When it comes to suspense horror films, the campus has always been the most popular and the most popular place for strange talk, and every campus has a legendary strange story, today let's talk about the classic suspense series of "School Strange Talk". Do you remember? Let's make up for it.
The earliest "School Strange Talk 1" is about a little girl walking into the old school building and never returning. Her sister and 5 companions come to look for her, but they are trapped in the school building by various horrific supernatural phenomena. The film was released in 1995, when Japanese horror films could not render the horror atmosphere with sound and painting, but mainly used special makeup to create monsters, and the idea of the upside-down classroom was very good. In a small horror atmosphere, it can still be full of childlike fun, just like the summer when they got together to tell ghost stories as children, this is the memory of Japanese children, right? And those strange things seem to have been experienced and never seem to have been experienced.
In terms of production: although the subject matter is a thriller, its horror is not high, the plot is also very thin, and it does not pay much attention to detail (the door of the classroom is reversed), but the ending is still quite warm. So, the most beautiful encounter in the world is friendship, and it is really gratifying to see them change and grow a little bit at the end of the film.
School Strange Talk 2, another elementary school film, tells the story of a student who is led by a teacher to a monastery camp. By the second part, the horror has taken a back seat, and the innocent friendship between the children is the real point of view: in the happy holiday to make friends in the city, the last scene, the boy chases the distant train and responds proudly, which is both a laugh and the biggest tear of the work. Childhood, it is really beautiful.
Although this episode has added more terrifying elements: the smiling headmaster, the stone statue returns the book, the maggot troops hang upside down parade, and so on. But driven by the children, it seems so cute again. At the same time, family and friendship are the theme melodies of the film! Leave people with indispensable childhood memories.
In "School Strange Talk 3", it introduces the story of The Monster Daishi who takes his classmates to the world in his mirror, and these classmates finally rescue each other through friendship. However, the strange talk that happens in the lives of children is so flavorful. The plot of this episode has expanded from the school to the urban area, and also added the classic character Faceless Man in the original! The focus is still to highlight the children's friendship first! And the editor thinks that the soundtrack of this episode is the best in this series!
The "world of horror" in the eyes of children is always mixed with nightmares and funny: "The upside-down world in the mirror" and "Faceless Man" symbolize the anxiety of "identity deprivation"; and the monster with a crush on the teacher, while running for his life and confessing to the desired female classmate, is a kind of small beauty that makes people feel good. Xiaobian believes that this is the most worthwhile one in the series, from the intention, plot, visual effects, the performance of the young actors, and the musical sound effects, it is also the work of no one before.
For School Strange Talk 4, the film uses nostalgia to describe a summer vacation ten years ago, when several male and female elementary school students played guessing and hide-and-seek in an empty school. When there was a sudden tsunami, the children who hid and hid were killed, but their ghosts were still waiting for the classmate in charge of 'catching' to come and look for them. Compared with the other three films, this one has the largest proportion of horror components, and it is not even related to science fiction.
Although this episode is relatively ordinary, under the shell of a horror movie, it is actually a fairly warm story. Highlight the friendship between the grandfather and several dead childhood playmates! Under the leadership of the grandfather, slowly uncover the truth. It turns out that the origin of all the strange talk is just a simple agreement of the children? And the hide-and-seek game that has been late for decades is finally over, surprised by the bravery and beauty of the little girl, and the ending is very warm.
Saying that the first 3 parts of the series are very similar in style, the director may feel that he needs to make a little change, and then there is this fourth part, but it is not successful, and the series is over. Have you seen anything about this series? What good ideas can you tell us?