Comedy movies with simple plots and fun are a good choice for the holidays, but it's not bad to add depth to a brain-burning suspense movie once in a while. But only if you don't get fooled by its plot. If you're ready, let's take a look at this recommended work , "Horror Cruises".
Horror Cruise is a 2009 psychological suspense film co-produced by the United Kingdom and Australia, directed by Christopher Smith and starring Melissa George, Liam Haymosworth, rachel Cappani and others. The film tells the story of Jesse, a single mother, and a group of friends who are on a yacht to go to sea and encounter a storm, and after boarding a passing cruise ship, they find that the mysterious cruise ship that disappeared in 1930 is empty, and the ensuing serial murders plunge Jesse and the others into the horror of reincarnation.
In order to increase the suspense of the film, the director borrowed the practice of "The Shining" in the layout of the corridors, halls and the guidance of the camera to the audience. In the handling of the plot, the heroines experience repeated reincarnations while interacting with each other, and the film shoots the same people appearing in the same venue, and even chasing each other, providing a variety of understandings for this drama. The director said that the film has three endings, but all of them ultimately lead to the same ending, that is, the final car accident scene, leaving Melissa in this endless cycle. It interlaces with logically rigorous clues that leave an open-ended plot and puzzles that are not fully solved.
The film has an indescribable sense of horror, but it is not horrified by bloody scenes, but with an exquisite plot structure and fatalistic twists and turns, let the audience sink into it. The strange reincarnation script structure in the film is undoubtedly the most attractive feature of this film, and its uniqueness is that there is no standard answer, which can understand that the cruise ship is a time anomaly area, and the same group of visitors from different time and space stage a killing cycle, or it can be understood as a supernatural illusion produced by a dead soul, which has a "near-death film" mood. The greatest value of this type of two-way interactive film is that each audience can constantly put forward their own opinions and enjoy the pleasure of thinking in the process of self-justification.
"Horror Cruise" is the pinnacle of circular structure narrative, in a large loop with four small loops, interlocking, making time and space the carrier of such a cycle. The time in the film is vague, and the four-loop story has no specific date, but all take place on this mysterious yacht.
The story follows the "all the people are dead, the dinghy will come back" setting, and when Jesse, a single mother, realizes this, she points her blade at herself. After all the people die, the boat will come back as before, and then start killing, but each time the cycle is different, and the narrative logic can burn the brain to the extent of burns.
Those who want to challenge their logical thinking can take a look, but if they don't want to go into the dead end of thinking, this ship must be carefully chosen!