The audience is always after the brainless stimulation of killing the movie, and the unpredictability of "who will be next".
Chef's knife, mechanic uniform, white hooded mask.
If the three seemingly unattainable items are assembled on one person at the same time, half of the Americans will be scared.
This man is called Michael Myers, from [Moonlight Panic] . He started to kill at the age of six, and he has been on the screen for 40 years, with countless souls under the sword.
The white knife goes in and the red knife goes out, making people stunned and can't help themselves.
I have to admit that humans have a primitive pleasure when they peek at violence, so Miles’s killing feast never lacks audiences.
And there is no shortage of murderers in American horror films.
[Week 5 of the 13th] In the series, Jason wearing a baseball mask, Freddy with a steel claw in his hand in [Meng Ghost Street], or Myers in [Moonlight Panic].
They are respected by audiences as the three major murderers in movie history, and they all come from American horror films.
Exact, it is under a sub-type - slashing movie (slasher film).
At the end of the 19th century, hack and slash movies had not yet appeared, and horror fans who were keen to watch violence had fun in a place called the Great Puppet Theater .
Everything is performed inside. The most attractive thing for them is the homemade horror drama. Here, the audience can watch 4 to 5 "murders" in one night, and murderers are always popular on stage.
Thus, in 1928, a serial murderer called "Horror" appeared on the screen and appeared in Warner's second sound film [Horror] .
The film successfully let peers see the horror tension of murderers, and also introduced core protagonists for later hack and slash movies.
Furthermore, in 1932, [Thirteen Beauties] , the heroine was bullied by classmates when she was young, and when she grew up, she began to kill and revenge.
Strictly speaking, the two are quite different from today's hack and slash movies, but "the murderer and his tragic experience" have indeed become two important elements.
For the time being, the two films are regarded as early prototypes, and the two masterpieces of the 1960s, [Voyeur] and [Crisis], add another process to the genre.
The former opened up the first perspective of murderers, while the latter opened up new ideas for shooting murder scenes, both of which were later used in hacking films and became the stepping stone before the golden age.
The golden age was the 70s. [Texas Chainsaw Massacre] and [Geshan Youyan] were the first to achieve great success. However, John Carpenter's [Moonlight Panic] in 1978 is obviously more representative.
As the master of hacking movies, it almost combines the advantages of all its predecessors and sets an industry model.
All subsequent hack and slash movies follow the Carpenter model-
In the past, trauma created murderers. Every certain day, they would start from a dormant state, using only cold weapons, and like to track crimes one by one, and most importantly, they would not be completely wiped out.
[Moonlight and Panic] Afterwards, hack and slash movies also ushered in a blowout. According to statistics, in the following six years, more than 100 hacks and slash movies were released in the United States, which is like the mainstream of American horror.
Because of the low cost and rapid profitability, unshirkable sexual descriptions are usually added to improve the appearance.
Just like on [Friday the 13th] in 1980, the reason why Jason drowned Crystal Lake and became a monster was due to the rain and clouds in the tent that delayed the rescue opportunity.
However, in the 1980s, when the Republican Party headed by Reagan came to power, American society began to embrace conservatism.
Although the "Hays Code" has long been abolished, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) still controls hacking movies through a large number of castrations, and the vast majority of more than 100 films have chosen to be released on video tapes.
Although it has a certain impact on its dissemination, it does not affect the producer's financial road. During the same period, the sales of video tapes are second only to pornographic videos.
The output did not decrease but increased. Due to the fire, the market was over-saturated. In the mid-1980s, the audience's aesthetics began to fatigue, and the enthusiasm gradually faded.
However, the straightforward sensory stimulation is always a memorable aftertaste.
Although the hack and slash movie was bleak, ten years later, the audience began to think about it again.
85 years later, hack and slash movies have shrunk severely, leaving only the three big murderers tossing over and over again, lingering.
However, in 1994 [Nightmare on Elm Street 7] , directed by Wes Craven, a reversal of usual, with a play within a play Freddy was a way of deconstruction and ridicule.
