For horror movies, I don’t know when I became obsessed with “road horror movies” inexplicably. Whenever I see a person in a movie driving a dilapidated classic car on a deserted road, and then playing old country songs on the radio, I am very yearning. So when someone asked me where I wanted to go most, I no longer ambitiously said that I would go to Shinjuku, Japan. Instead, go to Texas, the hometown of "Skin Face", because there is an endless desert. Being able to drive a car in the desert, and then meet a cool BT murderer, so that life will be as exciting as a movie.
Among the genres of American horror films, "road horror films" are the most widely filmed and the most enduring. This may have something to do with the United States' so-called "car kingdom". There are not many people in the United States, not to mention that they can buy a small villa for any working class. In terms of the number of private cars alone, it is even more of a manpower. Many beautiful movies have such plots. When the son is 16 years old, his father always has to give him a new or old car as a gift for him to pick up girls (such as "Transformers"). Because of the different national conditions, the transportation in the United States is relatively convenient. Many old Americans will consider using cars when traveling, and this has led to the special service industry of motels. There are also many horror movies about motels, such as the classic "Cry" and the latest "Pinhole Hotel", which will be mentioned later.
"Road horror movies" are derived from the early "road movies". As a kind of genre, road movies are quite similar to Western movies: both are unique products of American culture, and both depict them. They are all explorations of the American frontier. But the two are also very different: the era background of the western film is from the 19th century to the early 20th century, the heroes in the film ride across the vast grassland and desert, the era background of the road movie is set in the 20th century, and the vehicle becomes an adventure. Tools for exploration.
In "Highway Movies", the protagonists mostly travel aimlessly on desolate roads. Perhaps this is the purpose in itself, and the result that usually happens is that the road takes them to a place where nothing is left, and their selves are also there. In the process of searching, it gradually disappeared. And the "road horror film" captures this key point, amplifying the sense of loneliness and alienation in the road film and forming a source of fear. Of course, unlike “road movies”, “road horror movies” are no longer the disease-free groan of nihilism, but make fear visualized, three-dimensional, and intuitive. When "Pixian" saw the human body madly, when the freak tortured and killed girls in the desert, the "road horror movie" was destined to be associated with the "bloody".
Just as experienced travellers always find someone to travel with each other to reduce the cost of one person’s board and lodging and the loneliness during the journey, smart directors and screenwriters usually bring two or more people together to borrow from them. The interaction between them creates more dramatic effects. People traveling together can be in various relationships: lovers, family members, classmates, or people who do not know each other. Then in the movie, the contradiction between their personalities and the conflict, or the potential crisis of trust, is shown, so the experienced audience will start to predict who will become the "murder" in the plate.
Since the "skin face" is mentioned above, let's talk about the most classic road horror movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Of course, unfortunately, I have not been lucky enough to appreciate the old version of Toby Huber. Years ago, I only watched the third part of the old sequel, and because it was so mediocre, I mostly forgot it. What I want to talk about here is the new version of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", which was shot in 2003.
I have watched the new version of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" no less than 8 times so far, which shows how fascinated I am with this movie. I remember that when I finished watching it for the first time in 2003, I was so excited that my mouth imitated the motor sound of a "saw" all day, and the two hands that worked well with one acting as a chainsaw, the other pulling the engine wildly Linear, then "crazy" saw open the imaginary obstacle in the air blocking the path ahead of me.
In the new version of "Germany", the film picture is distressed, and the colors are correspondingly dark. It is estimated that the remake is like a tribute to the old version, and there is also a reason for the sense of the times to be substituted. Because the background age of the movie is probably around the 1960s and 1970s in the United States.
I believe I already know the story of the movie. It's nothing more than the story of a group of young people who inadvertently broke into the small town of Dezhou and was brutally killed by a perverted murderer. This classic plot will continue to be used in highway horror movies for decades, such as "The Cry", "The Eyes Behind the Mountain", "The Dismemberment of the Mad Demon", "The Wax Murder" and so on. But horror fans still never get bored, and so do I, ha ha.
I like the documentary "Visit the Crime Scene" that echoes the beginning and end of "Germany". The documentary very much imitated the shooting technique of "Blair the Witch" at the time. When I watched it carefully, I found that the director actually paid much attention to the shooting of this simulated documentary. In the documentary, the police introduced several "crisis scene discoveries", and all of them had close-up shots in the film.
For example, when "Pixian" happily carried the "prey" down into the basement, the "prey"-that is, the few unfortunately victimized young men and women, cried and cried and left nail scratches on the broken wall at the stairs. In the documentary, the police introduced it, and the documentary was featured. I don't know why, I am very interested in these little details in the movie.
What's more interesting is that at the end of the simulation documentary, "Pixian" appeared again, slashing the policemen who were explaining on the scene, only to hear the policemen "wow yelling" in the live radio, and only the classic face of "Pixian" appeared in the camera. The afterimage of the movie, and then the movie went dark, with subtitles explaining: Because the scene of the crime was not properly cleaned up, several police officers were unfortunately killed by "Skinface", and the murderer has not been arrested and brought to justice.
The purpose of this documentary and subtitles is to express that there is something really happening in history, and the content of the movie is reproduced based on real historical data.
But many years ago, before the new version of "Germany" was filmed, I always heard people say that the old version of "Germany" was a remake of a real American case, but the murderer was not "demonized" as described in the movie. , But an ordinary American farmer who killed two missionaries in the country, and then smashed the body, using a chainsaw. Because of insufficient evidence, the American farmer deceived an old British woman by making pen pals and went to the UK to live for many years. Until the end of the 1990s, the United States developed advanced technology to solve the case, which confirmed his evidence of murder. He was arrested and brought back to the United States for extradition. Unfortunately, in 2003, the year when the new version of "De" was released, the legendary man died in the hospital due to a heart attack, which is similar to "Zodiac".
However, I recently read the information about this real incident, which pointed out that the American media reported at the time that the American farmer’s method of committing the crime was modeled after the movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (old version) at the time. Suspect. It can also be seen that the movie "Germany" was not a remake of a real case from the beginning. It was only after the film came out in the 1970s that someone imitated the way it was. In other words, it was the old version of "Germany" that provided the murderer with a criminal technique.
Later, in the thinking that everyone has always thought of "real cases of horror movie remakes", it was inexplicably said that there were real cases first and then "Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
So, here I must yell: horror movies are really great!
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