Now a popular word is called immersive experience, that is, the sense of reality that can make people immersive and empathetic is called immersive experience.
Of course, there is also a sense of immersion in movies, such as 3D films that make people feel real, but my favorite is the first-person pseudo-documentary, which is the real immersion, especially if it is still a horror film, and the excitement is even more exciting.
Today, I will introduce you to an immersive, horror MAX movie "Smart: Ghost Shadow Recording Paranormal Activity (2007)"
What about this movie that leveraged $200 million at a cost of just $11,000? We slowly break it down
The story of the movie is simple and almost needless to say, Mick and his girlfriend Katie have just recently moved, Mick got a video camera to record the bits and pieces of their happy lives.
Soon, they found something unusual: for example, the door would inexplicably open or close, the TV would open on itself in the middle of the night, there were often strange noises, and there seemed to be something other terrible in the house. It was all recorded on camera, and Katie wanted to move, but Mick was so excited that he wanted to make it into a movie. As a result, I can't go out anymore...
I heard that this movie has three endings: the most primitive ending is that Katie stabs Mick to death and then kills herself in front of the camera.
The second is that Katie kills Mick on the first floor and returns upstairs to commit a demon attack, and is eventually killed by the police.
The third is that Katie throws Mick from downstairs and crashes into the camera, then seems to enter the camera and disappears, leaving only the camera.
Which ending do you think is better?
This movie exploded with a small cost, I think it is to place the shooting scene in the bedroom close to the daily life, and the two protagonists play naturally, which is easy to make the audience feel a sense of substitution.
The dv camera with slag picture quality and the simple and unpretentious long lens make people immersive and more terrifying.
In fact, there is no real "ghost" in the movie, but as the plot progresses, we watch the camera record night after night, and the level of horror gradually escalates to the point where the heroine is possessed by a ghost and becomes a demon, and finally a vague "ghost" appears.
I think the best horror is to hide the fear in the deepest depths so that people can't see it, not to be frightened and excited at first. Thus intensifying the audience's inner fear of "the unknown is the horror". A successful horror movie can't just scare you, but teach yourself to scare yourself.
This is undoubtedly a successful horror film, and if you like pseudo-documentary style and immersive video, you must check it out!