It's not scary to tell you a ghost story.

In the summer of 2000, I lived at Mary's house in Brisbane. The community name was Chapel Hill. As the name suggests, there used to be a small church on the top of the hill, but it was nowhere to be seen. It was an ordinary summer night. I like to close the window when I sleep at night, but that day I encountered a "ghost bed" that I will never forget.

I believe that many people have also had such an experience. Later, I also found a corresponding word in English called night terror. I seemed to wake up, opened my eyes, and saw a person sitting on top of me, a vague shadow because of the darkness, but it was very clear that it was her. Then she got heavier as it seemed to gradually shift from my belly to my neck.

I felt terrified, wanted to scream, opened my mouth but no sound, tried to move but found that my limbs had no strength, and I couldn't raise my head. In this powerless horror, she gradually slid toward my head, and there seemed to be no contact between her body and mine, but it was very heavy. She finally slid slowly to the place close to my neck, I saw a little girl in a red kimono (because I was very obsessed with Japanese culture in my early years, I am very familiar with this kind of clothing), her limbs seem to be Pieced together, she seems to want to say something but her face is so contorted that she can't make a sound.

At this time, my terror had reached its peak. I seemed to have woken up, but I couldn't move, couldn't even shout, and then almost fainted. When I woke up in the morning, the bright Queensland sunshine dispelled the terror in my heart, but it didn't change the fact that I have had eye disease for a month since then.




I have told some friends about this story, especially when everyone is talking about ghost stories they have encountered, I always think of this story. Although this is not my first time nor my last contact with the so-called "ghost", it is the most impressive one. Later, I was also very keen to watch various haunted house movies or TV. In my heart, I wanted to get some explanations, or I hoped to feel that I was not very alone. An example.

It was a few years ago that Wen Ziren filmed Soul Conjuring, and he became famous with a fright. As a Chinese director, he has been making horror movies with religious (Catholic) as the background along the lines of the "Exorcist" series. This time, Wen Ziren took us to post-war London. The heroine Vera Farmiga later became the heroine of "Bates Hotel" because of the de-monetization in the first film. Her face seems to have become a characteristic face of horror movies/TV series, and she performed perfectly in the film. A slightly neurotic, God-believing exorcist figure.




The actor Patrick Wilson seems to have a wider play path. In 2016, he was nominated for Best Actor at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards for "Frozen (TV)", and he also performed "The Phantom of the Opera", "Bat Super War", A series of movies and TV series such as "Tomahawk Bone" are very busy, and the hairline is becoming more and more touching (233333).

I have to mention that what surprised me the most in this movie was Madison Wolfe's performance, from the innocent romance at the beginning, to the fear before and after being possessed, and the grin when being possessed, until now I think of that Laughing still creeps me out. As a young actress born in 2002 (which means she's only 14 this year, and 12 when she acted in this movie!) her acting skills are beyond human comprehension. By the way, she also starred in "True Detective (Season 1)", which was well received. (As an aside, "True Detective (Season 1)" is really awesome. No actor is wasted without a second shot. The editing is so cruel that everyone is angry!)



[img=5:C] The little girl's usual photos are really sunny!
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Wen Ziren dared to spend 133 minutes telling a well-known ghost story in the UK, and also successfully implanted the demon image of VALAK, which was quite daring. Some people say that Wen's boss Jiang Lang is exhausted. I can only say that you don't know how horror films are made. In addition to the story and performance, sound effects, art, and editing are also very important parts of a horror film. Movies, you really don't have the right to say it's not scary. The demon Valac in the 2nd generation (similar to Valak) is a demon with quite a history. Valac comes from a seventeenth-century book of demonology, "Solomon's Little Key", written in Latin. The author is unknown. It lists 72 demons and their corresponding seals by name. Among them are the demons that appear in this film. Valac. (I copied this sentence)




There's a bit of heroic at the end, but for the Conjuring series, it's a routine, after all, this series is about God's messengers defeating demons. The director will not suddenly kill people, and the too brilliant characters of the hero and heroine will also make the death of any one of them require a lot of foreshadowing, and it is so pitiful that the film will be abandoned and the series will be abandoned. One of the main themes of The Conjuring series is that souls and demons are all around us, and it is our own negative energies that nourish their presence and thus manifest, and our devotion to God and love for each other (both human and human) A natural loving relationship, such as the childless protagonist couple who naturally shows parental love to the children of the victim's family) can help us overcome these demons. We don't need to accuse such a story line of being too glorious. After all, films about religious beliefs in horror films are the mainstream of European and American films. There are demons, there is hell, there is God, and there is heaven. This kind of world is also very beautiful, isn't it?
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Finally, a word about the ending of the story I told at the beginning.

A month later, local news reported that a perverted killer had killed a girl who came to study in Japan, dismembered her body in a dozen black plastic garbage bags, and threw her into the trash cans in front of several residential areas along the street. Later, the girl's identity was cracked, and the Japanese embassy notified the parents to come to Australia to claim the body, and accused the Australian government of poor law and order. The parents cried on the news, but in the end, the murderer was not arrested.

Since then, I have developed the habit of always keeping an eye on my back when walking at night.

More terrifying than "ghosts" are people.

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