Ghost playing people: so rough, so classic

Scotty 2021-10-22 14:32:18

I am used to watching horror films produced in large Hollywood factories, and then watching the ghost play people produced in this hand-crafted workshop, I suddenly feel a sense of discomfort. This feeling comes from the screen of the movie, although the version I watched is through It is digitally restored, but it is still difficult to hide the roughness and inferior quality of the picture. This can not help but make me feel like I am back to the video tape era. In addition to the rough pictures, the scenes of the movie are also simple and pitiful. From beginning to end, they have been around the dilapidated cabin, but these unfavorable factors brought about by the cost of the movie did not affect the director Sam Remy’s control of the movie. After enduring the first ten minutes, the following content attracted me more and more. Sam Remy also brought his personal style to the fullest in this low-cost horror film. After watching the movie, I realized that the ghosts are so rough. But it is also so classic.

In the 1980s when murderous horror films were rampant, the ghost player chose the horror film about the subject of devil possession. Sam Remy did not abandon the blood plasma style of Hollywood horror films. The plasma concentration of this film can be described as a movie of the same period. Most of all, compared to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and Ghost Street are bloody. Of course, the movie is not a bloody brainless horror film. Due to cost constraints, the pictures and scenes of this film are very rough. The plot of the story is also very simple. The director can only make up for these deficiencies caused by cost by creating an atmosphere. From the beginning of the film, five young people found the cabin in the jungle. At this time, the camera was aimed at the cabin. Things came and went (I didn’t see exactly what it was), and all five young people stopped. The movie seemed to have stopped at that moment. After a few seconds, a actor walked forward to find the key to open the door. There is no direct representation of the horror scene in the whole shot. It just relies on the use of the lens to give people a gloomy feeling. There are many scenes in the film where the director uses the lens to create an atmosphere. In addition, Sam Remy is very good. The use of various sounds in the movie to create a sense of horror, such as the sound of wind, the sound of swaying branches... In the selection of the soundtrack, I also chose the kind of quiet music commonly used in horror movies.

Those who are possessed by the devil in the movie will become terrible ghosts like zombies. The survivors will naturally fight against these evil spirits. At this time, Sam Remy is not stingy with the use of blood plasma. The stump of the ground, the thick pulp, the American blood has been brought to the extreme, and this is also the time to test the audience’s endurance. Perhaps after experiencing the chainsaw panic, the current audience can withstand these scenes in the film. But think about it as a film from the early 1980s, enough to shock people back then.

In fact, whether it’s blood or the atmosphere, these are common tactics in horror films. The most commendable thing in this film is Sam Remy’s personal style. In the horror film, some comedy elements are added in time to achieve a dark humor. Classics, the movie has an interesting feeling beyond horror. Sam Remy’s use of black humor in the movie has also influenced many later generations, such as the famous work of Peter Jackson, the famous corpse of Middle-earth. There are also a lot of witty and black humor in the splash, and later Hong Kong zombie movies also incorporate comedy elements in horror films.

Guiwanren is a movie made by Sam Remy alone. It can be said that Guiwanren is between bad films and classics. It is the director who pulls the film out of the pile of bad films by himself. When watching Guiwanren again, The roughness of the picture and the simplicity of the story have become small flaws in the movie, which cannot shake his classic status in horror films. It was the success of this series that Sam Remy got the opportunity to direct the Spider-Man series. Although Sam Remy failed to make a comic movie to the level of Nolan, at least every Spider-Man was quite satisfactory. There was nothing wrong with the box office. The production company made a lot of money at the box office. Unfortunately, after the new version of Spider-Man, the director became Mark Webber. Now there are only Sam Remy's works that I am looking forward to. I'm in World of Warcraft, I hope he can make the movie a magical epic like the Lord of the Rings.

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The Evil Dead quotes

  • Voice on Recorder: I know now that my wife has become host to a Kandarian demon. I fear that the only way to stop those possessed by the spirits of the book is through the act of... bodily dismemberment.

  • Cheryl: [possessed] Soon all of you will be like me... And then who will lock you up in a cellar?

    [cackles]