'Annabelle': the terrifying doll

As the protagonist of horror films, dolls already have a certain sense of horror to a certain extent. As a host of ghosts and ghosts, choosing dolls is quieter and more frightening than choosing those who are possessed. After all, living people can still make people feel abnormal more often, and the sense of horror is also the bloody and cruel sins faced directly, while the dolls as toys feel different. Dawn is the darkest hour. Quiet means turbulent madness. The shadows of ghosts and souls gather on the silent and beloved dolls. Bombs and ghosts may not be the most terrifying, but scaring yourself is the most terrifying, and dolls are exactly that. Living in a scientific world, we are always accustomed to use scientific evidence to prove the truth of what happened. Once we can't produce evidence, it is difficult for people to believe that things are the same as what we have seen or conjectured. Attitude, unbelief is also an accomplice to the mental breakdown of the victim, and the most terrifying element is concentrated on this point. As an adaptation of a real supernatural event, we can still accept its authenticity psychologically. Once we accept it psychologically, it seems that we have already done ourselves well before we watch this movie. Prepare to scare ourselves, we seem to be able to imagine what will happen in the story, but we are still unconsciously frightened by the puppets in the story. Just knowing the existence of puppets as horror elements, as long as the puppets appear in the movie, we will It seemed that the fear and fear of her had already ignited.

As a horror movie, there is nothing special about the movie, whether it is the shooting technique or the story content, it is average. The story adds the elements of the soul and the pagan, and deliberately associates the doll with the soul. Although the reason for the story is not very clear, it has found a good excuse for the ending of the story. In terms of narrative techniques, the film has always followed the shooting method in the order of time nodes. It is neither innovative nor quite conservative, and it does not even have the urge to make breakthroughs. The plot of the film can be said to be mediocre, because the highlights in it are almost In the past horror movies can more or less find a shadow. However, the highlight of the movie is that in the whole movie, there is almost no shadow of the puppet doll being possessed. Even if there are a few flashbacks, it is the so-called soul pasted by the director. The toys were posed in several positions, and the horror elements of the movie were shown, and the effect was very good. The movie doesn't anthropomorphize the doll like "The Ghost Baby", and it doesn't let people find out if it can act. It just shows the results there quietly. What I want is the effect of scaring myself. . Of course, the heroine in the movie did not feel the horror of the doll, but when we watched it outside the movie, we deeply felt the horror, we even dared not look directly into the eyes of the doll, because we always felt It can come alive at any time. Maybe this is because the director fully understands people's ego psychology. He can always accurately use the close-ups of the dolls from different angles to directly hit the souls that people feel fear in their hearts. Watching such a movie always makes people worry that there will be a sudden attack in the next second of the scene. Not only did the movie not do this, but it was made a bit like a drama, with a profound meaning.

The only thing that makes people feel unsatisfactory in the film is the introduction of the element of soul. If the film consistently maintains no manifestation of unnatural forces, I think the quality and level of the entire film will be improved. The movie has begun to discard most of the ingredients of ghosts and gods, and has also raised the horror index of doll toys to the highest level. If there is no soul intrusion, we can easily believe that this is indeed a real thing that happened. However, the film still introduced the result of soul possession, which once again destroyed and shattered the characteristics that were originally different from other horror films.

As a derivative movie of "The Conjuring", I personally feel that this movie is much better than "The Conjuring". Because it gets rid of the fixed routine of ghosts scaring people, it no longer uses those terrifying ghost shapes to scare you, but creates a terrifying psychology to make you wonder if you are really provoking ghosts? This kind of tension that uses the real situation to suppress the high fear of the spirit is indeed much more technical than those who scare people into the ghosts. Annabelle, the doll at the heart of the film's horror, feels unacceptable even if you haven't seen the movie. What's more, after watching this movie, this doll has become a nightmare for people, making people keep away. I think I will in the future Will not buy similar dolls for children's toys.

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