With a very simple title and a very simple translation, it is easy to think that it is a youth horror film with a brainless scream, but after watching it, the movie itself is remarkable and worth watching. The title "Haunt" is not intended to be a haunted house. It can mean "haunted" or "someone and something haunts me for a long time." For the heroine, Huant repeated her father. So this story is more like a record of the heroine Harper defeating the demons.
Back to the topic,
First answer the title:
Substituting God's perspective and looking down at these people who have fallen from their daily lives into urban grotesques can give us the greatest sense of psychological security. The lower the empathy with the protagonist, the more you can achieve the achievement of "talking and laughing and watching movies".
To give an inappropriate example, if this epidemic is a disaster film, would you please tell me which friends have wittily anticipated the subsequent development and bought enough supplies for the whole family in time, regardless of the boss’s objection to take leave and go home behind closed doors? We are all vacant NPCs, so when watching a horror movie, we don't even think that the protagonist should be Dashi Johnson's possession. This is meaningless except to create an unwavering movie-watching experience for you.
Next, let me talk about my personal understanding of the movie. If you disagree, please discuss.
Spoilers throughout! (Available to complement the picture)
The story takes place in Illinois, USA, on a Halloween night. The protagonist, Harper, is an ordinary female college student, with a boyfriend Sam who has a strong desire for control and will act on her (we will talk about why she does not break up with this scum). At the beginning of the movie, Sam smashed a pumpkin on the door to vent her anger as she drove past her residence, while she was using concealer to cover up the scars under her eyes.
The roommates (black cat, yellow skirt, nurse) told her to go out to play together, Harper considered repeatedly and decided to showdown to Sam and went to the party.
In the bar, I met the actor Nathan and the second fat man. Harper showed fear for loud noises and brakes. Several people discussed where to go, and Fatty picked up their death notice on the side of the road—the red leaflet printed by those people at the beginning of the film.
It was destiny to get people, and they didn't reach an agreement along the way. Harper mistakenly thought that her boyfriend Sam was following them, so he asked Fatty to turn a corner and arrived at the large haunted house that was just being renovated and was welcoming guests.
Before arriving at the haunted house, they saw the previous group of players enter the arena, and there was another comment on the Internet. Everything is the same as usual, except that the clown leading the way at the door is a little bit crooked-the usual way of creating atmosphere in haunted houses. The exemption agreement seems okay. Locking the phone makes people retreat, but the screams inside attract young people who are looking for excitement.
The next step was the beginning of the expedition. I went through various mechanisms and saw a person who was screaming with a soldering iron on his face. Everyone thought it was a performance. While getting goose bumps, they marveled that the authenticity was so high. The wall is painted with wonderful oil (you can see why you want to do this after you see it), and each mechanism is set to facilitate disconnection: only one person can enter and close the coffin door to open the internal iron door; reverse Only one person can be in it when Xiang Xiang crawls through the passage, otherwise the mechanism will be triggered.
The director carefully "takes care" patients with arachnophobia. The yellow skirt is most afraid of spiders. He doesn't even dare to drink the wine that has been soaked in spiders, but when he passes through the "coffin passage", he is locked in and thrown full of spiders...
The "guess what's inside" link made everyone think that the black cat or one of the male protagonists would be chopped off, and the fearful process was also a joy. Until then, a team realized that something was wrong, and the heroine Harper and Fatty found that the yellow skirt hadn't followed up halfway, so they had to jump down the ladder under the guidance of the man in red. After getting angry at the chainsaw man, he was fat and regretted: "I shouldn't push him." After all, they are just working, try to act more realistically... Still maintain the civic morality and show what they deserve to the "staff" The politeness of this group of people does not know that they are getting closer and closer to death.
The tragedy of the first act was finally released. On the other end of the barbed wire, the man in the long-haired mask ignored the polite request of the male lead, and pierced the temple of the yellow skirt with a red iron rod.
"Is she performing?" They instinctively refused, unable to believe what happened. After all, this is a society under the rule of law. After all, this should be just a game.
The next process is very interesting. After gradually accepting the facts, no one said what happened just now. That scene was actively blocked by them. There was no continuous screaming. No one even collapsed and went crazy. Everyone was trying to keep it up. Calm down and find a way to escape.
