Last year's new Midnight Surprise unit, which is popular with young people, will continue to meet with the audience and friends of the Shanghai International Film Festival this year.
With the amazing brains of the horror masters, the montage techniques and the atmospheric mobilization of the background sound effects, reliving the tension and fear from the unknown in the late-night cinema is destined to become a young past that can be shown off for many years.
High-energy warning ahead! This time, the organizing committee carefully selected, invited to the history of the film people "frightening" thriller masterpieces, both the 4K restored version of the veteran killer debut, but also the young rookies show the "frightening" strength, they or wear masks to hunt, or group haunting threats to human survival, or take you through a strange thrilling journey in an empty hotel, or wander in multiple personalities and finally become a demon...
At the same time, the 4K repair unit that takes everyone to watch various classic old films has added a super classic!
Spielberg's "Contact of the Third Kind" is a culmination in the history of science fiction. In the 1970s, when computer special effects were not developed, Spielberg used a variety of creative methods to shoot the UFO special effects scenes in the film that made people feel extremely shocked. At this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, "Contact of the Third Kind" will meet fans with a new look of 4K restoration.
<h2>Night of the Living Dead (1968</h2>).
Directed By: George W. Bush A. Romero
Writers: George W. Bush A. Romero / John A. Russo
Starring: Duane Jones / Judith Odia / Carl Hardman / Marilyn Eastman / Keith Wayne
Overnight, human beings are infected by a mysterious virus and become the living dead, with a murderous personality and a terrible appearance, and only one thing is loaded in their heads, that is, "eating". Unfortunately, her injured brother was infected with the virus, and in grief and fear, Barbara fled into a private house, where she met the people who were also hiding here, and the people began to fight for survival, collecting the only weapons they had, and sealing the doors and windows. Who knows that the most terrible thing is not necessarily the monster outside the door, the sudden destruction is because...
George W. The greatness of A. Romero is that he created this new genre film, which not only embodied the image of these walking dead, but also formulated a series of their behavioral characteristics, which became the law that posterity followed when shooting similar subjects, so that human attack and defense became evidence-based. In terms of shooting methods, George W. A. Romero knows how to frighten, and in this low-budget black-and-white film, he uses the method of chiaroscuro to emphasize the invasion of darkness from the hearts of the people.
At the same time, in the United States in 1968, he concealed many social events and problems in the film, which is a pioneering achievement that many thriller directors have not easily tried. The night of the Living Dead is the latest 4K restored 2K version, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of its release and the approach of George W. Bush' film. On the first anniversary of the death of A. Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017), immersing ourselves in the atmosphere of wonder in the theater is the best way to commemorate this master who "shook the world".
<h2>Moonlight Panic (1978</h2>).
Director: John Carpenter
Writers: John Carpenter / Debra Hill
Starring: Donald Presons / Jamie Lee Curtis / Nancy Kyes / PJ Thors / Charles Cyphers
The film tells the story of the boy Myles who was sent to a mental hospital by his parents after mysteriously killing his sister on Halloween, and escaped after fifteen years to continue killing... For 40 years, this murderous maniac with a sharp blade, wearing a white rubber mask, wearing a cargo suit, and the mysterious and cruel killer Michael Myers is a horror nightmare in the hearts of many fans, and the film score by director Carpenter himself has long become a classic of thriller film soundtracks, and it is also an important contributor to the creation of a tense atmosphere in movies. As the title suggests, in the dark, you don't know what's going to happen in the next second... There is no excessive bloodshed and violence, but the most primitive inner fear can be felt.
In 1978, the $325,000 independent film was shot in 21 days and grossed $70 million worldwide, and the routines used in modern thrillers came from almost all of them, which can be called the textbook of similar B-grade films.
Although there are as many as 10 films in the "Moonlight Panic" series, Carpenter, the founder of the mountain, only participated in the filming of the first one, and repeatedly said that he would not make a sequel: "I think it should stop here." "The 4K restored 2K version of Moonlight Panic will be a classic pilgrimage moment that fans can't miss.
<h2>The Shining (1980).</h2>
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick / Diane Johnson / Stephen King
Starring: Jack Nicholson / Shelly Duval / Danny Lloyd / Skaterman Krossos / Barry Nelson
There are more than 200 Easter eggs in this year's Spielberg movie "Ready Player One", the most exciting of which is undoubtedly a tribute to Stanley Kubrick's classic "The Shining". The film not only restores the original appearance of the mountaintop hotel, but also the repeated sentences on the typewriter, the creaking children's tricycle, the twin girls, the strange snow night maze, the surging plasma in front of the elevator... Every detail evokes the deep fear of movie fans about this thriller masterpiece.
"The Shining" tells the story of Jack Nicholson, who plays the writer Jack, who gets an errand to watch over the hilltop hotel, so he moves into the hotel with his wife and children, trying to create with peace of mind, but he does not think that strange things have happened one after another, and Jack is close to the brink of collapse... Following the previous release of "Shawshank's Redemption" and "Joker Horror", "The Shining" is another film adapted from Stephen King's work at this year's 21st Shanghai Film Festival.
And stanley Kubrick, a film master known for his strict requirements, although he made drastic changes to the original plot, spent a lot of energy and improved the shooting technology, restored the ghostly atmosphere in the book with a large color block picture composition and a neurotic soundtrack god, and deliberately designed the hotel layout to be full of contradictions, the location of the scene objects is erratic, and it seems to be a gang, in fact, it is to unconsciously create a ubiquitous "shining" sense in this movie, driving the protagonist and the audience crazy at the same time.
