In addition to the gods and demons in horror movies, there are also some "mortal flesh" demons that make people shudder, some of them are even created by the director, but they are well known with movie stories and other peripheral products, and every time they mention it, they can't help but shiver.
Now that it is almost Halloween, a few men have to mention that they will appear in the list of some people on this fixed day, accompanying many young boys and girls to spend an unforgettable Halloween alone.
The man with his own BGM – Michael Myers
This "Moonlight Panic" directed by John Carpenter, called "Murder of the Child Caretaker" after the first draft of the script was completed, only found a budget of 300,000 US dollars, the entire crew can be said to be frugal, not only the actor's costumes have to be solved by themselves, even the shooting date has to be reduced, and it is a whole group to change the script.
Even Michael Miles's iconic white mask was the cheapest in the clothing store, and the prop designer bought a church leader's mask directly, then painted the mask white, put on a wig and changed the shape of his eyes again.
But that's not the worst.
The story follows the story of a 6-year-old boy in the small town of Hadenfield, Michael Myers, who killed his sister with a fruit knife on Halloween in 1963, and when his parents spotted him, he stared straight up at the sky with the bloody murder weapon in his hand, and no matter how he asked, he remained motionless.
As a result, Michael was sent to a mental hospital. There, the doctor tried his best and exhausted all kinds of methods, but Michael still stared at the sky and did not move. It wasn't until December 30, 1978, that Michael seemed to hear some sort of call, stole the keys to the mental hospital, and stolen back to his hometown of Haddenfield alone, stealing a white mask and preparing to start a new killing.
The overall story is simple to the point of almost stupidity, and there are still people who add a sentence after praising the overall atmosphere rendering, that is, the plot is stupid and crying.
In the eyes of serious film scholars at the time, it was a meaningless film, and no company was even willing to release the film, and finally the executive producer decided to distribute it through his own company.
After its release, it grossed $60 million worldwide.
The investment of 300,000 yuan for 60 million is undoubtedly successful, the suffocating long shots in the film, the shaking cameras create a sense of uneasiness, coupled with the sense of crisis brought by some subjective peeping shots, so that the audience falls into a fear of the unknown, plus the audience is mostly watching from the perspective of a murderer, and the feeling of instability is even stronger.
All of this escalated the sense of fear that Michael brought, and also made Moonlight Panic a work that affected the horror filming after that.
A terrifying nursery rhyme in a dream – Freddie Kruger
I always like to wear a brown-black top hat, a sweater with red and green stripes, a sharp iron claw made of metal on one right hand, and a skinny body with extreme malnutrition, which is not good to eat in hell. Children should never look at his face and body, which are scarred by burns.
That's because he was set on fire by an angry parent on Elm Street.
In 1984, the first "Ghost Street" was released, when such a story intertwined with dreams and reality was novel, coupled with the highly recognizable freddy image, the nursery rhyme "Jump Rope" sung in the soundtrack made the entire series a popular horror IP.
Freddy, who made his debut, showed the imagination of the creators, from the freely retractable limbs to the swarms of maggots in the body, whether the tongue was sticking out, etc., which not only frightened the audience in the 80s, but also became the childhood shadow of many young people today.
Although the original inspiration for this image was that the director was often bullied by a boy named Freddy in his childhood, the plot is inspired by a series of news reports that a group of young Cambodians died of nightmares.
Unlike Michael's story, the story structure and design of "Ghost Street" are very novel, in which family problems, adult selfishness and escape, and dream reality interspersed are all contrary to the weak story of previous horror films, and in the end, Nancy drags Freddy from the dream into reality and still has it to this day.
Although the cost is also limited, the director still thinks of many ways to ensure the quality of the film.
In Nancy's bathtub footage, Jem Duy, who is primarily responsible for mechanical effects, opens up the bottom of the tub and makes a sink that gives the viewer a false sense of space when they see the iron claws sticking out of the tub.
The actor who played Nancy also filmed in the water for up to 12 hours.
The first "Ghost Street" shared 500 gallons of fake blood, and on the screen showed the girl bouncing between the floor and canopy in the bedroom like a bouncy ball, Tina who was dismembered in the bedroom, the vat of plasma plus the plot creativity, making Freddy a nightmare for many people.
Plains town butcher after Ed Gayn....
In 1957, when Ed was investigated by police on suspicion of murdering a local shop clerk, police entered his house and they found the owner's body in the kitchen. In addition, they found a skull in the bedroom, a lampshade made of human skin, a chair, and a soup bowl made of skulls.
Upon questioning, Ed generously admitted that he had recently dug a grave and that he had murdered a clerk who had disappeared in 1954.
After this incident came to light, Ed became one of the most notorious murderers in the world, and a large number of films based on his events appeared.
Known as an early work in 1974's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, director Toby Hopper set the story at a slaughterhouse in Travis County, Texas, featuring workers who plucked the skins of livestock.
When the police launched an attack and rushed into his residence, they were stunned on the spot, and the house was littered with smelly debris, in addition to the fur of some animals, and the bones of 33 slain people.
It's just that no one knows the true face of the murderer, who is said to have wielded a chainsaw and wore a strange mask all sewn from human skin.
The setting of this mask and chainsaw is derived from Hopper's personal understanding, he believes that people are real demons, but only wear all kinds of masks, so he proposes to let the murderers in the film wear masks.
The idea of the chainsaw was because he once worked in a crowded hardware store and got the inspiration to use the chainsaw as a weapon, so the set also specially covered the purchased chainsaw logo to prevent unnecessary disputes.
Coinciding with the 1970s, the American horror genre was moving from fantasies of vampires, mummies or alien creatures to a realistic style, with a large number of horror films for young people, which pursued bloody violence and sensory stimulation, and had a strong sense of reality.
Toby Hopper's bundled struggles under the lens, almost restoring the clumsy chase of life and other plots show the helplessness of the victims in the film, so that the film, which cost 100,000 yuan to shoot, has earned more than 30 million at the domestic box office alone.
This IP is still being remade, and the name "Texas Chainsaw Killer" must have been heard even by people who have not seen the movie.
After the Ed Gaine incident was exposed, a large number of horror films in the United States were affected, including: "The Silence of the Lambs", "Human Skin Killer", "Horror Story", "Ed Gaine: The Butcher of Plain town" and so on.
Finally, in addition to calling on everyone to abide by the law, have a happy Halloween, eat more sugar, and add some Halloween "ancestral" films, such as: "Night of the Living Dead", "Silent Hill", "Screaming", "Ghost Baby Returns", "Raising Ghosts and Eating People" and so on....
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