Critics often classify this movie as a meta category, but this kind of movie has two tendencies. One is that it is too ridiculous to turn into a comedy, such as the Scary Movie series. True horror movie fans will not watch this kind of movie. Yes, the other is the Scream series. Although it also quotes and satirizes the same type of film, it has no depth. The difference between this film is that it is a horror movie, and horror movie fans will not reject it. At the same time, it is also a satire. It is a deconstruction of horror movies and tells us what is really hidden behind these horror movies.
The beginning of the film is not like a normal horror film, but two comedy geniuses Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins talk about family life seriously in the laboratory, but with the addition of Amy Acker, what happened in Sweden, and then Japan In Japan, you will realize that things are not that simple. Then the film enters the old horror film routine. I won’t say how many classic horror films you can see in this film, so this film is in horror film. , Sci-fi conspiracy dramas, and supernatural myths are constantly changing, so that in the end it turned into a satire and ended. After we watched plasma, zombies, Sadako, and various monsters, the film has to make people think: Why do we like to watch horror movies? Why do we create so many monsters and ghost myths to satisfy this desire? Why are there such stories in various cultures around the world? Why are these stories consistent? Is it because of our fear of the unknown or the nostalgia for life, or because of the remaining dark side of humanity (slaughter, voyeurism), or because we just want to vent all kinds of dissatisfaction in life (the bitches in horror movies often die the earliest It is also the worst, and in reality they tend to succeed).
When Hollywood continues to output crude and inferior horror films to us, this film is the best mockery of them. As the audience (that is, the God in the film), we watch this film time and time again and feel that we have deviated from ourselves. What you have to think about is why we imagined this way? Have we been brainwashed by Hollywood to form a stereotyped thinking, or we originally wanted to see such a vulgar plot? I only hope that some angry viewers did not slap this film to death because they did not get what they wanted. So what the film said at the end: "People do need to change" is not only talking about Hollywood, but also about ourselves as the audience.
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