Rating: 5
Keywords: Latent Series-European and American terror;
1. The summary of the hidden series-the plot part;
It may be because the market is limited. Regardless of the quality of the story, horror films always give people a shoddy feeling. This series is an exception, with sophisticated craftsmanship. Of course, completely cater to the market, which means that the entire production must abandon the unique cult sense of horror themes. For a long time, horror themes have taken on most of the experimental movies. If you have the expectation of "fear early adopters", lurking is not a good choice; but if you have never liked the infinitely stimulating fear experience, lurking is the best Horror film.
The first part, soul drift, score 7;
The little boy possesses the ability of "soul drift", gradually drifting away, until the "soul is lost". Many lurking evil spirits are waiting for the opportunity and trying to take the boy's body. Finally, with the help of psychics, the boy's father retrieved his son's soul.
－－The plot is very clean, no mapping, no random addition; plus the commendable "sense of horror craftsmanship", it is worth recommending.
The second part, looking for evil spirits, score 6;
The father retrieved his son's soul from the spirit world, but lost his own soul and brought back an evil spirit by the way. Another "spiritual war".
-The plot is no longer as clean as before, the clues are too far away, and one point is deducted. A neat story is very important to a horror film. Don't have complicated clues, or even one more clue is not good. Because fear and eroticism are both a kind of hunger, in front of instinct, don't talk about morality and aesthetics. (I have discussed this issue many times in previous review articles, so I won’t repeat it.)
The third part, score 7;
A little girl trying to talk to her dead mother accidentally invites evil spirits.
-The frame structure is basically the same as the first part.
The fourth part, psychic redemption, score 4;
The evil spirit controlled the daughter's father, causing him to imprison and kill a woman. Decades later, the evil spirit controlled another man and imprisoned another man. The psychic daughter always thought it was the father's fault, and finally found that everything was a conspiracy of the evil spirits, and declared war on the evil spirits. At the last moment, the daughter's mother made an effort to subdue the evil spirits.
-A horror movie that can't summarize the plot in one sentence, it must not be a good horror movie. Compared with the first three parts, the fourth part has a lofty idea, love and hate, and even try to define evil spirits. The fourth part is the only theme in the whole series. Even the image design of evil spirits seems to have ulterior motives, but the actual effect is the worst. It can be clearly seen that the creator deliberately tried to deepen a theme at the end, and even got a maternal love. When making a horror movie, what the hell is maternal love? Or that sentence, don’t arbitrarily set something profound for the horror movie Humanistic theme is inappropriate. For example, in this film, it's good to be simple, but it's so complicated, but the four are different.
2. Western terror;
The entire latent series is a very typical "Western-style terror".
Fear Element: Satan
Fear subject: evil spirit-it hides in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to move;
Fear form: psychic-soul drift, astral projection, soul battle;
Fear content: the soul is weak or lost, evil spirits take advantage of the opportunity to attack, manipulate the body, and act evil. -Many evil spirits want to take possession of the human body in order to be a human again; there is also a kind of evil spirit, just to pull you into the water and enter the dark world.
Fear result: Holy Spirit KO evil spirit. All fears are paper tigers. (The result of horror is very important. In Eastern Fear, the evil spirits cannot be defeated)
Fear ideology/religious basis: the Bible and Jesus; Western horror stories are based on Jesus stories-self-sacrifice, build soul channels, and save lost souls.
3. Fear and pain are food for feeding the devil;
This is a sentence used to deepen the theme of the film. Many people may be puzzled because this is a typical Western ideology, very Jesus. There are many records about Jesus in the Four Gospels, which probably means that God hates fear and pain. There is no doubt that what the Holy Spirit hates is evil spirits.
Just imagine, what is the devil’s food in the Eastern world? What is supporting the devil?
4. Routine digressions;
There are two fear elements in the western world, evil spirits and communism. They believe that communism is a hell express train. This is very interesting. The Communist International regards capitalism as corruption, and capitalism imprisons the communist world. Why is it so misunderstood?
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