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The development of the European and American horror film market in the past few years can really be described as "savage growth." The new generation of creators brought a great explosion of horror genre films with their strong personal styles and creative stories.
Strong settings, high concepts, few characters, and minimalism seem to have become the core creative concepts of a new generation of horror films. Even at low costs, they can still create an extraordinary viewing experience for the audience, and the outstanding one is Fader ·Alvarez's "Hold Your Breath", Terry Edward Schaltz's "Night Visit", and David F. Sandberg's "After the Lights", these works maximize the display With the charm of horror films, it is simply born for the big screen.
At the Shanghai Film Festival last year, I was fortunate enough to watch "Hold Your Breath" in the cinema. It was really unforgettable for a lifetime.
But don’t feel sorry for not being able to watch these movies in theaters, because on May 18 this year, a horror movie that is not inferior to them will be released on the mainland!
"A Quiet Place" created by Emily Blunt and John Krasinski is the first horror film in 2018. With a low cost of 17 million, the film created 1.7 in North America and 270 million globally. The box office results are still rising. Not only that, Rotten Tomatoes’ 95% positive rate and MTA82’s super high score make the film a masterpiece of the year. Don’t think it’s "Black Panther" again. After that, there was another aesthetic difference between Chinese and American audiences. The goodness of "A Quiet Place" can definitely conquer audiences all over the world!
Generally speaking, there are two ways to scare people in horror movies. The first is to take the route of careful thought and fear, and gradually infiltrate the sense of fear through the grasp of the audience’s psychology. Such horror movies do not necessarily feel scary when watching. But after watching it, it is possible to have a chill in the aftertaste, and the other is to take the route of sensory stimulation, trying to startle the crazy audience, and "A Quiet Place" is the most advanced of the latter.
In fact, from the perspective of story and creativity, it is really hard to imagine that "A Quiet Place" is a movie that can be frightened.
Whether it’s apocalyptic themes or monster elements, it doesn’t sound very exciting. Such a story of a family surviving in the countryside and avoiding the attacks of monsters with excellent hearing is like "World War" meets "I am a legend", to be honest After "Alien 1", there is no monster movie that can make me feel scared, but I didn't expect "A Quiet Place" to do it!
Director John Krasinski knows very well how to scare the audience with a story that does not sound scary at all.
From the first second of the film, he started his own plan, using a cute form, minimalist story style, calm narrative, and ubiquitous cleverness to bring the audience into the scene at once, and gradually interact with the audience. Build trust and gradually establish rules with the audience. Then, slap the audience again and again to make them unable to parry. Audiences with poor psychological endurance are likely to feel a deep sense of suffocation in the second half. This is the biggest charm of the film. Up.
Unlike ordinary monster horror movies, "A Quiet Place" does not show any reason for the monsters, and does not have any direct historical account of the story. The film is already in the apocalyptic state when it comes up, and the perspective from the beginning to the end is just A family that is too ordinary.
In the beginning part, the director passed to the audience the usual rules in the film through the process of searching for the necessities of life in the abandoned supermarket. The "dumb" state also caught the audience's attention for the first time and aroused the audience's curiosity.
The film spent nearly half an hour telling about the family life of the protagonists, their fetters and misunderstandings, and at the same time it very delicately portrays four family members. They are Yi Gao’s bold father, because of the death of his little brother. And deeply self-blaming deaf daughter, cowardly son and mother who is about to give birth.
While the audience is in the process of watching the movie, it is easy to have emotional and spiritual connections with them, and the survival of this family in the end times is obviously more substituting than the stories of those American soldiers and Frankensteins. Common people and A relatively closed perspective is actually the cornerstone of all the success of the film.
What’s admirable about this film is that the director did not rush to scare the audience, but used a lot of details to strengthen the various settings of the film, various institutions in the farm, and the whole family in the room to avoid making noises. The props, footprints on the wooden floor, etc. Although many people say that the film has many setting bugs, such a strong setting movie can’t match the logic of reality. The director is dealing with the details. The degree to which this can be done is enough to make people applaud.
And when the director has completed all preparations in terms of characterization, scene design, world view structure, and game rule setting, the film’s frightening journey officially begins.
The main focus of the story of "A Quiet Place" is what happened within a day. Father and son who are away from home, daughter who leaves home without authorization, and mother who has broken amniotic fluid in a time of isolation and helplessness. The great danger is combined with family members. The misunderstanding between Jian ushered in an unprecedented outbreak on this day. From the middle to the end, the tension of the film did not disappear for a second.
Also because of the relatively quiet and calm style of the first half, when the crisis broke out, the heartbeat of the audience began to soar to 180 with the characters. We will find that all the careful thoughts of the director before are step by step to make our senses more. Sensitive, breathing is more rapid, and the powerful soundtrack, excellent sound design, and the fast pace with the explosive power of a fountain quickly smash the psychological defense of the audience.
To me, "A Quiet Place" is like a horrible immersive experience. What it really inspires is the deep fear of being taken away by something in the dark at home when I was a child. You can't compete with it. , And it will find it even wherever it escapes.
The sense of horror conveyed by the film does not come from the horror of the monster's image or the brutality of the monster's behavior. It comes from the kind of despair that you have nowhere to ask for help. The empty space is still like a secret room. You don't know where the danger comes from. Once you get into the scene of the film, you really lose the courage to scream like the character.
Of course, the film does not just provide shock to the audience. The director also added a lot of emotional plot points in the second half of the story, which can only be experienced on the big screen.
In general, "A Quiet Place" is a fairly pure movie. It respects the core values of horror genres to the greatest extent, and provides the audience with a dual experience of body and mind. No nonsense, no hypocrisy, no procrastination, 90 minutes The movie even chose to stop abruptly at the commanding heights of emotions, clean and memorable, cool to no friends, okay!
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Check out the other 2 horror movies of the year
"Genetic Doom"
"Kunchi Rock"
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