Speaking of horror movies, I believe that everyone has a special experience related to them. As an important part of the movie genre, horror movies have functions that cannot be replaced by other types of movies. Through psychological and visual stimulation, it helps the audience to have fun. various inner emotions.
Today, the most discussed topic in my WeChat group is the domestic horror film "Zhongxie", which will be released next month. It even sparked a wave of "everyone go to the cinema to watch horror films together". importance in people's minds. Although I have seen this film two years ago, since this time it will be re-edited in domestic theaters, I think I should comment on it after it is officially released. And what I want to tell you today is an excellent horror movie in recent years-"Ledding".
Note: This lurking is a horror movie directed by Wen Ziren in 2010, not the spy war drama "Hidden" familiar to Chinese people.
Friends who often watch horror movies almost have a consensus, that is, horror movies have obvious regional characteristics. For example, Asian horror movies represented by South Korea, Japan and Thailand are often good at creating a horror atmosphere, and often a sound effect can scare people to breathe. It belongs to the " Walking Heart School "; while European and American horror movies represented by the United States often emphasize visual horror and stimuli, and the bloody and terrifying pictures often scare people into the urine, belonging to the " Kidney Walking School "; of course, there are our domestic horrors Movies (here refers to most of the "horror movies" in mainland China) are often convoluted, not very scary, and they hurriedly come back with various far-fetched reasons, belonging to " entering the scientific school ".
And this "Hidden" is a " sandwich school " that combines the elements of Western ghosts and Eastern fatalism .
The story of "Hidden" is very American-style. A family of five moved into a big house that is much larger than their living needs. The life is harmonious and beautiful, and then strange things began to appear at home little by little. For friends who are familiar with the routine, come here Say, this is a typical haunted house horror story. According to the routine, the protagonist will definitely fight to the death with the evil spirits in this house. However, the protagonist suddenly admits counsel and moves away.
From this beginning, the story broke away from the routine, and finally went to an unexpected but reasonable ending.
As a Chinese director who was born in Malaysia and grew up in Australia, Wen Ziren has an almost obsessive hobby for horror films. From "The Chainsaw" to "Dead Silence", to "Hidden" and "The Conjuring", he always keeps on He has refurbished his own "patterns" in horror movies, and this "Hidden" can be said to be the "masterpiece" of his many works.
Mr. Li once said on the nuclear radio station that "horror" in Chinese has several corresponding words in English, mainly "horror" and "terror". "horror" refers to the sense of fear that people have when their senses are stimulated, and "terror" refers to the sense of fear that people create psychologically. a perfect display.
Let's talk about "horror" first. In "Hidden", there are many things that are terrifying in the superficial sense, such as the red-faced devil in the film, the black-clothed old lady, all the lonely ghosts, etc., all of them are staring at you. A ruthless character who can scare people into peeing their pants at a glance, in the creation of a horror image, this film is not inferior to any horror movie of the same type.
Let's talk about "terror", the fear caused by experience perception. In "Latent", there are also many such settings, such as the alarm that suddenly sounded, the cabinet door that popped open by itself, a few positioning close-ups after the whole family was asleep, and so on. Something happened", but nothing happened for a long time, so I could only move forward with the plot with my heart hanging on my shoulders.
In addition to the mastery of "horror" and "terror", the two elements that can stimulate the audience's fear, this film also shows Wen Ziren's magic skills everywhere. Shortly after the start of the film, the heroine and her son look through the album at home, but there are almost no photos of the hero in the whole album. When the film progresses, the hero and heroine are on the verge of collapse, the hero's mother His remarks revealed the truth, and this truth officially echoed the first scene of flipping through the album.
This is just the most obvious "before and after" in the whole film, and there are more clues that echo before and after, all buried in this 100-minute film. These are "wonderful strokes" that need to be watched repeatedly. In addition, if you go to see the sequel to this movie, you will find that many things in "Hidden" are basically prepared for the second part, and even the plots of the two parts can be combined into one The wonderful ring has caused a big discussion on the Internet about "how old was the male protagonist when he was possessed". Few horror films can make the audience think hard to find clues when they are screaming in fright.
According to the conventions of horror films, whenever there are evil spirits and evil spirits, death is unavoidable, and often the more ghosts, the more people die. However, in this movie, there are many ghosts, but only one person died. , and at the end he died to bury the stem. This also raises the level of the whole movie. Although there are no dead people, it gives you a sense of fear that there are evil ghosts everywhere. This kind of fear will erode people's souls. The fear of high-altitude tightrope walking is the nightmare that haunts your mind when you are asleep in the middle of the night.
If you are also interested in horror movies, then you must not miss this "Hidden". It is like a textbook, telling you what a classic horror movie should look like.
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