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The text does not need to be read carefully, it is all nonsense. (what?)
Woah, watching it in the middle of the night scares me to death TAT
Oh, so the ghost looks like this, hello~
Wow, there are so many piao, how are you~
These are my thoughts after watching the video.
When I watch horror movies, what I don't like the most is to be surprised, and I wish I would give you a jumping scare in every section. At this point, the rhythm of the film is well grasped, and the foreshadowing part relies entirely on mute and perspective switching to create a terrifying atmosphere. There is no sudden shock, but it just hangs you and makes you dare not look directly at the screen. Being able to control the sense of fear freely is already an excellent work.
In addition, although this film clearly (everyone knows) pays homage to (everyone knows) several excellent series of pseudo-documentaries, in my opinion, it has moved from the carrier of "documentary" to "live video", which is Now the hot live mode.
What kind of change is this? It's as if Sister Sadako finally gave up crawling out of the TV screen, and instead crawled out of the computer screen instead. Technology is changing human life, and the carrier of fear must also change. So although the content is actually equivalent to a patchwork of horror jokes, it is still refreshing.
Just like when you see the old jokes when you are playing Douyin, you will still give a like for Yan Yi~ right?
However, after the continuous frightening climax, the setting of ghosts is too ordinary is indeed the biggest regret of the film. It can be said to be the pot of funding, but I would say that the screenwriter and director are indeed very good at grasping the rhythm, but the originality is still too weak, resulting in a good reputation but cannot be maintained forever. You can see more thinking and innovation about ghosts.
After "Kunchiyan" came out, it went straight to the topic list with the pseudo-record (pseudo-documentary) stunt imitating "Blair Witch". In fact, I just said this sentence to elicit that "Kunchiyan" does borrow heavily from "Blair Witch". After all, the latter is the originator of pseudo-documentaries, and almost every low-cost pseudo-documentary horror movie has gone the route of "Blair Witch", and even developed a pseudo-live film (similar to "Unfriending"). But in addition to the imitation of the narrative shots (the one where Charlotte and Zhixian escaped), "Kunchiyan" also learned three points in the publicity stunt.
The biggest gimmick in "Kunchiyan" is the seven haunted holy places voted by CNN. After the film is released, basically searching for "CNN + Seven Horror/Haunted" in various languages will show a group of haunted holy places containing Kunchiyan. list.
This is much more efficient than building a website to record chronicles in the Blair Witch (or Cloverfield Archives) era, because the other three haunted holy places mentioned in the film do exist, and the Kunchiyan Asylum It also brings together all the elements that all haunted mental hospitals have: war hiding corpses, human experiments, the mysterious disappearance of the president, and the overnight death of patients. The ambiguous description of the elements makes the viewers (as long as they are not fearful fanatics) convinced (pretend to believe) that Kunchiyan does exist.
But think about it, have you ever seen such a mental hospital before? Including the structure of the hospital, the facts of the past, the victims who were dragged away? The elements that are repeated over and over again in movies and TV series, old wine in a new bottle, is the story of Kunchiyan.
(But in fact, CNN's voting has never been credible, and the Asian part of the seven or even ten horror holy places is basically only Hong Kong and Japan.) Therefore, in terms of publicity, Kunchiyan is not as detailed as "Witch Blair". Attentive, but it does take into account the fermenting effect of Internet search in the movie-watching crowd.
So, in addition to "Blair Witch", which horror images are imitated in "Kunchiyan"?
❑ The first ones are "Ghost Records" and "Unfriend". There are negative reviews pointing directly at plagiarism of "Graveyard Encounter", um... that counts as one. The constant blurry screens and signal interference in "Kunchiyan", as well as the scene where Ji Hyun turns into a black-eyed monster in the climax, are all derived from these two films and other similar films that have been extended after them.
But one of the aspects that I have always admired about Korean horror movies is that learning from and imitation is imitation. Korean horror movies can always find a new way, so that you can feel "this part is a little bit different from the previous film. Like", rather than a complete and rather unpleasant copy.
