The above-mentioned movies in the big universe are all overwhelming and menacing, and they promise not to stop if they don't toss the earth. But there is also a small-cost, small-produced universe movie, which is now gradually emerging. This is the soul-calling universe created by director Wen Ziren (you toss your big scene, we will scare your little heart).
In 2013, the horror film "The Soul" directed by Wen Ziren achieved a double harvest at the box office and word of mouth. The story is based on a real haunted incident in Perron, Rhode Island. It does not play gimmicks, does not splash blood, does not scream, but still scares you half-deadly. The shooting technique and the use of light and shadow have received much praise from movie fans. Annabel, the weird doll who appeared briefly, aroused the curiosity of many movie fans.
Soon, as a rumor of "Calling the Soul", the feature film of "Annabelle" came out in 2014. Although the quality of the film was not satisfactory, the extremely high profit return and the large amount of attention from fans gave the creators greater confidence to continue shooting. , Director Wen Ziren also saw the huge development space of the universe movie, so that even the speed and passion series are too lazy to shoot, after all, that series can only make a fuss on the car, maybe you can consider cooperating with Transformers.
In 2016, "Call of Souls 2" turned out, and its premiere box office surpassed "Warcraft" and ranked first. The demon nun and the hunchback among them once again spurned the little hearts of movie fans.
With the audience’s expectation for the sequel of "Annabelle", the producer further expanded the series of Evocation and launched "Annabel 2 is Born" in 2017. At the same time, a scene of the demon nun flashed in the film, which is also coming in 2018. The demon nun in the movie has laid a foreshadowing.
I really want to ask Director Wen, if you have so many ghosts out, are you afraid that Lord Yan will ask you for labor costs?
"Annabel 2 is born" is actually a prequel to "Annabel", telling the birth of the doll Annabel. A doll maker lost his 7-year-old daughter in a car accident. The eager couple attracted a demon to Annabel. The two who thought their daughter was born again gradually realized that their absurd choice was actually to lead a wolf into the room. After his wife was scratched by the devil, she finally decided to invite the priest to seal the devil in the closet.
But 12 years later, a few foreign church orphans moved into the building and re-awakened the devil, which immediately triggered a series of panic events and eventually killed the doll makers and the couple.
Here is a rant about the scary routine of the series. On the first night, there will be a little disturbance, but it is only a false alarm; on the second night, a ghost will show up and say hello; on the third night, he will come out to scare the protagonist, but Do not disturb others, so that you suspect that the protagonist has a nervous breakdown; on the fourth day, the fright escalates, most people will be injured by ghosts, and some even start to die; on the fifth day, even during the day, there will be terrorist incidents. No, so the war officially started. Of course, there is the final ending, the ghosts are always killed inexplicably.
"Annabel 2 is born" came to the end under this standard process, but it was the opening scene of "Annabel". The two films were perfectly seamlessly connected. As the two prequel films, the Annabel series all explained clearly, but from The foreshadowing of the soul-calling and Annabelle’s demons have not yet been subdued, and Annabel’s sequel is likely to be released in the next few years to enrich the market space of the soul-calling universe.
The previous series of films were entangled in how to tell a story, but now the films are entangled in how to build a world. This world is full of countless architectures and settings, complicated character relationships, and various easter eggs in ambush. This operation method is like various public accounts, attracting audiences and becoming fans. Every time the audience enters the theater Watching a cosmic movie is better than looking forward to the next cosmic movie.
Speaking of cosmic movies, in fact, we have long been ahead of Hollywood, such as the martial arts series of Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Wen Ruian. The relationship between the characters in Wen Rui'an's novels can only be described as frenzied.
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