A feast of psychological suspense

Sedrick 2022-11-25 22:20:36

First Story: The Death Vision of a Racer

Stories such as "Death is Coming" and "Arrival" are widely used, in science fiction films, in horror suspense films, in ghost films, in dreams...

Second Story: Encounter with the Ghost

This is more common, as far away as many strange novels in ancient my country, to many stories in Japan, to all kinds of modern horror films; encountering ghosts, all kinds of things happen, I thought they were normal people, but later I found out that they have entered the ghosts. field.

The third story: the mirror sends the soul

The mirror is also a thing full of intentions, and there are many related supernatural sayings:

Mirrors can see some unusual things;

Mirrors take in the souls of children;

The soul and resentment of the master with resentment will reside in things such as mirrors;

And you can create your own according to the characteristics of mirrors that can illuminate objects, and some special functions of special mirrors:

The magic mirror in Snow White;

mythological mirror;

People with ghosts in the center of psychological suspense films dare not look in the mirror, people with neurosis such as fear do not dare to look in the mirror, and they are afraid that they look like the TV series "Tianya Mingyue Dao" Gong Ziyu dare not look in the mirror;

Mirror channel in science fiction (space, time and space);

The entrance to the supernatural world;

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The fourth story: After appearing with a resentful ghost, he forgot how to return to the ghost world

Ghosts come to look for people before their lives with grievances, which is similar in nature to the second story; interestingly, this story actually implicitly constructs a ghost world - people will be trained by ghosts after they die and become ghosts, so as to obtain various ghosts The ability of the ghost, such as appearing, such as returning to another world, etc.; but this ghost is anxious and appearing, and does not pay attention to the homework of returning to another world, so that it is impossible to return to the ghost world-this is a very good idea, just like "Searching for a Spirit" "Dream Ring Travel Notes" can also create a different world.

Fifth Story: Puppet Master Dual Personality

This is a typical psychological film. After this film, there are more and more such psychological films. The split personality and schizophrenia are widely liked by filmmakers; There are countless schizophrenic films such as "Shutter Island" and "K Star Stranger", and they are still a major type of film, but many of them are not good.

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Theme Story: Infinite Loop Zhuang Zhou Mengdie

End-to-end endless loop Zhuang Zhou Mengdie. Later, many good films used this method, such as "Deadly Cruise", which is now known to many people, White Bear Justice Park in "Black Mirror Season 2", and "Westworld" in "Infinite". Loop in one day (infinite loop in one day and many movies)

There are multiple interpretations of this story:

1. An infinite loop of dreams

The architect is always in sleep (vegetative state, permanent hypnosis, retention of consciousness, moment of death, stagnation of time and space...), which is an endless cycle of dreams:

Beginning stage: wake up from a nightmare in bed, then pick up the phone to go to the farm, then feel familiar, then slowly remember something (the metaphor of "as if a lightning flashed in the dark, and a picture appeared" is a good analogy);

Development stage: The people present began to react one after another, some doubted and others began to talk about their own affairs, which gradually led to everyone’s stories;

Climax stage: The architect felt deeply disturbed and wanted to leave. After being persuaded to stay, he began to "consult" with the doctor, and then strangled the doctor. Then the architect entered into the supernatural events that everyone told before, noise and confusion, and finally A scene where everyone was thrown into a "cell" and then thrilled without remembering the content of the dream;

Then, in the initial stage of access, wake up from the bed...

2. Infinitely looping content, an infinitely looping day

All of this is real, and it is arranged to endlessly loop this state, such as "Westworld", such as "Black Mirror Season 2" White Bear Park, and the motive of the arranger may be some kind of profit, it may be some kind of punishment ;

3. A subconscious journey

For example, in the hypnotic consciousness of "Hypnosis Master", such as the consciousness scene in "Black Mirror Christmas Special", such as the realistic layout of "Shutter Island";

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Extended Reading

Dead of Night quotes

  • Hugh Grainger: Let's get this straight, Doctor. You won't for a moment admit the possibility of foreseeing the future?

    Dr. van Straaten: Not for a moment.

    Hugh Grainger: Well, you'd say I'm a pretty ordinary, down-to-the-earth sort of person, wouldn't you?

    Dr. van Straaten: I refuse to commit myself. Why?

    Hugh Grainger: Well, when it comes to foreseeing the future, something once happened to me that knocks your theories into a cocked hat. Something I'll not forget to my dying day. As a matter of fact, it very nearly was my dying day.

  • Eliot Foley: A funny sort of practical joke: it, it isn't funny.