"I was given and taken away. I existed when you were born. You didn't ask for me, but I will follow you until you die."
What I share with you today is a special film universe created by James Wen and Wen Ziren in 2013-the soul-calling universe.
First of all, make an early warning. These movies in the soul-calling universe are by no means good, they are definitely not movies suitable for all ages, but super heavyweight ghost movies. If you are not a cold or unacceptable friend of horror movies, Qian Be cautious when watching movies.
The beginning part is a life-threatening riddle in "Call of Souls 2". Friends who have watched the movie should already know what the answer is. If you haven't read it, you might as well guess it. I hope you can guess, otherwise, maybe you will be swallowed by the devil.
The soul-calling universe movies that have been released now include “calling souls 1”, “calling souls 2”, “Annabel 1”, “Annabel 2, Birth”, and the latest in 2018, “The Nun”. Also on the agenda should be "The Humpback", "Call of Souls 3" and "Annabel 3".
Because I don’t watch many horror films, it is difficult for me to define the degree of shock and excitement of this series.
First of all, I can tell you that these films are all directed or produced by Wen Ziren, and Wen Ziren is definitely the best-selling horror film director at the moment. For example, when "Call of Souls 2" was released in 2016, there were still many calls out in the same period. The audience expected the "Warcraft" with high expectations, but something very strange happened, and it was a publicity campaign. At that time, the North American box office of "Warcraft" was actually lost to the small-cost horror movie "Call of Souls 2". In fact, other films in the psychic universe have also handed in good transcripts, and all of them have been overwhelmingly rewarded for small productions. The total cost is 100 million, and the total box office is 1.5 billion. The efficiency of making money can be said to be very high.
refer to:
"The Soul" cost 20 million, 320 million at the box office
The cost of "Call of Souls 2" is 40 million yuan, and the box office is 390 million yuan
"Annabelle" cost 6.5 million, box office 257 million
"Annabel 2" cost 15 million, box office 300 million
"Nun" cost 20 million, box office 300 million
In addition, what I can tell you is that the movies of the soul-calling universe are all derived from real events in history. In particular, "Call of Souls 1" and "Call of Souls 2" have a very, very high degree of restoration of real events. If we watch a movie, remember to watch the final subtitles, which will show some video data from the real events at the time. The exorcists who play the role of threading the needle in the soul-calling universe, the husband Ed Warren, and his wife Rowling Warren are also real figures in history. They are the only exorcists in the world who are recognized by the church and hold a license. Official. The old lady is 91 years old and still alive. Information about the real events in the movie can also be found online. Some have also made documentaries specifically.
Third, take myself as a reference standard. I think I’m a person with a relatively high level of fright. Although I’m also scared, I don’t know how to respond to physical movements, such as a twitch, a big jump, or something. When watching horror movies, I always maintain a very calm state, and I don’t know if it’s too late to react or something. When I go to play those real-life haunted houses, I often like to walk in the front and keep a distance from the people behind me. What are you doing? I go to the staff inside. Once I grabbed a skeleton playing with a mobile phone. , I used to scare people.
However, I still feel very uncomfortable and panicked when watching a ghost-calling movie. It is not because of the shocking lens and sound effects. To be honest, the soul-calling is not based on these. In fact, anyone can do such tricks. You Finding a place to hide on the road and then rushing out and shouting can also scare people, but it can't be called terror, it's called insane. Director Wen's real skill in making horror films is his blank space on the lens, which will always keep you in a blind spot when watching movies. For example, some spooky scenes are often deliberately let the audience see, but the characters in the movie are still in the dark, making you frightened by the fate of the characters. Or, it is to isolate the sense of sight and hearing, and emit strange sounds, but it is visually closed so that you can't see it, you can only guess and imagine. Tao Wen also likes to hide things in the defocused lens. You should have been looking at the focused lens, but the blurred part hides the mystery. The human psychology is that the more you don't let you look at the place, the more you want to see it. In addition, I will use some very strange shooting angles, and it feels like something is peeping at the movie characters in an unknown place. Anyway, when you look at it, you will feel that something unclean is actually there, but we haven't seen it. What I mean here is not in the movie, but in our own real world. Fear is often hidden in our blind spots.
I've been afraid of a horror story before. This story is not yet a ghost story, but I shudder every time I think about it.
