This method requires a lot of movies and contains spoilers, and the effect varies from person to person, and there is no guarantee that it will work 100%.
This article is written by StarGame Connoisseur Ming Zero
preface
Humanity's fear of blood, strange things, and the unknown has existed since ancient times.
In Mad Primitive Man, the protagonist's family treats everything unknown as something terrible, and although some of them are stuck, this is indeed the most primitive and effective means of human beings to seek profit and avoid harm.
In Harry Potter, Borgett, who can change according to what others fear, becomes a Dementor when confronted with Harry, and Dumbledore's explanation for this is that Harry is afraid of "fear" itself.
"Fear" is also a means of self-preservation for human beings, because it can keep people away from dangerous things early, and on the other hand, it can make people nervous in order to secrete adrenaline to escape danger.
With the progress of the times, in addition to some low-probability situations, we can encounter fewer and fewer dangers from the unknown, and many people think of finding excitement in film and television dramas and games.
So in the more than one hundred years after the birth of the world's first horror film "Dr. Caligari's Cabin", many horror movies and horror games were born.
But just like showing the animal world to a domestic cat, these stimuli pictures separated by a small screen that cannot harm the audience evoke the most primitive emotion in many people's hearts: fear.
People who often watch horror movies lash out at the new horror movies and games for not being exciting enough, while at the same time failing to understand the fear of ordinary people about what they see as "pediatrics." But in my opinion, the ability to have "fear" is both a disadvantage and an advantage.
However, this time, in response to everyone's voice, the teaching is not to teach everyone how to use it, but to teach everyone how to overcome the fear of fictional plots on the screen.
However, it should be noted that if you want to practice the method here, it means that you have to take apart and watch some series of horror movies, and if you want to get a complete experience from beginning to end, the following methods are not recommended.
The first course of treatment, zombie infection therapy
Junji Ito has said that horror genres are more attractive to the faint of heart.
My first official exposure to horror was the Resident Evil series starring Mira Jovovich. So Resident Evil 4 naturally became my first horror movie to watch in its entirety.
The reason is very simple, "Resident Evil" has no floating ghosts, no irresistible supernatural powers, the protagonist is not unarmed, and its only "horror" is the bloody zombie shape.
Watching Resident Evil is basically watching Alice play handsome.
In the case of zombie movies, for example, the first "cure" is to find some movies with action or comedy elements that are significantly greater than (but still contain) horror elements, such as the Resident Evil series I mentioned.
The fear of zombie movies, in addition to their bloody shapes, is also the fear that a zombie crisis may break out around them.
Even when I was a child, I was terrified of the act of "kissing" because of a GIF of the ending of Death Video 3, because if zombies really existed, the person you were kissing might actually rip your tongue off.
Another source of fear and oppression in these films is often the sense of powerlessness of ordinary people in the face of hordes of enemies.
In response to this situation, in addition to telling yourself that from a scientific point of view, the kind of intensity zombies presented in the movie will not theoretically exist in reality, you just need to watch some movies where the human limelight is obviously greater than the zombies to gradually accept this setting.
In his sequel "Those Things of The Gods", "I Yang Jiandong" proposed that because the virus in reality is limited by the three laws of genetics, the law of isothermal propagation and other three laws of the virus, it is impossible to really become a virus for all human beings, plus the existence of viruses is limited by the reverse transcription rate and energy conversion efficiency and speed of the synthesis of base complementary DNA by its single-stranded RNA template, and the contradiction that the more powerful the virus, the shorter the life of the infected person and the faster the virus dies The possibility of controlling and turning all of humanity into zombies through viruses or so-called tricks is almost non-existent.
Although the content in the online article is also a picture of music, can not be fully believed, and Yang Jiandong has also made it clear that what he wrote is not science fiction at all, but this can also be explained to some extent, even if the irrational fiction setting is blown to the sky, it is also fictional.
If you want to start with a zombie movie, after a rough ranking of the horror level of the entire Resident Evil series, you will get the following results (the author's impression of the sequence number, not accurate): the first > the third part> the fourth part> the fifth part> the second part> the new version of the > the sixth part.
Perhaps those who have never been exposed to this series can imagine that the least "zombie content" (that is, the bloody and close-up shots of zombies attacking humans) is the last Resident Evil 6: Final Chapter.
