Among the three policemen in the horror story in the parking lot at the title of "Zhiming and Chunjiao", the uniformed policeman played by Luo Yingjun also appeared in "Victoria No. 1"; Chunjiao accompanied friends to meet netizens, and asked Zhiming to meet at the door of the Victoria apartment; Obviously, when Chunjiao asked Zhiming why UFOs are not seen in Hong Kong but often seen abroad, Zhiming replied that there are too many high-rise buildings in Hong Kong... At this time, several scenes of Hong Kong apartment buildings were quickly edited in a flash, And it remains to be verified whether these shots are in the "Victoria 1" where similar shots emerge in an endless stream.
In "Victoria 1", there are many scenes of He Chaoyi standing up against high-rise buildings in Hong Kong. She and her married husband, Eason Chan, took the boat in the morning after the overnight stay at the small hotel, drinking the cold overnight porridge alone, with the pale concrete forest in the background; she also stood on the Victoria No. 1 apartment many times The window stared at the colorful night scene of the opposite bank, her blank face reflected on the window and blended with the beautiful scenery of the opposite bank. Similar lens language can be seen everywhere in "Victoria 1", for example, there are always two reflections of He Chaoyi in the mirror to indicate her psychological state. In the story line of how He Chaoyi became a victim of the Hong Kong property market from childhood to adulthood, Peng Haoxiang used serious and even depressing language to reveal the bitterness of little people who could not keep up with the pace of urban development. Several scenes were quite touching; The story line is that He Chaoyi, who was cornered, went on a killing spree in the Victoria No. 1 apartment.
The story line of the killing scene has nothing to do with seriousness and depression. Instead, it is exaggerated and bold, and even "Peng-style humor", which tells the audience dirty jokes through the dialogue between the two characters or a scene. Those erotic and bloody violent scenes that have already become gimmicks are all "squeezed" into this narrative line. Maybe I just watched "Piranha 3D" a week ago, so I feel that the bridges and scenes in the film are not as disgusting and exciting as rumored.
At the beginning of the film, Peng Haoxiang presented a throat-cutting scene like "The Chainsaw". In order to cut the plastic chain that locked the throat, the apartment security did not hesitate to cut the throat with a knife, and finally bled to death. The sense of horror created by this opening scene gave the audience a "disappearance", and then came the nanny headshot scene. The steel pipe was inserted into the right eye from the back of the nanny's head, and the right eyeball was blown away. ", and this exaggerated killing method runs through the whole film. The death of the pregnant woman was quite novel. Her head was sealed in the vacuum bag. He Chaoyi inserted the vacuum cleaner into the vacuum bag and sucked all the air. This method did not require the murderer to exert more effort, just stood by and watched how the victim died. Died from hypoxia. The fourth victim was the pregnant husband, and his death was very tortuous and full of accidental drama, which is another reason why the killing scene seems exaggerated and unreal. The pregnant woman's husband was knocked unconscious by the iron, and then his chin was stuck on the coffee table when he fell, and his neck was broken to death. It is worth mentioning that the pregnant woman's husband accidentally stepped on the nanny's right eyeball that fell on the ground when he first came home. This can be regarded as one of the most exciting scenes in the whole film.
Before the massacre of the finale sex party, Peng Haoxiang used the classic Hitchcock-style suspense to foreshadow. First of all, he let the audience know that He Chaoyi with a long knife was waiting outside the door, and then he used a long time to describe the situation of the party in the house, who was sleeping with whom, who was telling dirty jokes and who was smoking High Fans are hungover and can't wake up, but what the audience always thinks about is He Chaoyi, who hasn't acted outside the door. The first victim of this massacre had his four fingers cut off, his intestines gushing out all over the floor, which was very exaggerated, and he was still on the verge of dying and wanted to smoke one last puff of marijuana, which was very happy. The second victim failed to counterattack He Chaoyi and was intubated by a test tube. The third victim was a naked woman with a hangover. She was completely unconscious, even if the blood and blood around her were blurred, He Chaoyi grabbed her head while she was vomiting by the toilet and slammed it on the toilet until the toilet was overrun. Crash smashed. (Oddly enough, the hardness of the victims' heads in the film is uneven, some were pierced by a knife, and some even had their heads shattered from the toilet.)