There is a girl who feels like there is always a person not far behind when walking on the road at night, no matter where she goes, this person is always there, and is getting closer, getting closer, getting closer. . . So she started to run faster, and the person following her also started to run. The girl panicked, ran into a nearby public toilet, hid in the cubicle, and locked the door. As soon as the door was locked, I heard rapid footsteps outside. The girl was so frightened that she didn't dare to make a sound, curled up inside, motionless. It took a long time outside before quieting down slowly. But even though the footsteps had disappeared, the girl was still afraid to go out, worried about meeting the person who was chasing her, and the girl stayed in the toilet all night for safety. It was not until dawn the next day that the girl woke up when she heard the voice of Auntie Cleaning. She heard Auntie Cleaning saying "Who are you?" in a harsh tone. At this moment, the girl looked up and saw that a man was picking up on the door of the compartment, showing only one head.
After listening to this story, I will keep filling in the picture of the man peeping through the night. Although the story doesn't mention voyeurism at all, this blank space is what I think is the most scary place.
No matter whether we are theists or atheists, we will have fear in our hearts. The role of horror films is to magnify our fears.
Usually, if you take a bath at night, there is no question of whether you are afraid or not. But if you just watched a horror movie that night, it may be different. When you wash your hair, you may worry about whether you will see anything unclean when you open your eyes. I am worried about whether there will be something standing outside the bathroom door when I open it.
I don't really like watching horror movies myself, and I have always wondered why anyone would like to watch horror movies. Later, I discovered that this is actually a way of seeking excitement, but the excitement recognized by everyone is different. Some people especially like roller coasters, but they cried when they watched horror movies. Some people can watch horror movies, but letting him sit on the jumping machine would kill him. Anyway, neither jumping machines nor horror movies are my thing. I just build a reference for the level of horror purely through the experience of watching movies.
If ranked from the degree of horror . The rankings of these films in the psychic universe are as follows:
"Call of Souls 2"> "Call of Souls 1"> "Annabel 2"> "Annabel 1"> "Nun"
If it’s ranked from movie recommendation
"Call of Souls 1"> "Call of Souls 2"> "Annabel 1"> "Annabel 2"> "Nuns"
The chronological order of the story :
"Nun"---"Annabel 2"---"Annabel 1"---"Calling the Soul 1" ---"Calling the Soul 2"
Today I still talked to Director Wen, so I mainly talked about "Calling the Soul 1" and "Calling the Soul 2", because they are the direct contributors of Director Wen, and the others can only be regarded as conquered.
Let's start with the opening work of the soul-calling universe-"Soul-calling 1"
"Call of Souls 1" filmed two stories, one is the Annabelle doll incident, and the other is the haunted incident of Perron's house. Both of these are adaptations of real events.
Let’s talk about the story of Annabel’s doll first. In the movie "Calling the Souls", it is explained as a prologue that two nurses have encountered a very strange thing. One of the girls has a doll, which is a birthday gift from her mother. The look of this doll in the movie is indeed very hideous, and it makes people feel very uncomfortable at first glance. There is still a big gap between this doll and the doll in the real incident. The real doll will be much more harmonious. At least it looks like a toy. I want to say that the doll in the movie can only be handed off if you have a mother’s experience as a mother. As a gift to children. The point is that besides the scary-looking doll, she can move by herself. Every time the nurse sister went home, she often found that the doll had either moved its position or had its head tilted. On one occasion, the scene they saw when they returned home was so dynamic that they had to turn to the clergy for help.
When they went home, they left a note at the door of their house with a red crayon on it that said "Miss me?" When they entered the room, they found the doll lying in the hallway with a red crayon in their hands. The two girls opened the door and found that the room was covered with red crayons. The house had been messed up, and their photo frames had been broken. So the girls immediately threw the doll into the trash can. At night, they heard a heavy knock on the door, and when they went to open the door, they found that there was no one outside, but there was another note written in crayon on the ground. The most frightening thing is that the doll didn't know when she sat on the chair in the house. Finally they found the protagonist of the movie, the exorcist Warren and his wife. The two girls told the Warrens that there used to be a spirit body named Annabel, a little girl, who asked them for help and asked if they could attach to the doll and live with them. The girls are nurses, and out of sympathy, they agreed to Annabel's request. The Warrens pointed out that they were grossly wrong. Accepting such a request is equivalent to giving the ghost the right to disturb oneself. They also put forward a theory that ghosts do not attach to inanimate objects. They play with these inanimate objects to make people think that these things are possessed. But in fact, there must be life to be possessed, and life to have a soul, and what ghosts most want to occupy is the human soul. This is a big setting in the soul-calling universe.
