The 80s and 90s of the last century were a hardcore era.
At that time, it was a good era of "the spring wind of reform blowing all over the ground", not only the fashion things that came from the ground were endless, but the local new things were also introduced and new, a thriving scene.
Take the film, at that time, the cinemas and television stations were all films in transition that were keen to try various commercial themes and were full of vitality, and with the influx of portrait products, we saw the excellent works in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
These various good films are the film enlightenment of our childhood, and they have also affected the construction of our three views to some extent.
But because the sense of protection for teenagers at that time was not as serious and scientific as it is now, some of the films of extremely large scale were also exposed to us prematurely, resulting in these films leaving an indelible mark on our young minds.
We now call these works "childhood shadow" films, although everyone's experience is different, the movies they have seen are not exactly the same, but there are some movies that everyone often mentions, and the following will be taken stock of one by one.
I. "Painted Skin" written and directed by Bao Fang and starring Zhu Hong in 1966
Painted Skin is a 1966 film, but it wasn't released in mainland China until 1979.
This was also the first horror film released in our mainland, when people were simple, never seen this kind of scary film, it is said that it scared a rural old lady to death, and the result was that the film was banned with a lot of criticism.
It wasn't until later that everyone was almost edified by those ghost films and zombie films in Hong Kong, and when they saw it again, they found that those shots were really quite ordinary.
Therefore, some people think that what I saw before was not this movie, but another version of a more terrifying film also called "Painted Skin", like a "Mandela effect" case.
However, after Careful Verification by Pi ge, the "Scary Death" film was indeed produced in 1966 and introduced into the mainland in January 1979. The reason why some people have different memories is that they are confused with 1969's "Snow Lady" or 1991's "Tomb Desolation".
The "Painted Skin" in "Liaozhai Zhiyi" is particularly heavy on taste, and the film deletes a large section of the uncomfortable plot of Chen's rescuer, but still retains the section where the painted skin ghost digs up Wang Chongwen's heart and liver.
The bloody shot is very infiltrative even if you look at it now, no wonder many people were frightened in the cinema that year, as for the rumors of "scared to death", Pi ge is biased towards disbelief.
The storyline of Bao Fang's adapted "Painted Skin" is more compact and reasonable than the original book, and it is a rare classic horror film. It's rare to be the first horror movie in the mainland, and those horror plots and gore scenes are now hard to see, so this first position must be reserved for it.
2. 1982 "Man snake war" directed by Zhang Qi
Taiwanese commercial films are generally made rougher than Hong Kong films, more "out of the law", more violent and bloody. Snakes, bugs, rats, and ants are animals that can make us afraid, and the horror movies created by exaggerating the threat posed by these animals to humans will not become obsolete no matter which era they are placed in.
In the 80s, there were no computer special effects, and the snake infestation could not be used to create a large snake with CG effects like "The Scourge of The Python", and it could only work on the number.
"Man and Snake Wars" is a very shocking film, and the dense snakes that appear in the film can definitely cause discomfort to the audience, although most of them are non-venomous snake species, which is also creepy.
The film is actually about a theme in which human beings and nature need to coexist in harmony.
While digging the foundation of a building, the construction party dug a huge snake nest, but the boss used a forklift to shovel hundreds of small snakes to death in order to rush the construction schedule. When the building is completed, countless crazy snakes come to the building to take revenge.
In the end, the government sent troops with spitfire guns to burn the snake to death, but everyone in the building, including the owner of the building, died.
These simple storylines believe that many post-80s generations who have watched it still remember it vividly, because in that era of low special effects, the visual impact and shocking effects brought to us by the movie are really great.
Although "Man and Snake Wars" only grossed HK$640,000 in Hong Kong, it was a high-selling market in Taiwan and stimulated the Taiwanese film market.
Shortly thereafter, he filmed a sequel "Human Snake Vs. Snake Demon Reincarnation", and there are many follow-up works such as "Soul Snake Witch", "Snake Demon Reincarnation", "Snake Demon Soul Hunting", etc., but none of them are good-looking.
