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A few days ago on holiday, Xiaoying's circle of friends was overwhelmed by two things.
One is a small game, and the other is "Kunchiyan".
Kunchiyan
How hot is it?
It was already famous more than a month ago.
In the first week of its release in South Korea, nearly 1 million people watched the film, breaking the record for the fastest box office of one million .
The blockbuster "Ready Player One" , which was released on the same day as it , was pushed to second place for two weeks in a row.
The highest-grossing Korean horror film in the past 15 years , and the number of viewers ranks in the top 2 in the history of Korean horror films, second only to "Rose and Red Lotus".
This is Xiaoying's favorite Korean horror movie, bar none.
How lethal is it?
The audience in South Korea was so frightened that it rained popcorn directly in the cinema.
That's basically how they read it...
Just looking at these reactions can make horror movie lovers ticklish.
How terrifying does it really look?
Xiaoying had already experienced the goods on the night when the juice source first came out, saying that the experience was good.
If you're a timid and curious baby who needs a horror movie to be scary, this one will definitely scare you and satisfy you.
But if you are an old driver who has read countless videos and wants to exercise your battle-hardened adrenal glands, it may not be enough for you to go high all night.
Because in terms of plot and scale, this film is still a familiar formula and a familiar routine.
It tells the story of a group of young people who are keen on horror adventures, who ran to the holy place of horror to play live broadcasts, but were played by ghosts.
If it's so old-fashioned, why is it so scary?
Xiaoying thinks the most attractive part of this film is that it has achieved the ultimate "horror reality experience" .
Remember I once said that there is only one horror movie that scares me every time, and that is the pseudo-documentary horror movie.
"Kunchiyan" is a standard pseudo-documentary horror film .
But with so many fake records, why is this film so popular?
Compared with those European and American horror films, "Kunchiyan" does not have horror elements such as zombies, vampires, and skeletons.
It is still the way of haunted house, possession, and curse that is familiar to the East Asian cultural circle .
But it is different from the old-fashioned Hong Kong horror films that are so obsessed with folklore and religious.
The unique and novel perspective, the use of technological products, and the topic of live streaming in the film make this horror film burst out with a youthful and lively atmosphere.
It can be said that "Kunchiyan" stands on the horror G point of Asians, combines modern elements, and plays the "true" to the extreme under the name of "pseudo".
How does it work?
Please see Xiaoying to break it down for you one by one.
Reminder
There will be no scary pictures below
Spoiler alert
Some plot spoilers will follow
legend true
Kunchiyan Mental Hospital
The location of the movie's story is the title, Kunchiyan.
It is a real haunted house, listed by CNN as "the first of the seven creepy forbidden places in the world" , and it is also the location of the Korean drama "Signal".
Originally a mental hospital in South Korea , it was established in the late 1960s.
There are rumors that this place was once the burial site of the Japanese massacre during World War II .
In order not to find those corpses, a building was built on it on purpose.
It is said that in 1979, 42 patients committed suicide here, and the dean also disappeared mysteriously . Since then, the Kunchiyan Mental Hospital has been abandoned.
It has not been dismantled since it was closed, and there are often crying sounds inside, and some people have seen ghosts with their own eyes.
When you see this setting, do you feel so friendly?
When Xiaoying and I went to school, every school had such an urban legend, it was magical.
Since this haunted house really exists, the legend doesn't seem like unheard of nonsense.
This gives the characters in the film real and believable motives for their actions.
Adventure! Which young man has never had the urge to go through the mountains with a flashlight!
But the movie also said that if the protagonist group can liven up this live broadcast, they can get a lot of money.
And this haunted house has the most ferocious place - room 402.
It is said that all explorers who tried to open it either jumped off the building to commit suicide, fell unconscious, or died unexpectedly in an accident...
However, what our protagonist group needs to do is to open the door of No. 402!
How about a famous saying?
People who do not believe in evil often have a 100% chance of hitting evil. ——Lu Xun "I've never said this before"
So, the protagonist group hit a ghost.
In fact, ghosts don't make many appearances, and their image is not very scary. Basically, they are at the level of Liu Zichen.
But it's the scary moves of these ghosts that are easy to get a chill down the spine.
In this film, there are not only ghosts blowing lights, ghosts hitting walls, ghosts possessing, ghosts covering their eyes, old ghosts carts, ghosts pressing you , etc. We Asian folks are the most widely circulated, most afraid of eggs, and ghosts are necessary for killing people. Housekeeping skills.
In addition, in order to prove his strength for so many years, Kun Chiyan's reputation of the haunted house is not for nothing.
Some new ghosts with skills were specially sent to do some trendy kung fu such as ghost-style b-box, ghost-style hip-hop, ghost-style holding hands, ghost-style selfie , etc.
It really makes me happy.
really shot
99% shot by the actors themselves
As a pseudo-documentary horror film, the shooting method of "Kunchiyan" abandons the old-fashioned tools such as traditional DV and surveillance video.