After the investigation, the Warrens invited a team of professional pastors to bless the haunted room. Finally they took away the Annabelle doll and locked it in their supernatural museum. Yes, they have a museum and it is open to the public. But this doll is the one that has been locked the most, and it is marked with the words "Never Open". The story of the Annabel doll in the movie has not unfolded so far. But the real events are even more bizarre than those described in the movie.
At that time, the Warrens invited a pastor named Jason to bless the apartment and the two nurses. When it was over, the Warrens took Annabel away. They put Annabel in the back of the car and thought it was safer. But at every dangerous turn, the brakes and engine systems would fail, and finally there was a non-serious car accident. The Warrens sprinkled holy water on Annabel and put the cross on, and the car really returned to normal. After arriving home safely, Rowling heard the roar of some kind of beast at home, which could be heard everywhere in the house. Later, when Rowling was listening to Pastor Jason’s phone message, she also heard exactly the same roar. She felt that something was not good, so she immediately called Jason to ask him to drive carefully. Jason said, “My brakes failed today. There was a serious car accident, and my car is now a pile of scrap iron, and I’m fine.” Now, Annabel is closed in the Warrens’ Paranormal Museum, and at first it was the same as the furnishings in other museums. It was closed, but a policeman locked her up after being attacked by Annabel in the museum. The police officer who was attacked described "This doll is alive."
The doll itself looks pretty cute, not as scary as in the movie. But the legend about her is really not that cute at all. Now in Wen Ziren's movies, she has become a very important stalker. I heard that there are Annabel's eggs in the movie "Aquaman", but I didn't find them when I watched them. Some people said they were in the box of the Mera Tibetan airship.
Because the legend of Annabelle doll is too classic and sensational, some people think that it is a bit wasteful to say that it is just a legend, so they made two independent films for her, and thus began to have the concept of the soul-calling universe. "Annabel 1" is the photographer in the movie "Calling the Souls". I don’t know if it’s intentional. The heroine is named Annabel. Check it on Baidu and you find that the name is "Annabella Wallis". ", but the English spelling is actually the same word. The story is about what happened before the nurse's doll in "Call of Souls 1" was haunted. The last scene of the movie is that a mother bought Annabel in a second-hand store and prepared to give it to her daughter. In fact, the movie didn't use much pen and ink to explain how Annabel came, but it is obvious that there are several scenes in it, which were filmed based on folk legends about Annabel. For example, the pastor takes Annanell to drive back to the church.
The director of "Annabel 2" can be regarded as Wen Ziren's major disciple. Wen Ziren makes horror films, he also makes horror films, Wen Ziren makes superheroes, and he also makes superheroes. Another DC superhero movie "Shazam" is his shot. The story of "Annabel 2" is the origin of Annabel's doll. It is said that Annabel is actually the daughter of a craftsman. Her father made a limited edition doll. This horrible doll was made by Annabel's father. But her daughter died in an unexpected car accident, and she was still holding this doll in her hand during the car accident. The ending of "Annabel 2" also explains the connection with the story of "Annabel 1". The last girl who was possessed by the devil was the female cult member who slaughtered the family next door to the heroine in "Annabel 1".
Of course, the two stories told in Annabelle's independent films did not exist in history, and were mainly created by the creator based on the legendary bridge.
Next we talk about the main plot of "Calling the Souls 1".
The main plot of "Call of Souls 1" is the haunted incident at Perun's house. The story begins with the Perun family moving to a new home and into a large villa on the outskirts.
On the first day of the move, I found that their dog was unwilling to enter the house and yelled at the house. Perron’s husband had no choice but to leave him outside. Unexpectedly, their dog died the next day. Later, another bird died in the same position. Perun and the others checked around the house and found nothing unusual. So this thing passed like this.
Then Mrs. Perron found that she had bruises on her body for some reason, and more and more, as if she had been abused by the family.
Then Mrs. Perron found that all the clocks at home had stopped at 3:07, every one of them. In short, the weird things happened one after another after moving into the new home, and they became more and more intense.
The Perun family has five daughters. Because the house is very large, they can play hide-and-seek at home. The rule of the game is that the seeker must be blindfolded, and the person who hides can no longer move after hiding. The seeker can ask for it. The hiding person claps his hands to determine the position, up to three times.
