Fortunately, a friend recommended this film to me. This friend has some accomplishments in watching films, so I believed it. I watched the 100min Cantonese HD version of Youku.
The whole film is roughly divided into two 50 minutes. The first half is a foreshadowing, which has nothing to do with zombies, but it is a scary part, because there are many unknowns and a sense of mystery; into monster movies and action movies.
Qian Xiaohao appeared as a former zombie film actor. His identity has nothing to do with the main part of the film. It can be replaced by any other passerby. I took this question until the end, and it was revealed at the last minute. The original male lead The suicide was a success. All the demons, ghosts, and Taoists were imagined at the moment of his death. His imagination was very different from reality. It can be said that it is the opposite. This technique is commonly used in American films. This last minute has no effect on the main body. This is mainly added to pass the radio and television review, but the addition is very reasonable.
The zombies in the film are traditional Chinese zombies, such as Shanxi driving corpses, which are different from vampires and zombies in the West. Lin Zhengying's zombie films are such zombies, so this film pays tribute to Lin Zhengying. "I Have a Date with a Zombie" is also a tribute, but it mainly develops in the direction of myths and superpowers, completely out of Lin Zhengying's fantasy elements, and zombies are more like vampires and aliens. The film retains the essence of Lin Zhengying and develops to better stunts and shooting techniques.
The Taoism and props in the film are very connotative, and I don't know much about it, and there is no commentary, so most of the audience can't see why. But why can American films and Japanese films be understood? One is that traditional Chinese culture is relatively long and complicated, and the other is that the mainland does not advocate feudal superstition, so the inductive research in this area is very imperfect. It is not enough to study only in Hong Kong, and the theory is not systematic, so no matter how hard Mai Junlong tries I can't make a very reasonable feeling, and the effects of those Taoist techniques are very abrupt.
In addition to creating a sense of horror, the first half also explains the relationship between characters and cause and effect. Hong Kong films are best at police and gangster films, so when the subject of murder is hand-held, why die, why kill, and why revenge are all very reasonable. The process of death is given a close-up, which is a reference to American films such as "Death is Coming" and "Chainsaw". The old man was murdered, not an accident. He had been targeted by the terminally ill Taoist priest for a long time, and he used the raised ghost boy to lead the old man to look downstairs, and the railings had long since been loosened.
The biggest irony point in the film is the hypocritical neighborhood relationship. The old lady is usually a good person, but when it comes to the resurrection of the old man, she does not hesitate to kill, and the children are not spared. While the old man was eating the sumptuous free meal given by the fat woman, the villain said that others were conspiring to do something wrong. Who knows that the real conspiracy is the Taoist priest who is rarely contacted.
Zombies are the main monsters, what is the role of the twin female ghosts? Zombies are physical, they can only be said to be monsters, while ghosts are invisible. The more mysterious they are, the more terrifying they are. This is an indispensable element of horror films. The first half of catching ghosts is also a warm-up for the Taoist priests, and the main computer stunts are also used on ghosts. The combination of ghosts and zombies is very innovative, and zombies have the speed and movements of ghosts. And the ghost part has the feeling of "The Grudge" and "Silent Hill".
Mak Junlong added elements of American and Japanese horror films into Hong Kong films, a bold and successful attempt. If the horror films released later cannot do this, it will be difficult to make progress. The disadvantage is that fighting zombies is too simple, just props + action, not like the fighting in American films, nor the heart-wrenching effects of Japanese films. Japanese films use psychological attacks. Unraveling the knot will naturally solve the problem and bring the audience into the country.
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