Cloud black wind high, Republic of China town!
The old god hunted a group of people, leaked the night and braved the rain, and the group went straight to a broken temple to arrest a warlock beggar who had kidnapped and sold more than thirty babies.
The night is silent, the phosphorus fire in the night is bright and dark, and the atmosphere is more and more mysterious.
Suddenly, the broken temple appeared, and a group of people were about to step forward, but the policeman in the front was suddenly fixed.
Magic? The old god fixed his eyes on what kind of magic was just a dense organ.
Shen Yu swung a large knife, cut off the mechanism, and led the crowd to break through the door.
Looking up again, the tiger's body shook ——
There were only dozens of babies, some in cages, some hidden in jars, and one baby, lying quietly on the broken temple table, covered in blood, looking like it was about to be dissected by the old beggar.
In an instant, the scalp tingled and goosebumps rose...
Looking at it again, the old beggar suddenly turned back and revealed a mysterious smile, revealing an arrogant and creepy atmosphere in the strangeness.
What else to say to such a cruel madman, one word - kill.
But the old god was just about to come forward, and he had already fallen to the ground with a scream, and it turned out that even the broken temple was full of organs.
In just a few seconds, the policemen who rushed in front of them had already fallen to the ground.
The remaining policemen drew their knives and rushed up, but the old beggar was very skilled, and between the swings of the knife, the blood was full of blood!
On the screen, the old god hunted a line of screams; under the screen, my hand was shaking more fiercely than his.
The horror is not only the horror and curiosity, but also a series of strange and strange mysteries of the Republic of China.
At the critical moment, the old god catcher, who was still seriously injured, raised his gun and fell, and the old beggar who had been full of evil all his life finally fell to the ground and died.
The old god was holding the saved baby, the camera was far away, only to listen to the shock of TangMu, Longyun Town has reached 20 years later, the above are all the books said by a storyteller.
At this point, after the old little story was told, I called out to the good guys.
Just after 3 minutes of the movie, this "Strange Talk of Longyun Town" can be regarded as a death of the temperament of the net.
Firmly grasping the iron law of the domestic network big gold for 6 minutes, leading me to soothe the goosebumps on my body while ecstatic:
Great! stimulate! There is a strange taste of the Republic of China!
Look at the lineup, the choreographer of the thriller and suspense theme of the dark horse work "The Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling" + Qian Xiaohao father and son, well, the right road.
The answer is: in addition to zombies, Lin Zhengying also integrated traditional zhiwei culture, folk weird talk, including all kinds of jianghu and other tricks into the film, so that there is a Hong Kong zombie movie that competes with Hollywood zombie films, not only to fight hilariously, but also to have the taste of authentic horror to convince the public.
Qian Xiaohao, how many successes have you learned from the master?
Watch "Strange Talk of Longyun Town", the mysterious and eerie atmosphere, there are; the scene where people's scalps are tingling, there are; the tacit interaction of the iron triangle that is most expected is barely counted.
1. Let's look at the story first: beheading "resurrection from the dead"? Strange talk, set embodiment
The screenwriter of this drama can have some beginnings.
Over the years, the "Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling" and "Fu Demon White Fish Town", which have won a lot of popularity, are all from his hand - Cui Zhaozhao.
Born in Heilongjiang, northeast China, listened to the strange secrets of the old forest in the northeast, and then filled in the suspense of domestic network movies, atmosphere creation, scale control, and the explosive models were one after another.
To this time, this thriller master, with a suspense of "beheading without dying", opened up the mysterious and unpredictable atmosphere of Longyun Town: the story still happened during the Republic of China.
In the chaotic times, warlords are fighting, and the people's livelihood is withering.
In the "Longyun Town", which has been quiet for 20 years, many young girls in the town have been killed in their homes one after another.
At the beginning of the story, the prisoner has been captured by the little god and is about to be beheaded - the flower picking thief Song Sanjiang.
But this flower thief did not seem to be afraid of beheading at all, and before the execution, he also said to the little god catcher: "I will not die!" ”
It must be said that Song Sanjiang, who obviously borrowed the shape of the eight precepts of Xingye's "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil", has a strange face in a costume, and indeed carries a strange texture.
The strange thing really happened, just on the night after Song Sanjiang was executed, another girl was killed in the town, and when the little god arrested people to the scene, "Song Sanjiang" actually smiled at them at the scene of the crime intact.
How can a man come back from the dead?
The actor's performance does bring a thrilling sense of fantasy, which is creepy and creepy.
And this visual stimulation is only the first layer.
The more important second layer is the ubiquitous sense of suspense, some unsuspecting shots or details that always hang the audience's heart in the throat.
People unconsciously want to follow the protagonist and find out.
