Wen | Gao Yang
In the 8th Beijing International Film Festival, we will set up a "Midnight Show" unit for the first time, just to try our best to let the majority of movie fans watch the film on a night intoxicated by the spring breeze in Beijing in April! Those who are bold can watch it by themselves, but since the end is late, it is recommended to bring your friends with you~
John Cameron Mitchell , who has directed "Barbie Rock and Roll" and "Rabbit Hole", appeared in Cannes in 2017 with his new work "Secrets of Party Hit Up" . The film is based on the short story of the same name by Neil Gaiman, and the story takes place In the suburbs of London in the late 70s. Every teenager in this country wants to be a punk. Hearing that the local punk queen is holding a party, Eun also went to participate. There, he met mysterious praises and fell in love at first sight. In fact, they are aliens from another galaxy...As a youth film, the addition of punk and science fiction elements makes the film look weird, weird, and interesting.
"Hold your breath" is a low-budget horror film, production costs spent just $ 10 million, was released in 2016, winning the $ 152 million box office, and access to domestic and foreign critics praise, indeed reputation A double harvest at the box office.
The film tells the story of a three-person theft team targeting a blind veteran who lost his daughter in a car accident and received considerable compensation, trying to find the compensation by breaking into the house, but the situation in the house is far from what they thought. So simple, here they found a fifth person... in a closed environment, the green light in the dark, and the shadowy presence made the entire space full of anxiety and weirdness.
A small amount of dialogue and the veteran blind’s jealous sensitivity to sound constitute the driving force of the film's narrative. The excellent atmosphere creates a horror game that allows you to experience a room escape in the theater.
Also as an escape room thriller "10×10" , director Susie Ewing went against the tradition in the creation of female images. Women are no longer pure passives and victims, but are fighting hard in the struggle between the two sides. Dominate.
Lewis usually seems to be a very normal man, but there is a vengeful demon hiding in his heart. He kidnapped Casey and imprisoned her in a 10-foot by 10-foot cell at home. But Lewis could not think that he almost died in the hands of this woman, whether he was trying to complete his revenge plan or to lead the wolf into the room... The tension of the film was created appropriately, the layout of the plot was very exciting, and the setting of the secret room made the character image Even more prominent, several rival scenes of the hero and heroine are also very addictive!
Compared with the mature film industry system in Hollywood, it is not surprising that a large number of horror films can be produced. The difficult thing is how to satisfy the audience's increasingly critical taste in watching movies. In 2016, horror film fans turned their attention to South Korea, but Yeon Sang-ho's "Travel to Busan" attracted worldwide attention, which was quite topical at the time.
As the prequel to "Travel to Busan", "Seoul Station" is darker than the latter. The director of "Travel to Busan" will also give hope and beauty to the world after the disaster, but the director in "Seoul Station" is quite similar. Being stingy, on the contrary, exposes the dark side of human nature and the ridicule of society. Even at the end of the story, it still leaves more dark consciousness to the audience.
The new work "Tokyo Vampire Hotel" by the famous Japanese director Wen Ziyuan is also a big shot, which can be said to be another top of the pyramid in the field of B-level films he is good at. The film continues Yuan Ziwen's usual weirdness and ghost horses. There is no foreshadowing. The opening is a climax, followed by various reversal plots that stimulate the central nervous system. In the latter half of the vampire hotel for nearly an hour, the big fight between ghosts and monsters was even more exciting than "The Cabin in the Woods", with imagination and tons of plasma poured down from the big screen.
Not only the fighting scenes, but also the emotional scenes in the film are full of tension, with small freshness and heavy tastes in turn, especially the gentle kiss between Xia Fan and Furutō Rona~ It is even more innocent than "Twilight". Such a movie, if you don't watch the midnight show or the big screen, when will you wait?
Hiroki Ryuichi appeared in "Her Life Is Not Wrong" in "Midnight Scene" . The film focuses on dating his girlfriend Nozomi and his father as the main character. It tells the difficult psychological reconstruction process of the Fukushima people after the Fukushima earthquake. The emotions that permeate are indeed very gentle. In the description of the heroine's daily life, the director made the viewers more understanding and sympathy.
The film focuses on showing the confused and hesitating spiritual world of the characters, with a clear overall style, emphasizing the narrative of prose culture, and was selected as one of the top ten films of 2017 by "Film Xunbao" .
"Goosebumps" by RL Stein was a well-known thriller series in the United States in the 1990s, and the movie "Goosebumps" was adapted from the original work. Author RL Stan’s daughter Hannah and the boy next door Zach brought the fantastic and terrifying creatures in Stan’s book to the real world in an accident. In order to prevent these huge monsters from destroying the town, the three must unite and take action. .
In the film, the characters such as the monster werewolf, the piranha, and the zombie that have appeared in the book are all presented in the film. It not only retains the grotesque, mysterious, and horror style of the original work, but also adds a bit of comedic effect. It perfectly restores all kinds of horror elements in the shadow of everyone's childhood on the big screen, which can be called a carnival for book fans and horror film fans.
The new work "Cry Under the Tree" from Northland Iceland focuses on the absurd struggle between ordinary people. It tells the story of A Di, who was fighting for her daughter's custody, moved back to her parents' house and was involved in a scene surrounded by a big tree. The story of the struggle unfolded.
The film reveals the truth about the life of the middle class in a series of unbelievable events that happened one after another. The tone of realism is a mixture of comedy and thriller elements, maximizing the expression of the irony of reality and the revealing of the dark side of human nature.
Ahem, the late-night theater has been set up,
Be optimistic about your companions!
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