After suffering from flu for many days, the only exciting thing is to go to the theater to watch horror movies.
"Annabel 2" was released today, and I went there immediately (Annabel 1 was with my sister before, and she ignored me after watching it). After watching it, I felt pretty good, and silently rewarded myself with a KFC (I feel good bitter).
I have a good impression of the series of horror films created by Wen Ziren. Although so far, the only favorites are the first two films of "Dead Silence" and "Latent". I feel that the productions he produced are so mediocre and lackluster. For example, I watched and slept in the theater for both the well-recognized "Call of Souls". "Latent 3" was basically disappointed. The latter "Annabel 1" actually had some good bridges. Section, but the whole is slightly warm, and there is no big storm.
Investigate the reason, mainly because the elements of some of the horror films are still too single. "Dead Silence" is fortunate in the reversal and atmosphere layout. "Latent" is the ultimate in the complexity of the plot, and I also appeared. The favorite loop element, various gods, ghosts and monsters are concentrated in the two realms of humans and ghosts. There is a wonderful sci-fi time and space interweaving cows, ghosts and snakes to show a sense of overwhelming complexity.
When it comes to "Calling the Soul", under the banner of real events, the content is actually quite monotonous, and Western horror films are mainly exorcism, which may not be attractive to Orientals and lack the psychological sense of horror. Very subtle bridges to attract attention (of course there are various jump scares and explosion sound effects, of course, these are a bit inferior).
After talking about this series, it can be said that the new director of "Annabel 2" is the one who made "After the Lights". This person and his wife have made a lot of small horror films on YouTube. You can see how many of these elements are. It is less reflected in "After the Lights", and of course it can also show a lot in "Annabel 2" this time.
Compared with "Annabel 1", there are good paragraphs but the whole is slightly boring. It can still be seen that the new director is more determined and simple. This "Annabel 2" also appears (at least when the audience is watching Psychologically speaking, it is a lot more exciting.
There are some kind of jump scares in David’s short film. For example, he suddenly opened the list and revealed a ghost head. There is also a plot of a ghost wearing a bed sheet, and then there is nothing under the bed sheet. This is in "Annabel 2" It’s all reflected in it, I don’t really like it, but the advantage of "Annabel 2" is that the story is straightforward, and the plot complexity is richer than that of the "Call of Souls" series. Almost all girls have participated in the horror scene. Haunted house has more performances, and in this one, the role of exorcist is simply removed, and the demons are basically slaughtered unilaterally. In the end, my favorite kind and disabled beauty Lori ended up being completely distorted by ghost possession. In the end, it truly reflects the director's unfriendly mentality towards Loli.
Speaking from the beginning, basically this one is about the origin of Annabel, a rag doll, which was made by a puppeteer, and then his daughter hung up, and then I don’t know if it was his daughter. The undead is still a demon, and then attached to the doll. In other words, I always feel that there is a paradox here, that is, Annabel should not be so ugly, the other works of the puppet master are very beautiful, just Annabel So ugly, staring at you with nostrils at any time...
Then a nun brought a group of orphans to the puppet master’s house to stay. Then he saw ghosts, bumped into ghosts, was abused by ghosts, and was spitting from ghost to mouth (well, maybe it was a possessive ceremony), and finally The police are here (at the end of David’s horror movie, the police are always here...what about the exorcist?), everyone moved, and everyone else is in peace. Pity my favorite true, good and beautiful disabled loli. The demon leaned over and fell victim to it.
Have you seen "Annabel 1", you probably know that the protagonist had a life case next door at the beginning, and the elderly couple was killed by a cult daughter. Well, that daughter was the disabled beauty Lori who was leaned over and strayed by the devil in "Annabel 2" . This part can be considered as an effort, at the end it is connected to the beginning of the first part.
Seeing this, I once again think that Loli may have hurt the director and caused him to keep hacking them and not giving them a good end.
The plot is that way anyway. What I like about this film is that it is more direct. Of course, there are not many exquisite sections, but the frightening scenes are more serious. Except for the ugly doll Annabel, there seems to be a nun ghost. , I’m not sure, one of the passages is that the nun took out an old photo, and there is a nun in it that she doesn’t know. I read the news before and said that the soul-calling series is basically creating a system of soul-calling universe, and there are many famous ghosts in it. , The nun ghost should be one of them, I don’t know if this is an easter egg. In the next scene, it was broad daylight when the disabled loli was suddenly pushed into the warehouse, where I felt that it was also a nun ghost who came to assist, maybe it was a cameo.
Secondly, this movie puts more effort into the structure of the house than some other exorcism movies. For example, in a few scenes I feel as if I am watching "Home Alone" and see how little Lori uses the elevator to go downstairs. On the next floor, hit the ghost, go back upstairs, hit the ghost again, climb out again, hit the ghost again, it's kind of fun. For example, there is another scene in which a disabled loli is sitting on a power seat that can automatically rise and fall along the stair track, trying to escape from ghosts. These props will make the plot richer. Including the passage of Annabel's return to the soul, step by step to lure Lolita to open the closet door that blocked her, it is also very beautiful. In other words, foreign children are good at acting. Every girl inside has good acting skills. I can see where frightened...
In terms of bloody scenes, David, the director, is also relatively straightforward. He will kill as soon as he needs to be killed, which is by no means ambiguous.
Finally, in terms of the plot, as I said earlier, I found that the role of Annabel is actually quite powerful. In several movies, the characters she provokes did not end well. She has nothing to do with herself. It's anti-social and anti-causal, basically it simply represents some kind of evil. The poor and disabled loli who was finally possessed in the movie is really innocent...
May she rest in peace...
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