"The Lonely Soul of the Black Building" is a film directed by Mu Deyuan and Liang Ming, starring Pan Jie, Han Xiaolei, Guan Zongxiang, Chen Xiguang, etc., released in 1989.
There was a gimmick at the time, when the film was released, it scared an old lady and made the family die in the movie theater, although it was only a gimmick, but the horror of the film was definitely visible
At the end of the film, the original actress transforms into a female nurse, and it is she who beckons everyone to take medicine. Yes, from this point of view alone, this is actually the originator of domestic garbage horror films, and horror films have no ghosts.
But how can it be so simple.
If you compare him with today's special effects or any high-tech film technology, it seems that this movie is as worthless as something made by a small workshop, in fact, the film had a total budget of 700,000 at that time, and the whole group was almost a point to break open as two points.
Let's talk about the plot first, the structure of the multi-line narrative coupled with the absolutely dedicated actors at that time made the plot stay on the passing line of the excellent work under the special effects that seemed to be funny.
This is the heroine, unfortunately
From the contrast between the two father-daughter relationships to the contrast of the bright and dark lines, this movie can simply hang ninety-nine percent of today's horror films. (If it is domestic, it is the first)
The film is set in the Cultural Revolution, that special decade.
Although it was at the beginning that the first batch of people who were rehabilitated experienced almost the first decade, but such a theme itself added another shackle to the routine of horror films, (the rule that domestic horror films cannot have ghosts has long existed) but a number of main creators have not given up their persistence.
Director Liang Ming recalled in an interview that they considered that making a magic realism thing would be considered unreal, and how could it be accepted in the end. At their age, although they came from the Cultural Revolution, although they were only eight or nine years old, they all experienced that feeling firsthand, including raiding their homes and unjustly killing people, and there was a deep sting in their young hearts. When the big guys discussed it, they felt that Chinese was indeed a serious illness at that time, all kinds of different diseases, some people to harm people, some people to be killed, all due to such an era environment. At the beginning, I thought about a lot of endings, but in the end everyone decided that it was it, "Let's take medicine", Liang Ming laughed, "after ten years of cultural revolution, everyone needs to take medicine."
That's it, see you next time
ps: The director's quotation is from Hu Bu Ghost: "Interview with Liang Ming, director of the classic horror film "The Lonely Soul of the Black Building": There was no Zhang Yimou to shoot it that year"
PPS: This movie is similar to "Reap the Dead" to a certain extent
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