There are very few new films this week, except for "Baahubali 2: The End" which has just been released for 4 days, it is not enough to hit the top position of "Later Us".
This kind of unchanging pattern is somewhat boring, and I still look forward to the strong attack of "Avengers 3" next week.
Taking advantage of the empty window of the theater, Xiaomei Yu will talk to you about the recently popular "Kunchiyan", which is known as the most terrifying movie in Korea in the past ten years.
Yu Xiaomei discovered a very strange phenomenon. In the past year, the most popular foreign movies that have not been introduced are almost all low-budget horror movies.
From last year's "The Clown's Soul", "Escape from the Dead Town" and "Happy Death Day", to the "Kunchiyan" that set off a "popcorn rain" in South Korea this time, all these types of horror elements are prominent. film, everyone seems to be full of enthusiasm for this unknown fear.
In fact, this phenomenon is very easy to explain. First of all, horror movies are easy to cause conversation among acquaintances, and again horror movies will stimulate the secretion of human hormones, which is almost the same as love.
Therefore, we usually think that it is best to choose romance movies or horror movies for dating between opposite sexes, especially the latter. The rapid heartbeat caused by fear, nervousness and fear can easily be confused with the heartbeat of the opposite sex around you.
This is called the "suspension bridge effect" in psychology, which may be the reason why horror movie lovers will like this kind of benign self-abuse decompression method.
Although Yu Xiaomei has watched a lot of horror movies, the top-ranked horror series in Asia, such as Sadako, Gaya, and so on, almost passed the level.
But I'm not a horror movie lover at all, and I don't feel any sense of these stimulating physical stress responses, combined with the weird BGM to deliberately create a slightly uncomfortable environment.
But unlike the past, this small-budget movie with only 1.1 billion won, which is equivalent to only 6.5 million yuan, really scared Yu Xiaomei.
At least in the final plot of the film, I was completely beaten by its terrifying design . Now I recall the scene where the female ghost with black pupils was doing a "B-box" to the screen, and the scratches on her thighs would It's a dull pain.
However, Xiaomei Yu is notorious for not believing in evil. Today, I will try to analyze, what is the horror of "Kunchiyan"?
"Kunchiyan" is a horror movie endorsed by an absolutely real background.
As early as the period of Japanese occupation, the original site of Kunchiyan was built into a prison. The number of executed prisoners and slaughtered prisoners was outrageous. Finally, in order to cover up the underground corpses, the buildings presented in the film were built. .
After the retreat of the Japanese army, it was transformed into the leading mental hospital in South Korea at that time, but the good times did not last long, and all the glorious titles were cursed by frequent murders.
In 1979, a group of 42 patients committed suicide here, and then it was revealed that the dean who abused patients and performed human experiments also hanged himself, which made the already confusing truth even more mysterious.
After that, all kinds of bizarre rumors about ghosts and ghosts spread in the market, but because of the high cost of renovation, it has been abandoned until now. Later, it was selected as the world's seven creepy forbidden places by the lively CNN. First of all, Kunchiyan has since become famous in Korea.
The director of the film seems to have an obsession with the real background. The seven new actors in the film all use their real names to play roles, so the images in the film are almost the true colors of the actors.
Even in pursuit of a more realistic effect, after the actors entered the mental hospital, apart from the equipment on their bodies and the 3 fixed positions set up in the plot, there was no third-party camera introduced.
After the stunning appearance of this pseudo-documentary in "Blair Witch", it has become more and more favored by directors of horror films, such as "Ghost Records", "Deadly Video Tapes", and even the famous "China" in China. "Evil" adopts this first-person perspective.
It's just that compared to the "hand-shaking" shot in "Zhongxie", which has a production cost of only 6W, the GoPro and handheld DV used in "Kunchiyan" are combined with the fixed gimbal in front of the upper body. The film quality is obviously much higher.
In addition to the formal sense of live broadcast, the first-person perspective will greatly enhance the audience's sense of substitution.
This kind of perspective is inherently subjective. The range that the lens can capture is the visual range of the audience, and as the lens rotates a little to explore the unknown area, you will pre-determine that there will be a scary scene hidden somewhere.