When playing hide-and-seek once, the Perun family accidentally discovered a basement sealed by wooden slats. The audience will definitely feel that something is going to happen when they see this place. There must be a reason why this place is sealed. And according to the laws of horror movies, there is absolutely nothing good in the basement, and the soul-calling is no exception. First of all, we remembered that the place where the dog and the bird died for no reason was exactly at the vent in this basement. But Perron’s husband seemed to have won a treasure, and felt that he had made a basement in vain. From the perspective of God, we are quite anxious for him. In fact, it is normal for the characters in the movie to behave like this.
Then the real nightmare of the Perron family began. From the next game of hide and seek.
Because the youngest daughter in the family was too young, her sisters never played hide-and-seek with her, so she had to ask her mother to play with her. Everyone else was out on this day, only Mrs. Perron and the youngest daughter were at home. The mother blindfolded and followed the sound of clapping hands to find the little daughter. She followed the sound of clapping hands upstairs and walked into a bedroom. At this time, she did not know whose hand stretched out from the closet and patted it a third time. Mrs. Perron went to the closet blindfolded to touch. She could still hear breathing in the closet, but she couldn't touch anyone. Halfway through her touch, the little daughter's voice came from behind.
More terrible things happened at night. There was a girl who was often pulled by her legs out of thin air when she slept at night, but she woke up with nothing. Another girl, sleepwalking at night, kept banging her head against the closet with her hand out.
I think sleepwalking is really a terrible thing, I have a psychological shadow. It’s hard for you to wake up sleepwalkers. Sometimes you still have your eyes open, but you don’t seem to recognize you when you see you.
Why do I have a psychological shadow, because something like this has happened around me. I can't judge whether it is sleepwalking or not. I would rather believe that it is sleepwalking than anything else. It's my mother. She had sleepwalking that scared me a few times. When the symptoms appeared, my eyes were open, but I didn't seem to see what was in front of me, because at this time I felt that she no longer knew me, or didn't even know my existence. Talking to her, sometimes you feel as if she can hear and can communicate with you, but most of the time, it seems that she can't hear and answer the wrong questions. The facial expression was obviously different from usual, and her eyes were absent and she felt that what she saw was different from what we saw. What frightened me most was that she would burst into tears, then burst into laughter after a while, the weather was uncertain, and she would talk gibberish, saying things that she didn’t understand at all. Some of them sounded like the dialect of her hometown, but they didn’t. , I wrote down the pronunciation and asked her when she woke up, she didn't know what it meant by herself. When symptoms appear, I can't wake up at all, I can only wake up on my own.
In fact, I don't believe in ghosts and gods very much, but when there is no other way, I have tried to see if the chopsticks can stand up, and toss a coin to see if they can stand up. Watching horror movies is one thing, but it's another thing when something that you can't control happens to you. Since then, although I still uphold the scientific materialist values, I no longer easily make comments on supernatural phenomena or some folk ways of coping. Because knowledge may always be limited. When something happens that our current knowledge cannot explain, someone will take measures that may not be so scientific. You don’t care whether it is useful or not, whether it is feudal or not, but at least it is for the person involved. It is a kind of psychological comfort. As long as you don't overdo it and don't hurt others, what's the big deal? In this world, there are people who use all kinds of tricks to deceive and deceive every day. Feudal superstition is really insignificant when compared with those blatantly erected scientific flags. The most terrifying thing is actually those who can't help themselves, but like to talk coldly. When weird things happen to me, it's not so funny.
Pulling away. Back to the movie plot.
One night, Mrs. Perron heard a strange noise in the house. She thought that a thief might have entered the house. She followed the sound and walked to the door of the basement. When Mrs. Perron warned the people in the basement to close the door without coming out, she Was pushed down the basement, and the basement door was closed. The plot here, I think, is the most creepy part of the whole film. I spent a lot of space talking about hide-and-seek before, and finally broke out here.
Afterwards, the Perron family had no choice but to invite the Warrens. After the Warrens came, their abilities were shown in the movie for the first time. Mrs. Rowling Warren actually has spiritual media. She can perceive the existence of spirits and can see ghosts. It is also possible to sense what has happened in the past through touch. When Rowling’s perspective is to be shown in the movie, I advise everyone to be especially careful, because she can see things that ordinary people can’t see. You can understand that there are more scary shots than other characters. However, Rowling has a price when using this skill. Every time you use it, you may be contaminated with things in other dimensions, which is equivalent to temporarily opening a channel connecting different dimensions. You can go there, and others can come over.
