To persuade a madman, we must create another madman!
This is the logic of the Canadian horror film "Encounters in the Graveyard". This seems to be an ordinary film, but it has a lot of crowds on the Internet, and the comments of the fans are definitely a show of true feelings after being frightened!
"Encounters in the Graveyard" is full of routines, with serious imitations from the story to the photography style.
A group of people, for money and ratings, took a camera to explore a mental hospital shrouded in supernatural power.
As a result, the original 6 hours of interviews and explorations turned into 60 hours of exhaustion. Because, they got lost inside.
When they were really frightened and were about to leave the lunatic asylum, they smashed open the door they had entered during the day. As a result, the moment the door was smashed open, they found that there was only an endless corridor behind the door!
When they wanted to send a rescue signal from the roof, there was only one solid wall on the stairs to the roof.
All the windows in the house were sealed. Even if they go in one direction, they will never reach the end of the other side of the house.
And it was already 6 hours before sunrise, but after dozens of hours passed, the house still failed to welcome the warmth of the sun.
Yes, this is the so-called "ghost hitting the wall" in Chinese classical fantasy novels!
In order to escape this hell, they began to explore and understand this hell.
They can leave here, but they must be "cured"! Only by becoming a madman and becoming a sick person can leave.
It turns out that this lunatic asylum has an unbearable past. In order to study his own operation, the doctor operated on a mental patient. His favorite surgery is craniotomy, which explores the mystery of the human brain by studying the trauma of the forehead. His knife was not clean, and some patients had no major problems at all, but he had undergone brain surgery in the name of a doctor and became completely lunatic.
The doctor was retaliated against. He practiced witchcraft in the hospital. As a result, his grievances and the grievances of the patients could not leave the house, and circulated in it, each continuing to satisfy their private desires in another world.
They need more lunatics, and they like to turn people who come here into patients just like them.
In terms of photography style, "Encounters in the Graveyard" borrowed heavily from "Ghost Records", especially the lens language of the Spanish film "Horror Video".
The shooting style of the pseudo-real disciplinary film, a large number of irregular shots interpret the characters' inner fear. The whole film uses a lot of night vision lenses in a dark environment.
Think about the sudden change of color behind the close-ups of the characters' panicked faces. It's really panic!
Especially at the climax of the movie, "Encounters in the Graveyard" used the same ending arrangement as "Ghost Records". The actor came to the underground laboratory, the recording room, and through the photos of the surgery and the witchcraft books placed on the stage, he finally discovered The secret of this lunatic asylum.
Of course, under the night vision lens, he turned his head fiercely. He saw the doctor who was doing the craniotomy by the hospital bed. They saw him and approached him step by step...
Indeed, no matter the story, Still photography, "Encounters in the Graveyard" is all routine, but it is this patterned style that evokes our fresh memories of fear.
The doubling of fear and the proliferation of horror are all related to our life memory, especially the memory of watching movies. They have chemical reactions with various images in our minds, bringing the unpredictable pleasure of "fearing yourself".
"Encounter in the Graveyard" is sincere. In the routine, he still has an innovative and patient layout.
When the photography team entered the lunatic asylum, all the stalks were buried in advance, such as windows that would open by themselves, bathtubs that made a dripping sound, arms outstretched from the wall, all sorts of mysterious intimidation gave the spectators an early warning, in the evening. After the situation is out of control, these foreshadowings will detonate one after another, bringing an emotional climax.
In order to drive the characters crazy and out of control, "Encounter in the Graveyard" constantly creates a tense situation through the plot. After a long period of intimidation, the characters who are exhausted and fleeing have lost their souls and even look forward to awakening the nightmare with death.
At the climax, in order to survive, the male protagonist smashed to death the mouse in the underground passage without hesitation, and started to eat like blood.
When he felt hopeless to escape, he began to curse and curse at the camera. This scene of breaking the fourth wall of the screen makes the sense of fear gush directly from the inside and out of the screen.
Yes, the completely out of control and desperate actor is cursing every viewer who watches the movie!
Through the camera and the expressions of the characters, fear and despair are fermented on the screen, becoming an unstoppable terrorist attack!
Just like in the movie, this building has its own life, and it will change its shape at any time, forming one maze after another.
And while you are exploring this maze, you are also in the passage of hell that you entered!
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