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No matter how the domestic network horror film continues to be filmed, it may be true that Chinese horror films can be reborn in the network university.
As we all know, domestic horror films and thrillers naturally have huge restrictions because of the relationship between the environment and auditing, and the demons and ghosts that appear in film and television dramas that appear "idealistic" will always use "materialistic" things to explain in the end, of which "illusion" has become the top priority.
In this way, it is difficult for the audience to have a sense of substitution and immersion when they know that it is fake.
In the past two years, many domestic network horror films have begun to rise, not that they can catch up with classic horror films, but in the production, actor selection, and even the story plot and core expression have begun to look decent. And to a large extent, it also goes beyond cinema movies.
In 2021, there are several such horror films, the "Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling" and "Yellow Skin Tomb" at the beginning of the year, and now there is a very high-quality network horror film.
That is, the horror film "Water Monster 2: Black Wood Forest" (hereinafter referred to as "Water Monster 2") directed by Xiang Qiuliang and Xiang Hesheng, starring Wang Zhen'er and Han Dong.
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This movie is called "Water Monster 2", so there must be "Water Monster 1". The storyline of the two films has a certain connection, but the connection between the protagonist team and the main story line is not too deep.
"Water Monster 1" was broadcast when Bo Guangqun saw it, the movie tells the story of the male protagonist Aquatic when his father was killed by the water monkey when he was a child, the villagers were afraid of worshipping the water monkey as a god, and later the aquatic team members laid a trap, and finally killed the water monkey after a battle.
"Water Monster 2" later revealed that the story takes place 20 years after "Water Monster 1", after the aquatic killed the water monkey, the village suffered a plague, the villagers blame the aquatic killing of the water monkey to cause disaster, the aquatic himself and his family suffered (the aquatic did not say the ending), the aquatic children became the protagonists of the second part.
The story begins with his younger brother JiaHao (played by Han Dong) investigating the water monkey in Sheung Shui Town, he holds a camera on a boat on the lake and prepares to shoot the water monkey, and presses the shutter when the water monkey appears.
The heroine Qingling (played by Wang Zhen'er) appeared, and the film explained her origins. She was discovered by the inspector on the streets of Shanghai, but she had no memory, she became a forensic doctor and made a name for herself in solving her father's case, but the question of her life has always plagued her.
Until they receive a letter from Sheung Shui Town, and her brother Jia Hao, who has a good relationship with her, goes to Sheung Shui Town to investigate, and then the opening of the film disappears. Qingling came to Shangshui Town with a gun and tools, and when he arrived in Shangshui Town, he saw the villagers sacrificing water monkeys.
Qingling passed by and saw that there was something next to her brother next to the corpse she was carrying, preventing the team from having a conflict with the godmother, at this time the mayor of the town came to receive Qingling, and Qingling arranged a room for her brother to live.
At night, Qingling dreamed that the room was flooded by the river, and his brother had a terrible scene of a family of four. After waking up, he found that the house had footprints, followed by a little boy with no parents, Xiao Liuzi, the little boy was hungry and scared, Qingling gave him something to eat, and the little boy recognized her as his sister.
Next, Qingling takes Xiao Liuzi to investigate the disappearance of his brother.
They first went to the uncle's house in the town where he had his brother's things, and the uncle couldn't bear to look down and returned her brother's things to her, and when they returned on the road, they were killed by water monkeys, and their wives were also killed by water monkeys at home, and the bodies of the two sons were packed in a water tank, which was very miserable.
Qingling saw the bullied mute, and the mute privately found her and told her. The letter she received was written to her, and then told her the location of the well, only to be dumbfounded on the way back and the messenger who intended to be bullied was killed by the water monkey.
Qingling found the body of his brother Jiahao in the straw pile under the well, and according to the autopsy, he was found to have been bitten to death by a human-like beast. Then he went to the black wood forest and found a corpse in it to collect things and send it back to the patrol room for examination. Later they encountered water monkeys in the BlackWood Forest, and a battle broke out between the two sides.
