The discerning person can see from the poster that it should have influenced the most fascinating horror film in 2014, "It Follows Behind You" (2014). The poster of the latter is almost a naked tribute to the former.
The movie is just like its name. It starts with a strange hitchhiker that a young man met on a rainy night, and then, no surprise, the hitchhiker is a pervert who took out a knife to cut the kid. The door was not closed tightly, and the children kicked the abnormality out. All this happened 15 minutes before the movie. Experienced horror movie viewers understand that this is just the beginning. When he got to the back, the pervert got on another car again, killing other little lives or something. But this film breaks through the routine of traditional horror movies, not only showing the glorious deeds of perverted murderers, but also adding the growth of children. There was a connection between him and the murderer. The latter has been following him, training him, "teasing" him, and even clinging to him. Of course, all kinds of killings were not interrupted during the period, including the wonderful road chase scenes, and the big scenes of shooting helicopters. In thriller and horror movies, the most fascinating thing is often the intertwining of the fate of the victim and the victim. For example, "Seven Deadly Sins Se7en" (1995) and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) are all examples of such movies. In this movie, to some extent, perversions have contributed to the growth of children, albeit in a distorted way. And the child has also achieved a perverted "feat", it can even be said that he has achieved his life to death.
In addition to the fascinating relationship between the characters in the play, the rhythm of the movie is also well mastered, and it is both dynamic and static. For example, when a child eats French fries, it is appropriate to eat a finger or something, and there is almost no urine point during the viewing process. Different from other ordinary horror movies, this movie also shows many absurd elements, such as the lack of police and the hastily appearing, abnormal killers take action to "rescue" children, or play them with applause. It can be said that the killer arranged the plot direction along the way, and also arranged the completely different destiny of the characters in the play. In an uninhabited desolate area, with the little blurred eyes of the pervert killer actor Rutger Hauer, he returns to the time and space of "Blade Runner" (1982) in a trance, blending into the copy also played by him. Between human pupils. "All of this will be lost in time, just like tears disappearing in the rain." The children's hasty adult style, the inferiority of the perverted killer and so many bloody lives will also be buried by the yellow sand in the sky.
(This article was originally published in the author's WeChat subscription account Talking about Little Universe)
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