American blood plasma B-level horror movies have always been known for their longevity. Generally speaking, if you run out of creativity and want to continue to make money, you can only extend your life by passing it forward. Earlier with this series, the most popular horror films in the past 30 years, "Moonlight Panic" and "Friday the 13th" had their prequels respectively. This time it is the turn of the sweater killer who travels through dreams. In this era of increasingly sophisticated computer special effects, flying ships in the sky, and frequent urban destruction, it is not only the muscle stars of the old-school action movies who are facing the unemployment crisis, but also the filmmaker who relied on broken hands and feet and sprinkled blood to eat.
The return of the sweater killer did not give anyone any surprises, the lens technique of mixing dreams and reality inextricably, struggling to overcome sleep desire, the protagonist, Freddy, who can kill you with a single blow, and the biggest selling point of this series of films—— The strange and bloody death methods of various small characters, it seems that there is no innovation in the previous routines, as if to break up the elements that stimulate the eyeball and heartbeat in the previous seven parts, make a big platter, and make it into one. The film was sold for money, so the name of the creator of the series, Weiss Kerrwin, is not included in the screenwriter column of this film, which is really unfair to his old man.
In the details, there is also a complete lack of eye-catching processing, but let us see more patchwork. For example, after one of the men and women sharing the same bed is killed in a dream, the other party who is at a loss becomes the murderer in the eyes of the police, or in order to make a climax victory in a far-fetched way, Freddy is brought into reality and incapacitated, etc. And so on, are all platitudes that have been repeated over and over again, and audiences familiar with this series will definitely sneer at them. There is even a naked copy of the previous work such as the robot arm in the bathtub, and it can be seen how the screenwriter is not working hard. If there is any new thing to say, it is that even plasma can be digital in today's horror films.
Among the several sets of longevity horror films in recent decades, "Meng Ghost Street" is undoubtedly the most imaginative. In addition to pure chase and murder scenes, it also creates inextricably virtual dreams and various kinds of dreams. It is famous for the fantasy killing and fighting scenes. Whether it is Mike Myers or the masked killer King Jason, although the murder is the same, it is unavoidable to look uniformly monotonous, and Freddy’s murderous tricks are numerous and the victim's method of death Strange, it has always been a great highlight in this series. The people who became the target rose up to resist and entered the dreamland to incarnate various magical forces against Freddy, and even challenged the imagination of the director of this series, so that there were also very creative duel scenes, many of which are quite high-quality B-level science fiction films. Although this remake is supported by more sophisticated special effects and a vacuum-like environment rendering, it is far from the previous three in terms of imagination. All kinds of deaths have been seen in the previous works, and the protagonists just use Do your best to resist passively by not sleeping, instead of simply entering a dreamland to have a gorgeous adventure, making this film not as interesting as the first film in 1984, the fighting between humans and ghosts is completely reduced to zombies and slaughter humans. Tragedy. At the same time, the replacement of the actor who played Freddy for 20 years also made this role less intimidating than before. The rants before the murder were unbearable, and the sense of humor was gone, and it was completely degraded into one. A sinister cold-blooded revenge killer.
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