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Carp has recommended to everyone before, several more characteristic zombie movies, this issue introduces friends to several ghost house movies adapted from real supernatural events. The point, of course, is that the murderous houses in these movies can be found in real life.
However, this kind of verbal supernatural event, often in the process of becoming a legend, is constantly amplified by a little bit of oil and vinegar, fear is often the audience or the audience, subconsciously like to scare themselves, constantly psychological hints hypnotize themselves, but also hypnotize others caused. This is also the main reason why people with poor empathy ability are basically bold.
"Jingcheng 81"
In 2014, directed by Ye Weimin, starring Wu Zhenyu and Lin Xinru, the current Douban score is 4.8 points, and more than 90,000 people have commented, and there are many people who have seen it. From the lineup to the gimmick of "Asaka No. 81", there are good selling points, but unfortunately, in the creative environment of mainland films now, horror films really have no living space. It is not difficult to see from the score of Douban that a proper bad film. The biggest feature of the horror films that can be released in mainland theaters is that the posters are more terrifying than the movies, so it is recommended that everyone take a little time, look at the two eyes of the movie posters to make up the plot and stop it, ordinary audiences look at the stories they guess at the posters, basically better than the script of the movie.
This movie really has nothing to say, just rubbing the heat of "Asaka No. 81", and the rest is lackluster, more like a crappy Republic of China romance drama. Far less interesting than the "Asai 81" legend on the Internet, but think about it from another angle, if the movie really writes the various legends of the Internet forum and The 81 into the script, not to mention the theater, it is estimated that most of the network cannot be on.
Not to mention that the movie has no point of view, the location of this film is really "No. 81 Inuchi". "Asauchi No. 81" was two idle old buildings before the millennium. Originally built in the 1920s, it was originally an ordinary private hospital, and later worked as a hospital and a church. After liberation, it became an ordinary house, and in the process of urban reconstruction in the 1980s and 1990s, it may be because of the ownership of property rights, and after the old residents moved out, the house has not been demolished.
After the turn of the millennium, a group of adventurous young people teamed up to explore, and then hyped up their horror experiences on the Internet, gradually achieving the prestige of the "Asai 81" haunted house. As for the legends of murders and mysterious disappearances that are popular on the Internet, local residents and police stations have later come forward to refute the rumors. Of course, people who still firmly believe that these supernatural events belong to the X-file level should be super fans.
Shenyang also has a very famous "Tiexi Ghost Building", which carp has seen with his own eyes, which is a dilapidated old building. As for the stories of those gods and gods, they are all said, said, and heard of, and the carp has never heard of anyone who has really experienced it. Even so, this kind of place allows me to live in it for a night, I am absolutely afraid to go drop, bold friends to challenge, I choose to watch live broadcast.
Winchester
In 2014, Michael Sperry and Peter Sperry brothers co-directed, starring Helen Mirren after the film, Douban score 5.4, not many people have seen it in the mainland, so far only more than 3,000 people have watched it. It is similar to "Beijing 81", super popular IP, super luxury lineup, super big bad movie. It's a little better than the previous one, although in the first half, the nagging dialogue makes the carp feel sleepy, and It is good to insist on watching it in the end.
The "Winchester Haunted House" is much more famous than the "Asaka No. 81", after all, it has the reputation of the world's first haunted house in the world, coupled with more than 100 years of word of mouth, this big house that even ghosts can get lost, once made carp full of expectations for movies.
The Michael Spence and Peter Sperry brothers were also master storytellers, co-wrote and directed "Former Destination", which is the most brain-burning cross-over movie I have ever seen. There is a big problem with this narrative.
The film itself follows the legendary saying that the hostess of the haunted house has been tirelessly expanding the house for decades in order to build a resting place for the souls of the dead who died under the Winchester rifle. This statement itself is quite special, the general haunted house is mostly covered with dragon eyes or ancient cemeteries and other feng shui problems, or there are powerful evil spirits haunting, rather than like the "Winchester Haunted House" is built by the owner on their own initiative.
