Like "After the Lights", the inspiration for the film also came from a popular short video - "Ghost girl: Scary elevator prankin Brazil". The video was shot of common pranks and tricks. In the elevator, a flickering light effect was created, and the little girl painted like a ghost took the opportunity to appear, scaring passers-by. It is a bad taste for many people to like to watch other people wet their pants.
"After the Lights" wasted the idea of a short video, while "Scare Campaign" has a fun expansion under directors Cameron Keynes and Colin Keynes.
The brothers have directed the horror film "Bone and Fertilizer", which received good reviews in North America, with constant reversals and black humor mixed with horror. In the new film, they have turned on a complete horror mode, and they are good at reversing to the extreme.
There are five reversals in the play, which are surprising, exciting and interesting.
The movie opens in a morgue with flickering lights. The uncle of the security is responsible for moving the body.
Then, you know, the corpse is cheating!
The uncle was so frightened that he ran back to the security room to get a gun, ready to fight the female ghost. And guess what, the female ghost was frightened.
It turned out to be a reality show. The hero and heroine of the story are lovers who are producers of a TV show. The show gained attention by intimidating unwitting subjects.
At the beginning of the chapter, they used an actor who performed a corpse trick in a bag of bones, scaring the person who was spoofed. The program crew and the audience watched them perform a real horror live broadcast from the perspective of God. This level of terror has touched the bottom line of morality.
However, in an era where entertainment is paramount, there is a team that has no lower limit than them. This is a group of masked freaks whose videos are popular with children on the dark web and attract countless dollars.
However, these videos have gradually become larger in scale, from humiliating the homeless, to the slaughter of human sacrifices. Such a morbid marketing method is appreciated by the female bosses of the male and female protagonists.
In the internet age, TV shows are already on the verge of death. The female boss gave the show team one last chance, or replaced them with these masked freaks.
So, the program team began the journey of death.
This time they chose an abandoned hospital, and they also planned to make a girl pretend to be a female ghost to trick the test subject. As a result, they were frightened and out of control, and they encountered a hard stubble. It turned out that in order to maximize the horror, the male protagonist changed the experiment subjects from normal people to mentally ill patients.
This man used to be a mentally ill patient in this hospital, so he was going to frighten his staff to death, but he was bloodbathed. This is the second twist in the film.
Just when we thought that the direction of the film would become a regular psychotic series, the director played another 180-degree spin.
This psychotic madman is a character made up by the male protagonist, and the target of the trick turns out not to be him, but the heroine. Those pictures of blood splattering are carefully prepared. I have to say that this mentally ill actor's acting skills are really good, and he looks like a person with a story when he appears.
Killing people is a thrilling feeling of tension. The heroine who knew she had been deceived was angry and wanted to go back and beat the hero. As a result, the fake play met the real murderer.
As the male protagonist himself once said to his death——
"The best spoofs are often a bit off the script." As a result, this time, I lost a lot of hair.
The murder scene they arranged really attracted the murderer-
It was their archenemy, the terrifying masked freak. Moon Black Wind Gaoli, they held a telegram, wearing a sneering doll mask, and started a killing game, playing with the people of this program group in the palm of their hands.
This is the third twist in the film.
Every time I watch it, I can't help but call out - WTF!
The director brothers are very good at playing reversal, and there are two reversals in the subsequent plot. In order to avoid too much drama, I will leave this mystery to you to reveal. The format of live horror shows is fairly new in thriller horror films. Multiple reversals are also out of the conventional setting.
Therefore, "Scare Campaign" is a rare thriller with fresh blood. The rhythm controlled by the director is very good, and the whole film is completed in one go, and you will not have the idea of fast-forwarding. Follow the camera to the end.
In the new films of the past few years, there are very few works that can be watched in one go. There are always a few places in the movie that I look forward to in the early stage that make people doze off. Intimidation Movement" is only 81 minutes long, and it's not sloppy, it's very cheerful.
In addition to being fresh, the bloody scenes in the film are very retro , as if people return to the sense of fear dominated by thrillers in the 1980s and 1990s. He stabbed his heart with a knife, wiped his neck, slashed people with a big axe, and splattered blood.
Especially the setting of the mask freak, the gloomy and sneering mask, the chainsaw that shreds the flesh, makes people instantly feel the fear of being dominated by the jigsaw. A scene in which half of the head is directly strangled with a rope, makes people see blood boil, and it has been a long time since there is such a sincere plasma film!
However, it is a pity that the director did not set a more complicated manipulator in the second half, which made the film stay in a single visual enjoyment and could not enter the ranks of higher-level thrillers like "Deadly ID". But it is rare that the director borrowed the film to satirize two very serious social problems . One is the era when entertainment comes first. More and more people and programs, in order to attract attention, have no lower limit and no ethics.
It has even surpassed the bottom line of morality and law. In the dark web mentioned in the film, there are more perverted killings that we can't imagine. The scary thing is that these perverts still have many followers. Even more frightening is that many of these followers are children.
This is the second practical problem, more and more evolutionary level of bear children. The murderer in the film, a mask freak, one of them was accidentally ripped off by the heroine. It turned out to be a teenager. They mentioned before that many of the fans of Mask Freaks are children, which makes people shudder. These perverted murderers may be dead children who are young and cute in the daytime.
When the female protagonist wanted to kill the teenager, the male protagonist said that he was just a child. This is the first reaction of many people facing juvenile delinquency.
But more and more criminal incidents prove that...
Children are really not human when they bear up. The former jigsaw, the former Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has now been transformed into these terrifying and twisted bear children.
Wake up, kind and ignorant human beings.
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