music, but as an audience I can feel that the progress of the music at the important moments of the film has been setting off a tense atmosphere and exciting. Filmed in a montage-like manner, the film is divided into seven acts, each with its own theme. But these seven acts are in sequence over time, and thus make up the entire film. This gives the movie a stage feel to it. Like a composition, a movie begins, develops, climaxes, and ends. The film also uses the back-and-forth interspersed between reality and illusion for many times, and the strange atmosphere is even stronger.
The feeling of the film is set in Germany, and most of the dialogue is in German. For someone like me who doesn't understand German, it still feels strange to understand a movie while listening to German while watching the only English subtitles. But in short, this is a literary thriller with good scenes, atmosphere, and colors. Two and a half hours may be too long, but it does not prevent everyone from savoring carefully.
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