There is nothing wrong with the main line, the problem of the film lies in the form of the main line of performance, the first half is basically relying on a large number of dialogues, the cause and effect of the matter is told again. For a mature director like the Spiri brothers, the effect of finally making the story of "Winchester Haunted House" into a talk show to tell ghost stories is a bit incredible. A B-grade horror film made into a big boring film, which is also quite rare.
In the second half, the resentment of the powerful ghosts of the three brothers, the collapse of the house and the past, associated with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, is a bit excessive. Conversely, if earthquakes and hauntings are not the same thing, the collapse of the house is only the consequence of the earthquake, which subverts the film's original setting of the undead.
All in all, this part, like "Beijing 81", is also a failed adaptation of the story prototype that is far more interesting than the movie.
The Silent House, Uruguayan edition, 2010
Directed by Gustavo Hernandez and starring Gustavo Alonso and Frencia Krutchi. Douban scored 5.6, and the number of people who had seen it was less than a thousand. The entire film is shot in 79 minutes and is shot in a long shot. The data says that the film's shooting equipment is very simple, and I didn't pay much attention to the darkness, I felt that there were several seamless edits in it, but at most I completed the whole movie with a few shots.
Based on the real supernatural events that took place in Uruguay in the 1940s. There is a dilapidated old house in the countryside that is about to be sold, and the owner has invited a father and daughter to renovate the house. After the father and daughter entered the house, in the middle of the night the daughter began to hear strange noises in the room. The father got up to check it out, and the daughter, who remained in the dark, would spend a long and difficult time.
This is the kind of movie that people often say that the form is greater than the content. For the audience who watch the movie and focus on appreciating the language of the lens, it is undoubtedly a divine work. A one-shot horror film is too difficult to shoot, and in a way, the long shots in this film, the director's conception and control ability, are better than Bi Gan's "The Last Night on Earth".
After all, Uruguay is a veritable small country that produces movies, and can produce almost double digits a year. The budget of this film is also pitifully low, and the film's shooting equipment is not as good as most enthusiasts in the mainland. This film can be selected for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Directors Bi-Weekly Unit, which is enough to prove the industry's affirmation of the director's lens language innovation, this film is not easy to shoot, and the support for the whole film is based on the director's creativity.
Formally, this film is worth affirming, the content is somewhat lackluster, and the story of the film is too bland. For friends who like to watch movies and watch narratives, this is a big boring film. For most audiences in horror movies, a good story is a prerequisite for the success or failure of the film. No matter how artistic the film is, for the audience of horror films, it seems that it is not so important to not get the pleasure of watching the movie. Of course, with limited funds, actors and crews, it is also difficult for the director to shoot the big scene of the Women's Federation 4. The information provided by IMDB is budgeted at six thousand knives, which is not enough for the Women's Federation to shoot 4 per second.
After the film was released in Cannes, Hollywood bought the remake rights, starring "The Scarlet Witch" Elizabeth Olson.
Morgue Haunting
Directed by Pete Cornwell and starring Genia Madsen, Kyle Garner, and Elias Cortés, it was released in 2009 with a Douban rating of 6.9, which is a good score for B-rated horror films. Lionsgate invested about 10 million yuan in a small and broad classic example, and took nearly 100 million box offices worldwide.
A family that was not financially wealthy, the child was unfortunate to suffer from cancer and had to receive long-term treatment. In order to be closer to the hospital where they were treated, the family moved to an old house in northern Connecticut. Soon after moving in, the family often heard strange noises in the room, and then things became more and more intense, and all kinds of creepy strange things happened. The family finally learned that the house was once a morgue for dead bodies, and it also hid many dark and terrifying secrets.
Even without the endorsement of a live-action adaptation, this is a very good haunted horror film, from the setting of suspense to the creation of atmosphere are very good. From the story point of view, it is somewhat similar to the classic horror film "The Exorcist", especially the exorcism section at the end, and it is rare that the director has made a new idea on the basis of the classic, which is not a simple imitation or tribute.