Husband, Ed Warren, has no spiritual media, but he has research on supernatural phenomena and has his own theory. He believes that there are generally three stages of supernatural events: the first stage is "infested", at this stage you will feel some unusual noises, such as the door rattling inexplicably, or as if you hear someone talking to you; the second stage "Oppression", evil spirits will find people with weak mentality as targets, try to defeat their psychological defenses and distort their thoughts; the third stage is "possessed", when the second stage succeeds, the evil spirits will be possessed. People occupy their souls. When the Warrens did supernatural research, what was more objective was that they used a series of scientific instruments. For example, they set up an infrared camera. When the temperature fluctuates abnormally, it will automatically trigger to take pictures. They believe that the existence of a spiritual body will affect it. The surrounding temperature will generally drop suddenly when the spirit body is infested. They also use recording equipment to receive sounds in various rooms, and to hear if there is any abnormal noise, it feels much more reliable than if we set up chopsticks or something here. Our current technology can't tell us whether the other world exists or not, but maybe when technology develops to a certain level, these supernatural phenomena may be explained in scientific terms. For example, we have all heard of something called "dark matter". This thing is actually invisible to humans, neither can it be heard, let alone touched. The reason why we think it exists is based on the rationalization of natural phenomena. Because in the universe we have discovered the existence of a phenomenon that violates Newton's universal gravitation, Newton's law can continue to be established only when it is assumed that there is "dark matter". The Warrens gave us a good example that for another world, we should not blindly deny it. It is also feasible to treat it with a scientific attitude. If one day the scientific community really announces the discovery of another world, then we burned Copernicus to death and Bruno's group of people are actually the same nature.
After a series of investigations, they discovered that the house where the Perron family lives originally belonged to a witch named Beth Shiba. She killed her 7-day-old daughter and sacrificed it to Satan and then hung herself on a tree by the lake. Committed suicide. The time of death was 3:07 am. The music box that the youngest daughter of Perron’s family had been playing with was picked up under this tree. The child is regarded as God's greatest gift to mankind. If God's gift is sacrificed to Satan, then her purpose is obviously to show loyalty to Satan.
After the haunting of the house is dealt with, the church clergy must be allowed to bless the house, but there is a prerequisite. The church must be given concrete evidence. The church will have to report layer by layer and follow the process. People also follow the rules, don't say it, it makes sense, otherwise the matter will lose its seriousness. You can't be like some of our remote areas, where you can do a ceremonial ceremonial for you and jump to the gods after you give the money. It is not clear whether it is true or not when I look back, and the credibility of the church itself will also be impaired.
So the Warrens brought their team to live in the haunted house of Perron’s, and installed various professional equipment to collect evidence. These devices did capture some supernatural phenomena. They found the ghost of a little boy. The little boy is relatively neutral. He mainly wants someone to play with him. But to find the big boss, the heroine Rowling still has to go. Rowling sees the souls of the previous victims and finds that the Bethshiba Witch wants to possess Mrs. Perron and dominate her to kill her own children.
There is also a haunted scene in the Warrens’ own house, which is also a small climax. When the room goes dark, you obviously find that this darkness is not the darkness after turning off the lights, as if the house was swallowed by a black hole. . The cause of this haunting should be related to the same necklace worn by the daughter and mother. Mother Rowling’s necklace was accidentally left in the basement where he encountered the evil spirit, and then it touched Annabel in the Warrens’ house. The principle here I don't understand it very clearly, but I should say that Rowling will also pay the price of being harassed by evil spirits while using her psychic abilities. Because my husband had persuaded his wife before, should we stop doing it? No, we can still write and write books or something, so it shouldn’t be a problem to make a living. But the wife insisted on doing this business. This question left a foreshadowing in the first part, and it broke out completely in the second part.
At the end of the film, there is actually a very warm place, because we see that the power of family is very inspiring, and it still makes people feel cold after watching it. At the end of the film, the Warrens took home the music box from the Perun family and placed it in the Supernatural Museum. At the same time, the Vatican, the highest authority organization of the church, agreed to the Perron family’s request after reading the materials and agreed to help. They do purification and blessing.
