It is said that this film is the film with the highest investment and return ratio (one?) in film history, with a cost of 20,000 US dollars and a box office of 200 million US dollars.
The biggest gimmick of this film may be its pseudo-documentary shooting method, or maybe I have seen cult-oriented pseudo-documentaries such as "Man Cannibal Record" before. I was indifferent throughout the whole process, and even wanted to laugh.
Just like the traditional teenage adventure - distress routine, three teens (two men and one woman) went to do something. When they interviewed the old man who was fishing by the river, the old man's wise words had long predicted that there would be no chance for them on this trip. Good ending - young kids never learn, young people just can't learn (don't be impulsive to take risks, thinking that you are different from others, will not be punished by mysterious powers, and can get away with the arrangement of the goddess of fate). In the next plot, everyone gets lost, quarreled, fought, suspicious of each other, and then reconciled, which are mostly common in American teen horror genres. When one person was kidnapped by a mysterious force, the other two fell into panic, and then the three-person group was destroyed.
In addition to the fact that the form of the pseudo-documentary is relatively novel and catchy, perhaps what is even more exciting to me is that at the end of the film, MIke fell and the camera was thrown on the ground, but the shooting still did not stop, bringing people the illusion of reality? At this time, my mood was that I was not only afraid of the appearance of mysterious characters, but also wanted to see the contradictions and curiosity of their true colors, which was really pinched by the film creators.
The unknown voices in the woods at night, the stone piles that suddenly appeared outside the tent, the missing Josh, the miserable cry of Josh at night, the firewood wrapped in bloody xx, "Fear comes from the unknown", the main body of terror did not appear, and The affected objects brought by the horror subject give people real sensory stimulation. The interviews with all kinds of people in the town, from the perspective of others, construct the perception of unknown things other than the protagonist, and increase the curiosity of the viewers from another perspective, and the viewers are firmly held by the nose by the creator. The appearance of the haunted house and the small black handprints on the wall are more intuitive and terrifying reproductions. A terrifying atmosphere is created by figurative and abstract things such as words, sounds, objects, etc., but in the end, no one can see the horror subject.
If the brain hole is bigger, there may not be any horror subject. Everything is an illusion of the town people and the protagonists. With some kind of sci-fi film routine, the town may be used by ZF or military F for some kind of scientific experiment , a hallucinogenic gas or liquid that was tested on people and claimed to be a legend of some supernatural power. The arrival of the protagonist group only magnifies that when ordinary people face the unknown, their inner fears are released through the outside, and people are caught in the venting of negative emotions, and the fragile relationship between people is exposed. The nature of loneliness is also magnified ruthlessly. Perhaps this is the scariest thing about horror movies: ghosts, supernatural powers, the most terrifying thing is the human heart and the loss of self-control.
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