And the repeated strange events show that Longyun Town is obviously hiding a huge secret, and this secret is obviously related to Qian Xiaohao's role.
2. Talk about Qian Xiaohao: When the apprentice becomes a master, he is a Hong Kong flavor as soon as he appears
The sentence that appears most often in the barrage is: Just to see the money xiaohao.
Indeed, from "Mr. Zombie" to "Zombie", the traces of old Hong Kong films on Qian Xiaohao's body are too heavy. As soon as this face appeared, it almost brought out the smell of old Hong Kong films. But from the performance point of view, Qian Xiaohao, who was born in 63 years and is already 58 years old, still contributes the most highlight moments in the whole film.
It can be seen that the actor who has transformed into the old drama bone of Hong Kong films is really in a very good state, not only superior to his peers, but even much better than most of the domestic middle-aged actors.
Compared with the past when he often appeared as a Dao Chief, this time Qian Xiaohao played a death row prisoner who had been locked up in the dungeon for twenty years - the "Jianghu Righteous Soldier" Ji Lianying.
Twenty years ago, his master and sister, including the villagers of a village, were killed overnight, and he was the only suspect, and has since been known as a human slaughter.
It's just strange that the old god catcher keeps him in the dungeon.
Although from the beginning, the audience knew that there were 80% of the grievances behind this, Qian Xiaohao still performed the vicissitudes of the characters.
He was not ready to take a shot, but Song Sanjiang's gang was arrogant enough to directly send zombie puppets into the dungeon, and the "zombie" was one, sending a "zombie" to calculate the role of Qian Xiaohao, even if it was really self-destructive, let alone just magic.
It was in this battle that The Jilian battalion soon discovered that this gang was the jianghu warlock who had planted him after slaughtering the village twenty years ago.
The master is out of the cage, and the days of arrogance of the group will come to an end.
It can be seen that Qian Xiaohao's role as such a master has become more and more familiar, he is an extremely talented actor, if it were not for the storm, with his acting skills in "Young Zhang Sanfeng", the results should be more than this.
But this experience of walking in Maicheng may invisibly increase his vicissitudes and loneliness, but it is more in line with the roles of a series of "zombie" films later.
Another point worth mentioning is that the 58-year-old Qian Xiaohao still undertook the most exciting fight scene in the whole film, especially the duel between the middle section and the machine puppet.
The action drama Qifeng rises, the machine puppet uses the dark weapon, and the Ji Company camp breaks the enemy with the Sydney Yang King Kong umbrella,
Turning his head again to find the passage of the jianghu warlock who controlled the puppet, a few minutes of entanglement was buckled one by one, which was the most enjoyable passage in the whole film.
58-year-old Qian Xiaohao, fist and foot kung fu is still really able to fight.
But unfortunately, there is only one qian Xiaohao in the whole film.
3, look at the doorway: no ghosts and no zombies, but there is the taste of old Hong Kong films
Watching the whole film, I solved the doubts in my heart.
Mainland network movies, of course, can not appear ghosts and other things, but often borrow the so-called "haunted" plot to show some of the side door left way of the jianghu, over time, the audience is also very aesthetic fatigue.
And this film is obviously taking another path, from the beginning of the story there is no "ghost zombie", what "ghost knocking", "three hands" are not mentioned, is to blatantly tell the audience: this movie, there is no ghost, only jianghu magic.
Therefore, this is actually a really rare domestic Zhiwei network movie.
The biggest highlight of the film is the fighting method of Ji Lianying, played by Qian Xiaohao, and Song Sanjiang, a gang of jianghu warlocks, in a sense, it is also the process of exposing various jianghu deceptions.
Because there are simply no zombies and ghosts, there is no plot of the traditional zombie films, and the viewing of this part of the movie is gone.
Fortunately, the film focuses on dismantling the magic and the plot itself.
For example, a clever stroke in the film is that the old god catches the dangerous town mayor's daughter "hidden" around Ji Lianying at the beginning.
The bright line of the story is the fighting method of Ji Lianying and Song Sanjiang, a gang of jianghu warlocks, and the dark line is the grudge between him and this group of people 20 years ago, but after seeing the end, the audience found that in fact, everything was in the plan of the old god.
The plot of dismantling the strange art is also more exciting, the protagonist group has captured two "Song Sanjiang" alive, but neither is song Sanjiang himself.
And when he led the crowd to the mayor's family banquet, the final purpose of exposure reminded people of the bridge section of Q's identity exposure in "Detective Chinatown 3": Q is not a person, but a group of people.
Song Sanjiang is the same.
In terms of horror atmosphere creation, it is not advanced, at least absolutely rich.