3. 1986 "Yuan Zhenxia and Wesley" written by Ruan Jizhi and Wang Jing and directed by Lan Naicai
Wang Jing is a big fan of Ni Kuang's novels, and he revealed that he was keen to catch up with the Wesleyan series of novels serialized in newspapers during his reading period.
After entering the film industry, he also couldn't wait to bring Ni Kuang's novels to the screen, and put the original Zhenxia and Wesley together, but he chose the most Cult director in Hong Kong, Lan Naicai.
Lan Nai is a fierce general in the new wave of Hong Kong cinema, and the full version of his "Walled City" is still difficult to see today because of the "special care" of the Hong Kong Electricity Inspection Office.
After taking over "Original Zhenxia and Wesley", he did not want to take the science fiction route, but made the film into a heavy taste film where monsters and blood coexisted.
Nanyang's trick and head-lowering technique have always been discolored, and the head-down technique is a big selling point in the film. There have been a variety of evil arts such as black heart descending, little ghost descending, ghost face descending, and blood curses, which make people feel as if they are fake or real.
The operation is often accompanied by a flow of blood plasma, and it appears strange and infiltrative, which are the elements of hunting and horror in the film.
The highlight at the end of the film is that the villain Grand Wizard Agula summons the "Old Ancestor" of the Demon Clan, a zombie that can mutate.
Its image design obviously borrows from the alien monster alien in Alien, but after the mutation, it also pressed a pair of wings and became a flying alien.
The horror effect created by this zombie has made many post-80s children unforgettable.
4. 1989 "Lonely Soul in the Black Building" directed by Liang Ming and Mu Deyuan
This is another film that is rumored to be "scared to death" when it was screened, and it is also produced by shenzhen pictures in our mainland.
The "ghost" that appears in the film is actually a rag doll hanging from fishing line, and its appearance is still a little cute, but at that time, it scared a lot of people, thanks to the stereo sound effects used in the movie.
As the first film in mainland China to use stereo sound effects, the stunning effect produced in the cinema can be imagined. In addition, the interior of the Old German-style Orphan Building looks scary, and the frightening effect created is particularly good. Children can't watch it, even timid adults are estimated to be unable to accept it, so the movie poster is labeled "not suitable for children".
In order to attract attention, many films after this have also followed the example of this film, with the words "not suitable for children" on the poster.
However, the status of "Lonely Soul in the Black Building" in the minds of film fans is unshakable, it represents the underpinnings of our mainland horror films, like a brilliant meteor across the sky, proving to the world that the mainland can also make high-quality horror films.
It is said that the original film was 100 minutes long, and it was returned after the "scary death" incident, and many scary scenes were deleted and cut into the 88-minute version we see now.
Like the majority of netizens, Pigo hopes to see the full 100-minute version in his lifetime, but in the current environment, this is just a luxury that is not easy to achieve.
In order to pass the censorship, the film also has a harmonious ending, the characters in the story have become patients in the mental hospital, and finally the nurse pushes a car into the door and tells everyone: "It's time to take medicine." "This ending is meaningful, and for more than 30 years, our films have been struggling to get fed.
V. "Black Sun 731" directed by Mou Dunfu in 1988
Unit 731, whose full name is the "731st Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria", was an experimental field for the Japanese army invading China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to conduct experiments with Chinese, Koreans and prisoners of war under the pretext of studying the prevention and control of diseases and the purification of drinking water, in order to manufacture biological and chemical weapons.
On Xinjiang Street in the Pingfang District of Harbin City, there are still the ruins of the 731st Unit of the Japanese Army invading China, telling the history that cannot be hidden for the world.
In 1988, the Yindu Agency decided to expose the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of China with a film close to a documentary, and they found Mou Dunfu, a cult director who had filmed films such as "Adulterous Demons", "Disc Immortals", and "Fighting Snakes".
This war-themed work is very well-made and quite restrained, which is much more restrained than Mu Dunfu's previous films.
But in order to make the shots in the film appear more realistic, the director spent a lot of effort. Some of the footage of the burning of corpses even uses real corpses, which is unimaginable now.
When Pico was a child, he accidentally watched this movie on TV like his classmates, and in addition to the indignant anti-war sentiment, it was a horror that went deep into the bone marrow.
