In 1996, an R-rated horror film was released in the United States.
Before and after the screening, there were twists and turns.
During the production process, the American Film Association attacked several times, giving the film an NC-17 rating for large-scale bloody violence.
In the U.S. movie rating, R-rated means that under 17 years old can be watched with a parent, and NC-17 level means that under 17 years old cannot watch.
The filmmakers intervened in many ways, and the director painstakingly deleted and changed ten times, and was reluctantly allowed to be screened at R level.
After the release of the film, the box office was a mess.
With only $6 million at the box office in its first week, the film is ready to wash and sleep.
Unexpectedly, a week later, the situation suddenly reversed.
Fans poured into theaters, contributing $173 million at the box office, a record for the entire film. (2018 'Moonlight Panic' broke records)
If you take into account the inflation of movie ticket prices in the past 20 years, it is firmly at the top of the box office of horror films in film history.
Twenty-five years, four sequels.
The old classic horror IP, the nightmare returns of the new game of abuse.
In the first week of release, "Spider-Man: Heroes Are Homeless" was pressed to the top of the weekend box office list.
Word-of-mouth in Europe and the United States was overwhelmingly praised, with Rotten Tomatoes freshness once as high as 93%, now stable at 77%, and has obtained fresh certification.
Fred Topel: The best sequel right now, taking this horror series in a new direction: bloody, bold, exciting.
Peter Gray: Horror is not cheap or a gimmick, but it's endlessly fun, unexpected, like the first one.
Along with Michael ("Moonlight Panic"), Leatherface ("Texas Chainsaw Killer") and other killers re-emerged on the screen.
Scott takes you to talk about this subversive horror work in front of the stage, behind-the-scenes legend, and the unique film history.
Scream 5
SCREAM
2022.1.14 USA
>>>> the most faceless serial killer
Talking about "Screaming", it is impossible to avoid the coexistence of fierceness and sand sculptures, ruthless and shameless and unreasonable young talent serial killers——
Ghostface.
Classicly shaped, wearing a black hood and a serrated cloak, he has a white rubber mask in the style of a screaming ghost on his face.
The mask design, inspired by Edward Munch's famous painting Scream.
A twisted look between mockery and intimidation, reflecting the look of fear and surprise on the victim's face.
Left "Scream", right "Scream" four generations of masks
Weapons and equipment, a dagger + a voice changer.
Ghostface is not a person, but a code name.
In every "Scream", there are always ordinary people who wear ghost masks and kill people like hemp.
Ghostface was born in the 90s, when slash-and-slash films were long gone.
Slash and slash films, horror film sub-genres, mainly shoot the bloody hunt of serial killers, such as "Moonlight Panic", "Chainsaw Horror" and so on.
After experiencing the debut half of his life, the return is still the combat power of the sequel, and the classic killer demons have killed invincible hands all over the world.
Or the like of The Skin Face, Michael, and the like, transformed into fleshly evil spirits that cannot be killed.
Or Freddy ("Ghost Street") and the Joker ("The Clown Returns"), the spiritual execution of the killing is invisible.
Do you know the killer in the picture (Source: Network)
Look at our ghost face, as a rising star of the murderous demon, it is really almost a card face.
Under the mask, the ghost face is just an ordinary person with little strength and speed.
Love to play with daggers but knife skills are urgent, keen to load X but occasionally overturn, any passerby can kick and fly.
The appearance is not high, the strength is not strong, it does not hinder and absorb countless powders.
The horror of the ghost face is that people are meticulous and hysterical, and every killing always carries a conspiracy design.
Everyday haunts are not without a sense of existence, as affinity as your friends, calling prey, chatting about movie nagging.
But as long as you seize the opportunity, you will be ruthless, and the methods of killing people are strange.
For example, to lead someone to the door:
Operation lift door waist chop:
Hiding in the blind spot of vision, poking you off guard:
Ride on your back for a meal output:
What's even more frightening is that the ghost face is too "ordinary".
Masks can be bought anywhere, X treasure can not spend three figures; there is no technical threshold for means, men and women, young and old can play.
In other words, anyone can put on a mask and do evil.
The seemingly harmless nemesis and family members of the characters in the film may all be ghost faces, or they may all be ghost faces.
