This content comes from @What's worth buyingAPP, and the views only represent the author's own |Author: Ai Yingren
2023 is a small year for horror films, so you can imagine how many horror movies I've watched in the past year as a "horror movie blogger".
The healing process of turning off the lights and wearing headphones to watch horror movies alone late at night ends more and more in scolding.
But there are always ten that impress.
Moreover, compared with the top ten film lists, the top ten horror films show more personal taste.
My top 10 horror movies of 2023 are here.
I'm getting less and less interested in killing movies, so whether it's "Evil Dead Rising" or "Chainsaw 10", I'm not interested.
But this "Thanksgiving" is a little new.
It is roughly equivalent to such a story: on Double 11, a large supermarket annual discount carnival, everyone in the town rushed into the frenzy, and finally caused a stampede, killing and injuring countless people.
But soon, the supermarket owner won back the hearts of consumers through public welfare activities, and the next year's Double 11 came, the boss announced that he would continue to discount and continue the carnival. As soon as the news came out, the survivors of last year's stampede were brutally killed one after another.
Although the killing techniques of this film are not as bizarre as Chainsaw Horror, they are also clean + full of tricks.
Float killings, oven roasts, and trampoline assassinations are all famous scenes.
This year's horror film box office dark horse.
The investment was only 4.5 million, and the global box office reached 92 million.
The story of a sad girl psychic.
Mia, a lonely teenage girl who struggles to heal from the grief of her mother's death, is obsessed with the ghost hand conjuring game that is popular among young people, but the conjuring has a strict time limit and will be stolen by the ghost hand after too long, while Mia is overwhelmed by grief and doubt, and discovers a terrifying secret.
The movie is very good, the hard horror index is average, and it pays more attention to the sense of atmosphere - which is the consistent style of A24.
If the sequel is fast, it will be seen this year.
A small film that I personally like very much, the story is not big, the bloodiness and horror are average, but the characters are very rich, and the dramatic tension is very good.
A young coward, who was bullied by other colleagues in the fast food restaurant where he worked, endured it again and again, but another inconspicuous big brother couldn't stand it, took out a gun, and bloodied several thugs on the heads of the riders and the entire store.
The main story is that this perverted killer invites the little cowardly man to get into his car and start the road of escape.
In fact, it is a story of a man with infinite patience and a man who explodes at a moment, accompanying and comforting each other.
Argentine rural horror films, zombie + evil spirit series, have a different world view and aesthetics from European and American zombie films.
The second work written and directed by the director of "Strange and Suspicious" Demian Rugna.
Compared with the zombies invading the city and the possessed people with suppuration all over the body, I care more about the gloom of "God is dead" in the story:
A crook couple goes crazy by opening a church and laughs at these foolish believers in their hearts until they see the devil themselves.
An alien thriller with a very interesting concept, there are almost no lines in the whole film.
The heroine is a loner who is ostracized by the whole town, she lives in isolation, immersed in the old times, and encounters an alien invasion of Earth.
The first highlight of the whole film is the lonely and silent heroine fighting wits and courage with aliens, the rhythm is tight, and the point of no lines is very novel.
What's even more divisive is the end of the story - the lonely girl and the alien who studies the human brain finally reach some kind of weird reconciliation.
A horror film about cause and effect.
Lin Jiadong looked through the corpses one by one in the morgue, checked the eight characters of his birthday, and selected a "clean" corpse, and then transferred his soul and changed his body, which is definitely the most evil episode of the year.
Red candles, yellow paper, red plastic bags.
Cocks, spells, real knives.
The ghostly sense of fate, the absurdity and the impermanence are about to come out.
Last year's most out-of-the-circle Thai horror film.
The house in the title not only refers to the house of the male and female protagonists, but also refers to the bright and clean body.
Possession, borrowing souls, plus creepy formations and gloomy soundtracks, as well as the faint reincarnation of reincarnation, karma, present life and future life faintly reflected behind it.
All belong to the horror ethics and horror aesthetics of Eastern culture.
Chinese folk horror films are not good at filming, so I can only watch Thai ones.
A horror movie that really makes people "sit on pins and needles", I quickly followed Uncle Phoenix, anxious, fearful, confused, and full of why?
The film was three hours long, and I watched it in three parts.
The movie focuses on the extreme anxiety and fear of a middle-aged man, but to be honest, after watching it for an hour, I completely gave up on figuring out "what the movie is about".
The movie has 5 major scenes, the audio-visual is completely different, and the perpetrator and the victim are also interspersed, but the anxiety is like eating stinky tofu - hard to swallow and can't stop.
The Hong Kong translation of the title of this movie is very interesting: Bao Horror.
What treasure?
Horror dramas, as an addict to the horror atmosphere in East Asia, are my favorite horror genre.
Each episode is about ten minutes, and the atmosphere is very "cursed", which adds up to the length of a movie.
The story of each episode is relatively independent, but through the heroine Keiko, all the stories and characters are subtly strung together into a circle.
There is no scare level, and the truly terrifying details are kept secret and need to be chewed out yourself.
I said that this drama is very similar to "The Grudge", in addition to the similarity of temperament and tone, but also because the real horror issues of the two works are actually the pressure and loneliness of urban people.
South Korea's 89-year-old rookie director Yoo Jae-sun was nominated for the Caméra d'Or at Cannes as soon as he made his first shot - this is not a cinematography award, but a director's first work award.
Yoo Jae-sun has been an assistant director of Bong Joon-ho for many years, so there is indeed a trace of shadow in "Sleep", but at the same time, he has the ability of a young director to capture the current life - this horror story about insomnia is ultimately very real, and he does not deliberately chase the height of theology and religion like the great director.
Lee Sun-kyun plays an actor in a career crisis, and Jung You-mi plays his stay-at-home wife, whose lives are ruined by her husband's terrible sleep disorder.
There are not many hardcore and high-energy horror scenes in the movie, but killing dogs, scratching faces, and eating raw meat and fish, these small details are grasped very accurately, and the scene where the whole house is covered with yellow charms at the end also has a horror atmosphere that is more in line with the temperament of young people today.
It is a relatively fresh horror film this year.
What's your horror film of the year?
This content is participating in the [2023 Worth Summary] solicitation activity, Feitian Moutai, iPhone15, 6000 yuan cash and other prizes are being distributed wildly, come and share your annual good things, prove that 2023 is living a good life, win super prizes! Click to participate →
The author declares that there is no interest in this article, and friends are welcome to communicate rationally and discuss harmoniously~