Half a month has passed since the National Day.
But the film industry still doesn't seem to have changed much.
In 2022, movies have not returned to the expected prosperity, just like our lives, nerves have been repeatedly tightened, suppressed, and become the norm.
If the norm is not adjusted for too long, it will become "sick".
"Crazy literature" appeared.
The Xiamen subway opened a tree hole, and all kinds of crazy criticism quotations gushed out and converged into a trend. The radiant and energetic workers during the day suddenly sublimated the cyberpoet and spat lotus flowers in their mouths.
Of course, not everyone is terrified.
Instead, everyone is eagerly huddling together to keep warm, hoping to prove that they are not alone.
Avoid "big madness" with "little madness".
The unsatisfactory and complaining about reality accumulated on weekdays seems to be unfazed, and once stimulated and the gap is found, it is like a flood that opens the gates, wantonly venting.
Sir wants to say that in fact, there is also this kind of "tree hole" on the screen.
Horror films.
Evil, madness, mischief... These things we want to vent but can't do, and we also hope to achieve them one by one through horror movies.
It can be called "Internet ghost replacement".
It coincides with the upcoming Halloween schedule in North America.
As a veteran horror film fan, Sir naturally can't miss one.
After pulling the trailer to find information, after careful selection, we summarized today's top ten horror films in the world that are finally worth looking forward to in 2022.
While revealing these top images, it also gives our tired hearts a dose of reverse chicken blood.
Come on.
Go crazy together, party together.
The Whimsy of Guillermo del Toro
Release time: October 25 (United States)
Director: Panos Kosmatus/David Prier/Vincenzo Natalie/Jennifer Kent/Keith Thomas/Catherine Hardwick/Guillermo Navarro/Anna Lily Amipur
Starring: Ben Barnes / Andrew Lincoln
Episodes: 8 episodes
The one who takes the lead is the Great God level.
The director of "Gyro", who is good at various monster themes, participated in a horror series as a screenwriter for the first time.
Based on the poster and episode title, you can guess that this is not your average horror movie.
It's a grand "carnival" with a horror theme.
At the top of the poster is a cow skull in the middle, with horns on both sides, and then a knife, an axe, a remote control, and then a key with 36 written on it, which should correspond to "Target 36".
Next are a few birds with spread wings, the most conspicuous and weird being the skeleton of a curled up half-man, half-mouse, which may be related to "Graveyard Mouse".
And an easily recognizable human eye, "Visit"? The rest of the readers can let their imagination run wild and sit in "The Outside", "Autopsy", "Pickman's Model", "Whisper" and "The Witch Shop Nightmare".
The trailer also has a mysterious sentence:
This is the kind of nightmare special, the kind where the truth will never be revealed.
What kind of nightmare?
Going back to the creative starting point, to borrow the line from the trailer, "There's a Hollow in My Heart," it turns out that Gilmour wanted to open human curiosity in a terrifying way.
What is curiosity? One of the simplest is to ask why this is happening.
If you also have a lot of questions, there are many questions about life and the present.
This curious "ghost substitute" is not to be missed.
"Conscientious Nurse"
Release time: October 19 (United States)
△ Look at the evil eyes of the little freckles
Director: Tobias Lindauchem
Starring: Jessica Chastain/Eddie Redmain
Adapted from a book of the same name based on real events. The biggest attraction comes from the two Oscar winners:
Little Freckles & Model Labor.
Previously, the two were in the same frame for the film's premiere at the London Film Festival, which has been full of expectations.
Charlie, played by Little Freckles, is believed to have killed 300 patients in 16 years as a nurse. The role played by Sister Lao is the key to uncovering the truth that has been covered up for 16 years.
Murder is the focus
In the trailer, he uses the same technique twice, that is, to give the patient twice as much insulin to death. This point was later discovered by Sister Lao Mo: the patient was at a loss about his child's name, and the data of heart rate monitoring next to him was obviously wrong...
What did Charlie do again? And when and for what reason was he suspected of murder?
The trailer released the first confrontation between the two:
△ Image source Weibo @ Sina Entertainment
It seems to be a warm vein, a pleasantries between good friends to keep warm.
In fact, at the end of the trailer, this scene reappears, and the model sister made a call before the little freckles entered the door
She came with a mission to try, and the confrontation between the two officially began.
