Horror movies have to keep up with the times. The "Midnight Bell" in the 1990s is scary because every post-80s generation has the shadow of midnight black and white movie snowflakes; the "Exorcist" in the 1970s is scary because of the irresistible religious and human rights movements. Reconcile conflict. Sadako couldn't have crawled out of her phone, and religion was no longer a (so) hot topic. These horror films may not have such amazing achievements today. Today's horror film is an extreme version of Elon Musk or Bezos's story in a modern industrial-style seaside mansion along Highway 1 in the Silicon Valley of the Bay Area at the center of the universe. How much the male protagonist is like them, geek style, solves problems with IQ, promotes social progress with paranoia and genius inventions, extreme personalities, all the people around them either can't stand it and escape or are controlled by them...including the heroine of the movie.
The heroine is a Cinderella from the architecture department of the three universities in California. She stumbled across this optical technology pioneer. After living together, she found out that her boyfriend was a control freak, so the opening scene was a big drama about escaping from a mansion on the coastline of California at midnight. After finally escaping, she found that her boyfriend committed suicide and left her a legacy. She thought she could live a good life, but found that the nightmare had just begun. There was an invisible "invisible person" in her life who manipulated and hurt her everywhere.
As I said just now, horror films in the 21st century are horror films that combine modern technology and social hotspots. With Elon Musk at the bottom, the text of the story stands; but how to express horror? The biggest advance in the TV and film industry in two decades is, of course, audiovisual technology. The film used to express, is completely "no real" sound effects. A few examples:
At the beginning of the silence, the heroine was afraid that a little noise would be heard and chased by her boyfriend, but she accidentally tripped over a dog food bowl, and the metal made a terrible rubbing sound on the ground;
After the hostess moved to a friend's house, she found the traces of the invisible man. She walked to the sink and saw the traces of washed paint. She timidly turned on the faucet. In an instant, the faucet rubbed the metal sound, the sound of water flowing, and the breathing sound of the invisible person. It comes to an abrupt end, and all ambient sound effects stop at the same time, creating a silent horror atmosphere.
In this atmosphere, the more silent, the more scared the audience is, because there is no telling when the high energy will happen; this silent effect is equivalent to the time bomb under the table that Hitchcock filmed for the audience, and you know it will explode , but you don't know what's going to explode. This kind of sound effect exploded in the theater with black Dolby sound effect, which undoubtedly gave people great audio-visual stimulation.
The reason for watching this film is also because of a youtube video that introduces the sound effects of the film: how to make a sticky paint splash effect; how to use the sound of wind blowing a shirt to represent the invisible man; the sound engineer deliberately amplified the sound of the phone vibrating in the attic, and The metal rubbing sound of turning off the faucet, once amplified and exaggerated, those sounds that are accustomed to life, become the scary weapon of horror movies.
The heroine's acting is also very suitable for this film. Elizabeth Moss isn't really pretty, but her performances in Mad Men and The Handmaid's Tale are particularly in line with her temperament: the stubborn, ill-fated representative of independent women—and the characters in this film same. Thinking about it carefully, most of the time in this film is her acting alone in the air - not only to play her own fear, but also to let the audience know where the "invisible person" on the opposite side is through her own reactions, and the person on the opposite side The reaction is really not easy.
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