But the domain name of the West is sometimes easy to get lost. Compared with Hollywood, European horror movies have always been quite worth seeing, especially this is a continent with a long cultural thinking, even horror movies. It often rises to a philosophical level, so the attention to human psychological changes corresponds to the mysterious consciousness of the East.
On the other hand, for the operation of movies, Europe can be said to be an important experimental base for Hollywood. Many Hollywood movies have their creativity and shooting techniques learned from Europe. This is a fact. In this case, Europe The horror films are often very innovative. For example, this "Severance".
"Severance" is a British film. Although it is called a horror film, we don't feel any sense of horror in the process of watching the film. Instead, it is more like a comedy with a slightly absurd color. It is completely different from funny films such as "Horror Movies" in the United States. This film is really humorous. It is not the kind of use of actors or parody to fool the audience. From this point of view, this film is actually a continuation of the European style. The consistent style of the movie, but under the strong influence of Hollywood, this style shows a certain novelty instead. Of course, horror films wrapped in humor can indeed be regarded as extremely innovative.
This immediately formed a problem. Humor is often slow and relaxed, and horror is often nerve-racking. It can be said that the two are almost opposite in rhythm and narrative style. So how does the film combine the two styles? Fusion will all become one of the greatest features of the film.
The beginning of the film is a Hollywood-style title, with a man and two women running. Obviously there is some terrifying force chasing them behind, so the audience is immediately brought into the situation. But soon, humor appeared. In order to escape, the two women who fell in the pit began to take off their clothes and tied them into ropes and threw them out of the pit. They were unsuccessful once, and then came again. In fact, this kind of title can only be said to be general, and the humor seems somewhat artificial, but in fact, this kind of title has set the tone for the film as a whole, that is, unexpectedly inserting humorous details in times of tension to relieve the people in the film. And the nerves of the audience. And the most obvious part of the film is that when we think the humor of throwing ropes is too general, in the film, the director has perfected this humor. The male protagonist sees the ropes when he is exhausted, and of course he also sees the naked man in the pit. Beautiful women, hunting and fighting fiercely were immediately diluted by the consistent lustful consciousness of human beings. And these two naked beauties will become heroes to rescue the heroine, which is also the cuteness of the plot developing to unexpected places.
In fact, almost all the details in the film are done in tension and ease. Such alternating details bring countless laughter to the film. There are typically a few places. The handsomest guy among the staff once said that he was I probably know that people’s consciousness will exist for a few minutes after the head is beheaded, so after he was cut off, he looked back and saw his body. There was no doubt that he was happy in his eyes, which proved that his statement was correct. This is completely dead. The horror disappeared. There is no need to speak much, one look at the camera will ease the tension. In addition, the protagonist had a fantasy of taking drugs and saw a few of himself. This was originally a terrible psychological suggestion, but the director allowed those colleagues to talk freely in the same context, so this psychological suggestion It not only has its own sense of humor, but also makes the audience feel a real horror illusion of being around. By the way, the director is extremely innovative in camera movement and scene scheduling.
The humor is surprising, and the humor is imaginable in the audience's mind. This film presents this kind of humorous atmosphere very well. One of the humorous methods to be pointed out here is parody. The parody in "Horror Movie" is the most classic shot from other movies, but the parody in this film is not necessarily classic but from other movies. Some shots that are very consistent with the identity of the people in the play. For example, the full sexual fantasies on the dining table in the film are based on the sexual indulgence of Alex in "A Clockwork Orange", but since it is very consistent with the identity of the person in the play, it is not abrupt, and of course there is no compelling audience. The contrived sense of laughter.
Without plasma, no ghosts, and constant tension, can we still agree that this is a horror movie? Maybe this is a question of different people, but the story of the film reminds the audience of many horror elements. In the end, almost all of the employees who made weapons died in the hands of the old soldiers who bought the weapons. The sophistication of being a businessman and the terribleness of being a soldier have formed. A kind of contrast, maybe the story itself is horrible. But this obviously does not conform to the definition of horror in the minds of the audience. Horror films are not about the excitement and reflection of the story, but the enhancement and impact of the plot and details. But does this definition still fall into Hollywood's horror model?
A humorous horror film, a game of chase and escape, a slaughter in which all blood plasma is eliminated, this is indeed an alternative in the eyes of audiences who are used to watching Hollywood horror films, but who can say that such a horror film is No market? After all, it combines noisy humor and brutal killing into many wonderful moments, allowing viewers to enjoy the dual stimulation of joy and horror!
Han Xi
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produced by Tongzhou TOM Film Critics Group on June 14, 2007, please do not reprint!
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