I even got three different camera angles in one go .
Goose and in order to suddenly (jie) out (yue) real (cheng) real (ben), they actually let the actors perform and shoot .
Yes, 99% of the scenes in the movie are shot by the actors themselves.
Everyone has two action cameras hanging from their bodies and a VCR in their hands .
During filming, up to 19 cameras were filmed at the same time, showing a full-scale, multi-angle horror experience.
1.VR perspective.
Following the protagonist's camera line of sight is a tried-and-true trick for all pseudo-documentary horror films.
The protagonist goes to the left and you go to the left, the protagonist turns and you turn around.
It's limited, rough, and swaying to the point of vomiting, but it's a wonderful VR-level experience .
From this perspective, the audience will have a feeling of being there.
Since the amount of information is the same as the protagonist, it is particularly easy to empathize with it, as if it is yourself who is exploring.
Stimulate.
2. Live viewing angle.
The most scenes in the film are the nostrils of the protagonist.
Ma Ma! These people keep staring at me with their nostrils!
No way, who told the protagonists that this expedition is mainly for live broadcast .
In the first half of this perspective, when the protagonists introduce you to the background of the environment seriously, you can experience the wonderful look and feel of Douyin Kuaishou.
In the second half of the movie, when the protagonist was frightened and scrambling, he had a wonderful look and feel of watching a variety show.
Whenever I see the protagonist's face suddenly change, but I haven't seen what happened, a "high-energy warning" barrage flashes in my mind .
Nervous, worried, funny, entertaining... a mix of flavors.
It is also quite interesting to participate in this adventure through the reaction of the protagonist's facial expressions.
3. God's perspective.
There is also a wonderful perspective in the film, which was taken by the drone brought by the protagonist in the film.
With more than a dozen go pros and drones, it seems that the crew is not so poor...
Drones circled overhead as the expedition approached the haunted house.
Do you have the feeling that God looks down on all beings?
Substituted into horror movies, this perspective is even more supernatural.
After all , people are doing it, and ghosts are watching.
Thinking about it makes me sweat.
These lens perspectives may seem crude, but they are very real and easily resonate with the audience.
Acting really
Real voice really goes into battle
The best part of this movie's false record is-
All the actors use their real names! Get in on the action! Live radio! No filter added! No sound effects!
Truly pure natural without additives!
This is the natural healthy organic milk, oh no, a natural horror movie!
The "A Quiet Place" introduced by Xiaoying before (☞ It's no exaggeration, this film is so frightening that I can't even fart! ), it's scary, but most of it relies on sound effects and music , so turning off the sound is meaningless.
For the sake of truth (sheng) and real (qian), this "Kunchiyan" is all on-site radio and flashlights.
This allows every sound and light in the film to restore the original appearance in real life and seamlessly connect.
There is even the kind of snowflake screen effect in the video.
In such a real environment, if you want to say that you are still in a play, then you must be playing with your phone with your head down.
paving the way
Peel off this method layer by layer
After so many years of galloping horror films, I think there are two types of scary people in Xiaoying: stir-fry pie and slow-cooking pie.
Most of the European and American horror films are the former, mainly relying on fierce materials, makeup, special effects, and blood plasma as if they don't need money, but they can be adjusted upwards .
Asian horror films are mostly the latter, mainly relying on layers of foreshadowing .
"Kunchiyan" is also the latter. The more you peel off its foreshadowing and routines, the more the sense of horror increases layer by layer.
At the beginning, the protagonists prepared a lot of materials, brought a lot of high-tech equipment, and even wrote the script, making you think this is a new type of adventure that is not unusual?
As a result, as soon as the painting style changed, they began to burn spells and pour holy water, followed by a cloudy wind, which made people feel: Huh? Or does the ancient method work? Want to be old-fashioned?
Then I saw the back, it turned out that the scary part of the first half was deliberately tricking to attract people watching the live broadcast, which made people breathe a sigh of relief.
But looking at it, some of the true and false parts began to make people confused, and even the protagonists themselves were blinded, and they fled in fright...
The last few shots, combined with the previous foreshadowing, are even more memorable.
The number of people who were about to reach 100w instantly dropped to a few hundred.
In the original hot message area, only a few cold complaints were left.
The female ghost who originally thought it was the background of the web page suddenly disappeared leaving an empty chair.
Xiaoying felt that this scene was terrifying, so she didn't put any pictures on it...
The holy water, which was originally turbulent, suddenly splashed at the end of the film.
The aftertaste left behind is unbelievable.
When a vision appeared in the captain's tent, did he already enter a ghost?
Is this live broadcast a ghost, or is there a ghost playing with people?
What happened in room 402 of Kunchiyan?
The brain hole derived from this is even more chilling.
For traffic, do anchors have a bottom line?
How desperately can people take risks in order to make money?
In order to "save people", do those tortured "mental hospitals" still exist?
A truly dark and terrifying place is not a haunted house.
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