Most of the so-called domestic horror films are wandering in the embarrassing situation of legends, strange stories, and pornographic films.
The network score is also terribly low.
Horror and thriller films are turned into brain-dead, naive comedies, which is what many mainland producers love to do.
A "Dish Fairy" series has become a joke for everyone.
Screenwriters can see the exhaustion of story design for thriller genres.
This is not only a problem of classification restrictions on the mainland film market, but also a result of the inertia of producers who are not enterprising, busy with cashing out, and love to take shortcuts.
Today, Fatty recommends a new American thriller to see how they put new wine in old bottles and find some fresh elements in a genre film.
"Safe Neighborhood" (Better Watch Out).
The so-called bloody version of "Home Alone", in fact, the story is completely reversed, from defense to mutilation, the theme is completely different.
The film has 88% freshness on rotten tomatoes and
66 points on the more demanding MTC.
The hot post-00 "Little Pan" Levi Miller plays a 12-year-old child with a black belly. The
story is specially arranged on Christmas Eve.
Parents go out to the party, leave the child at home and take care of the child for more than 4 years. The nanny and the child are alone in a room.
It was a normal night, but because the young female nanny was about to leave the city, the 12-year-old bear child had a wave of emotions in his heart, triggering an unexpected bloody night.
That night, there were constant intruders coming to trouble the female nanny, strangers entering the room with guns, snipers hiding outside the house, blocked signals, making this house an island, and the danger escalated.
When you thought it was another home guard battle like a kid headed home, the story suddenly took a turn and brought you into an incredible horror and perverted type.
The nanny was kidnapped by the 12-year-old bear child who admired her, and various "truth or dare" things happened one after another.
The two boyfriends of the nanny came to find someone, creating more dramatic conflicts and bringing uncontrollable variables to the story.
And how the 12-year-old kid dealt with these older people, his cruel and selfish heart exposed a childish and cruel image of a murderer.
There are too many movies of the same title similar to "Safe Neighborhood", "The Sneak Sitter", "Emily", "Nanny Hiring", "The Devil's Nanny", "Nanny", "Stranger Call", "Visiting Fright" And so on, are all horror thrillers with the theme of nanny.
For the United States, which has a nanny culture, films of this theme can inspire empathy among many viewers, add a fire to their anxiety, and lure them into the theater to watch.
The novelty of "Safe Neighborhood" is that the positions of the perpetrator and the victim are switched, so that the child becomes the perpetrator and the nanny becomes the victim.
Watching 12-year-old Xiao Zhengtai confessing to the female babysitter while torturing the female babysitter, and teasing her two boyfriends, the jokes and anxiety will continue to magnify your curiosity. How can a
12-year-old child make something extraordinary Things, where is his bottom line, will always hook your desire to watch movies.
The plot also constantly uses the 12-year-old actor to make essays, making devil-like criminal acts at an angel-like innocent age. This contrast makes people think about it with extreme terror and is quite fresh.
It is precisely because of the child's ignorance that everything becomes cruel and staggering.
Playing games, touching the breasts of the female nanny, unexpectedly reacted, not only showing his immaturity, but also highlighting his hatefulness.
As for smashing the head of a female babysitter boyfriend with a paint bucket, it seems like a childhood game, but it is inexcusable and sinful.
At the end of the development, I designed a scene where another ex-boyfriend of the female nanny was hanged, his love rival, and his movements were so skillful and cold-blooded that I breathed a sigh of relief.
These actions have completely exceeded the age expectations of 12-year-olds, which are also the biggest gimmick and selling point of the film.
Levi Miller, who has played Peter Pan, has a doll on his face. Upon closer inspection, he is also a bit handsome as a little plum. He completely interprets the image of an angel and a devil, both cute and hateful.
In terms of styling, Levi Miller always wears a variety of cute and sweet sweaters. The production team constantly highlights his appearance, but in the story, his behavior is always scary.
The female nanny who was tortured and played with by him was played by Olivia De Jonge, a young Australian actress born in 1998.
Her performances in "Late Night Sisterhood", "Visiting Fright" and "Terrorist Movement" are impressive.
This tenderness has added a lot to "Security Field" in terms of character creation.
In terms of plot arrangement, several reversals of "Security Field" are also hot enough.
From the intrusion of strangers, the layout of the organs, the pretending of ghosts, to the reversal of torture and killing, the forgery of the scene by the bear children, the story advances forcefully and smoothly, without any urine.
It's a hearty, funky, and thoughtful thriller genre.
On the subject, "Safe Neighborhood" is extremely ambiguous and tricky.
At first you thought it was all jade and stone, but what you didn't get was ruined. The 12-year-old bear child was tempted to take care of him for four years, and every time he wooed, he was rejected.
Being jealous of his two ex-boyfriends who couldn't support the wall, they simply tortured to death one by one.
Even the best friend, because he reached out and touched his lover, was shot dead by a short shot.
At the end of the play, just cut your throat and destroy love.
The little devil's temperament is possessed and added to the body, which makes people palpitations.
At the end, the film provides a psychological explanation for the motives of the bear child. It turned out that it was not love but not to be rejected by the native family. In fact, it was the sudden lack of maternal love, which made the beloved him extremely lost and urgently needed a substitute. .
Thinking back to the opening movie, the personality of the bear child's father and the lack of masculinity make this family full of maternal power and love.
When the mother felt that the boy needed to be independent, the boy did not completely get out of the accommodation of "Ma Bao Nan", which led to a kind of abnormal demand, venting and showing it in a violent way.
"Safe Neighborhood" is very restrained in blood and evil tastes, without thick blood plasma and shocking flesh and blood, but uses the development of the story and the behavior of the characters to extend the anxiety and fear.
In fact, mainland movies can be fully explored on the theme of nanny. In real life, incidents of child abuse by devil nanny have long been common. It is entirely possible to construct stories, refine themes, and develop new genre film elements.
Or, it's not impossible to design a positive story about a smart kid and a nanny.
The so-called bottom line can be weighed and figured out. The key is to see whether the producer has the spirit of innovation and challenge.
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