The water monkey has a strong fighting ability, Qingling and the water monkey did not get a bargain in a battle, when the town mayor and the town's highly respected uncle Jiu came to say that they had mistakenly broken into the black wood forest, and disrespected the water monkey to kill her to sacrifice the water monkey, the town mayor came to say that the people were the people of the Shanghai patrol house.
Uncle Jiu asks Qingling to roll out of Shuishang Town, but Qingling says that they are superstitious about their willingness to sign a life and death contract to capture the water monkeys, and because Qingling saved the granddaughter of the old carpenter before, the old carpenter took Qingling to the house and opened the basement to have a group of strong and handsome men.
It turned out that their children were all missing, and at the same time, they had long been dissatisfied with the superstitions of the mayor, the ninth uncle and the godmother. The aquatic beings in Water Monster 1 have led them to kill water monkeys, and they are willing to help Qingling deal with water monkeys.
Next, Qingling lures out the water monkeys in the river and leads the water monkeys into the ancient well through a trap. At the critical moment, the mechanism is destroyed and failed by a crazy woman, and Qingling and the water monkey are knocked unconscious when they confront each other, and the good villains use the remaining mechanism to catch the water monkey and put it in a cage in the town to watch.
After various events, Qingling recovered most of his memories according to the investigation. At the same time, the Shanghai Patrol House also replied to the letter, through this letter Qingling knew all the secrets, she let Xiao Liuzi take a gun to the Black Wood Forest, and went to the town alone to find that the water monkey had fled, and the brothers who captured the monkey were all dead.
The mayor of the town, Uncle Jiu, and the goddess put her in a cage on the grounds that Qingling had angered the water monkeys, and the shrine was replaced by a new water monkey who had been headshot by Qingling, and the crazy woman was killed to sacrifice the water monkeys. At this time, Qingling remembered everything, not only remembering his identity, the source of the water monkey, and the conspiracy of the whole thing.
The most critical reversal is that there are no spoilers here, and interested viewers can go to the movie on their own.
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"Water Monster 1" was already seen by Bo Guangjun when it first came out, and the first one did a good job in the art atmosphere, action design and story plot. The level is OK but there are many shortcomings, probably an action movie that imitates the seriousness of foreign monster movies, and the water monkey kung fu is very high.
"Water Monster 2" is based on the first part of the comprehensive upgrade, in many ways to do well.
1, the actors are professional actors, more recognizable, more secure acting skills, and because they are not "traffic stars" The film remuneration is not expensive.
In the early days of the domestic Internet university because of investment and other reasons, male actors are unknown how many lines of actors, looks not good, acting skills are also very general, in addition to the "net big brother" Peng Yu Yu this kind of acting of the net too much is remembered by netizens, most of the net big actors you will find neither know his name, but also can not remember their appearance.
Actresses have to quickly attract the audience's attention in a short period of time, usually choosing actresses who are in good shape and who are completely inconsistent with the film environment. These actresses are also in good shape, not only do they look the same, but their acting skills are also very bad.
In the middle of the internet, some well-known actors of the older generation began to act, but most of them were works that stirred up the feelings of Hong Kong movies, or the feelings of the two sides of the strait and the three places. Basically, well-known actors are paired with actors who are not recognized enough, and the combination is still very bad.
The choice of actors in "Water Monster 2" can be called the current big ceiling of the network, Han Dong is actually just a cameo, and the younger brother's role is very small. This movie is a veritable "big heroine", and the heroine Wang Zhen'er believes that many Chinese audiences are still deeply impressed by this actress.
The advantages of this kind of professional actor are obvious, as mentioned above.
Wang Zhen'er's face is highly recognizable, and the heroine does not have any flesh-revealing scenes in the whole film. But a slim cheongsam lined her particularly tall, carrying a spear hand with a toolbox is not only heroic, but also the audience will believe that such a heroine can solve such a complex supernatural event.
