American horror films with religious overtones, "Demon" and "God", should sinful people be redeemed?
American horror films with religious overtones always have a "fate", "causal cycle" meaning. The film I recommend today is very similar to our saying: " Heaven is so clear, who will the heaven forgive? "
On a cloudy day, Bowden, a police officer, was having breakfast with his friend, and the words revealed that Bowden was a person with a story. At the same time, a suicide incident by jumping off a building was "quietly" staged in Philadelphia. Bowden and his friend police officers who came to inquire about the body found that there were two-story buildings near the crime scene. Such a height jumped off the building to commit suicide. How can there be such a strong impact? Bowden on Conan's upper body immediately turned on the reasoning mode, and quickly deduced that the crime scene was actually a towering office building next to it.
As soon as the camera turned, five unrelated strangers in the lobby of a certain building: a little old lady, a beautiful woman, a black security guard, a salesman, and a young brother who looked like a starring face entered the same elevator by accident. Dingdong, as soon as the elevator door is closed, you should be able to guess that the five of them are going to be out of luck.
As an elevator serving a 35-story building and serving as the protagonist of the crime scene, of course it is necessary. . . Broke in the middle of it! The old security guard on duty in the central control room of the building easily called the elevator repairman to check it out. Ridiculous, the elevator repairman also checked upstairs and downstairs, and found that there was no problem with the elevator at all, but it was somehow stuck in the middle. The emergency intercom inside the elevator could have two-way communication, but unfortunately it can only broadcast one-way from the central control room to the inside of the elevator. The perfect secret room environment is already available, and the devil is waiting for the opportunity.
At this time, the little security guard on duty who believed in God suddenly saw the face of the "devil" flashing by in the surveillance, feeling that something was wrong, he took out his little cross tremblingly. Sure enough, the lights in the elevator flickered and instantly went dark. When the lights came on again, the beauty was lying on the ground, and someone slashed her back with a sharp weapon. Some people were injured at first, and the atmosphere in the elevator became very delicate. The five people suspected each other. Finally, they stood in line and isolated the blood-stained salesman in the corner. The security guard on duty also began to realize that something was wrong and chose to call the police. Coincidentally, Bowden, who was investigating the suicide case in the morning, presumed that this building was the site of the suicide case, so he took over this bizarre case.
Immediately afterwards, the development of the situation deteriorated rapidly, and the demon accelerated its pace. Once again the lights went out and the salesman died. The identities of the five people in the elevator also gradually surfaced: there is no good thing among the five people. The salesman once created a Ponzi scheme, causing thousands of families to be ruined; the beautiful woman is actually a professional marriage fraudster, who has finally made a fortune and is thinking of looting property; the black security guard is a temporary worker, with bad deeds, repeatedly attacking others The background of the case; the surveillance video in the lobby revealed that the old lady was actually a thief; the young man with the face of the male was carrying a bag before entering the elevator, suspiciously avoiding the registration in the lobby, but the backpack disappeared after entering the elevator. Except for the young man with the male protagonist face, everyone else checked their names. Doubts seem to have gathered on this young man with the protagonist face. Everyone has a story. The police officer Bowden also recounted that his wife and children were killed in a car accident five years ago, and the perpetrator fled, leaving only a note that said "I'm so sorry".
The devil gathered these sinful people in one place and wiped them out in batches. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed to be killing the people. However, demons are demons after all, how can they create a terrifying atmosphere without some collateral damage? A maintenance worker trying to repair the elevator fell down the elevator shaft and died. When the four of them heard the sound above their heads, they thought they had been rescued. However, seeing the blood dripping down slowly, hope once again became a deeper despair.
Afterwards, the elevator fell into a terrifying rhythm of one person being killed by a black light. Policeman Bowden watched everything happen on the monitor, but was powerless. Crazy pursuit of the potential enemies behind everyone, but repeatedly failed to catch up with the "devil" murdering footsteps. The pious security guard kept saying that this was the devil, but unfortunately no one believed it. In the end, I had no choice but to pick up the intercom silently and pray for the rest of the people in the elevator.
The five people in the elevator died one by one, and the last remaining male protagonist fell into deep despair. Everyone else died, and the weird atmosphere didn't dissipate. After ruling out the suspicion of committing the crime, what else is left? Who else can do such a ghostly murder without a trace? The answer is obvious. At this time, the fiancée of the only surviving protagonist face boy appeared, proving the boy's identity. Only then did the police find out that they had mistaken the name of the protagonist, the face man, for the old lady's name. At this time, the old lady who had already died also stood up in response to the situation and just said "take you away".
The boy with the starring face, who was scared to pee, began to confess, and confessed to the policeman on the walkie-talkie. It turned out that he was the owner of the car who killed the policeman Bowden's wife and children five years ago and escaped.
The story is here, coming to an end. The devil did not take the repentant wicked away. Police Bowden found the criminal who killed his wife and child and finally chose to forgive. The ending is my least satisfied with the film. Looking forward to the wicked being punished, atonement is not just about admitting wrongdoing. Personally, I feel that the ending is a bit abrupt.
Although the overall rating of this film is not particularly high, there are still many remarkable points. The narration throughout the beginning and the end has no sense of disobedience, like telling a story of another person, but it also deducts the topic and guides the audience from time to time. In the small elevator room, the director's performance space is very limited. The nature of the five guilty people exposed under the extreme desire to survive is very emotional. Through the interspersed rescue and investigation, the stories of the protagonists are revealed layer by layer like peeling an onion. The setting of sound isolation from the outside world in the elevator room makes the helpless atmosphere even more dignified. Except for the slightly abrupt ending, this film has the qualities that a qualified horror film should have. Horror films are inherently difficult to do with depth. This 10-year-old film is much better than "Hereditary" and "A Quiet Place" in recent years . It's become more and more difficult to find good horror movies recently. I hope you can recommend and share your favorite movies~
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