There was also a man and a woman having sex in the room. The man was stabbed four times by He Chaoyi who sneaked in during back penetration. The painful moan made the lying woman think he was pouring out. He Chaoyi splattered the blood from the knife on the woman's back, and the unwitting woman said, "You are so big... (囧) He Chaoyi threw the cut man's genitals in front of the woman, and she reacted immediately. In the next hand-to-hand fight, the two women were injured and injured. He Chaoyi's ankle was stabbed by a knife, and the victim was interrupted by a wooden board. Just then, two police officers, who had arrived because of a neighbor's complaint about the noise, rang the doorbell. The police saw that He Chaoyi was scarred and thought she was beaten. Suddenly, the woman who was interrupted by the board rushed towards He Chaoyi with a knife. The two policemen immediately took out their guns and tried to subdue the two women. In the confusion, the woman who was interrupted by the board opened the knife with a knife Police A's throat and fell to the ground, the wooden board inserted from the back of his head. Policeman A, whose throat was bleeding, fired several shots but shot Policeman B in the cheek.
After the chaos, He Chaoyi found that the first young man with intestines was not dead, so he was going to shoot him in the head with a gun. When he was stubbornly resisting, He Chaoyi used his free left hand to reach into his body and dig out his large intestine, so as to successfully subdue the opponent and successfully headshot with one shot.
In this way, a total of 12 people, including the child in the pregnant woman's belly, were directly or indirectly slaughtered by He Chaoyi.
If Peng Haoxiang adopts a single-line narrative structure and tells how He Chaoyi was desperate in the chronological order of the story development, and then staged a vent-like massacre at the end, the effect may be better (see "Humanskin Inn", "Eye of the Mountain", "Piranha 3D", etc. ), but "Victoria No. 1" scattered the killings that were supposed to be gimmicks + main scenes throughout the film, and the killing scenes with great effects were greatly reduced because they were cut into several paragraphs, leaving only pure visual stimulation But there is no atmosphere to create, it is not enough for bloodthirsty fans, and at the same time he is still very concerned about the reality of another story line shown by serious depression and camera language, so there is a serious split between the bloody excitement and the theme of the story. The director wanted to take care of both ends but ended up being counterproductive, which resulted in "Victoria No. 1" like a hybrid of two films with the same heroine but completely different styles and unrelated plots.
As an actor, He Chaoyi's performance is really good. In one scene, she just finished killing the babysitter and was about to sneak into the pregnant woman's room. Suddenly Eason Chen called. Just when she was talking to her lover, the pregnant woman suddenly walked out of the room and saw her. He Chaoyi immediately hung up the phone. , The eyes of the sweet smile instantly exudes a cold and fierce light, which makes people memorable. Eason Chan is really like the self-destructing image that was rumored before, but Eason's expression in the blowjob scene in the car made me laugh out loud. It's not that the acting is not good, it's just too happy... The special effects makeup in the film is very good, exaggerated But the realistic effect can catch up with the same type of torture films in Europe and America.
Horror movies are on the verge of extinction in the Chinese film market, and B-level torture movies are even rarer. Therefore, even if "Victoria No. 1" has many shortcomings and regrets, it is important to let us know that there is still a fan who is not worried about political correctness, Peng Haoxiang, who is working hard to make such an attempt. At the 16th International Horror Film Festival held at the Forum des Images in Paris this year, it was also because of Director Peng that I saw the words "hongkong, china" on the four-page film list and was very excited.
"Victoria 1" is a UFO from Hong Kong, China.
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