<h2>Split (2016).</h2>
Director: M. Knight Shyamalan
Writers: M. Knight Shyamalan
Starring: James McAvoy / Anya Taylor-Joey / Betty Buckley / Hayley Lou Richardson / Jessica Sula
In 1999, Bruce Willis's "The Sixth Sense" became a masterpiece of thriller suspense and supernatural elements, winning a double harvest at the box office, and this film also gave people a glimpse of director M. Knight Shyamalan's thriller palm strength, but then there were few surpassed works, and even became the "king of bad films". But in 2016, he fought a turnaround battle with this "Split", and the $9 million cost of production swept more than $270 million worldwide.
The small-format secret room shooting method and the interpretation of multiple personalities became the biggest highlights of the film, in which the male protagonist James McAvoy made a bald debut and successfully starred as Kevin, a multiple personality patient with 23 personalities, and some people commented that his acting skills were superb enough to "complete the performance switch with only the change of facial muscles".
The story tells that three girls are preparing to take the car home together, but they are attacked and kidnapped by Kevin, imprisoned in a dark and cold basement, and Kevin's 24th personality is slowly forming, this personality is strong, evil, cruel, once he gains the dominance of Kevin's body, not only the three girls will suffer, but even Kevin himself will die... The final ending is reversed, full of the director's personal characteristics, just like "The Sixth Sense" 19 years ago.
<h2>Ronin Reasoning Detective (2017</h2>).
Director: Dominique Pierce/Aaron McCann
Starring: Toshizo Kasuzaki / Hideaki Yamaguchi / Mayu Iwasaki
The film is told in a "pseudo-documentary" way, a Japanese TV series called "Ronin Reasoning Detective", which was introduced to Australia in the early 1990s, set off a popular craze and was regarded as a CULT classic. The film, which premiered on April Fool's Day in 2017, doomed its "impure motives." In fact, all this is a fiction, not only is there no such thing, but even this Japanese TV series is fake, and the two directors, Pierce and McCann, also went to Japan to shoot several small film segments.
The "amazing" point of this film is that it also contains a 90s-style CULT Japanese TV series and a modern documentary. Although it is fictional, the TV series "Ronin Reasoning Detective" in the movie is very interesting, it does its best to aesthetic violence, the protagonist holds a samurai sword and fights with the enemy in various classical Japanese scenes, and the flesh and blood are everywhere he goes, and the special effects are quite B-grade films.
<h2>Third Type of Contact (1977</h2>).
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Hal Barwood
Starring: Richard Dreyfus, François Truffaut, Terry Gard, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
The story of "Contact of the Third Kind" takes on a multi-line development structure: researchers Claude and David find a missing World War II plane in the Sonoran Desert, and the plane is intact but the pilot is missing; in Indianapolis, the air traffic control center reports the mysterious disappearance of two flights; a 3-year-old boy in Mansi City is taken out of the house by an automatically running toy, and his mother is in hot pursuit; in a large-scale power outage, the power company inspector Roy finds a UFO. He then became obsessed with UFOs as if he had been caught in the cult, much to the horror of his family.
After all kinds of strange things, UFO sightings around the world suddenly became frequent. The scientists received a signal from space that pointed directly to the Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming. The military evacuated the local population, a large number of UFOs arrived as promised, and people who had mysteriously disappeared for many years returned to Earth... After a friendly "third type of contact", the alien flying saucer disappears into the night sky.
In 1972, an astronomer named Joseph Alan Heineck first classified human contact with alien civilizations in his book, dividing it into "first type of contact (sighting of UFOs)", "second type of contact (physical effect of UFOs on witnesses)", and "third type of contact (direct contact between humans and living alien beings)".
The 1960s and 1970s were at the height of the UFO boom in the United States, and this classification theory soon became a national topic. A year later, a young man named Steven Spielberg persuaded Columbia Pictures to sign him to make a science fiction film about aliens. Spielberg initially planned to make a documentary or small-budget film about UFO believers, but later changed his plans and decided to make it into a science fiction film, named "Watch the Skies".
At that time, Spielberg was far from the later Director who could make a splash in Hollywood, he was just a newcomer director, and the cooperation between the screenwriter and the crew was quite limited. After several screenwriters were unable to satisfy him, Spielberg began to write it himself and hired Heineke as a consultant, and the title was eventually "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", which later became known as "Contact of the Third Kind".
In 1975, "Jaws" was released, and Spielberg became a hit. In May 1976, filming of "Contact of the Third Kind", which had been postponed for two years because of the preparation of "Jaws", finally began. Spielberg's crew suffered from numerous technical and financial problems, the U.S. Air Force and Navy refused to assist in the filming, and during the filming in Alabama, the studio was damaged by lightning strikes. In this way, the film's budget was increased again and again, and it was finally fixed at $19.4 million.
"Contact of the Third Kind" is completely different from the previous routine UFO movies, there is no human and alien star wars, no anatomical experiments on flying saucers, and no strange alien monsters, but Spielberg has become one of the most successful UFO science fiction movies in the history of cinema.
Contact of the Third Category received eight nominations at the 50th Academy Awards, culminating in the Best Cinematography Award and the Special Achievement Award. In 1998, the American Academy of Drama ranked Third Contact on the top 100 lists in American film history, ranking 64th. The film is also listed as a collector by the National Film Preservation Agency because of its "cultural, historical, and aesthetic" value.