The open knife is easy to hide, the dark arrow is difficult to defend, and the people's hearts are a hundred times more vicious than the monsters that cannot be killed.
"Kill by Daylight"
>>>> the most anti-routine horror classic
"Screams of Horror" is regarded as a cross-era horror cult, because it is a horror film that does not need money in plasma and slaughters bottomless lines.
It's not just a horror movie.
The biggest charm of "Scream" lies in its anti-genre and anti-routine nonsense.
The characters in the film are heavy horror fans familiar with the clichés of horror movies.
When they realize that they are in the middle of the slashing film, they are a little excited with fear, and the bad routine is at hand.
Just follow a few of the necessary rules to survive horror movies:
Rule one: You can't have X life
Rule two: Do not drink alcohol and take drugs
Rule Three: Don't Say, "I'll be back soon."
The beautiful girl who should have played the lamb to be slaughtered never made a fool of herself, and always painstakingly gave the audience a knowledge point:
Stupid murderers always hunt beautiful women who have no ability to resist, and they always run upstairs without knowing how to get out of the main entrance.
Ordinary horror films are on the first floor, audiences are on the fifth floor, and Screams is on the fiftieth floor.
Fans and screenwriters jumped out of the frame of thinking to fight wits and courage, and couldn't help but sigh: Oh weird, take another look!
The horror scale of bloody violence is paired with a comedic attitude of ridicule and satire, coupled with a bit of "werewolf killing" suspenseful atmosphere.
The banter is not excessive, and the humor is not vulgar.
Fight left and right between routines and anti-routines to create a horror comedy classic that scares fans into tears and laughs to the point of patting their thighs.
The man behind the series is Wes Craven, the "King of Horror" who created the Ghost Street series.
Wes Craven
Wes, who became famous in the 80s, flipped the car in the 90s when horror movies were exhausted.
Self-abandonment took over the script of "horror directors hate too absurd, comedy directors hate too much mediocrity".
There is no pressure on the film, crazy death on the high-pressure line of the scale, and the tribute and ridicule of the peers are vented to the fullest.
X's rebellious temperament has not only inspired a range of self-deconstructing genres of comedy horror films, such as:
"Death is coming", "Double Treasure Fighting Demon", "Shaun the Zombie", "Cabin in the Woods", "After the Mask", "You are next"...
Of course, it is better known for taking advantage of the situation to launch "Scary Movie" (the original title of "Scream").
The style of Screaming Laughter is close to that of American Pie, specializing in the lower three-way and fart vulgar comedy.
Silicone saves lives
The domestic influence of "Screaming Laughter" seems to be greater, so that many fans can't be afraid of the ghost face at all.
Li Ghost defeated Li Kui: It was me who came first, obviously I came first...
>>>> heartfelt sequel
The filmmakers who earned a lot of money from "Scream" did not let go of this cash cow.
With the first "Survivor Three" Sidney, Dewey and Gayle as the protagonists, a series of sequels were created.
The sequel routine is basically fixed.
More and more bloody hunting, more and more crazy killers, and more and more routine bugs in the name of affection.
It sold well at the box office and the word of mouth was getting worse and worse.
Stumbled through four films plus an American drama, and the series was temporarily suspended after Weiss's death in 2015.
It wasn't until 2019 that Paramount bought the rights and released a fifth sequel.
This one is relatively independent, and the plot mainly connects the first part of the movie.
Personally, I suggest that if you don't have time to watch the first four films, at least after watching the first part, you will have a better experience.
The plot of Scream 5 is not complicated.
25 years later, the quiet town is again right, and the ghost face commits murders one after another, hunting and killing a group of teenagers.
The three xiaoqiang were forced to regroup to protect the next generation and join forces to face the killer.
Why did the ghost face reappear? Who plays the killer this time?
No spoilers, leave it to the movie.
In the fifth part of the series, the biggest change is in the director.
Matt Betinelli-Olpin & Taylor Gillett (Ready for It, Deadly Tapes) directed the film.
The two horror films are strong as Wes fans, and the formalities are naturally sincere and full of feelings.
The ghost noodles return, still the original recipe, the original taste.
In the first scene of the opening chapter, the pixel-level reproduction of the first classic "Lone Girl Phone Killing" famous scene.