For example, the classic big nostril angle shot in "Blair Witch", in "Kunchiyan", it needs to be done even more, and the lens is directly fixed on the shoulder and neck, so that the viewers feel that there must be something in the personal shot. .
But the goose didn't. Very disappointed. Disappointment on a personal level. The director must have not watched the "Suddenly One Day" series carefully. Come on head! (Ignore this sentence.)
In order to create a relaxed pseudo-live atmosphere, everyone played the game happily at the beginning. This is the norm for this type of film, the energetic smiling faces of the young men and women are in stark contrast to all the fears that will be encountered later. Of course, there is also the ugly face of chasing interests. However, I think this part of the portrayal has been downplayed in this film, and there is not even the so-called selfishness of human nature that is arguing because of the differentiation of interests. . I believe that this part was modified and weakened by the screenwriter in the later stage. Otherwise, too many highlights are mixed in too deliberately, which will make the viewers uncomfortable and even more contrived. This is also one of the advantages of "Kunchiyan".
❑ Fake supernatural phenomena and actually encounter ghosts, which is a bit like a certain anti-kill movie. I'm sorry everyone. I forgot the name of the movie. When I remember it, I'll make it up (and then I don't remember it again).
❑ The photos of the people in the hospital were killed, and the words on the walls changed. They were all a combination of "The Shining" stalks and general weird stories + horror shadow stalks.
So far, this film has gradually overlapped with the plot of a horror movie "bad movie" that I quite like in my memory. The movie was called "Haunted House." But in fact, as long as it involves horror movies in mental hospitals, the background is the same: the hospital uses the patients admitted to the mental hospital to perform inhumane human experiments while putting on a face that is hanging on the pot, and then one day, the control system Out of control, the patients ran wild, and everyone in the hospital was dragged away and tortured to death, especially the dean who died the worst. Afterwards, the hospital staff and the mentally ill became ghosts, haunting people who dared to break into their territory.
But why does the world below the surface of the bath exist? What the hell happened in room 402? The film did not explain clearly, it just exists as a suspense gimmick, there are good and bad.
❑ The soul-calling ceremony is a bit like an old Hong Kong movie. The part of pulling the red rope reminds me of the plot of pulling the light bulb in "Stranger Things", or it can be regarded as the little easter egg in "The Crying". Here the screenwriter also added an old stalk, that is, all the staff are in the camera, so who is shooting?
In fact, all the characters in "Kunchiyan" starred in their real names. I also think this setting is very Hong Kong-style ghost film. Although the choreographer may not have been inspired by this, the sense of stake in "throwing a part of the actor himself into a horror movie" is still very exciting.
❑ Dolls usually default to "Annabelle". But because of the details of the patient holding the doll in the photo, I thought it was also a "Shining" stalk.
❑ After Charlotte and Zhixian fled, Zhixian's ghost possessed and started to make strange voices (I was crying while wearing headphones), and the guttural sounds of monsters that Charlotte encountered can all be seen from "The Grudge" "The stalk.
In fact, Sadako also appeared, and when the last three people were trapped in 402, when the camera moved quickly to the bathtub like a wellhead, a ghost like Sadako flashed. That should be the dean. The "Wig" of the Korean classic horror movie also accounts for an element. The "ghost in schoolgirl uniform" mentioned by everyone before the live broadcast was a reflection of the female high school's strange talk. The stuffed chicken that Charlotte stepped on is from The Monster of the Han River. These are barely Easter eggs.
I also don't know why the chicken is considered to be from the Han River monster. I feel more like KFC. (To shut up)
❑ When the three were trapped in the 402 nowhere, who (forgot whether it was Seung Hoon or Cheng Wook><) repeatedly used the DV camera to check the movement of the ghosts, a bit like "After Turning Off the Lights".