The gimmick of a real supernatural event undoubtedly attracted a large number of curious viewers, and carp was one of them. I had seen Discovery's documentary of the same name before watching the movie, and I was very interested in the story at the time. The famous real events are actually not easy to adapt, first of all, the audience understands the main line of the story, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of the suspense setting of the movie. Secondly, for such a hot supernatural event, a variety of interpretations and reasoning analysis are flooded on the Internet, and it is not easy for the film to make new views and perspectives that attract the audience. Judging from these two points, the headquarters has done a good job.
The north American rating of the film is only PG-13, and I feel that it should be upgraded to R. I don't know how other friends who have watched it feel, but some of the settings in this part make carp feel a little uncomfortable after watching it for a long time. Friendly reminder, timid friends choose carefully.
Morgue Haunting 2: The Haunted House Incident in Georgia
Three years after the first episode grossed well, Tom Elkins directed the sequel to Morgue Haunting, The Haunted House Incident in Georgia. Since Lionsgate Realizes that "Morgue" is a good terrier in the hearts of many audiences, it will certainly not let go of this cash cow. If you accidentally make up a long-term meal ticket like "Chainsaw Horror", it is also a matter of possibility. Unfortunately, the ideal is very full, the reality is very bone, this is a veritable money loser, and there is no sequel to the thriller story of "Morgue".
Both Lisa and Sister Josh were gifted with strange visions that left Lisa physically and mentally exhausted and tormented. To help her wife with her treatment, Lisa's husband, Andy, bought an old house in Georgia and the family moved in. After moving in, the little daughter kept claiming that she could see a strange old man. Dad Andy and Aunt Josh gradually agree with the younger daughter's statement, but The mother Lisa has always felt that this is just the child's imagination. But strange and strange events continue to occur, making Lisa and Andy think that this old house full of secrets is extraordinary.
The double punch street from word of mouth to box office in this part is largely due to the sequel. If this first episode of this front does not have a strong aura comparison, it should not be so many viewers complaining. After all, the settings of the two parts are basically the same, and the second episode, from the perspective of the real event prototype, does not have the peaks and twists and turns, ups and downs like the first episode, and has already made a difference in the innate story. At the same time, the director's ability to control is obviously not as good as the first episode, the narrative is somewhat chaotic and protracted, and it is also somewhat inadequate in creating a horror atmosphere, which greatly reduces the entertainment and watchability of the film.
Ghost Cry 1979 edition & 2005 edition
Both films are based on the sensational haunted event at 112 Ocean Boulevard on Long Island. Both are very successful, the events themselves are confusing, true and false, and in 1976 the documentary horror novel of the same name sold more than 6 million copies.
The first edition, directed by Stuart Rosenberg in 1979, grossed nearly ninety million at the box office at a cost of less than five million dollars. Today, forty years later, it is difficult to appreciate the glory of that year and make a horizontal comparison. The film's lead actress, Margo Kidd, had played Superman's girlfriend the year before, while Superman had invested more than $50 million and grossed 300 million. It can be seen that the input-output ratio of the B-grade horror film "Ghost Crying God" far exceeds that of the famous Superman.
The 2005 remake of Andrew Douglas, with an investment of less than 20 million, eventually won more than 100 million at the box office, although it can not reproduce the glory of that year, but for a remake of a B-grade horror film, it is also a very good result. There is also an interesting point in the two films, as mentioned earlier, Superman's girlfriend starred in the first version, and the male protagonist in the second version is Ryan Reynolds, who is still working hard in the B-grade film and did not become Deadpool.
Of the nine films on this list, the most terrifying and bloody of the archetypal stories is this one. In 1974, the three-story villa was devastated by a massacre in the United States, when the son shot and killed the remaining six members of the family while the family was asleep. In court, the murderer claimed that he had been manipulated by evil spirits in the house and that the killing was not intentional. In the end, the court convicted the killer of six counts of first-degree murder and served 150 years in prison.