Ghostface voice actor Roger L. Jackson's magnetic and dangerous voice sounded again:
"What's your favorite horror movie to watch?"
Spanning 25 years of tribute, the feelings of killing Laman.
Scream 1, Scream 5
The appearance of the ghost face is still the same as the "spring combat power" of the previous game.
When it is time to be stupid, it comes and goes with the air, and when it is time to kill people, it is bloody and violent, and unscrupulous.
A set of "stealth backstabbing and kidney attack" triple, the purest assassination, the most extreme enjoyment.
Under the limitation of mirror position and frame, the visual blind spots and hades soundtrack of characters opening and closing doors, turning around constantly teased the audience's nerves.
After a few misleading, it will suddenly hit a fatal blow.
The audience who is toyed with by the director cannot predict when the ghost face will appear, and experience the most subtle horror tension.
If the game of abandoning the knife pulling the ass is not eye-opening enough, this time the ghost face also broke the sky to put up a flamethrower (big mistake).
The evening star was like his eyes, killing and setting fire.
Corresponding to the main creator behind the scenes, the main actor three small strong thunder can not move to return.
The years are merciless, and time leaves not only wrinkles, but also a midlife crisis.
The identity of the new generation of protagonists is somewhat related to the characters of the previous game.
The heroine is simply the illegitimate daughter of the first generation of ghost faces.
Holding back a blackened evil spirit that inherited the mantle of his father, he was a few points more violent than the ghost face.
Who is the murderer and who can survive to the end, the key plot can not be spoiled.
It can only be said that the main creator is decisive for the core role, and the three small strong people finally have a bento.
Inside and outside the play, it is not broken, and new ambitions are pushed out.
For horror film fans, the core point of view is also the traditional artistic ability, spitting.
The temperament of the air is shaking, and the sentences directly poke the lung tubes of the fans.
Asked about the horror movies she likes, the girl chose "upgraded horror movies" such as "Ghost Book" and "Hereditary Doom".
Unlike those inferior and absurd pastes that only scare people, it is a high-level horror film with complex emotions and themes.
Casually, who broke the defense, I don't know.
Plasma tablets are also a picture of a music, real horror still have to see A24 (manual dog head
Then he pointed to Mulberry and scolded Acacia, laughing at the Hollywood sequel routine.
Sequels can't be brutally restarted, nor can they just shoot sequels, fans won't buy it, and they must find old characters to brush up on their feelings.
Terminator, Jurassic World, Star Wars... Even Spider-Man has to call out to the insider.
The courage to launch the madness is much sharper than that of "The Matrix".
In general, whether it is a bloody and cruel large-scale torture, or a nonsensical irony of laughter and anger.
"Scream 5" is the best sequel in the series after the peak.
Unfortunately, it is also because it is only a sequel full of feelings.
Feeling this thing, my honey, Ru's arsenic.
When the pleasure of watching movies is directly proportional to the familiarity with the internal terriers and horror film routines of the previous game, it is inevitable to raise the threshold more or less.
Over the years, hollywood classic horror reboots have been rebooted, sequels to sequels.
"Texas Chainsaw Killer", "Moonlight Panic", "Chainsaw Horror" and a large number of classic IP invariably restarted the sequel.
"Scream 6" has also long been confirmed to start filming this summer, and the original team behind the scenes has returned.
Some people believe that this is a retro resurgence of the golden age of slash-and-kill films, known as the "American Fear Renaissance".
In my opinion, this popularity is more like the self-abandonment of creatively exhausted Hollywood.
Whether it is slash-and-slash movies, horror movies or Hollywood movies, it has long passed the era of blooming flowers and fiery cooking oil.
Under the epidemic, Hollywood has become more superstitious and conservative, and it is a three-plate axe of "superhero, sequel, and adaptation" when filmed.
At that time, the industry withered, and "Scream" took out a mixed posture of laughter and anger, creating a box office miracle in film history.
Nowadays, I also have to borrow corpses to return the soul, regard the anti-type as the type, and the anti-routine as the routine to show off the feelings.
You can only complain like the characters in the film: "There is nothing new in Hollywood."
Hopefully, I'll see something "new" as soon as possible.