In the whole movie, the most troubling thing is the stage where the Warrens did not intervene in the early stage. After the Warrens intervened, although the frequency of evil spirits appeared more frequently, it is obvious that the audience has a psychological support for the haunting. This matter, at least with hope, is not impossible to solve. Someone in the world can help me out and settle this matter. This layer of psychological protective film is actually very important. It can help you offset a lot of fear. When a supernatural event occurs, people are willing to seek help from some non-scientific ways. If you are looking for a scientific person, people say that you must believe in science. Such things have never been proven by science. One sentence will dismiss you. In fact, this has no effect at all. After all, those who sincerely ask for you hope that you can solve the problem, not that they want to listen to you in class. What's more, whether there are ghosts, it can't be proved at present, and it can't be proved that there are no ghosts. There is still a sense of awe for the unknown.
Then let’s talk about the real haunted incident of Perron’s house:
The eldest daughter of the Perron family, Andrea Perron, said that "The Call of the Souls" "faithfully reflects the chaos and dangers we face on the farm". Beth Shiba was also a real person in the 1800s. Although there is no evidence to point out that she was a witch, her child did die under her care. The autopsy report stated that the cause of death was that the sewing needle passed through the child's skull. People at the time believed that the child was sacrificed to Satan.
Later, the court found Beth Shiba not guilty, but people still believed that she was a witch. Mrs. Perron once said that she suddenly felt pain in her leg, and found a circular wound on her leg bleeding. Later, her daughter described the wound in the book as "perfect concentric circles...like a large sewing needle piercing her skin". They also noticed that many suicides, spontaneous deaths, rapes and even murders have occurred in this old house in the past. The big difference with the movie is that Beth Sheba ended up dying of old age rather than suicide, and Mrs. Perron never tried to kill her daughter.
"Calling the Souls 1" has said so much, let's talk about the "Calling the Souls 2" that has become more severe.
The overall structure of "Call of Souls 2" is the same as that of "Call of Souls 1," with a short story as the prologue, followed by a main story. They are also adaptations of real events.
Before the beginning of the movie, there was a statement by the Warrens themselves, to the effect that they had experienced a lot of unsettled cases, and they were considered to have seen the world, but there was one case that was the worst of all.
Then began the psychic ritual. A group of people sat around a small round table, the lights dim. This is the scene where the Warrens are investigating the Amityville incident. Rowling used spiritism as if she had traveled to the time when the murder happened. She saw the murderer Defoe using a shotgun to put her parents and four siblings to death one by one. The scene of the murder was very bloody, and the murderers were all his own relatives. After witnessing the whole murder, Rowling seemed to have seen other things. She followed up in a basement and was threatened by a ghost nun. He foresaw a scene where his husband Ed was stabbed through the body by a sharp weapon. The settings that have been foreshadowed in "Soul Recruitment 1" are finally about to be fulfilled. Rowling seemed to have to pay for her psychic ability.
After the confrontation with the ghost nun, the prologue is over. The most important part of this part is the introduction of the ghost role of the ghost nun. In 2018, the ghost nun was also made into an independent movie. The film did not give too much attention to the Amityville incident. But this incident, I want to say a few more words, because when I was looking at the real incident information, I felt a chill in my back.
The information about the real event is recorded like this:
In 1974, the Defoe family bought a high-class villa at a low price. This house had been murdered before, but the Defoe family who moved from another place did not care. However, after they moved into their new home, many things happened. Strange thing, the children hit the evil one by one, and even the babysitter was scared crazy. In the end, 6 people in Defoe's family were shot and killed in their sleep. The murderer was Ronnie Defoe, the 23-year-old eldest son of the Defoe family. To this day, Ronnie Defoe, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment, is still serving his sentence in prison.
Ronnie insisted that he had no motive to kill. He once defended himself that he heard a certain voice on the night of the attack, and he became mentally confused and became unable to control himself at all. But the investigation found that Ronnie had a history of drug abuse. In the end, the jury did not believe his statement and rejected his defense and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
However, this vicious case that has been conclusive has something out of common sense. The six dead were in their rooms when they were stabbed. Shouldn't they run out to see what happened when they heard the gunshots? Moreover, the deceased ended up lying prone on the bed, with their heads resting on their arms, and concentric wounds appeared on their heads. Although this incident is strange, we can still understand it as the murderer who put the body into the shape he wanted after the murder. However, the murderer used a shotgun at 3 in the morning, but the surrounding neighbors claimed that they had not heard any gunshots.
