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Both directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza can speak some French, but there is still an interpreter to accompany you in case you need it. The director said that "Death Video 2" is a movie that requires the participation of the audience to achieve the best results. Scream when you want to scream, laugh when you want to laugh, and clap when you want to applaud. The 400 spectators present were also very obedient, laughing and applauding during the viewing process, but screaming.
"Death Video 2" is fully upgraded on the basis of the first, whether it is story, technology or creativity, and this sequel retains the original crew of the original, and it did not lead to the advent of the "sequel curse" . After having 3D but no essence of "Reaper is Here 4", the rewriting of the original "Gouweixu Miao" has evolved into the "spoiled" "Dark Invasion 2", I finally saw a movie at the end of 2009 that gave us a little bit. Surprising sequel horror film. However, there are surprises and upgrades, but the story has changed in essence. This not only caused the film's thrilling atmosphere to regress, it can even be said that "Death Video 2" is completely different from the original.
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From "Blair Witch" to this year's "Ghost Record", a horror film in the form of a pseudo-documentary cannot lack one of the most important elements, that is, a high-quality, super long-lived DV. In "Death Video 2", a high-tech DV appeared for the first time. The host has several independent miniature cameras, and the images of the miniature cameras can be seen in the form of split screens on the host. In the film, one of the four special police officers is carrying the mainframe, and the other three are equipped with miniature cameras on their helmets, which means that the audience can experience the encounters of four people from a subjective perspective at the same time, and three of them are equipped with miniature cameras on helmets. It also strengthens the realism of the subjective perspective, which has to be said to be a very smart innovation. It’s a pity that the director did not grasp this idea. Three times in the movie, the miniature camera was used, and only one of them created a good sense of horror. The other two gave me a sense of CS vs. Zombie-like gameplay, which actually lost the film’s efforts to create. Realism.
In addition to the advancement of DV technology, the number is three times that of the original and similar works! Three different DVs appeared in the film, two of which created very interesting back and forth echoes in the story. At the beginning of the movie, four special police officers and a mysterious prospector entered the building. After a series of things, their high-tech DV broke down, and this story line came to an end temporarily; then another story line appeared, it was three. A Spanish middle school student brought a family-style DV to play with a sky cannon on the opposite roof of the quarantined building. Later, out of curiosity, he followed a firefighter and a mysterious man into the quarantined building through the sewer. The story line of the previous special police and the story line of the three students happened at the same time in time, but the director did not choose to show it at the same time. There was a weird knock on the door, and then we learned that it was three students and firefighters. Another example is that the special police locked a living dead in the room. Then three students and firefighters also came to this room... The before and after echoes make full use of the characteristics of DV to create a quite good suspense effect. I personally feel that this is what surprises me the most about this sequel.
The ability of the living dead has indeed been upgraded. The child-like creatures appearing in the trailer can crawl upside down on the ceiling quickly, but they only appeared once and the movie did not show more, which is a pity; in addition, due to the innovation of the story, the living dead can imitate various people Sound, like Conan's voice changing bow tie... I have to say it's a bit embarrassing.
"Death Video 2" mentioned a way to kill the living and make the audience laugh. Three students and the firefighters met a living dead. When the firefighters were entangled with the firefighters, one of the boys took out the sky cannon that was playing on the roof, lit the fuse, and inserted it into the living dead’s mouth...Such laughter spread all over the film. Some of them are deliberate by the director, while others are the audience’s laughter, such as Spanish male students with super-exaggerated expressions, such as the appearance of priests who are scarier than zombies in night vision effects, and endless lines of slightly mentally retarded lines. No matter what kind of laughter it is, it makes the audience very happy in the process of watching the movie.
