The innovation in the shooting technique of Blair Witch opened up new ideas for the shooting of later thrillers. Spain's "Death Video" is a very successful representative. This series of films can be regarded as the most well-known Spanish films in the world. The film selects the location of the story in an apartment building, and the closed environment adds to the atmosphere of horror. Reporter Angela and photographers followed several firefighters to the incident and found an infected old woman who frantically attacked the police and firefighters who came. Just when people are going to send the wounded to the hospital, the apartment is blocked by the police... The
film is very good at creating a terrifying atmosphere, bringing the realism of the false record to a suffocating level, and the rapid plot development and sharp editing make it The horror effect goes even further. Hand-held photography turned what might have been a B-level plasma movie. The night vision shooting at the end of the film pushes the horror atmosphere of the whole film to the extreme.
The end of the first episode reveals the source of the infection to the audience and leaves a foreshadowing for the shooting of the sequel. The film ends with the female reporter being entrusted to the dark. The second episode of the series closely follows the story of the first episode. Another pair of search and rescue personnel entered the building and continued their fight against the infected... This episode uses multiple cameras to film the entire incident from multiple angles. I don't know if the director attributed the incident to a supernatural ghost out of reverence for "The Exorcist", which not only confused the audience, but also disrupted the overall style of the film. But the sequel still continues the tight plot and fast editing of the previous work, which makes the creation of the horror atmosphere natural and smooth. The arrangement at the end was obviously deliberately done for the filming of the third episode. The process of the female reporter being possessed by the devil is more like an insect producing larvae into a parasite, and the physical manifestation of the devil is even more puzzling.
The 2008 American film "The Cloverfield File" used the same technique to shoot a "Godzilla". It's New York being attacked by an unknown creature again, and a group of party-goers use DV to record their pre-death experiences. The whole film didn't show the full picture of the monster until the last moment, which can be said to suffocate the audience's appetite. Hand-held photography allows the audience to have a real feeling of being in New York in a disaster, and follows the protagonist through heart-pounding again and again. The pseudo-recording technique has once again succeeded in creating a thrilling effect, and has been recognized at the box office and word of mouth. The disasters and attacks in the film come suddenly and without warning, and people are suddenly plunged into fear and helplessness. Among them, there is obviously the lingering psychological shadow of the Americans on the 9/11 incident. The film has made an artistic treatment of what happened to people under the terrorist attack. Combining reality and political metaphor has also become a feature of this type of film, and the portrayal of the government in the "Death Video" series clearly has some political intent.
The 2009 low-budget film "Spiritual Ghosts" once again proved the commercial success of this type of film. The paranormal event has once again gained favor. A team of couples used cameras to capture ghosts, hoping to record evidence of ghosts with real images, but apparently they were not fully prepared for the terrible events that followed. Although the film was widely criticized in production, it still won the recognition of the audience with its unique creation.
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