As many people are afraid of watching horror movies, there are as many people who love them. Horror films, as a form of film theme, often carry a reputation for good and bad. People who don’t like to watch mainly dislike them because they are too bloody and scary, which affects their mood; while the negative camp will say that many horror movies are very classic, and every masterpiece in horror movies is a fear of human beings. Dialysis.
Joe is a middle-2 youth who is unemployed and at home. He lives with his girlfriend Lindsey in a not-so-small single-family house with a swimming pool. His hobbies are pranks, throwing water-filled balloons at passing neighbors, teasing girlfriends, etc. For all kinds of horror movies, he knows a lot about it. Going to the haunted house with his girlfriend on the weekend, those institutional settings have long made him feel boring.
People like Joe may not like horror movies, but the thrill of making fun of others. Find your own existence by teasing and frightening others. So he doesn't like amusement projects like haunted houses. On the one hand, he feels that haunted houses are letting others make fun of them, and on the other hand, he also thinks that the stimulation is not enough. When he and Lindsey complained that this kind of haunted house is not interesting, a short fat man next to him suddenly handed a business card and said that if you want a more exciting experience, you might as well try their Fear Co., Ltd.
At first, Joe refused. I think he refused, maybe because he didn't think it was interesting to be teased by others. He should like to tease others more. Just as their friends came to play in their city, and they were also a couple, Joe and Lindsey hosted each other and lived in their own homes. By the pool at night, a group of young people discuss the scariest horror movie. Joe told them to get a business card from Horror Co., and a friend told him to never make an appointment for their services. Because the female boss of a friend's company never came to work again just because she made an appointment for their terror service.
Perhaps without a friend's reminder, Joe wouldn't want to make an appointment, but being told that by his friend aroused his curiosity. While everyone was in the living room, he went to the bedroom to quietly find the business card, intending to make an appointment for this service to scare others. But when I called, I was told that the service was full.
Joe, who was a little disappointed, returned to the living room, but he did not expect that the horror had already begun. There was a power outage, then Billy, the annoying old man next door, was stabbed to death in front of his house, and then the masked man showed up at the house. The friends are all scared, but Joe is excited and instructs everyone on how to deal with the classic horror movie. Even when he saw his friend's girlfriend stabbed with an arrow in the eye, Joe still thought it was all fake.
When he was knocked unconscious and thrown into the basement and saw his friend tied to a chair in a "Chainsaw" scenario, and was prompted to amputate his friend's arm, he actually did so. But the hand that fell off looked so real that he had to recall what his friends told him about the company. He rushed to the bedroom to rescue Lindsey, and in a panic strangled one of the masked men on the bed.
Seeing him kill someone, Lindsey jumped out of bed in horror, telling him that it was all arranged by a few of them. Because Joe always likes to make fun of others, Lindsey and the other two decided to make an appointment for the service of this company, which also allowed Joe to experience the feeling of being teased. At this time, two friends also came back, it turned out that they were all suspended animation. When the friend saw a dead person on the bed, he immediately became nervous and told Joe that the people in this company were not easy to mess with, so they left first.
There are more or less people around everyone who like to make fun of others. They always think that it is very interesting to make fun of others, but I am afraid they don't like the feeling of being teased by others. Because we fear the unknown more than the real, knowable fear. When making fun of others, all the scenes are set and arranged by ourselves, so we can enjoy it, and it is full of fun just to appreciate the way others are terrified. But when we are in the position of being teased, not knowing what will happen in the next second is the biggest torture.
Joe and his girlfriend, who had nothing to do with them, decided to drive the car from the employees of the Horror Co., Ltd. to transport the body to the desert to be buried. Unexpectedly, the car had a GPS tracking system on it, so people from the company quickly caught up with them. Several ferocious staff covered Joe's head and told Joe that the employee he killed also had his wife and children, so he also wanted to let Joe feel the pain of his relatives being killed. Through the black hood, Joe could only vaguely see what was going on outside. He heard gunshots and the sound of his girlfriend falling.
When the surroundings quieted down, Joe struggled to get rid of his hood, only to see a pool of blood on the ground. Exhausted, Joe walks in the desert, looking for his way back to the city. He saw a lonely cafe in the desert, so he went to ask for help, but found that his girlfriend was not dead at all, and two friends who escaped suddenly appeared.
The plot flips again, he did not strangle the employees of this company, these are the games they set up. Everyone pours into the cafe to celebrate the event's perfect ending, but Joe suddenly realizes that this scene is not a classic scene from a horror movie? Sure enough, it's not over, the horror game continues.
After the First World War, Freud realized that human beings have not only the instinct to live, but also the instinct to die. The love of horror movies is also a manifestation of death instinct. Stimulating our nerves by watching a horror movie makes us highly focused on the plot and can ultimately relax. And some people who have a hard time watching horror movies may have been avoiding and suppressing their death instinct, and it is difficult to face it head-on. But if you are too addicted to horror movies like Joe, and you are still excited about being caught in a horror incident, you may have developed a tendency to attack yourself.
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