Then in December 1975, a couple did not believe in evil and forcibly moved into the villa where the tragedy occurred. At first they dismissed it, but after repeated persuasion from friends, they still found the pastor to pray for blessings and disasters. However, when the pastor sprinkled holy water and prayed, there was a clear male voice in the room telling them to "get off". Later, a series of strange things happened to the couple: husband George always wakes up automatically at 3:15 in the morning. Later he knew that this was the time Ronnie started the murder; his wife Kathleen repeated a clear nightmare every night, dreaming of the scene of the murder, and even pointed out the order of the murders and which room each victim stayed in. ; Kathleen found a small hidden compartment in the cabinet in the basement. The wall of the compartment was painted red, and it was not marked on the blueprint of the house. Their dog was very afraid of this secret room and always avoided this place. George said that he had seen his wife suddenly change. Become a 90-year-old lady. There are many strange things like this. The couple lasted less than 28 days and couldn't bear to move out. However, they passed away in a short time. This sensational story was adapted into a novel and made into a movie in 2005 called "Ghost Crying".
Then we look at the main plot of "Call of Souls 2":
It is about the very famous Enfield haunted case in the UK. This incident has been in the news and disciplinary films have been made. Many horror films have been inspired by this case.
The degree of restoration of this case in the movie is very high. For example, the girls play with pen fairy; the furniture in the house moves by itself, and the daughter Jenny bounces up against gravity and floats after being attacked by the evil spirit; the police came to investigate and found that the chair moved by itself; the scientific team recorded an elderly man from the mouth of a little girl the sound of. In the movie, the old man named Bill who refused to leave the house was indeed a person because he died in an armchair on the first floor because of a cerebral hemorrhage. These plots are highly restored to the scene at that time. The details including the fact that Jenny was asked to take a sip of water in her mouth to prevent cheating during the recording were also reproduced by the film. Even Jenny had indeed used fraud to expand her influence.
The level of horror in "Call of Souls 2" is even worse than that of "Call of Souls 1". Watching the horror film directed by Wen, you can hardly judge the specific location of the scare point, not to say that it scares you for no reason. It's that you knew that there might be a scare point next, and you were mentally prepared, but in the end you were still scared. Sometimes the shots are switched continuously, and you can't predict in which switching the startle point will appear. You can only let the temperature guide you. Sometimes it is obvious that you can arrange the scare point, but there is no place. When you psychologically suggest that you can relax your vigilance, the scare point appears unexpectedly. In fact, this is not only the case with Wen-directed horror films, but commercial blockbusters also have Wen-directed private goods, such as "Aquaman". Often, the opponents play well between the characters and suddenly the wall is broken, which scares you. The first villain in "Aquaman", King Omu, is also Patrick, the queen actor of the Wen-directed horror film. Yes, it is the male protagonist Ed Warren of "The Call of the Souls", and he is also the "Latent" series. So if you can't stand the scare, you have to be careful when you see King Leo Mu in "Sea King".
It can be said that Director Wen makes horror films very familiar. When many people think that the sequel is often a sequel, the effect of "Calling Souls 2" is exceptionally good. On the basis of the true story, the role of the ghost nun-Valak was added, which received a lot of screams from the audience and opened another chapter in the soul-calling universe.
In "Call of Souls 1", the Warrens are almost invincible. In "Call of Souls 2", their own lives have been threatened as never before. Of course, this is nothing in real events. In real events The Warrens did participate in the investigation of this case, but their participation was not high. In the movie, they will face the evil spirit that is so powerful that Rowling is at a loss-the ghost nun.
Having said that, do you remember the riddle at the opening "I was given and taken away. I existed when you were born. You did not ask me, but I will follow you until you die." This is Bill trapped in the room left Rowling with a riddle. In fact, the old man is a neutral character. He just came back to see if his family was still there, but his freedom was restricted by the more terrifying evil spirits. The old Bill was forced to play a dumb riddle and could only hint at the way the Warrens defeated the demons. The answer is - name. I know that a lot of people have a lot of grudges about the big boss being called out to give up. In fact, there is also an allusion to calling the name of the devil before the western exorcism. First of all, the name is not something that everyone can have at the beginning. Powerful demons have names, and there are also records. For example, the ghost nun in the movie is named Valak. In fact, she is recorded in "Solomon's Key". Volac, one of Solomon's 72 demon gods, although spelled differently, the pronunciation is similar. This demon has a lot to do with snakes. Rowling said when he called his name that he was the Marquis of the Snake, and the mark of the snake can also be seen in the movie "Nun of Ghosts". Therefore, powerful ghosts have heads, faces, names and surnames. If a devil doesn't even have a name, then it is at best a matter of a cup of holy water.