The horror of this film is not on the surface, but in the danger and unknown and challenges felt when approaching the truth step by step and approaching the devil who created the murder.
However, tracing back to the reason, why the "angel in white" freckles as a nurse breeds "devilish" behavior, and why the rescuer becomes an executioner.
Is it the pressure of being a part-time worker? Or is it a psychological distortion? Still is......
Sir certainly knows that it is difficult to work as a worker, but such an extreme operation.
It's better to see the "ghost for" out of breath and enjoy.
"Devil's Light"
Release time: October 28 (United States)
Director: Daniel Stein
Starring: Jacqueline Biles / Colin Salmon / Christian Navarro
It doesn't take much skill to catch the eye.
For it, one sentence is enough
Based on the Vatican's true exorcism.
One shot can make your scalp tingle.
The little girl who had landed on the ground suddenly climbed up to the ceiling like a spider. (Of course, you can say it is reversed)
△ The GIF will not be released This scene came suddenly and briefly
Large whites of the eyes, bleeding eye sockets, twisting and transforming human limbs... Top configuration for a sense of horror. However, the wonderful point is that director Daniel revealed that the creation of this film requires innovation and subversion.
How to subvert?
Create a uniquely powerful female exorcist.
The creators are also thinking about this question, what skills the female protagonist has and her male colleagues do not have.
is a good question. But at the same time, Sir also has a faint unease.
When women are used as a gimmick and begin to be consumed in horror films, how much different excitement and innovation it will bring.
Whether to simply integrate the female image into the film, or to dig out the unique abilities and characteristics of women in the horror element, show female energy, and resist the evil path of the outside world.
I hope that such horror will not really be reduced to a third-rate ordinary "ghost replacement".
The following one is also a female theme.
"Anne's Face"
Release time: October 13 (Thailand)
Directed by Kongdej Jaturanrasmee / Rasiket Sukkan
Starring: Sukada Gulonghi / Jutimon Jongcharongsuin / Savanya Paisa Npaya / Valenton Paonill / Vallet Vatiel
Don't look at the starring actors so much, in fact, they are all one person: Annie.
Girls with different faces and personalities are brought to the same place in different ways. One day, they suddenly get together and find that their faces actually change...
Glancing at the trailer, well, non-traditional Thai horror, more like a female group like a mutual aid drama.
As long as you don't spill Thai dog blood, everything is easy to say.
"Moonlight Panic: The End"
Release time: October 14 (United States)
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis / Andy Mattyček / James Jude Courtney / Rohan Campbell
"Maybe he will die only if I accompany the burial."
This series of horror films that spans 45 years is finally coming to an end.
In terms of plot, the plot undertakes "Moonlight Panic" and "Moonlight Panic: Killing", and many media have typed the title "Can't beat Mike, is it really going to die".
In the opinion of old fans, Mike, who has "held" in the killing post for 53 years, may be time to go offline. But when will the twisted mind affected by an unfortunate family get back on track?
Murderous, bloodthirsty demons, unless they die, will stop slaughtering and calm down.
Sir thought that this might be the meaning of the existence of "crazy literature".
It provides you with emotional valves, discharges excessive air pressure, allows people to be buffered and relieved from a short loss of control, and then continues to move forward in society in a normal posture, without extremes.
If Mike could be "crazy" at that time, I am afraid it would not be like this.
《Menu》
Release time: November 18 (United States)
Director: Mark Miró
Starring: Ralph Fiennes / Anya Taylor-Joy / Nicholas Holt
First of all, it is funny to say that the Hong Kong translation uses a homonymous rotten terrier:
A five-level feast...
The heroine of "Rear Wing Abandonment" Beth stopped playing chess, changed to eat, and challenged the new drama road:
A young couple visits a restaurant on a remote island because it is said to offer a surprise menu.
The story is full of strangeness: first of all, the island, the boat to go there can seat 12 people, and each person costs $1250.
Crazy, right? Sir and the heroine have the same question: Is it a Rolex to eat?
Then, as soon as I entered the restaurant, the door behind me closed.
The protagonists are scared into losing their faces, but the chef says it's just a show.
Is it a show, or an elaborate horrific conspiracy? Where exactly are the boundaries of art?
When evil deeds are called art, do our attitudes, tolerances, and doubts about them change as well?
