I have never caught a cold with the chicken soup for marriage proposal, but I was stunned by the gift Li Chen gave to Fan Bingbing.
A doll worth millions--
Some people use creepy (weird) to describe this expensive gift.
If the person concerned has watched any of the movies in "Ghost Baby", "Annabel", "Dead Silence", "Magic", "Dolls" ..., the estimated savings of 300,000 dollars would be saved.
Today, we recommend this horror movie that is hailed as the most anticipated horror movie of 2017, which is related to dolls——
"Annabel 2: Birth"
Producer Wen Ziren .
This master horror film director is trying to create a horror universe, and now he is fulfilling his promise.
Annabelle comes from a scary little supporting role in Wen Ziren's "Calling the Soul" series.
In the first part of "Annabel", this weird-looking doll is possessed by evil spirits. God blocks and kills God, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha, Jesus blocks and kills Jesus, but the reputation is not good.
The director of the second part is David F. Sandberg , but you can see the charm of the distinctive Wen Ziren bloodline.
Don't forget, to build a universe, the most important thing is always the details. Kai Lu.
In a small town in the Midwest of the United States, an old cadre named Mullins (Anthony Lapaglia) is a doll by profession.
The dolls he made are wonderfully crafted and vivid, and they sell out of stock every day.
He has a happy family, a beautiful wife, and a lovely daughter: Annabel (nicknamed Bee).
Horror movies are not allowed to have contentment.
Mullins' car broke down halfway after a wedding. In order to help her father retrieve the screw that flew into the middle of the road, little Annabel was killed.
Twelve years later, a group of orphans led by a nun came to Mr. Mullins' villa. In order to repent, Mullins hopes to donate his house to the church as an orphanage.
The children were told that the house could go and play at will, except for one house—Annabel’s former bedroom.
The general rule of horror films: all forbidden places cannot be banned .
There are always a few people who are full of curiosity.
Among this group of girls, Janice (Trisha Bateman) , a little girl with one leg disabled, is such a character.
One night, Janice, who was urinating in the middle of the night, was driven by curiosity and opened the door of Annabel's bedroom.
In a cubicle filled with Bible pages, I saw the protagonist——
As a result, weirdness strikes, and everyone will be abused by evil spirits indiscriminately, realizing true birth equality.
Although Wen Ziren is a producer under the name, the film is full of unique techniques and styles of Wen Ziren's movies.
We see this a few classic camera work -
In the first five minutes, a long shot with a bird's eye view, flipped from the roof, and stopped in front of the Mullins family——
This kind of method commonly used in wars and suspense films, placed in horror films, has unexpected effects.
The high-speed movement of the camera on the roof indicates that a great change is about to happen.
The place where the camera stays after the smooth stroke is exactly the protagonist who is about to happen—
Soon after the camera was over, Annabel died in a car accident .
The same mirror shot appeared in the 30th minute:
In a small compartment where Annabel’s evil spirits were held, the same mirroring of the cross was carried out.
This time is no exception. The low-speed rotating lens indicates that the rhythm has begun to slow down, and also heralds the next great change.
After this mirror, Janice releases the evil spirit limited by the Bible :
The change in the lens indicates a turning point in the plot, which is not new. But Wen Ziren did the best.
Audiences who are familiar with Wen Ziren know that once there is such an excellent, continuous use of the long mirror, then it is not far from "exciting".
In the movie, there are no idle pens, and all the props that can pass the eye are used to the fullest .
Including the fleeting waste products, almost without exception, became props to frighten the audience later.
This method of waste utilization gives the slightly thin plot a rare physical depth.
Let's just look at a few.
The first one is a note with found you written on it .
This note left by Mullins playing hide-and-seek with his daughter has become a sharp weapon for the plot.
The second time the note appeared was when Janice tried to break into Annabel's room again.
Soon after Janice released the evil spirits, she couldn't resist the temptation to go to the room and look through the room and found Annabel's diary, which read--
Dear diary, today I came back
Dear diary, I am back today
The third time, after Janice was possessed, the evil spirits were going to kill Annabel's father.
Comparing the naive font on the first note, the third font is obviously blunt and sharp.
Every time the audience sees this kind of shredded paper appearing, they have a feeling of chills on their backs and feet. Obviously, the appearance of the paper means the appearance of evil spirits.
In layman terms, it is a game of hide and seek between ghosts and people. This ghost tells you clearly:
I will kill you whenever I want to kill you.
The second one is the rocking chair .
Every time the rocking chair appeared with the doll, when not together, it was when the evil spirit was let go.
The puppet doll and the rocking chair are put together and slowly rocking non-stop.
At this time, the soundtrack is very harsh, which is undoubtedly the game the director is playing with us.
The slow picture and the tense soundtrack create a terrifying contrast, reflected in the hearts of the audience, with only two words——
Damn it.
Third , automatic chair lift .
This mechanized automatic gadget is what caused Janice's legs to become disabled.
It's also the only prop that the ghost has troubled for the first time.
When being chased by a ghost, the small details of not wearing a seat belt made all the audience trapped-it turned out that Janice was panicked for a while and forgot the seat belt so the chair did not move.
Just when the audience thought that the girl could escape safely in a wheelchair,
No, the chair walked halfway, click. . . Starting to retreat, it turns out that the evil spirit still has the superpower to fetch objects and operate machinery.
These are just a few representative objects. In "Annabel 2", every object is not redundant and has its own role.
You will never see the truly terrible things. And those invisible fears can make everyone's heart tremble with fear.
As I said before, the first half of "Annabel 2" is very restrained, whether it is the plot or the character setting.
The director shows the emergence of evil spirits in a restrained and narrow format, coexisting in a state of being able to retract freely.
However, the purpose of restraint is not restraint itself, but for the open horror and horror in the second half, the frightening effect of opening and closing.
The film is about one-third of the way before it has a specific image—this image is just a piece of cloth.
Strictly speaking, this is the first manifestation of evil spirits, and it is also the first time that it has an objective existence.
After this, the director opened his own door of horror.
At the beginning, Janice found that the photo of Annabel she had gotten was placed in the dark, her eyes gleaming.
Later, when he went to Annabel’s room, the evil spirits began to show their true colors, and the style of painting changed suddenly--
--what do you need?
--Your soul!
Then came the nail prints and harsh sounds that fell on the floor when Janice was caught.
Janice is possessed by Annabel (through body fluid exchange)——
My father was killed by breaking his fingers one by one,
As a victim, the mother was cut off half of her body and became an appendage of the evil spirit.
The restraint and indulgence of the plot together created the endless dramatic tension of "Annabel 2".
While achieving the "scary" effect of a thriller, as a movie, the rhythm of the rhythm also highlights the director's level.
It is precisely because of this that "Annabel 2" can be so dazzling and can affect the fragile nerves of the audience every minute.
Even more chilling is that the director seamlessly integrated Annabel from the true story into the movie——
That's right, what you saw was the gift the Higgins brought to Janice when she adopted her.
This trick can be considered relatively overcast.
To build a terrifying universe, Wen Ziren still has many holes to fill, and many details to perfect.
However, it is very likely that watching the entire series, you will no longer want to buy someone a doll as a gift.
Amen, my buddha bless, immeasurable life.
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