The famous devil will not easily show his true colors. They will have some reservations and hidden things. Think for yourself whether this is the case in the works of art you have seen. The one who can let you see what you look like as soon as you come up is basically the nameless man among the demons. Therefore, if a well-known demon is discovered his true identity, then its weaknesses will be exposed, because it has been registered and its information is public, just like business registration. After Rowling called out Valak's name at the end of the movie, you can see what the demon looks like when you look closely. Someone knows their weaknesses and is a professional exorcist. That's not a good strategy. The devil also has a brain. The so-called exorcism does not actually put the demons to death, but only drives them away temporarily.
There is another question about the name. Recall who told Rowling the name of the ghost nun? It's the ghost nun herself. Why did the ghost nun tell Rowling her name to give her a chance to bring herself down? It is not a fool to deliberately expose one's weaknesses by fighting with people, or having other plans. So we speculate that ghost nuns may have different personalities in their bodies, or they are called ghosts. The good side told Rowling how to subdue the evil spirits. Because ghost nuns are also possessed, it is entirely possible for the remaining humanity to be awakened. It is possible that the ghost nun was controlled by the evil spirit just like the old Bill, and she couldn't help herself. Or, it is the ghost nun who deliberately asked Rowling to pronounce her name in the next game of chess, so that she can sublimate to the next stage. After all, Rowling is a spiritual medium and has a lot to do in another world. The meaning of her name may be different from others. People shouting are not the same. Of course, these are my speculations. What’s interesting is that when Rowling used a pen to engrave the name of the ghost nun on the Bible, there were a few wooden letters on the desk beside her, which happened to be VALAK. Maybe, the name really has something to do with her. Spiritual constitution is related. Perhaps, it is the foreshadowing of the next movie.
Originally, I wondered if there would be an answer in the independent movie "Ghost Nun", but only explained how the ghost nun entangled Rowling. The pit in "Call of Souls 2" was still not filled.
In short, both "Calling the Souls 1" and "Calling the Souls 2" are very high-quality horror movies. When I watch it, I feel a strong sense of substitution, especially when I hear Ed’s three-stage theory of "infestation", "oppression" and "possession" of demonic activities. Because I think I have reached the second stage. I still have lingering fears about this matter now.
One of my uncles unfortunately passed away in a car accident. I returned to my hometown to attend his funeral. I didn't have any symptoms of discomfort when I went there. But after eating at noon, I obviously felt weak, accompanied by a low-grade fever. At first I felt that I had caught a cold, caught a cold, and caught a cold. But the strange thing is that in addition to the symptoms of a cold, my two shoulders are still very sore. About an hour later, my two shoulders are already sore and my arms are almost unable to move. . I have never encountered such a situation before, and I feel this way on my shoulders. After the funeral in the afternoon, I didn't continue to attend. I just found a place to lie down, thinking about having a fever, I might just cover up and sweat. But when I woke up, it didn't get better.
For funerals in my hometown, I usually invite a mage to do it. Another aunt of mine helped me invite the mage over and made a law where I slept. I can't remember exactly what he did. I remember what my aunt said after the Master left, as if she was helping me persuade the uncle who had passed away. At that time, there were really a few flashes of thought about whether there was something on my shoulders.
After sleeping all night, the fever did not go away completely, and the shoulder pain eased slightly. The next day, I forcibly got up and attended the morning funeral. My hometown is more particular about etiquette, so I was dizzy and followed the army for about three or four miles to the ancestral grave to get the etiquette. Because the courtesy is not good, it is very taboo in the local area.
After I was finished, I was sent to the train station to take the train home. When I got home, I quickly took anti-fever medicine, and the soreness on my shoulders slowly improved. In fact, I prefer to believe that it is a physical health problem, but I can't find the answer to explain why the shoulder feels that way.
After the incident, I didn't think much about it. I just kept awe of the unknown from now on. After all, there are gods who raise their heads three feet tall.
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