《Worth》
Release time: October (South Korea)
Director: Quan Yusheng
Starring: Chen Sun-kyu / Jeon Jong-seo / Jang Li / Kang Ji-woo
Episodes: 6
This is a "ghost substitute" film that can completely vent the resentment and anger in your heart.
Do evil "killing".
A remake of the short thriller film of the same name directed by Lee Cong-hyun. The people who gathered in the building to negotiate their worth for various reasons instantly fell into the Asura Field
The building collapsed and was completely cut off from the outside world. What kind of person will survive in the end?
South Korea's rich and poor themes, with horror settings, are very emotional, and also lead to a question that seems to be curious to everyone: can people without money fight against rich people?
It seems to be a thriller enhanced version of "Parasite".
But Sir feels that money is just a front, but a business element that has tried and tested.
At the end of the day, it's people. Fight IQ and ability on the surface, and fight the bottom line and three views in practice.
"The Curse of the Bridge Cave"
Release time: October 14 (US network)
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Starring: Marlon Wayans / Priya Ferguson / Kelly Roland
What can cure anger, in addition to madness, is also comedy.
Halloween, a major festival in North America. In order to make the ghosts begging for candy less embarrassing and more harmonious, humans have the idea of pretending to be ghosts.
But one day, the ghost became a real ghost because of the little girl's prank...
Embarrassing, but human.
"Wendell and Wilder"
Release time: October 28 (United States)
Director: Henry Selik
Voiced by: Kogan-Michael Kay / Jordan Peele
Creative genius Henry Selik is back!
In 2010, a "Ghost Mother" nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, with a high score of 8.3 on Douban, let netizens see the surreal and realistic strength and scale that animation can carry.
This time, Henry and producer Jordan Peele once again presented a Halloween-exclusive feature film stop motion animation.
For the sake of this play, the directors even brought the treadmill to the scene.
A pair of twin brothers engaged in underworld funeral work are eager to return to the world, but such a desire also needs certain conditions in exchange
Between life and death, is there a law that can be exchanged for mutual transformation? At what cost?
Talking about life and death at the moment seems not so heavy, it seems to be extremely heavy.
The director wanted humor to deconstruct this proposition.
And whether people dare to laugh or not is probably the real challenge.
"Looking for the Body"
Release time: October 14 (Japan)
Director: Eiichiro Hazumi
Starring: Kanna Hashimoto / Atsushi Maneita
What would happen if the Japanese came to shoot "The Beginning"?
Probably it's the answer.
The story goes to the most "perverted" one:
Adapted from the popular horror manga "カラダ探し" (translated as "Looking for the Body"), it tells the story of the day when the heroine high school student Asuka and several classmates are chased and killed by murderers.
However, it was clear that they were killed the day before, but when they opened their eyes the next day, they returned to yesterday.
The protagonists are caught in a cycle of being hunted down.
The solution is to find the torn body of the maiden (the killer). In the process, several classmates also formed a deep friendship...
Uniforms, ethics, campus, Japanese scales are full.
Especially the protagonist is the famous soft sweet girl, Kanna Hashimoto.
Itchy heart?
Don't worry, let's get through the trailer first.
Sir was shocked by a shot:
The killer's slightly mischievous stereo sound, running through the earphone like an electric current from the left ear to the right ear, passing the goosebumps and scalp tightening in the brain for a moment.
△ Better sound effect
The above is all the film list.
Not enough?
Indeed, there is still a gap compared to the previous pomp and circumstance.
In 2020, Sir also counted the horror film list, saying that that year was a small year for horror films, and he looked forward to making up for it in 2021.
It's 2022, and horror films are still languishing overall.
We need fear, but in the moment, enjoyment means far more than the pleasure of fear.
The premise of enjoyment is craving, immersion, and addiction.
As mentioned earlier, going crazy is a temporary disorder, in order to regain inner order and stability.
The same goes for enjoyment, providing a psychologically safe comfort zone for great uncertainty and anxiety from life and reality.
So, this one, enjoy the joy of fear, the tension of fear, and even the pain of fear.
Life cannot be paralyzed forever.
People, occasionally, need to derail, to find and face that part of the unspeakable truth.
The picture in this article is from the Internet
Editorial Assistant: Yimou not emo