For horror thriller fans, 2008's "Lake Eden" is undoubtedly eye-catching. It is not so much a horror film as it is a social thriller, and the despair and loss in the film will weigh heavily on your heart, making you hold your breath and cannot breathe, and at the same time, it has a further portrayal of the ugliness and horror of human nature. Today, I will take you to see which other movies are as desperate as "The Garden of Eden", and friends who like such films have put them away.
1. Legend of the Mountains (Hong Kong, China)
The film tells the story of He Yunqing, the son of Luo Di, who was entrusted by a senior monk to go to the Jingluo Mansion to copy the scriptures. The book copied by Yun Qing is the Great Mudra, which is said to be able to communicate between the yin and yang realms and transcend the souls of the dead. On the way, Yun Qing encountered a mysterious flute-playing woman three times, and after several twists and turns, he came to the Jingluo Mansion and was warmly received by Cui Hongzhi, who joined the army, and the old lady's wife. That night, Yun Qing was invited to dinner at the Wang Po Mansion, and a huge conspiracy was about to surface...
There has always been no shortage of fantasy stories like "Legend of the Mountain" that tell the fantasy stories of demons, ghosts, yin and yang. Whether it is the moon lady in the film or the queen mother, what they hope is to be able to cross the yin and yang worlds, thus forming an obsession. And this obsession has gradually turned into despair, despair for one's own future, despair about obsession. And Yue Niang and Evian are also the two extremes of personality, excessive accommodation, or excessive possession, just like Nan Ke's dream. Inside, there is a bridge section of Zhang Aijia and Xu Feng's fighting method, which is very eye-catching.
2. "Eyes Without Faces" (France)
Biology professor Giannisil was devastated by a car accident that destroyed the face of her beloved daughter Christine, and her daughter could only wear a crazy white mask all day after recovering from her injuries, which was very painful. Giannissil, who loves her daughter and feels guilty, and her assistant Louise disguise the illusion of Christine's disappearance and death, secretly abduct women who are similar to their daughter's age, anesthetize her, peel off her skin, and transplant them into Christine's face.
This film from the poster, to the characters, to the plot, are all scary points. In the film, the role of father Giannissil is particularly brilliantly portrayed, and his inner entanglement produces his love for his daughter and inner guilt, as well as cruelty to other girls, these two extreme emotions, no matter what kind of person, in fact, can not bear this "selfishness". And underneath that white mask, what kind of face is it? The despair of the film lies in the fact that the protagonist of the film always holds on to luck, obviously does not see any hope, and tries to "save" a cold corpse.
3. "Zoom" (UK)
The film's protagonist is cinematographer Thomas, who one day captures a series of photos of young couples in the park, and unexpectedly, one of the women in the photo, Jane, wants her negatives at all costs. This puzzled Thomas, who believed that the photograph might have captured some ulterior motive. Sure enough, he enlarged the photo and saw the prototype of a murder...
What is the line between truth and fantasy? Do the senses help us understand the world? The film uses the story of a photographer to spread out a series of philosophical and psychological question marks. In the end what is true, this is a question that the film has been thinking about, although some of the language of the shots in the film makes you feel incomprehensible, but you will sink your heart to see, in fact, you will find a lot, so the impact of the truth, far more shocking than those so-called false, covered things.
4. "Unfriend" (USA)
The story revolves around the suicide of a girl named Laura Barnes. One night after Laura, her classmate Blair and so on flirted on the Internet, and the boys and girls laughed and teased. However, a mysterious user without an avatar was also joined in the discussion, who could not be kicked out and hung up, and what shocked several people even more was that the other party actually spoke to them as Laura. Faced with the advent of death accidents and the persecution of "ghosts", Blair and others also irretrievably went to the abyss of death...
In fact, this film is more like a thriller version of the social software promotional film, about the lack of friendship and despair. The story uses the death of a girl to question and think about her surrounding environment and the humanity of her classmates. Because the camera itself has certain limitations, because you can't see the whole picture of things, it is precisely this limitation that makes the movie more thrilling and crazy, although there are a few actors in it whose acting skills are lackluster, but the creative point of this movie is really quite unique.
5. "The Crossroads of Death" (Thailand)
The film consists of four sub-chapters, all of which are very different styles, but more typical Thai horror stories, with both laughter and scary points. Whether it is "Loneliness", "Hypnotic", or "The Middleman", "Flight 224", they all use horror films to tell the loneliness of people's hearts, social morality, concern for vulnerable groups and other topics, as well as the relationship between marriage and family. Although the film is full of comedic elements, the four stories convey the theme of causal reincarnation. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to accumulating virtue and doing good deeds in ordinary times.
6. "Man-Eater" (Thailand)
Huang Lihui was once an anti-Japanese fighter who was afraid to fight and kill the Japanese army on the battlefield. In 1946, Li Hui, who was struggling to survive in his hometown, obeyed his mother's arrangement and took the knife she gave him to Thailand to join his relatives. Li Hui dragged his weak body, in the ridicule and teasing of Thai workers, working as a coolie to make a living, the slight kindness of the exotic girl became his only spiritual comfort at this time, but the terrible memories of the battlefield of the past haunted him, making him make a big mistake in his sleep...
Unexpectedly, Duan Yihong, who is known as a "drama ghost", starred in a Thai horror film such as "Man-Eater" during his debut. The Xiao Wei he plays in it combines the attributes of PTSD and bipolar disorder, and his words and deeds are very crazy. But behind this crazy and cruel behavior, it is actually the lack of inner emotions of the characters, and a kind of protection for themselves to resist external intrusions. Duan Yihong portrays a young man entangled in illness and war very vividly.