As a horror film that has just been filmed in the past two years, although the format and technique are similar to those of perverted or deformed people such as "Eyes from the Mountain", "Fatal Bend", and "Horror Wax Museum", it is an escape movie that imprisoned, tortured, and killed normal people. The film still has its novelty and suspense, so I think the 7.1 score is still a bit low, and it can be up to 7.5.
Here are the spoilers:
Beth and Vera followed their mother to live in an old house left by a distant relative. They encountered two perverts in the old house. Their hobby was to play with people as "babies". Their mother was unfortunate in the struggle with perverts. After death, the two sisters experienced various abuses. With a little bit of wisdom from their younger sister Beth, they managed to escape the magic cave. Because there are imaginary fragments of my sister interspersed in the middle, it is both fictitious and real, so it adds a lot of mystery to the whole drama.
This movie is different from most horror suspense movies in the past, that is, a small high energy appeared in the opening 8 minutes, and the first 13 minutes of the opening was the first high energy, which lasted 6 minutes. So from the beginning, there is almost no need to fast forward.
Count a few foreshadowings:
1. Vera raised her middle finger at the candy cart.
In this movie, the two sisters have very different personalities. Sister Beth is timid and quiet, but likes to write horror novels. Sister Vera is straightforward and lacks politeness. She despises her sister and thinks she is a freak. When the shadow people in the candy car waved to them, the sister and mother both responded politely with a beckoning. After beckoning, the sister turned her middle finger to the person in the car. To this my mother said: Don't do this, be polite.
This paves the way for Beth’s imaginative fragments that appear later
When my sister said: "Tell them, I am not a bad girl", then sister Beth said, you did not make any mistakes.
This makes it easy for the audience to associate the evil spirit with revenge: My sister thinks that bad people (or evil spirits) have been pestering and punishing herself because she disrespect them at the beginning. They think she is a bad girl and let her Repaying debts, so mental problems also arise. In addition, the name of the film is "Nightmare Doll House" (English name: Ghostland ), and many times the dolls are indeed related to evil spirits. Refer to "Annabel" and "The Ghost Baby".
2. The personality of Beth's husband and son as an adult.
In the imaginary clip, Beth is a famous horror novelist, and also has a handsome husband and a cute son. In fact, the so-called image of the husband is just a male in the doll house. Beth told her husband that his son particularly liked the clown's clothes, "If he doesn't wear this dress, he can't sleep." In fact, the image of his son is exactly the boy clown on the right.
In the film, Beth has been staring blankly at the two photos, especially the two-second close-up of the clown, which also responds to the previous, why the so-called "son" can't sleep without wearing this clothes.
3. "Help Me" appears repeatedly on the mirror
In Beth’s imaginary clips, she will often see the word help me appearing on the mirror in the bedroom. Here, it is easy to misunderstand the audience, which may be related to ghosts or religions (refer to Vera said earlier, "They want me to repay my debts." "Such words), because I also thought about it here, it is difficult to achieve the "Ghost Man" series.
However, it is actually written by the two sisters themselves in reality.
4. The dog staring at Beth.
When Beth walked out of the room to look for the truck, he saw a dog (or wolf) not far away and stared at him for a long time. Here, the image of a fierce dog alludes to the inner change of Beth after he fought back. From the first person who was afraid of flies, he finally evolved to fight the bad guys with the bite like a wolf dog.
Several doubts:
1. How long did the two sisters stay in the horror house?
Some netizens believe that the two sisters were detained by perverts when they were in their teens, and they were not rescued by the police until many years when they were older.
But I personally think and hope that it will not take long, it may only be a few days or more than a dozen days.
First of all, when the fat man caught Beth for the first time, it was the first time Beth came to his aunt, so the fat man let her go. From this, I guessed that Fatty is a more picky person, and may not like bloody "babies", so he chose Vera for the time being.
Secondly, after Beth wakes up in the film, her sister Vera tells Beth: "They have played enough with me, this time it's up to you... You must be quiet and don't try to escape..." Obviously Beth doesn't know the "rules of the game." So, when they "play" Beth this time, Vera wants to let Beth know.
In addition, when the two sisters escaped from the horror house, they ran into two policemen. When the black policeman reported to the headquarters, someone at the headquarters said that they were now at a gas station and learned through the mouth of the female shop assistant that the two girls described by the black were the victims. The female clerk had seen it before. In response to this situation, the blacks asked the headquarters to send a team.
Even if the two policemen were shot and killed in the end, Shouzi took the two sisters back again, because the police headquarters already knew the address of the terrorist house, so the detention time was only a dozen or twenty minutes.
Therefore, I think that before and after, maybe the sisters did not stay in the horror house for a long time. The shortest word is the end of Aunt Beth.
2. Where is the whole story true?
The most common perception in this movie is that the adult clips are all Beth's conjectures, and the teenage clips are real, and the two sisters are also rescued in the end.
But some netizens believe that from the time Beth picked up the newspaper at the gas station, everything behind it was an illusion. This point of view is also reasonable, because Beth likes to write horror novels after all, and his thinking is more active and divergent. It is very likely that seeing a newspaper headline will fill up a perverted murder story; some netizens believe that they did not at all in the end. Rescued and rescued were all imaginary, and finally Beth saw her mother explaining that she was still alive in her imagination.
Here I can only say that the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wisdom, I personally still agree with the general perception.
3. Is the horror novelist appearing in the second fantasy segment a diffractive skinny man?
When the two sisters were caught back for the second time, Beth entered into another conjecture. Here, she was attending a celebration party and met a strange-looking person. Some people think that the hint is a skinny metamorphosis.
At the very beginning, when I didn't know the rest of the article, I also thought that this person looked weird, could it be an allusion to the skinny pervert. But in fact, it was Beth's psychological comfort. She encouraged herself to resist bravely by fantasizing about encouragement by the writer he most admired.
The whole movie may be slightly inferior to the classic horror films, but in recent years of horror thrillers, it should be regarded as a relatively novel work. At the same time, there is a sharp contrast. At first, she laughed at her cowardly sister, but was finally rescued by her courage and wisdom. Vera lives in reality, but Beth often falls into conjecture, but it is this conjecture that ultimately supports Beth to live.
Therefore, people should need some fantasy as a placebo, after all, reality is cruel.
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