Summarizing from previous readings, the atmosphere creation in Cthulhu’s story is like this-every chapter and every paragraph constantly emphasizes how terrifying the plot will happen next, so terrible that the narrator is indescribable. What a terrible thing the existence of the old ruler is... This is especially true in the longer-length "At the Mountains of Madness" in the Cthulhu story. However, Cthulhu’s “horror” aside from its foundation of genre novels and historical and cultural precipitation, and reading it now, some beginner readers will find it ridiculous and bored after barely swallowing. Therefore, Lovecraft, the founder of horror novels, has been worshipped by a small crowd of fanatical fans. The concept of terror in the new era is derived from this and far away from it.
After looking up the information, I learned that Master Card and HP Lovecraft themselves had a close aura. Master Card is like the heir born 11 years after Lovecraft's death, passing on his mantle in different art forms. Therefore, "Crazy Mountains" was "secondary creation" in 1995 as "In the Mouth of Madness", and together with [怪形] and [天魔回魂] to be mentioned here, it forms Carpenter’s "Revelation" trilogy.
Today, Master Card’s works are in the same position as Lovecraft's masters. The traditional horror ideas of the founders of horror movies in the 1970s and 1980s may no longer be popular. Recently, Master Card's new work [The Ward] (The Ward) was sprayed as outdated and old-fashioned as soon as the trailer was released.
I won’t talk about where Master Card’s love is, let’s talk about this 1987 [天魔回魂] (Prince of Darkness).
The reason why Ka Shiye’s atmosphere is similar to Cthulhu’s straightforward repetition of the word "horror" and its variants is the amount of use of his soundtrack-[天魔回魂] as the second part of the "Apocalypse" series, The soundtrack used at the beginning almost directly continues the soundtrack of the first [怪形] (The Thing). The constant and seemingly non-stop drum beats regulate the frequency of the heartbeat. The traditional Chinese cultural background horror novel "Ten Killing Array" says that the rhythmic beating sound will synchronize your heartbeat when you are in the magic circle, and finally you will have a fast heartbeat at faster and faster frequencies. And die. In Father Ka’s film, the soundtrack is almost entirely written by himself, so the rhythm of the drums creates the highest atmosphere for the whole film-in the first third and last third of the film, The drum beat is never interrupted. Prior to this, this kind of Carpenter drums almost penetrated the entire [Strange Shape]. In the process of watching the movie, a sense of tightness that locks the body and mind has never been interrupted.
In addition to the special mention of Carpenter’s drums, Master Card’s traditional concept of "science fiction and horror belongs to the same clan" is also revealed in this film. Of course, "religion" has to be added here-in 1987, probably no audience would call any unspeakable film (drama) that ended with "religion" as a "theological film" (American drama "Lost" "LOST is the "Suzerain").
[天魔回魂] The beginning of the article is a bit of narrative and imaginary physics-the superluminal particles of the god horse, the cat of the god horse Schrödinger, they all explained it straightforwardly. Then there is the mystery incarnation-the green gas-liquid mixture in the huge glass cylinder in the basement of the church. After testing its composition, it was found that it had existed for 8 million years. After the supporting ancient books were translated, the calculus was discovered a million years later. At the same time, it has an unclear relationship with the "Revelation"...So, what is this, alien Mysterious body, unknown paleontology on earth?
Then there is the beginning of the vision-the tramp combined into a major league of neuroses, the scientist is fascinated by the temptation of the "big green pillar", the liquid flowing back to the ceiling is shot into the scientist's mouth, and the character begins to change-the next is [怪形] The plot repeats itself, and there is less suspicion. (Perhaps this is more like Romero’s virus-inflicted [Kill Out Madman Town] (The Crazies).) Seeing here, we can probably get a glimpse of the medicine that Master Card Master bought in the gourd. Science fiction is a guise, and religion is true. body. At the same time, the demon here is not as clever as the alien blood and mud in the [weird shape], and the ability is also downgraded-the child has no other than strange power and liquid "bukkake", the mother is a little more advanced, mind It’s a pity that the abilities of moving objects and instantaneous regeneration are half-stretched, but in the end, the heroine is dragged into the alien world in the mirror-or "hell". There is a hint of detail in the film-the only TV show "Mao He "Tom and Jerry" (Tom and Jerry) is a scene of Tom falling to prison and tormented by flames.
The scene of the bizarre appearance in [Strange Form] has left too many people with childhood shadows, and there are two places like this in [天魔回魂]-one is a scientist who stands after being stabbed to death with scissors by a tramp When I got up to convey the words of "father" (the devil), a large number of cockroach-like insects poured out between the body and clothes, and at the same time the hands, head, and body fell off; the second is that the parasitic girl's skin was corroded after a day of alienation. The muscles are exposed, especially the face also contains a thick white unidentified liquid. In addition, there are also unknown creatures such as ants, earthworms, and cockroaches constantly appearing in visual horror points, creating discomfort in dense numbers.
Of course, all the visual horrors are still not as scary as the Carpenter drums in the film. At first glance, the former should achieve the goal with disgusting people, while the latter is responsible for assisting in creating the atmosphere. However, in the "revelation" after [怪形], in this [天魔回魂], Carpenter drums against the auxiliary. Both frustrated and annoying.
Now we only have to wait for [trembling black hole] to finish watching, to see what kind of final "revelation" the super-age unity of Master Card and Lovecraft gives us.
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