First of all, audiences who are not very familiar with horror movies will naturally not know that there is something called Ozploitation in the world, but in fact, after the start of the new wave of Australian movies, the emergence of this type of Ozploitation has also enriched the local horror in Australia. To exploit the movie market, interested friends can refer to "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!" "This movie, although it developed more prosperously in the late 1970s and 1980s, such as "Patrick" in 1978 was one of the masterpieces of the time, but in recent years it has been quite awakening, such as "Wolf Creek." The films "A Storm Is Coming" are also masterpieces of recent years. And the appearance of "Deadly Love" surprised me a lot. Below, I will focus on the three most outstanding points of the film and introduce this masterpiece in detail.
The first two points are very obvious. First, as many people have mentioned, the original soundtrack of this film is definitely one of the best horror movies in recent years. The director is obviously an out-and-out music fan. Several of the songs that appeared in it were very popular. Secondly, I had to praise the heroine Robin McLeavy for her acting skills. In my opinion, her performance is better than Kathy Bates and Kathy Bates in "Ten Days of Crisis" Sissy Spacek in "Witch Carrie" is not inferior. She performed our "prom queen" image so full and shocking, she showed the almost naive cruelty and perversion so vividly and vividly, in contrast, famous actors like Jackie Earle Haley, in The new version of "Meng Ghost Street" has put out such an infamous performance. I really should think about it.
What I like most about this film, and the most critical feature of this film, is that the dominant female villain is finally displayed in such a rich and detailed manner in a torture movie for the first time. Once upon a time, it was a part of Takashi Miike. "Skin Cut Love" once made me feel the brilliance of women once, but the first half of the film is also a good preparation, and it gives a boost at the end. In most horror films, female characters can either only act as female ghosts with endless grievances, or they are the targets of homicides. Movies like "The Kennel" show the shameless sexism and trampling on women’s self-esteem in horror movies. Women who want to marry and tie men are seen as mental patients infected with rabies. . Except for movies that exclude elements such as ghosts, zombies, and mutant monsters, there are actually very few movies that are dominated by female negative characters.
In slasher and giallo movies, maybe women like to play the role of killer, but that is just a little tricky by the directors. In this kind of film, the killer will never face the person in his true identity, and the director also They have to desperately make the audience think that the killer is a male to confuse their eyes. Therefore, in the giallo movie, they wear black gloves and black trench coats. Only at the end do they finally let the audience know that the murderer is just a woman, so in the slasher movie, The last famous ones are Mike, Jason, and Freddie. And Jason his mother only made his cannon fodder in the first film, and Angela in "Bloody Death Camp" ended up just as a changed man. As for the female killers in giallo, it's not worth mentioning, either for money, for men, or something wrong with their spirits. Therefore, after their identities are exposed, they are often easily solved by the protagonists. After all, they are not as strong as men, and can stand forever like McMilles and Jason, and can continue to climb up after death. A new round of slaughter.
In other horror movies, such as "Ten Days of Crisis", "May Witch", "The Hand That Pushes the Cradle", and even "Orphans Resentment", although the female negative characters can finally make a good show of power, they are actually This kind of prestige is also very sad, because none of these characters is not portrayed as a lonely, single, and eager to be loved woman, and this kind of film does not show too much of their cruel murderous scenes. , At most, it uses psychological cues and lines to scare the audience.
In films like "Human Skin Hotel", "Abnormal", and "Chain Saw" that show how to abuse human beings in detail, the protagonists will always be men, and in the popular pseudo "snuff" films, also It is always a certain or a few wretched men who desperately sexually abuse and slaughter women's bodies. Moreover, in this type of film, the role of a male executioner can always be perverted and unreasonable, so why is there no one that also focuses on torture, and mainly targets men, and there is nothing pitiful about the heroine, What about movies that can be unreasonably perverted?
Finally, the appearance of "Deadly Love" finally broke the "male supremacy" convention in the killing movies. Originally, we began to think that the heroine was nothing more than an ordinary girl who was usually autistic and shy in school, because she repeated it again and again. The third was bullied by the male lead or discriminated by his classmates, so he played a kidnapping and murder case with his father, and the audience is nothing more than to see how the heroine of the poor and strong is the contrast That's it.
However, you are wrong. The heroine in this film is not pitiful. The film does not show what she is like a loser and freak in school. She is at most a passerby character, and the heroine in this film Cai is the real poor object. He lost his father because of a car accident. He was immersed in drugs and metal music all day long. When our perverted heroine invited him to the dance, his refusal did not mean any discrimination. After all, His real girlfriend was the girl named Holly, but the perverted hostess did not hesitate to kidnap him back to her home.
Later, we were thinking again, she must have been rejected by the people she likes over and over again, so she was a woman who couldn’t get love, so she became perverted and murdered; then you thought wrong again. In this film, her real lover is her own father. Therefore, in the film, her mother is also tortured at home. Her mother is her love rival, so we find the male protagonist who was kidnapped. I didn't feel how much love from her, but was trampled and tortured by her again and again. I mean, how much self-esteem do you have when a woman holds a cup and asks you to spill it in front of her?
As the heroine herself said, "Unfortunately, you are not my prince." In fact, the several men she captured are not her princes. She only loves her dad, and her dad is completely obedient. For her, as long as she gives instructions, he can help her to abuse these handsome boys, but in the end, we found that the men who survived became her pets in the end. After that, I threw it away and kept it in my own cellar.
And in the end, because the male protagonist indirectly killed her favorite person—daddy, when she said very coolly that she would kill his mother and girlfriend, I really felt that this woman was really cool, and she finally Holding a sharp blade and singing "Not pretty enough" while walking, who wouldn't fall for her?
In addition, the most commendable thing is the ending. The final girl in the previous slasher movies has finally become The final boy. In the end, it is no longer female characters like Jamie Lee Curtis and Jennifer Love Hewitt that survive. When the male protagonist rescued his little girlfriend, and finally did not hesitate to reverse the car and crush the female protagonist to death, this way of dealing with the face of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the devil in "Scary Cannibals" finally ended. It can also be used in female negative characters. This movie finally portrays the female villain into a truly cruel and perverted good character, proving that the female villain can also not need the sympathy of the audience, and can also torture and kill men like a man kills a woman! For those audiences who laugh at the old-fashioned plot of the story, I really feel speechless, because the film has no plot and not much foreshadowing. Almost half of the time is spent on the heroine torturing the male protagonist, and the director is in order to succeed. It does not show how the heroine was in a normal way before the heroine's metamorphosis. If you really compare the photos and find a lot of reasons for her abnormality, it will be the real cliché. Therefore, in order to adjust the rhythm of the film, the director arranged the dating experience of the male protagonist’s wretched friend and a punk girl, which has nothing to do with the main line. This has become the only shortcoming of the film that can be criticized. In addition, This film is a perfect work.
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