At that time, rumors among the partners that the corpses in this movie were real corpses began to circulate, which sounded even more frightening.
It wasn't until I read some articles on the Internet in the Internet age that I was very surprised to be confirmed that this unbelievable rumor was actually true!
According to the description of an actor who plays an aide-de-camp in the film, the corpse used in the film comes from Changchun Bethune Medical University, starting at a price of 3,000 per body, and if it is preserved intact and returned, it can be refunded 2,000 yuan.
The crew selected 12 corpses in a "rent" manner, some of which were dismembered and burned by the actors, and the rest were later returned to the university. In addition, they found 12 group actors to play the corpses lying in the distance, leaving behind those frightening images.
6. 1992 "Li Wang" written and directed by Lan Naicai and starring Fan Shaohuang
In that videotape era, "King of Force" was definitely the first banned film.
Although there were legends about this movie among the friends at that time, very few people saw it, because there was a "tacit understanding" between the parents and could not show the children "The King of Force". And those partners who accidentally watched it are also willing to "admit it", admitting that they had nightmares that night after watching it.
In the early 1990s, Cai Lan founded the Dalu Company with the support of Jiahe, and due to limited production funds, he set his sights on Japanese style manga.
"Li Wang" is tetsuya Sarutodo's masterpiece, taking a violent and bloody route, so Cai Lan chose to let Hong Kong's most Cult director Lan Naicai direct, starring Fan Meisheng's son Fan Shaohuang.
Those "flesh" props in the film are actually very fake, but also the director's intention, not to do too realistic, let people see at a glance is fake, reduce some visual impact.
But where can a 10-year-old child distinguish so much, even if it is a fake look, it will be afraid, it is inevitable to leave a shadow in the heart, and it is inevitable that they will have nightmares.
Fan Shaohuang was in his prime at the time, he debuted in childhood, learned martial arts at the age of 13, and looking at that muscle, you can see how hard he worked. "Li Wang" is Fan Shaohuang's famous work, but also a representative work, there are people who do not know Fan Shaohuang, but do not know "Li Wang" is very few. Unfortunately, after this, he did not have many works that he could get his hands on, and he still stayed in the film circle to work hard.
7. 1997 "Crazy Rabbit" directed by Cui Xiaoqin and Meng Weibing
The last list of "Crazy Rabbits" is a "childhood shadow" often mentioned by post-90s generations, and some even call it a "children's science fiction cult film".
The film tells the story of aliens through a "crazy rabbit game disc" to control the minds of the children who have played the game, so that the children have become the walking dead whose brains are controlled.
Although the ending is that the friendship between the friends finally defeats the aliens, the whole film is shrouded in a strange and cold atmosphere. In particular, infected children dance mechanically on the street, which feels creepy and scarier than some deliberately scary horror films, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "childhood shadow".
The screenwriter of the story is the famous children's literature writer Zhang Lu, many of his works have been adapted into films in the 80s and 90s, including many classics such as "Thunderbolt Babe".
The theme of this film is actually to educate teenagers not to indulge in online games, not to be "controlled" by those games, and to become the walking dead.
But the story is also clearly smuggled in, and it shows the whole process of a collective brainwashing in a weird way. The madness generated by the collective is like a flood of beasts, which oppresses those who keep their minds clear, forcing them to accept and obey to be assimilated, and as an alien is doomed to collective exclusion.
Post-90s children can't understand such a deep thing, but through the language of the images in the movie, they can also feel the horror of this problem.
That's why so many people claim to have been intimidated by this movie as a child and have a shadow. This is undoubtedly what Zhang Lu and the film director hope to do, that is, to use this simple truth to educate the next generation.
In fact, there were many movies in the 80s and 90s that looked quite scary, but even very timid children, watching more naturally became immune.
Pi Ge still remembers the first time he watched a ghost movie in his life, he watched Zheng Zeshi's "Ghost Catcher Master" at his classmate's home, and he still had nightmares when he slept at night, but when he brushed it twice, it was just a funny film.
These films, which once left "childhood shadows", also carry the good memories of our childhood.
Whenever we revisit these old films, we think of the friends who used to watch movies with us, which is why we still have feelings for these movies.
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