If you think about it carefully, if the heroine is a female Internet celebrity with exposed thighs and chests, will it be very dramatic?
Other supporting roles are the screws of china's film and television industry, with good acting skills but with a salary that is not as good as that of "traffic stars", playing any small role is handy, but also allows the audience to enter the play.
For example, in the film, the mayor of the town who violates the yin and yang, the nine uncles who have a gloomy and perverted face, the godmother who is obviously trapped in the magic barrier, and then the scared and cute little sixth son of the positive character, and so on.
The second is horror films, and the most important thing about thrillers is the sense of atmosphere, the integrity of the story and the rationality of the ending.
"Water Monster 2" and the first one are indeed much stronger in the atmosphere created by art, filters, and costumes, although it is not as good as the world's classic horror films, but it is definitely the top in China.
Now horror movies all over the world are on the decline, because there is no breakthrough in horror film technology. In terms of cultural atmosphere, European, American, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian horror films are filmed too much, and it is difficult for the audience to watch more aesthetic fatigue and be frightened by the sense of atmosphere and immersion of the movie.
There are too few horror thrillers in China, and the cultural atmosphere of "Water Monster 2" that restores the horrors of the East is an advantage.
The first is this kind of traditional Chinese culture, when Qingling entered Shangshui Town at the beginning, the team sacrifice, the whole town everywhere has this strange, superstitious, traditional Sense of Chinese cultural terror. This can only be done Chinese, and Chinese audiences feel it more deeply.
Secondly, in terms of atmosphere, this is usually set off by the combination of art, lighting, soundtrack and costumes.
The atmosphere of "Water Monster 2" and the first monster kung fu film is different, the whole Town of Sheung Shui seems to be covered in a layer of dense fog, the village, the river are trees that cover the sky, whenever the boat, people walk in the duckweed and muddy water, with coffins, ancient wells, and strange masks on the faces of the villagers, adding to this sense of oriental cultural atmosphere.
The setting of Water Monkey is not like the kung fu monster of the first film, and it really has a bit of a "monster movie" flavor.
The water monkey walked under the water like the wind, and when the skinny and dark body slowly emerged from the water full of duckweed. There are a lot of unconcealed and mysterious front shots (the special effects can be better), the scale of killing people is also good, and the corpses in the water tank are very intuitive and scary enough.
In the end, the story plot and character shaping are still a bit hasty in some details, but they are already very complete, and the whole story is told in the end to move the audience, and it tells a good story.
In fact, I personally think that if this movie can be expanded in this scene, such as the two lines at the end are loosened, the scene is larger, the action scene and the hunting scene of the water monkey are more, and the reversal at the end is more profound, this movie can hang a lot of domestic blockbusters.
Of course, it's pretty good now.
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For various reasons, most of the nets are playing emotional edge balls, erotic side balls, foreign movies rubbing edge balls, and then playing horror movies to wipe the edge ball of the "shoddy" work, this kind of net big often only has a gimmick, other aspects from production, actor selection to the story plot are too bad.
But horror movies range from "Water Monster 1" to "The Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling", from the internet university "Yellow Skin Tomb" to "Water Monster 2". The horror atmosphere, horror degree, and shooting picture of the whole movie of "Water Monster 2" are much better than many theatrical movies.
The overall visual effects, sound effects and art costumes in place of this film make this film add a little sense of mystery and tension, the actors' performances, the rhythm of the film is not delayed, and the film also tells a very complete story that can move the audience.
Such a network is very rare, and this kind of domestic horror film is even more rare.
"Water Monster 2" became the second most popular as soon as it was launched with such high quality, only lost to the Hollywood blockbuster "Fast and Furious 9", and finally hoped that there were more and more domestic horror films and thrillers such as "Water Monster 2"!