The trendy shooting method has caught the appetite of the new generation of young people, with a box office of 2.3 million, which is a little better than before.
Craven, who tasted the sweetness, went on to release [Scream] in 1996 , which was more purposeful than [Meng Ghost Street 7].
Inviting young actors who are thriving in the sky, making extensive use of current popular music, and by the way, there is a bit of adolescent growth and the relationship between men and women. It is like a hack and slash movie, but also like a youth movie.
Just as the industry imitated [Moonlight, Panic], [Screaming], as a new hack and screaming movie model, was learned in the second year after its release, called [I know what you did last summer] .
Correspondingly, supernatural hack and slash movies like [Mengguijie] also have a new blood inheritance mantle like [Reaper is coming] in the new millennium .
And the boundaries of hacking movies are becoming more and more blurred. In other words, the forms are becoming more diverse, but what remains the same is that the audience G-spot is always in the process of being killed.
Therefore, in 2004 [Chain Saw Horror] turned out, this series of works with murder as a selling point brought the revival of hacking movies to its peak.
Although [ Renpi Inn] will follow similar pictures of cats and tigers, it is difficult to shake the status of "jigsaw".
The new hack and slash movie is subverted and successful. At the same time, those old schools have also been remakes. The old plasma and the new picture have a unique charm.
For example, the remake of [Texas Chainsaw Massacre] in 2003, with a more refined and dark style than the original version, plus several ingenious murder scene settings, has also won a good reputation.
In the same year, there was also a [Freddy vs. Jason] , two old-school hack and slash movie classic IPs also had a cross-border duel.
This year's [Moonlight Panic] again.
Even though forty years have passed since the first film, the box office that broke the series record again all implies that the trend of hack and slash movies has not subsided.
The assassin of iron strikes, the dead of running water.
This sentence speaks out the essence of the hack and slash movie, but also shows the fact that the hack and slash movie has only one protagonist and can only be a serial killer.
The audience was convinced by the killer, on the one hand because of his iconic killing skills, on the other hand, because of Xiaoqiang's spirit of being unkillable.
Most murderers have physiques different from ordinary people. They are always immune to all kinds of fatal injuries.
Just like Miles, machine gun shooting, fire, high-voltage electric shock...for him, it was just a skin injury.
The same is true for Jason.
[Chain Saw Horror]'s jigsaw was a slightly normal lunatic, and died in the third part. However, the concept was inherited by the disciples. The killing did not end, and it could not be regarded as a real death.
As for the "Reaper Is Coming" series, there is no way to see the Reaper. He can only pray not to get on the "hearing car" that goes to the same destination by different routes at the beginning of each game.
However, murderers are not the only ones who can't kill.
In most hack and slash movies, there is always a survivor, usually a girl, who is also called the "last girl".
Sally in the 74th edition of [Texas Chainsaw Massacre] is recognized as the first "last girl". At the end, she got on the pickup of a kind driver and escaped from the magic cave.
Nancy is the same, the first part of [Meng Ghost Street] survived to the last part, which strung the entire series of story lines.
Some people think that this is the result of the feminist movement, but it is not.
In the early days, these "last girls" were different from other friends in the film. When others were killed one by one, they relied on their traditional duties to have the last laugh.
In fact, what these "last girls" pleased are the evil tastes from the male perspective. The more traditional, the more alive they are, and their motives are clear.
It wasn't until Sidney, who was equally unruly in [Screaming], survived to the end, that "The Last Girl" really had the shadow of feminism.
And Laurie in [Moonlight Panic] has also survived from the first movie.
She was so weak in her early years. In the new version, she has practiced martial arts for forty years. Instead of forbearing her earlier, she chose to attack.
At this moment, the "last girl" has completely completed the expression of the feminist motif.
Of course, feminist rights may not be important to hacking movies, after all, violent spying is closer to human instinct.
The audience is always after the brainless stimulation of killing the movie, and the unpredictability of "who will be next".
The blood is on the screen, and the dopamine in their brains is ready to go.
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Author/Yaoyao Wine
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Pocier"
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