"Death Video" is a Spanish film directed by Joanmi Banagher. The plot is also relatively simple. Female reporter Angie and photographer Pablo plan to make a documentary about the work of firefighters. After receiving a call to the police, they followed the fire brigade to an old-fashioned apartment building. There seems to be some kind of deadly virus spreading in the apartment, and the infected people are all crazy and bloodthirsty. Residents were evacuated and the death toll continued to mount. I thought it was an ordinary interview, but I didn't expect to capture a real and terrifying scene through the camera.
The elements of "Resident Evil" are not new, but what impressed me most about this film is that the film adopts a method similar to DV shooting. The audience is watching the film from the cameraman's point of view. What editing, no background music, these are echoes of DV shooting, which greatly increases the realism and sense of presence of the film. Realism and sense of presence are also characteristics of film art, which are especially important in horror movies. In general horror movies, the audience and the characters are always unknowingly separated, which gives the audience a kind of "it's none of their business". The feeling of terror is also greatly reduced. And "Death Video", it leads the audience to "explore" together from the cameraman's perspective. As the puzzles are solved one by one, the horror also escalates, and the audience's nerves are also affected. It is worth mentioning that "Death Video" also imitated "Silence of the Lambs" at the end and used the night vision mode to push the horror feeling to the climax.
Perhaps for this "pseudo-documentary" shooting method, this film will be a bold innovation.
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