After shooting many horror short films, under the promotion of Wen Ziren, he filmed his first feature film "After the Lights" last year.
The film is full of sincerity, but the level of horror is really not too ideal, the thriller is more than enough, the story is too scattered, and the highlights are too few.
After a year of ups and downs, he made persistent efforts to come up with his second feature film, the famous horror series "Annabelle 2".
The writer is still Gary Dauberman, familiar to horror movie fans.
Gary Dauberman is the screenwriter of many of Wen Ziren's films, and he also served as one of the co-writers in the recently popular "Joker's Soul".
With the blessing of Wen Ziren and the screenwriter of Gary Dauberman, David F. Sandberg's "Annabelle 2" is indeed progressing rapidly.
There are traces of Wen Ziren everywhere in the film, which is scary and patient, pays more attention to psychological oppression, and challenges the limit of your endurance step by step by relying on the constantly improving sense of atmosphere.
In fact, "Annabelle 2" is equivalent to the prequel of Annabelle in terms of story, telling the origin of Annabelle's becoming a medium possessed by demons.
A doll, seemingly harmless on the outside, actually hides a demon, intimidating you and breaking your spirit. The purpose is to occupy your soul and make you her doll in the world, for her to make waves and harm the people.
Hollywood movies with "ghost baby" dolls as horror elements have a long history. There have been many films in the "Ghost Baby" series, which has accumulated a lot of fans and made the little doll one of the elements of classic horror movies. one.
It is said that the re-creation of the "Annabelle" series this time is to form a terrorist alliance with Wen Ziren's "The Conjuring" and "Hidden" series, and has great ambitions to create a dark universe series.
In the future, I may play a mix of elements, splicing together the classic characters and elements of several horror series, giving fans double the fear.
This time, "Annabelle 2" sets the background of the story in the golden age of the United States, evokes the memories of the fans with retro scenes, and at the same time puts the whole story in a farm isolated on the outskirts of the city. .
In a relatively closed scene, the film sets the protagonist as a number of orphans waiting to be adopted, and they are all little girls.
The mental state of women in isolation and helplessness is the most likely to stimulate the anxiety and worry of movie fans, in exchange for empathy and empathy.
To this end, the production team went even further, setting the little heroine as a blonde loli with polio and inconvenient legs.
The angel on the outside is lovable, and the flawed body makes people feel pity. When the heroine is entangled with the ghost, it naturally makes the audience worry about it as if they were put on a chopping board and roasted.
A group of orphanage girls came to the farm.
A couple on the farm lost their child to a car accident.
They expect the opportunity to communicate with the souls of dead children at any price.
As a result, they betrayed themselves to the devil, who possessed the doll made by the farm owner, fooling the couple with hallucinations, making them think it was their daughter who had returned.
The hostess of the farm gradually found something strange, and when she was almost occupied by her body, she was protected by the sect. After some purification, the doll named Annabelle was temporarily imprisoned.
But the arrival of these orphans accidentally opened Pandora's box, Annabelle was freed, and she stretched the magic grasp to Janice, an orphan with physical defects.
"Annabelle 2" has a lot of shadows from the "Conjuring" series in scene setting and atmosphere creation, wooden houses, secret passages, children's bedrooms, these are scenes that provide high-intensity thriller plots in Wen Ziren's films.
These places are often carefully arranged and become plot scenes that cause fans to scream.
The rhythm of "Annabelle 2" is also familiar in the scaring routine.
The appearance of the devil, the first time it was harmless, the second time it started to intrude, the third time it was covert, the fourth time it was blatant, and it started killing directly at the climax.
The escalating intimidation, the panicked characters, and the protagonists who are nibbled into complete control are all the usual routines and narrative rhythms of Wen Ziren-style horror films.
Many horror scenes in "Annabelle 2" also use the frightening method of "sounding the east and hitting the west".
In the bedroom scene, the little girl is pushed to the bed by the doll, and she looks for traces of the doll everywhere, but she can't find any trace of it.
At the moment when the audience and the characters relax their nerves, a doll appears inadvertently, and the sense of fear suddenly rises, making people's scalp tingle.
In terms of sound effect processing, "Annabelle 2" can only be regarded as qualified, and it still relies on the sudden increase in volume to cause the audience's discomfort and high concentration of attention.
But there aren't many novel sound synths that offer a different kind of dread.
Under the aura of Wen Ziren, "Annabelle 2" can only be regarded as a law-abiding work. It is intimidating, but not innovative enough. For serious fans of horror movies, in the routine, the sense of fear will be reduced.
But for ordinary movie fans, "Annabelle 2" can provide decent entertainment and fright.
Backstage reply, Annabelle, fat brother sent you a horror movie you can watch.
Finally, look forward to the big cousin's "Mother" and "The Clown's Soul" coming out soon! When the time comes, the fat brother will deliver it as soon as possible.
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