So the whole process will be on the nerves, and this kind of tension is the best foreplay for horror movies.
And "Kunyan Pond" adopts the configuration of front and rear dual cameras, which allows the audience not only to see the subjective perspective, but also to observe the facial expressions of the actors.
From the beginning of laughter to the final face distortion, this process of the gradual collapse of the psychological defense line will lead the audience to make corresponding psychological mappings.
Coupled with the slight facial distortion brought about by the fish-eye perspective, every expression is extremely exaggerated and terrifying, and the most frightening black-eyed "B-BOX" female ghost in the film takes full advantage of this, causing serious visual problems. Discomfort, in order to achieve the purpose of terror.
However, only the limited viewing angle of the lens is not enough. "Kunchiyan" deliberately uses a narrow-angle beam flashlight as the lighting source, so that the area other than the light spot is pitch black , which indirectly reduces the possibility of view range.
As a visual animal, the invisible place becomes unknown after being stripped of vision. At this time, darkness is an excellent horror element.
Barren light, strong breathing and a first-person perspective, this kind of presence full of horror elements will make the audience's instinctive pupils dilate and hold their breath, and the state of concentration is also the most easily frightened.
If someone suddenly pats you at this time, I believe you will be screaming and screaming immediately. This kind of "tricky box" technique usually appears in traditional horror movies, but the method used in "Kunchiyan" is more for subtlety.
The ghosts in the film seem to be very "shy", only the female ghost who is "back-to-back" at the end shows a little bit of truth , and the rest are kept looming and mysterious, but this does not affect their ruthlessness at all.
And this group of "ghosts" seems to have no sense of foreplay at all. They never talk nonsense, but simply and rudely "rush to the face". As for the origin of the motives and resentment of the murders, apart from the dictation of the actors at the beginning and the newspaper news discovered during the expedition Other than that, there is no other explanation.
This kind of sufficient blank space is a very advanced technique in modern horror films. Human beings are almost instinctive to fear the unknown. Our natural resistance to darkness also stems from the uncontrollable panic after visual deprivation.
Traditional horror films, whether made in Hong Kong or Japanese, almost always like to introduce the background of ghosts at the end of the film.
If you catch up with a guy with a touching story about his tragic life, he will even have a trace of sympathy and pity for him, which will explain the unknown invisibly, thus eliminating the horror.
In fact, true horror often has no answers.
Most of the short and concise horror stories are highly predictable, and at the end of "Kunchiyan", the number of viewers suddenly dropped from 99W live broadcast to a few hundred people. Is it a melon-eating crowd or an unexplainable strange force? Ghosts and gods belong to this category and are extremely scary to think about.
Having said so much, "Kunchiyan" still has many shortcomings.
For example, in the first half hour, in addition to forming a team and explaining the purpose of the trip, the rest of the plot is eating, drinking and having fun, doing things that have nothing to do with the plot, and there is no trace of the character of each character in the last one-sided lore. use.
However, as a horror movie, scaring people is the most basic quality . From this point of view, the last half hour can be regarded as remarkable. After all, what we are looking for in horror movies is this kind of creepy from head to toe.
The OZ company that produced "Midnight Bell" has closed down, and the director Hideo Nakata has also become the last streamer. Due to the restrictions of the censorship system in China, the horror theme has also been completely atrophied. Improper publicity was required to be withdrawn urgently.
However, Europe and the United States, dominated by Asian ghosts, have become rising stars. "The Conjuring", "Annabelle", "The Nun", and the recently released "A Quiet Place" are all about creating a terrifying universe.
In this situation of adjoining the dead end, the appearance of "Kunchiyan" can be regarded as saving some face for the mysterious oriental civilization.
But after all, this is only a stone from another mountain that can attack jade, and what makes people sigh is the sadness of the dead rabbit and the fox under the thriving. Well, that's all.
Finally, Xiaomei Yu suggested that if you have limited time, you can fast-forward to the part where you set up a tent near Kunchiyan after reading the introduction of the staff and the purpose of the trip. It has no effect on the viewing of the movie. , then the bullet screen bodyguard at station B is a good choice, everyone can do what they can, and enjoy watching the movie.
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