In particular, the extraction and reuse of the thriller elements of the Star Journey to the West series, although not original, does create a creepy horror atmosphere.
Follow the movie for a spin down. There wasn't a single scream, not a single fright, and it was enough to hold your breath the whole time and be covered in cold sweat.
In addition to the horror, in the film, a group of people from Ji Lianying break into the shop of the jianghu warlock to inquire about the news, and are forced to whisper to the jianghu with the gatekeeper, until the second sentence of Ji Lianying directly tells him to shut up.
There are also protagonists pretending to be gangsters and mixed into the gangster fight scene, debunking the dummy passage where the gang members put their palms into the oil pot to take coins on the spot, which reminds people of the funny passages of the old Hong Kong films.
Has this film "escaped" the routine of the previous Hong Kong-made joke films? No.
However, the victory lies in the creation of a horror atmosphere, whether it is the costume, composition, sound effects, or the layers of suspense, so that the film is always confused with the mysterious atmosphere and the horror atmosphere, the look and feel is both shocking and refreshing, there is a kind of pleasure of watching the movie -
I know it's a miracle, but it's still scary. I know that there is something strange behind me, but I am still scared and goosebumps, although the protagonist is so funny from time to time, he still can't stop the fear of rushing in.
A good horror film should give the audience a sense of immersion, and the film does.
4, the final comment: the advantages and disadvantages are also obvious, a qualified nostalgic network is large
Finally, let's talk about the shortcomings of the film: there are innovations, but they are not enjoyable enough, and even they can't reach the shore at both ends.
Compared with the "Strange Talk of Yin and Yang Town", which can be called a collection of folk tricks, the feudal superstitions such as the dead buying coffins, the resurrection of paper people, and the death of ghosts and grandmothers have been taken out and declassified.
Although this film borrows the routine of the jianghu Zhiwei, there are not many secrets, and it is not fun.
Secondly, the film does not use a lot of special effects, it is a completely small cost production, the audience knows from the beginning that the ending may be reversed, but the biggest suspense of the film - the mystery of Song Sanjiang's "resurrection from the dead" is too perfunctory, not the level that Cui Zhaozhao should have for this thriller.
The actor who appears in the film is actually played by Qian Xiaohao's son, but even if Qian Xiaohao intends to hold his son and gives a lot of passages of small god hunting, the most eye-catching thing in the whole film is still Qian Xiaohao himself.
What's worse is that the heroine of this film is twittering non-stop throughout the whole process, but it is difficult to say that it meets the audience's standards regardless of appearance or acting skills.
The amazing little girls of Hong Kong horror films will never see each other again.
Finally, the script, the film is the tone of light comedy, but the script is not polished in details, and it has not written a wonderful plot like the previous zombie movies, and compared with the "Mr. Zombie" jointly created by Huang Ying, Situ Zhuohan and Huang Bingyao, the three famous screenwriters of the year, the gap is still very large.
Obviously, the film has a lot of room for improvement in story, rhythm, performance, and editing.
But why do I still think the film is worth watching?
What is our impression of "Chinese Online Thriller Movie"?
See through not say broken. All kinds of edge balls, scary films, strange films, are there still fewer?
At least in this film, I saw a group of filmmakers, in the real movie, the level is high and low, but this time the eating photo, compared to Qian Xiaohao's previous network is large, much more beautiful, in a sense, but also restores the charm of another layer of Lin Zhengying's film.
Lin Zhengying, who died in 1997, has been away for 24 years, and his name is often mentioned, first, his image is unique and cannot be copied, and second, the good things in these years are still too few.
Penetrating the skin of all the online movies starring Qian Xiaohao, the most lamentable thing in the blood of the movie is still three words: Hang up on you.
And the most wonderful thing about this film, in fact, at the end, when Ji Lianying's master sister was killed, it was actually because of a set of cheats in their hands, Ji Lianying was arrested, and the old god captured the cheats, and when everything came out this time, he handed it over to Ji Lianying.
However, Ji Lianying took a handful and tore it up and threw it into the lake, and it turned out that what he had in mind was to destroy this book of power that could bring disaster to people.
Whether under the guise of ghosts, zombies, or magic, the most terrifying thing is never these strange gods themselves, but the bad karma and miscellaneous desires of those who give birth to these deceptions.
And we miss the old Hong Kong films, not only in the old days when we can easily enjoy the happiness of horror movies and zombie movies, but also in the real masters in the films, the ghosts and monsters are fake, but the heroic bones on the master are real.
Lin Zhengying walked away, and Qian Xiaohao was still eating old Ben. Some fans say that it is better to have the old book to eat than to eat without the old book. It seems to be Qian Xiaohao, and it is like we who miss Master Lin's movie.