A year later, an unbelieving couple bought the villa, which was valued at more than one million, for eighty thousand. After living in the villa for just 28 days, the family fled the house in a hurry, and according to the family, during their stay in the house, they were constantly infested by evil spirits and many incredible supernatural events occurred. The tragedy of the door that has just subsided slightly in heat has once again escalated into a haunted house adventure and become the focus of news in the United States. More than a year after the family moved out of the villa, the best-selling novel was published. Three years after the novel was published, the event was brought to the big screen.
At this point, the story is not over, the murderer was later interviewed by reporters in prison, frankly said that the haunted house, the ghost and the like are all nonsense stories made up in order to get rid of the crime. However, the family that later moved into the villa has always insisted on the statement that they encountered a supernatural event. It is unknown who lied, but one thing is certain, the haunted house brought huge profits to the later family, and the novels and movies brought at least hundreds of thousands of dollars to the family.
The Conjuring
Released in 2013, directed by Wen Ziren, starring Vera Famiga and Patrick Wilson, Douban score 7.9. With an investment of 20 million, the global box office exceeded 300 million, and it deservedly sucked up the king of gold.
In the 1970s, Mr. and Mrs. Roger and their five lovely daughters moved to an old house in Rhode Island. Before the joy of moving to a new house had passed, the family was disturbed by the strange things that happened one after another, and the night was disturbed. The house was windy and ghostly, leaving the whole family on the verge of collapse. After several trips, the family found a couple of spiritual experts who were very famous at that time, the husband was the only exorcist recognized by the Catholic Church, and the wife had yin and yang eyes that were born to peek into the spirit body. The arrival of the couple gradually exposes the dark past of the house to the audience.
Whether a movie's story is good or not depends, in addition to the drama of the story itself, also depends to a large extent on the storyteller. The true story prototype of this movie is actually a cheesy haunted house story, which is not too surprising. If nothing else, the family lived in this haunted house for ten years, with neither nerve nor bleeding, so even if the house is a little strange, it is certainly not a violent and fierce existence.
The script originally adapted from this incident, which was held by the producer for more than twenty years, could not find the filmmaker to invest in the shooting, which shows that the story itself is not very attractive. Such a slightly mediocre story has reached the hands of Wen Ziren, the god of atmospheric rendering, and the gorgeous turn has become a classic in the hearts of horror film fans in recent years. Prove once again how important it is to tell an engaging story, form and technique.
The Conjuring 2
Three years after the release of the first episode, The New Line once again used the original team of the first episode, and the director and lead actors used the first episode to shoot the sequel. Again, with an investment of 40 million, it won more than 300 million at the global box office. Released two days after the premiere of the 160 million-dollar A-grade magic blockbuster "Warcraft", and the North American box office champion in the first week was this B-grade horror film, which also became the headline of the major mainstream media that year.
The sequel basically continues the style of the first episode, this time the story leaves the United States and comes to the suburbs of London. A single mother struggles to raise four daughters, and the family lives in a dilapidated old house. After the continuous strange things happened, the mother and daughter five felt a deep fear. Things were getting worse and worse, and after the youngest daughter was possessed by evil spirits, the family fell into despair.
The Eds, who got the news, came to England to check on the family's situation. The Eds were aware that there was a very powerful evil presence in the room, but the Catholic-sanctioned status of the exorcist restricted Ed's freedom of action, and without the approval of the Church, he could not rush to act, and the danger was creeping towards everyone.
As mentioned earlier, the style of the sequel and the first episode has not changed much, in other words, the movie basically still adopts the routine of the first episode, which is in line with expectations and there are not too many surprises. In the end, there is such a big influence, a big reason is because of director Wen Ziren. In 2004, Wen Ziren's blockbuster directorial debut "Chainsaw Horror" only got a budget of less than two million from Lionsgate Pictures, but it opened a well-received god series. To say that Wen Ziren is the god of horror films in today's film world should not be considered an exaggeration.
Carp is a die-hard fan of haunted house movies, and several of the films introduced here have true story prototypes, and there are many good films in the original script genre. When I was very young, I also saw a domestic "Lonely Soul in the Black Building" in the cinema, and I can still remember the feeling of great fear in those days. Wait for the opportunity carp to introduce you to a few classic haunted house movies with original scripts, this time let's go here first.