Before the film review, make a three-part comparison:
In terms of story completion and structure: 2>3>1
From entertainment viewing: 1>3=2
and IMDB score: 2 (6.8 points) > 3 (6.7 points) > 1 (6.2 points)
Taken together and objectively evaluated, the second part should be the best in the series. I have written movie reviews for the trilogy, and friends can watch it on my homepage or the movie homepage.
First of all, it's great to see this series break away from the iron rule that franchises get worse. Each film has its own style and creative point. The first film focuses on bloody brutality, so the rhythm is more aggressive; the second film focuses on suspense, so it is more calm; the third film is as strange as the first and second films hybrid.
The third part of the story is divided into two parts, the 1666 era in the first hour, and the 1994 era in the second half hour. The story of 1666 continued the style of the second part, the prelude was slow, and the atmosphere of the film did not become tense until half an hour later, but during this period, the background of the story and the atmosphere of suspense were well established. After half an hour (the church massacre) Start) The whole viewing experience begins to get better. This is getting better, and the director has maturely applied multiple plot reversals:
A number of bizarre incidents from the town (food rotting, sows eating cubs, dead dogs being fished out of a well) lead viewers to mistakenly believe that Sarah is cursed to cause it all - Sarah goes to the widow and overthrows Sarah She was cursed, and the purpose of her finding the widow was to make a deal with the devil, which made the audience think that this was the beginning of all her sins, which led to the curse of the people of Yincheng later - and finally revealed the perpetrator, Sarah Whitewash, it turned out to be Those who have been wronged, do not regret it.
This series of unpredictable reversals made the story all the more tantalizing.
If the story of the third part is set in 1666, it will undoubtedly be the best in the series. However, the second half hour of the 1994 era is added. Although this is unavoidable, the part back to the 1994 era is not shot. Good: The pace is fast and chaotic, the editing is terrible, and it's literally the movie's biggest flaw.
Its rhythm is like the code of "up, down, down, left, right, left and right" that Josh is talking about, and it fluctuates. The killings started, ended, and ended again, for so little and so often that it was numbing. The ending is doomed, the killing is more like a petty fight, stabbing the two policemen and the villain with only one dagger.
People back in 1666 are not as IQ as they used to be, they keep passing up the chance to kill their opponents, instead they choose to make some elaborate plan, but it manages to risk everyone's life and make things change more complicated.
When I saw it, I basically watched it at double speed. The so-called climax scene ended in such a constant rhythm and beating, it is hard to make people suspect that the two parts were filmed by the same director.
And in this series, the three films don't blend well with each other.
I won’t say much about the different styles of the three films; the exorcism method that has been paved for so long in the first two films is relieved by poking the villain’s eye at the end, and the town just sees the light again, opening high and moving low; the strangest thing The only thing is that the second part is set as a flashback of memories. It has no effect on the plot of the whole series. Ziggy can completely "give the whole corpse of the witch" in one sentence, whether it is shot or not.
In other respects, because of the foreshadowing of the first two parts, this one does not need to spend any effort. It is worth mentioning that the emotion between the two heroines in the first film has been improved in this one. The first part starts from the contradiction between the two and moves towards the resolution and reunion. The third part tells about the two people's acceptance and love for each other at the beginning. Although the third part is theoretically only the memory of Sarah that the heroine saw, but some kind of memory. To a certain extent, that is the heroine's own story, so the trilogy becomes a closed loop through the heroine's emotional line. This is very unique.
On the soundtrack, it is the best in the series, with 1666 parts, missing the first two noisy 80's and 90's rock and roll, and using a symphony instead. The symphony, being a sound-rich, dramatic and expressive piece of music, really adds to the mood of the film. And finally back to the 1994 part, the movie properly applied their familiar rock music, especially the last heroine came out of the villa with the Oasis golden song "live forever". As a fan who has been in love with Oasis since high school, this song is one of Let me have a kind of relief after the rain has passed, and the disappointment of the bad ending has been swept away.
"Street of Fear" is a rare trilogy of youth horror films, each of which has its own style, and there will always be one you will like after reading it.
In general, I think "Street of Fear" is a surprise for fans this summer when Hollywood is not as good as it was before.
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