Greasy Uncle's Evil Movie Watching Journal is a new column opened by Carp. In the future, I will introduce some movies of cult, heterochromatic, and marginal culture to you here. Since it is a bad taste, there is a certain deviation from the public aesthetic standards. The movies here are only introductions, not recommendations. Everyone chooses carefully.
I'm a veritable movie omnivore, and I've seen everything from B-level plasma films to 20-minute art films with two lines of dialogue in one shot. Whether you like it or not after watching a movie is one thing, and I really enjoy this process while watching the movie.
My biggest need for watching movies is entertainment, so I have watched a lot of all commercial genres except for cartoons. Among them, horror movies and thrillers are the ones I like and watch the most. A movie makes me feel scared, exciting, fun, and enjoyable.
Today, I would like to recommend a classic horror film of the palace level, Italian director Dario Argento, directed by the 1977 "Gloomy Wind".
One stormy night, Susie, an American girl, came to Germany alone to study at a prestigious ballet academy.
When she came to the door of the academy, a woman rushed out of the door and then fled in panic. The college staff on the walkie-talkie refused her entry on the grounds that she did not know her identity, and Susie had to leave in the rain.
The woman who escaped came to a friend's house, hoping to stay overnight and stay away from here at dawn.
But the mysterious killer soon followed and brutally killed her after breaking the window.
And her friend has also become an innocent burial.
The next day Susie came to the Dance Academy again, and this time the school's administrators warmly received her.
Susie's study life was not smooth. She could always feel an inexplicable and strange atmosphere in her academy. Soon after, she fainted in dance class, and blood leaked from her nose and mouth.
The sick Susie was taken care of by the girl in the next dormitory, and the two became friends. From her, Susie learned many little-known secrets of the college.
But soon after, the girl disappeared mysteriously. In the process of searching for her, Susie learned from her psychiatrist that the founder of this dance academy was a famous person who came across the sea from Greece. Witches, and this dance academy full of dark legends, has always been a taboo topic for locals.
When Susie returned to the academy, she felt more and more terrifying and dangerous here.
The terrifying mystery is gradually revealed, and whether Susie's life can be preserved has become a huge suspense.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Italian commercial films were very developed. For example, the "Macaroni Westerns" headed by Sergio Leone has a large number of loyal audiences in the United States and even around the world.
Among the many commercial genre films in Italy, the most local style is undoubtedly "Italian Lead Yellow". "Giallo" means yellow in Italian. In the last century of Italian murders, most thriller novels used yellow as the cover. In the 1960s and 1970s, a new term "Italian Giallo" was extended to Italian horror films. These films are mostly murder, violence, crime, horror and mysticism as elements, gory, perverted, pornographic, and more intense. One cannot be missing. It sounds a bit vulgar, yes, Italian lead yellow is the top existence of popular culture back then, and can be regarded as a synonym for vulgar sensory stimulation movies. But this does not affect at all, Italian lead yellow has many loyal fans all over the world , carp is one of them.
In 2016, Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn directed "Neon Demon" starring Elle Fanning. I can only sigh that Feng Shui turns around, and there is only a thin line between vulgar culture and elite culture.
Dario Argento, the director of "The Storm", is one of the leading figures in the Italian lead and has a reputation as a master of horror. And this can be regarded as one of Dario Argento's masterpieces, which is very famous among horror movie fans and has a very high reputation. Many commentators regarded this as the representative work of Italian lead yellow. This positioning is not very appropriate. Dario Argento has indeed shot a lot of lead yellow films, but he must have had the idea of going beyond lead yellow when he created this one. Friends who regard this as lead yellow should not watch lead yellow much. The conclusion may come from the representative work of lead yellow on behalf of the director, and it must be the reasoning of lead yellow representative work. This one is very different from lead yellow in terms of style and characteristics, and it is obvious that the director did it deliberately.
When a movie is famous, many people will interpret it. Some academic youths who don't look down on horror movies at all are involved, so they must find some artistic value in it. Take this comment that talks about expressionism, I look sour. Dario Argento does use a lot of expressionism in composition, color and sound effects. However, the artistic value of this film has been increased by several dimensions, and it is estimated that Argento himself would not dare to recognize this film as an example of expressionism. This is a classic horror film, the classic is added before the horror film, and it has nothing to do with the art film, even if this one uses expressionism. No matter how classic Argento is, it can't be Visconti, or Bertolucci.
This is the first of Argento's "Mother" trilogy, the second "Hell" in 1980 is also very good, and the third "Third Mother" in 2007, you can see that the horror master is indeed Old, Xiongfeng is no longer powerless. When I have time, Carp will introduce the two parts to you one by one.
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