The first masked man appeared. Apart from being blindfolded, he was not weird and reasonable, and even offered to take them out. As a spectator, I am also a little confused at this moment, is it a friendly or an enemy?
He said kindly, "Your friend is not dead, waiting for you outside." Yes, this is a normal world. Even after witnessing such a bloody scene, human nature still expects that things will not be so bad. However, the group was not idiot enough to let go of their guards. Fatty made an idea to let everyone go one by one. He took the lead to find the mobile phone, and Harper had to take the key to the masked man.
But unexpectedly, the masked man nailed the entrance after going out. This separates Fat from his teammates. Nathan could only return the same way, and when the man in red went in to slaughter the remaining women, somebody must have hurriedly crawled into the passage. After triggering the mechanism, Nathan fell and the black cat inside the passage was caught. The nurse outside the passage was killed. I think the nurse is really a friend, knowing that the danger is coming, haha, let the black cat with the injured arm go first, and died.
Nathan fell into a tool room, and Harper was forced into desperation. In panic, he said, "Don't hurt me, Sam." The man in red asked interestedly who was Sam. He might smell the same kind of breath. Taking off the mask, the face of the man in red is strangely pierced with nails and tattooed all over, like some religious fanatic, or some anti-social person who is obsessed with the devil and death. Nathan appeared and used a nail gun to force the man in red back. Harper fled to the room full of knives. Although he walked through the room cautiously, he was shocked by the masked man who suddenly appeared in the corner and stepped on the pegboard.
Nathan used Harper's cell phone to send Sam a distress message and location, and luckily found the exit; Harper was forced to pass through the bladed room and escape into the secret room.
Finally Harper found the key, and the feeling of hiding under the bed reminded her of the fear her father had brought to him, and she rose up to resist. After that, Harper finally entered the mode of full revenge, no longer just running away, but after killing the man in red, he found that there was no door, only tightly connected walls-they were not the first wave of players, and naturally they were not the first wave. The one who solves the puzzle, but probably no one can resist the temptation of hope. The gun shot out a huge hole, and the corresponding position happened to be the head of an adult.
I thought the skull mask that appeared once was a new believer, but I didn't expect it to be the black cat caught in the passage. The heroine who took the initiative for the first time killed her friend by mistake, and she was very sad. But who can expect normal people to think that their friends are still alive at this time, and they are still tied up with their hands and feet and put on masks?
Sam finally found the building, but was hit immediately, and his head was hammered by the clown man.
The chainsaw man was killed by Harper with a gun. Harper also tore the door with his bare hands and used a sledgehammer to solve another...The back was a bit open, and the clown felt that the situation was out of control and lit the house.
After skipping the opening episode, the male and female lead drove the car sent by Sam to escape from his birth and met the police. All the corpses, institutions, and evidence were reduced to ashes with the raging fire. Harper, who woke up in the hospital, remembered the disclaimer.
The following is a small part of the director's care, please go and watch it yourself.
Some friends who do not understand why these people do this, I suggest to watch "There are Eyes in the Mountain", "Human Skin Inn", "Human Centipede", "Fatal Bend" (Suddenly found that they are all old bloody films, support the forehead), "Unfriend: The Dark Web. There are some strange religious beliefs in some places abroad, there are also people who have a hobby of special things, and some people take advantage of people's curiosity to shoot real and terrible pictures and sell them for profit. Perhaps the evil family in this film is the kind of people who take advantage of Halloween's tolerance for all kinds of monsters to search for their own prey and sacrifices.
Finally, I suggest you try to substitute the protagonist’s emotions (including background, personality), so that you can relax to a greater degree after the film ends~
By the way, the reason why the female protagonist mentioned above finds such a boyfriend: It is said that some people who have suffered domestic violence are more inclined to look for a character similar to the perpetrator as a partner. The reason may be long-term patience. When they are used to fear and being hurt, they will feel that it is a normal expression of love. This kind of thinking takes a lot of time to reverse, but it is certainly not the heroine's fault. Similar plots have also appeared in many movies. Friends who are interested in understanding can check out "Jerrod's Game".
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