The Korean hit movie " Kunchiyan" is coming!
Known as the most terrifying film in South Korea in the past decade, this typical low-cost pseudo-documentary cost only about 15 million yuan, and it actually directly overturned the top Hollywood blockbuster "Ready Player One", which aroused nationwide heated discussions in South Korea. Movie frenzy.
In the movie theater, the most anxious climax of the film for 30 minutes directly scared the audience away, and some male movie fans could barely watch it through their fingers.
Because of excessive fright, the fans lost control in their hands, and the popcorn rain that was in free fall after flying out became the threatening symbol of "Kunchiyan".
The popular Korean wave style can most hit the nerves of Chinese fans. The familiar elements of movie genres, the narrative mode that fits the thinking mode of Asians, and the movie prototype that integrates and enlarges Hollywood and Hong Kong movies all make mainland movie fans "feel the same."
Since the release of "Kunchiyan" in South Korea, mainland movie fans have been looking forward to it.
On a dark and windy night for a month, Fat Brother ritually turned off the lights in the room and the windows of the balcony, making a daring "guinea pig" in the silence and darkness.
As a genre film veteran, horror film smasher, thriller dissector,
I admit,
"Kunchiyan" still scared me this time.
In order to scare people, "Kunchiyan" played with his mind in three places.
The first is to find intertextual gimmicks outside of stories and movies, increase the sense of mystery, provide realistic support for horror, and expand narrative subtext.
Kunjiam is the Kunjiam mental hospital located in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do. Its full name is "Nanyang Neuropsychiatric Hospital", and it is listed as the first of the three major haunted houses in Korea by Koreans.
In 2012, it was selected as one of the seven horror places in the world by CNN Travel Network (Ukraine Chernobyl Amusement Park, Czech Bone Church, Japan Aokigahara Forest, West African Witchcraft Market, Mexico Doll Island, Japan Warship Island)), top ranking.
The appalling incident at Kunchiyan in the early 1980s provides the story with a steady stream of horrifying material. The mass suicide of mental hospitals and patients shocked the whole of South Korea.
After that, rumors of haunting kept popping up here, and some daring explorers disappeared for no reason, which made Kunchiyan shrouded in gloom and mystery.
It brings together various horror elements such as mass suicide, psychiatric treatment, abandoned haunted houses, evil curses, and revenge of wraiths, giving Kunchiyan itself a variety of interpretation and derivation possibilities.
Planting detail bombs in the first act, providing textual information with key narrations, those terrifying props, these foreplay work can all find clues in real events outside the movie and make arrangements in advance.
Fear is never achieved overnight. A successful horror film will use subtexts that are easily overlooked but will definitely be remembered to open the audience's defenses in advance, cut a small wound on the skin of reason, and then all that needs to be done is to The poison of fear poured into the wound, allowing it to enter the blood, until the top entered the heart, and the poison exploded and died.
In the process of poisoning, "Kunchiyan" uses the "pseudo-documentary" mode commonly used in low-budget films.
Starting from "Blair Witch", handheld photography, deliberately rough image quality, and irregular shooting angles have become the signature form of all similar films.
This time, "Kunchiyan" has made an innovative attempt to keep pace with the times in "Stones of Other Mountains".
The film tells the story of a local live video team, for the sake of click-through rate and advertising fees, they formed a team to explore the secrets of Kunchiyan, and the scary organs arranged in advance made them think that everything was "normal", but the various unexplainable mysterious phenomena that followed made them. They fell into the abyss, and the team characters were defeated one by one until they were all destroyed. When the film was released in Hong Kong, it was translated as "Crazy Asylum One by One", which accurately revealed the direction of the entire plot.
"Kunchiyan" does not use a single hand-held follow-up film in a large area, but uses every actor as a shooting camera.
An actor is equipped with two miniature cameras, and the live broadcast tool Go Pro is used to live broadcast the scene in front of and behind the actor, plus two handheld cameras, which provide many unconventional shooting angles for the film, and allow the audience to see clearly and directly The facial expressions of the actors changed, and the terrifying atmosphere that came from all directions was immersed in the scene.
In traditional films of the same type, such as Spain's "Death Video", France's "Graveyard Encounter", etc., single-person handheld photography is often used as the first-person camera and the normal third-person camera is used as a cross, while "Kunchiyan" is A large number of pictures in the form of live broadcast are used for shooting , and then supplemented with post-processing, hoping to bring an immersive experience.
Director Zheng Fanzhi believes that,
"Since "Blair Witch", this type of film has begun to reproduce itself in an endless amount, but there are some changes in the material, and it has not shaken the foundation of the form, so after the meeting, I decided to make an experiential horror film Movies that set and allow the audience to experience the space.”
In "Kunchiyan", there are exquisite scene details, but there is no excessive blood and shocking sound effects. The fear comes from the live broadcast, the distorted expressions of the actors because of fear, the rapid breathing, and irregularities. Paranormal phenomena that flash under the camera.
In one of the most terrifying scenes, "Kunchiyan" takes people 's fear of enclosed spaces to new heights.
After the actress was hit by a ghost in the wilderness and her teammates were possessed, she fell directly back to the mental hospital. In the dark and closed, but spacious and barrier-free room, she met the evil spirit.
In a completely unobstructed room, lights, background sounds, actors' expressions and breathing become natural elements of horror. Presenting endless space in a closed room, the inescapable anxiety will bring to the audience a sense of torture.
When some viewers watched the film on the spot, they kept asking "what to do, what to do" time and space questions, which shows how immersive the film brings.
Finally, the scary method of "Kunchiyan" is deliberately elongated silence , telling the audience in advance that "there is a bomb under your feet", but not telling the countdown time, this delayed shock quickly squeezes the audience's nerves and stimulates The rich juice of fear directly drowned the audience's brain.
"Kunchiyan" is scary enough as a horror thriller, but the stylized way of shooting adds specific prefixes and demands to that fear.
Since it is an experiential immersion, you must maintain certain environmental requirements during the viewing process. If you turn on the lights, or watch it on a small screen with inferior sound effects, the fear effect will be greatly reduced.
The ceremonial sense and environment of the cinema, as well as the herd mentality, or the intimacy and isolation of the home theater can bring out the greatest effect of the film. In order to experience a rare annual intimidation and at the same time respect the producer's good intentions, fans must try their best to create a suitable environment during the viewing process.
For light viewers of horror movies, I advise you not to watch it alone ;
For serious horror movie watchers, I think this movie is "not scary at all" like you, because we both like to put on a pose, and then have a good time watching other people get scared together!
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