Because the film version of the "Resident Evil" series is like "Dead Space", the first one is pure horror, and there are countless close-ups of bloody zombie faces, and the sequel is more and more detached from the original intention of horror, more inclined to science fiction and action scenes.
Although the new version is under the banner of "restoring the game", the plot is flawed, and the entire movie is only visually left, and after watching it, it is not as impressive as the old movie series that I saw a few years ago.
Of course, the "Resident Evil" series is certainly not a good movie for horror fans, but for ordinary people who have not been exposed to horror movies, if you want to fight customer fears, watching "Resident Evil" directly is still a bit of a head iron. Seeing this series for the first time may also require someone to accompany you.
And unless you completely overcome your fear of zombies in the middle of the way, you must rank the first part to the end, and watch it with the belief that after reading the sixth part, you know that "the antidote to the T virus has begun to take effect", and it is best not to touch it even before going through the entire course of treatment.
So for beginners, I prefer to recommend some comedy horror movies and gradually accept the zombie setting.
For example, "Warm Corpse", "Shaun of the Zombies" and "Zombie Paradise".
The intensity of zombie fear of the three is also in order (from negative to 1).
"Warm Corpse" is a zombie plus reunion ending version of Romeo and Juliet, in addition to the opening scene, the subsequent plot instead creates a positive image for zombies including the protagonist; the latter two are the protagonist group in the zombie pile to talk and laugh in the black humor comedy.
The action scenes in the Zombie Paradise duo are better than in Shaun of the Zombies, but the former was inspired by the latter.
In Infinite Horror, it is mentioned that "natural" beings can still be dealt with with guns, and supernatural things bring greater fear to people. If you accept "nature" first, you can start accepting "supernatural" next.
The second course of treatment, supernatural progressive therapy
When we enjoy a horror movie, the ending is often an important part.
The protagonist's lack of knife, the villain's comeback, and the hint that there is a next one are the most torturous points for the audience. This not only torments horror film lovers who "read countless fears", but also tortures people who are already afraid of horror movies.
(Roll call for cerebral thrombosis reset for "Friday 13th" and "Ghost Street")
Not mending the knife means that the protagonist's IQ is worrying and the villain is not dead, which means that the nightmare that scared you for more than an hour will continue.
This kind of ending arrangement is reserved by the producer for the consideration of a possible sequel, which may be a marketing means to capture the audience's heart, so that you can only go to see the sequel if you want to understand the ending.
For the average audience, foreshadowing sometimes exists to get them to go to the sequel to see when the villain dies, so that they are no longer afraid to go to the toilet alone at night.
But most people in China are likely to be unable to find or watch a sequel after watching a horror movie, which will lead to the "staying power" of this movie will always surround you.
The first "course of treatment" we are on the "fierce material", the second "course of treatment" the dose will be increased. Here, I will use the most powerful "Ghost Street" series as the prescription for this treatment. Because you have overcome your fear of the illusion of the zombie family, the next thing you have to face is the supernatural existence.
The Ghost Street series consists of nine films and a TV series that has been unable to find resources because of its age. Its story is not about a ghost or a perverted murderer on the street, but a supernatural killer.
Unlike "Friday on the Thirteenth", which is almost in a formula with a plot setting, and "Moonlight Panic", even if it is an old movie, the setting, picture and special effects design of "Ghost Street" are still fantastic, except for the sequel, you can hardly see a series of horror films with similar settings on the market.
Resident Evil doesn't need to be explained because of its popularity, but even if it is linked to "Dawn Kill", the setting of the classic series of "Ghost Street" still needs to be introduced by someone who has not heard of it.
Years ago, freddie Krueger, a serial child killer living on Elms Street, escaped police and court charges after being arrested and returned to the abandoned factory where he killed children. Seeing that the law did not work its proper role, angry parents collectively threw gasoline outside the factory and burned him to death inside.
Freddy Kruger also gained the power of the Nightmare before his death, becoming a supernatural killer who walked in the dream world and vowed to kill all children, leaving adults with regrets.
Unlike the setting of Asian horror films (including domestic bad films) in which the victim becomes an evil spirit, the supernatural horror films in Europe and the United States seem to like to set the abuser as an evil spirit, and under this premise, the fear brought by "Ghost Street" is even worse than other movies.