What about the horror and horror atmosphere in the first part? What about the weird creature in the mysterious room on the roof? "Death Video 2" has carried out a very bold innovation in the story. It can be said that it completely overthrew the story of the "living dead" in the first film and "upgraded" it into a religious movie. And the director even precisely matched the characteristics of DV with this religious story, creating the climax of the whole film, which can be said to be quite creative. If you look at this sequel independently, this religious story of gods and monsters is harmless and a new path in European and American zombie films. It is full of creativity; but "Death Video 2" is always the sequel of zombie films, and this innovation will inevitably make the first part of the movie. The fans were disappointed. They didn’t expect the zombies to chew and bite in exchange for a religious story like "The Exorcist". Although it is still wonderful, it is a big step backward from the first movie in terms of fear, not to mention. The whole movie has changed beyond recognition due to this innovation.
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The originality of "Death Video" lies in the use of pseudo-documentary filming methods in zombie films, and the result is rave reviews; and "Death Video" The originality of "2" lies in injecting religious stories of gods and monsters into zombie movies, but it seems that the effect is not good at present.
I remember that when I watched the first film, the documentary form of showing the story of the living dead made me feel very novel, and the effect was unexpectedly wonderful. Not only the United States bought the remake rights, but even the originator of the living dead movie George A. Romero learned from it. DV filmed a "Death Diary", but unfortunately it is far behind the sudden emergence of Spain's "Death Video". At the last climax of the movie, the heroine used the night vision camera to explore the room on the top floor. I believe all the audience held their breath and their heartbeat accelerated. When the mysterious creature passed by, the sense of despair and fear in the secret room was suppressed for a long time. Gushing out, the horror effect has long surpassed ordinary European and American zombie movies.
"Death Video 2" revealed the truth about the virus infection not long after the movie started. The mysterious investigator turned out to be a priest with a religious mission, and the origin of all this is closely related to religion. However, when the priest held the cross and talked with the "devil" in the living dead, I felt a sense of absurdity. This may not be because I am an atheist, but because my expectations are very different from what I see. "Death Video" was originally a zombie film, which attracted audiences who liked to watch random bites and spraying blood everywhere, but "Death Video 2" used the coat of a zombie film to show a story of a priest versus a devil. This year's "Ghost Record" is actually a movie that tells religious horror stories with ghost stories, but it dilutes the difference between "devil" and "ghost", so the sense of abruptness is not strong; however, "Death Video 2" Although it is very creative to inject a strong religious color into the zombie film, it does not downplay the difference between "devil possessed" and "living dead". I believe this is one of the reasons for the sense of abruptness.
The sense of abruptness caused by story innovation greatly weakens the realism of pseudo-documentaries. The screenwriter must explain the difference between the virus spreading in the blood and the devil possessing. It turns out that the strange creature on the top of the building is the "mother body", but the female reporter who was dragged into the darkness in the first part did not die, but was transformed into a new body. The method was that the previous body made a long and thick body , Worm-like creatures were put into the female reporter's throat... so the religious monster film had the appearance of the alien monster film again. Therefore, watching the full movie, I can remember the living dead gnawing and screaming, I can remember the priest exorcism scene, I can also remember the giant worm creature that appeared in the last scene... I have to say that the innovation of the story of "Death Video 2" has caused it. The plot is chaotic and a lot of logic loopholes.
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"Death Video 2" It's not as good as the first one, but fortunately there are still some surprises. Although the number of BUGs has increased by leaps and bounds, and despite the so-called sense of abruptness caused by the innovation of the story, and the horror atmosphere is not as good as before, the laughs and creativity are still impressive, and the tight rhythm of the whole film is still wonderful. The suspense of the finale It was revealed that only a few viewers could guess in advance...Although it was far from expected, at least it did not degenerate into the point where people want to spray after watching it.
The host later asked the director if there would be a third part, and the director said that it depends on the performance of the audience and the box office. The ending of "Death Video 2" deliberately left a suspense, this suspense has been laid in advance on one of the film's posters, and I really want to continue watching.
PS: The living dead used to like to grab the camera. Almost all the living dead rushed to the camera as soon as they appeared, then gnawed and screamed at the camera...
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