Pascal Laugier started to abuse people again.
He is known as the "craftsman" in physical torture movies. Most of his subjects are young girls with beautiful jade bodies. He has a crazy preference for dissolving, tearing, and cutting.
His fascination with the body was presented to people in a devastating way.
In "Martyrs" (Martyrs), the "hunger" of religion is expressed by the way of destroying the flesh, and the forceful backlash after insanity.
The film made Baska Raujiha become famous as one of the freaks of horror genre in the minds of movie fans.
Recently, his new film "Nightmare Doll House" (Ghostland) hit another horror.
I have to admit,
This is one of the most frightening films in the first half of the year.
Because it makes people extremely desperate,
It is the kind of deep despair that is willing to suffocate and die after being unable to resist.
After suffering like Ling Chi, he was desperate to die quickly.
The story tells that a family of three, the mother and two sisters aged 13 and 14 went to the country’s grandmother’s house for vacation.
Halfway through, he was spotted by a brutal sadist.
Single mothers need to support the whole family,
The older sister is in a rebellious period, and she is very angry with her mother's preference for her younger sister;
The younger sister is insecure and indulges in her own literary imagination for a long time. Her dream is to become an excellent writer of horror novels.
The originally peaceful night was broken by a pair of tormentors,
Deformed, low-energy, but powerful men are responsible for destruction,
Parents with ambiguous genders and weird dresses are responsible for being cruel.
The family immediately fell into a terrible death crisis.
Closed rooms, old country houses, sadists and ignorant girls, this is similar to the movie elements used in Hollywood cult films such as "The House of Thousand Corpses", the conflict structure.
The development of the plot also triggers the audience's emotional ups and downs with a continuous downward trend, allowing anxiety to control rationality, until giving up resistance and responding to fear with numbness.
"Nightmare Doll House" adds suspense to the horror, designing a closed room into a psychologically self-enclosed inner prison.
For this reason, the film made a big fuss on the younger sister who likes to write.
In order to reduce spoilers, Fatty can only superficially interpret it only briefly. The high-concentration liquid medicine for fear is still left for everyone to taste alone.
After suffering such terrible threats and severe physical injuries, the two sisters experienced both mental and physical depression.
In the film, the deformed giants and their families hardly regard them as human beings, but rag dolls for viewing, playing with, and venting.
This uncontrollable and unpredictable stress experience has a serious impact on the human brain and body, and will cause irreversible post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which will affect our understanding of ourselves, that is, our sense of self-identity.
The flashback of memories deep in the brain is a peculiar symptom of PTSD. For most people, a memory illuminates the part of the brain responsible for "thinking";
For PTSD patients, memory illuminates the sensory area, so the past events are not just being recalled, but are equivalent to experiencing again.
So people will truly see everything they saw when experiencing trauma, and perhaps hear everything they heard at the time.
As a result, the cognitive space for reality and recall is blurred, and memory and reality become confused and difficult to distinguish.
The film uses this as an entry point to construct three spaces through the role of the younger sister.
First is World A. What happened to the two sisters in the house, is it the novel written by the younger sister, her imagination, or the truth;
Then there is the B world contrasted with A. The younger sister grows up and becomes a popular writer. She has a happy family. Because of PTSD, the older sister can only live in the old house all day long and be taken care of by her mother;
Space C, which is interspersed back and forth between the worlds A and B, is focused on the memory flashbacks of my sister. The encounter that night, the inhuman torture haunted her like a nightmare,
She is always worried, unknown sounds, inexplicable threats will immediately evoke the self-defense mechanism deep in her subconscious.
The first half of "Nightmare Doll House" focuses on suspense, using the ambiguity of three spaces to provide a narrative gap for the reversal. But the moment the truth detonates, the audience will be at a loss.
After being in a state of high alert for a long time, the nervous system will be poisoned, and the instinctive alarm system will be continuously activated, which will cause pain and anxiety under the level of consciousness.
And this alarm system is located deep in the brainstem, and the area it activates makes people withdraw from oneself. People will enter an emotionally closed reaction. In this case, they can't perceive any feelings. Essentially, they are separated from their bodies.
In "Nightmare Doll House", whether it is a flashback of memory, a literary imagination, or a reality that has suffered from the reconstruction of the spiritual world, it is a kind of imagination that is actively withdrawn from the self.
The purpose is to escape the pain, the pain of the moment, or the cruel memory.
In the second half of "Nightmare Doll House", the suspense is broken, the audience is forced to face the fear, and the climax of the whole film comes.
There is a very symbolic scene design in the film,
The mirror becomes the point of separation between the two worlds, one side is beautiful, the other side is cruel,
The younger sister must choose whether to stay in the house or break through the glass and enter reality.
"Nightmare Doll House" still has brutal and bloody images that are difficult to look at directly, and the object is a young and innocent girl, which adds to the psychological burden and fear weight.
Especially the pervasive breath of despair in the film makes people feel like sitting on pins and needles, and they can feel the piercing pain across the screen.
"Nightmare Doll House" tells about the state of women, especially young girls, after being subjected to extreme violence and assault.
The last scene at the end of the film is extremely interesting,
For women, especially girls, harassment and threats are everywhere, even if the other person looks like a good person.
This is the more desperate existence of horror that extends beyond the film.
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