At some point, there was an "unwritten rule" in foreign film and television: that is, there could be no shots of children dying, but "Joker Returns" and "Ghost Street" turned their heads on this sentence, and the supernatural villains in it killed children.
Coupled with the setting that Freddy will kill people in his dreams, the sum of three points has led to many people who have watched the movie may not dare to sleep for a long time.
Speaking of the movie itself, in fantasy films, "imagination" can bring the audience a visual feast of imagination, but if the word runs into the horror film, what awaits the audience will be a lot of childhood shadows and spiritual pollution.
For those who want to take this treatment, "Ghost Street" still has a viewing ranking, that is: Freddy vs Jason > the sixth part> the third part> the fourth part plus the fifth part> the first part> the second part > new version.
Among them, although the seventh part can be ranked in the front, it is still recommended to choose to watch after watching the first part.
This ranking is no longer based on the horror of the film, but, as the first half of the chapter says, because of the "ending."
"Freddy vs Jason" is a linkage film between "Ghost Street" and "Friday on the Thirteenth" directed by Yu Rentai, the director of "Eight Immortals Hotel's Human Meat Char Siu Bun", although like "Sadako VS Ga Coconut", the duel between the two supernatural killers is still a draw, and the reputation of the film is not good in the entire series, but "Freddy vs. Jason" does not have a rotten ending in which the human side is completely destroyed.
When new viewers are exposed to the "Ghost Street" series, I recommend starting with this part.
Because you can completely recognize the protagonists as Jason and Freddy, ignore the existence of humans in it, and think of it as an action comedy movie with some curious pictures.
The rest of the movies are sorted for the following reasons:
The sixth part is titled "Freddy's Death", and compared to the entire series, this movie looks like a child in both plot and picture, but it is about Freddy's death.
The third part is about the protagonist group beginning to fight back with the power of the dream, and compared with the protagonists of other films in the series who fight back single-handedly and desperately, the protagonists of this part fight a team battle.
The fourth and fifth parts are not taken apart for the sake of plot coherence, in fact, according to the ending, the fifth part should be ranked before the fourth part, because its ending is freddy imprisoned by the soul of his mother.
From the third part onwards, although the ending of "Ghost Street" still implies that Freddy is not dead, the performance is very obscure.
The first and second parts are the real shadows, because Freddy will personally jump out and kill the protagonist completely at the easter egg in the ending, and Freddy in the second part was once dissatisfied by fans because of the excessive intensity.
As for the new version linked to "Kill by Daylight", it remade Freddy's story, replacing Robert Inglen, who originally played Freddy (including Tobin Bell, who played the vertical saw, the old man actor who played the villain in the American horror film is amiable and very cute in reality), and also replaced the original Freddy Deadpool's joke and mouth cannon setting, turning "Ghost Street" with a little comedy elements into a pure horror film.
What's more, it not only designed the classic "comeback" ending, but also never made a sequel again (which also made the subsequent plot completely become "Kill by Daylight").
Finally, after watching the whole series, the seventh part is pure "enjoyment".
Because it is a "meta-movie". That is, the actor who played the protagonist Nancy in the first and third parts played herself this time, and the plot of the movie became that "Ghost Street" was no longer making a sequel, Freddy began to appear in reality. But fortunately, its ending is a pure ending, and there is no hateful "shock and surprise".
But if you can't overcome your fear of ghosts after watching the entire series, but instead becomes more intense, and even sleeps and begins to be afraid, then firmly remember a setting: even if you can travel through dreams, Freddy will never be able to leave Elm Street in Ohio.
postscript
A few days ago, I posted in a small black box to verify whether anyone really needed this teaching, and even if it was a dynamic, it quickly gained many people's Cy in a few days.
So I started writing about this teaching before I wrote the assessment.
Splitting the article is not a deliberate "squeeze toothpaste", but there are three reasons: one is to let everyone see the content early, the second is that if the text is too long, the reader's desire to read will be reduced, and it will not have the desired effect, and the third is that I can take a break to complete other tasks after writing a period, and then continue to write the follow-up content.
However, this is just a text written by a small white who has watched horror movies for a few years, please do not have any expectations for its effect, but if it can really help some people, it will be perfect.
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