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"Cinema Universe"-a term that is no longer new today. Starting from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), all major Hollywood studios have seen the infinite business opportunities in the "Cinema Universe", such as Warner's DCEU, Monster Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter Wizarding World Universe, Universal Dark Universe, Disney The Star Wars universe, Paramount’s Transformers universe and many other universes are rushing toward us. It seems that as long as it is a movie that can be made into a series, it can be named the "Cinema Universe". It is true that the "Cinema Universe" can greatly broaden the minds of creators. It is undoubtedly a rescue medicine in Hollywood, where originality is weakened, making sustainable box office revenue possible. However, it is not easy to successfully build the film universe, and it is not easy to lay the foundation of the "cine universe", not to mention the more serious problems faced after success-assembly lines and serious homogeneity.
The author does not intend to discuss or even criticize the universe mentioned above in detail. On the contrary, the "universe" I want to talk about is related to my favorite genre-horror movies. From the current point of view, even though there are so many "movie universes", only Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe and Warner's Conspiracy Cinematic Universe have really succeeded in stable production and sold at the box office. Even though the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes in "Nun" is only 26%, it also scored a global score of 360 million U.S. dollars. The "Annabel 3: Homecoming" released this summer also achieved a global score of 220 million. Today I will talk in detail about the “horror movie universe” that attracts gold-The Conjuring Universe.
Since Wen Ziren's "Call of Souls 1" went viral, a series of derivative films have been put on the agenda by Warner. "Annabel 1" may be an unintentional move, but the law of "the box office must have a sequel" is a certainty. Since then, the "Call of Souls" series has taken the main line of the "Annabelle" series. "And other series as a way to derive and perfect the universe. Through the "Chain Saw" series and "Latent" series, the audience can already feel Wen Ziren's powerful ability to line the line. Therefore, it is certain that the expansion of the soul-calling universe will not be "no rice to cook" under Wen Ziren's ingenious arrangement. However, as the "soul-calling universe" slowly develops, its common problems and even all the "movie universe" will also emerge at this time.
After making a blockbuster with "Chain Saw Fright", Wen Ziren entered the public's field of vision. There is no doubt that "Chain Saw 1" is one of the pinnacles of small-cost horror movies whether it is placed in the past or now. After that, he brought another horror film "Dead Silence", Mary Shaw's nursery rhyme. And the puppet’s weird smile is believed to have become a shadow of many people. "Calling the Soul" is based on the "real story adaptation", and the whole film has only one dead dog and one bird, but also makes the fierce man cry. Why is the "warm terror" so effective? First of all, because it is different from the western style that uses physiologically objectionable blood to create a horror effect. It uses various common small objects in daily life to create a horrible atmosphere, such as the back of the door after the lights are turned off, the bottom of the bed with abnormal noises, and the sound sleep The feet hanging by the bed from time to time and other inspiring life fragments to create a horrible atmosphere (after all, who can meet a murderer in the forest every day, and a chainsaw man in a deserted house?), and secondly, it is not through simple Jump scare to stimulate your nerves, instead telling the audience that something unusual will happen in this scene in advance, but he is not eager to start, instead he repeatedly uses slight visions to provoke the audience. When the audience relaxes their vigilance by accident, they suddenly feel unexpected The scene completes a fatal blow. Just like an injection, the patient knows that the needle will come in, but before that, he has to suffer repeated disinfection of alcohol cotton. The basement bridge in "Soul Recruitment 1" is a good example. The director's control of the film's rhythm, the use of shots, the use of Eastern horror, and the ingenious horror scenes have successfully imprinted the film with a distinctive authorship.
These are exactly what other non-director Wen Ziren’s "calling the soul universe" film can’t learn. The director of "After the Lights" David F. Sandberg is the best imitator, but in "Annabel 2: Birth" "In ", there is only the shadow of the "warm mirror", most of the scare sections are still based on simple and crude jump scares, and there can only be a momentary thrill of adrenaline soaring, but there is no danger of oppression when approaching. . The future "Ghost Sister" is even more boring. The whole film only has a procrastinating and dispensable plot and a crude jumper. The quality of the film is worrying, and it gives people a feeling of shooting for filming. , Only the easter eggs linked to other works make people feel that it is worth the price. Even if there are works that seem to open up Xinjiang and add more new ghosts such as "The Avengers" and "Annabel 3: Homecoming", if the follow-up is still a pipelined repeat of the plot template of the previous work, and the satisfactory materials are laid out The horror part of the scene, the horror film will become boring and no more fun. But what is even more frightening is that we can conclude from the predecessor MCU that once the universe takes shape and a fixed audience is cultivated, the box office will not be low regardless of the quality of the part of the film, and more sequels will continue to take office. This vicious cycle of "universe" business model is undoubtedly a huge consumption for horror films.
Horror films can actually have rich connotations. From the pioneering portrayal of the black race in "Night of the Living Dead" to the recent exploration of American society in "We", horror films happen to be a low-cost way of satirizing current affairs. , Criticizing human nature and many other functions, Hollywood "movie universe" should not become the mainstream trend of horror films, let alone become the ultimate destination of horror films.
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