❑ The hand outstretched behind the back covers the face is "The Conjuring 1".
❑ After Ha Jun entered Kunchiam, he turned the DV camera to the mirror and saw a ghost behind him. It was the familiar "Ghost Shadow"~
❑ In the last live broadcast of the jpg screen, the two Floaters got up. It seems that there is a similar scene in any Thai horror movie, but that movie is a ghost bride. I, despairingly, forgot which one it was.
Don't criticize, don't criticize! I'll think about it carefully!
Ah, I can't think of it, leave a bad review! (recumbent)
A few shots that surprised me :
❑ In the beginning, the two passerby characters were broadcast live in Kunchiyan and then killed. This part uses a frame the size of a mobile phone screen, which I personally think is pretty good, and exclaimed "Sure enough, A Piao must also keep pace with the times".
❑ On the wall where Charlotte left her name, the words "alive" changed from "alive" to "suicide".
❑ The bondage cabinet (punishment cabinet) has a question about "why the opening is not on the face but on the chest".
❑ Ji Hyun is possessed by a ghost. From here, I completely entered the climax of the film, and I released most of the intimidating techniques at one time.
❑ The wig floating on the bathtub in the early stage, and the female ghost that flashed by in the later stage.
❑ The faces that appeared in the peeping windows of the rooms on both sides when Chengxu was pushed in a wheelchair.
❑ Two female ghosts standing up slowly in the static image decorated on both sides of the live broadcast screen.
The role assignment also exceeded my expectations.
In the first series of interactions, there was obvious friction between Yayan and Di Yun, Di Yun was timid and likes to complain, and Yayan was a good girl with strange hobbies. In my mind, these two are In the later stage, he was controlled and ruined everything; Charlotte looked like a cannon fodder selling meat, Zhi Xian was responsible for the scheming role in the early stage of Sunshine and the later stage, and the other two brothers were pure cannon fodder.
As a result, in the actual role arrangement, Charlo acted as more death display role (as Seung-hoon said, Charlo's response was particularly good, and she would especially guide her), and Ji-hyun became the first to be possessed. People, Ya-yeon and Di-yoon's character personalities are completely ignored. It can be said that with the exception of He Jun, the preparatory work for all the characters is completely useless.
And I especially like this kind of screenwriter playing with everyone's careful thinking.
The personality setting of the two cannon fodder brothers is also a highlight. As the middlemen who participated in the fraud and were in Kunchiyan, they knew that the development of the situation was going beyond the preset step by step. There must be a share." After realizing something was wrong for the second time, he didn't escape by himself, but wanted to go back and bring Yayan and Di Yun out. Compared with Yayan Diyun, who was full in the early stage and became a passerby in the later stage, Jixian Xia Luo, who suddenly broke out, and Ha Jun, who has always been the priority of interests, the three-dimensional scenes of these two people are not quite right.
I believe this is also an idea that the screenwriter and director hope to convey to the viewers: in horror movies, in order to advance the plot, or even make a horror movie, action itself needs to be taken, and this part of the action may be seen while watching the movie. It's "killing", but for characters who are exploring and in fear, they are part of the "choice" they make now. Without these options, the story cannot progress. And if you need the story to progress, you don't necessarily have to make a choice to abandon others to survive.
Too many dividing lines is a sign that one does not organize language.
In the final live broadcast of the film, the plummeting number of viewers is a creepy point. It is impossible for the viewing volume of hundreds of thousands of people to drop to more than 500 people when the picture reaches its climax, and it is impossible for irony. Therefore, it is only possible that the viewing volume at the beginning is all fake, so that the producer thinks that the number of clicks is indeed so high, and the benefits are readily available, will they force the people who want to escape to continue, and eventually they will enter this hell.
So what do I say, A Piao also has to keep pace with the times, Sister Sadako! (Sadako: ...)
I'm done, everyone can turn off the lights.
How can someone still use the stalk of turning off the lights these days?
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