YO, when it comes to thriller horror films, or thriller suspense films, everyone's brain must not escape a popular series IP!
Moreover, how can there be no less familiar laughter at this time, and that slightly low and hoarse voice.
That's right, ladies and folks, today's series to the liver, is the film history thriller suspense genre is quite popular, the IP vitality is the most lasting, mainly Lionsgate is not willing to let go, it is the "Chainsaw Horror" series!
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Chainsaw Horror, also called "Soul Reaper Saw", or "Fear Fighting Room". The English title is simple SAW, and the literal translation is saw! The series revolves around a serial killer named John Kramer.
John Kramer also has a nickname in the series that even the series Hannibal has to pay tribute to three points, called Jigsaw Killer, The Puzzle Killer! Jigsaw means puzzle, and if the word is split separately, Jig means to dance, roll hook, up and down or shake back and forth, and saw is the meaning of the movie title saw.
So over time, the name of the vertical saw has become Chinese recognized by most people, more energetic than the puzzle killer, and more related to the saw.
And "Chainsaw Horror" Chinese the origin of the title, perhaps because the first part has electric shock and saw, but also quite scary, "four-word title will fire" unspoken rule, so there is "Chainsaw Horror".
So how did this John Kramer become a feared serial killer?
John Kramer started out as a successful civil engineer, working in real estate development and as a doll toy designer, but was not usually very sociable and had few friends.
The civil engineer's expertise also allowed him to play a great role in becoming a serial killer, with the ingenious setting of the mechanism and the perfect combination of the crusade against the soul and body.
In the previous life, at a lonely moment, John met a woman named Jill, and then the two fell in love and married, and spent a good time together.
John then supported Jill's idea, and Gill started a rehabilitation clinic similar to a drug rehab center with a motto called "Cherish Your Life."
This sentence has also become the strongest survival hint and irony of the series.
In this way, the two lives and careers in the eyes of everyone, have a very good future, what surprises them more is that Jill is pregnant, John can be said to be old and happy, to his wife Jill to give the best care and care.
But the good times did not last long, and one day, the pregnant Jill was robbed by the drug addict of his own clinic, only to be accidentally pressed into the abdomen by the door pushed by the man, resulting in the miscarriage of the fetus.
This was a fatal blow to John, who had been with Jill at his bedside ever since, and although he was sad, he was not yet a killer who judged the lives and deaths of others.
After John suffered from severe depression and quit the drug rehabilitation center founded by Jill, the relationship between the husband and wife began to deteriorate, quarrels became commonplace, and eventually the two failed to get out of the shadow of losing their children, resulting in their divorce.
After that, John began to have serious physical discomfort, he went to the hospital to check again to diagnose, it turned out that he had colon cancer and frontal lobe tumors, why say again, because when he went to the hospital for examination earlier, he was confused by another doctor, which further worsened his cancer and delayed the best time for treatment.
Despite the serious doctor-patient problem, John also took care of his own body first, he began to actively treat, and successfully became a candidate for experimental gene therapy treatment, John wanted to fight for it, so he found his own umbrella insurance company, wanting the insurance company to bear the cost of treatment.
The insurance company used John's age and chances of recovery to reject the cost of the trial therapy that John applied for.
This completely made John despair, and he began to lose his expectations for human nature and life, and he originally wanted to kill himself to end his life, but as a result of an unexpected car accident, it broke John's suicide plan.
At this time, John finally blackened, he believes that this car accident is God's will, he is the one who wants to punish the torture of human nature, he wants to become the judge of the life and death of others, the vertical saw serial killer, and this is born!
John Kramer has also become the driving force behind the story of the "Chainsaw Horror" series, and the life and death trial of those guilty in each film, their words and deeds in the great test of life and death, have become the biggest attraction of the film.
From the behind-the-scenes point of view, in fact, the production of "Chainsaw Horror" at the beginning did not think so much, the production of the "Chainsaw Horror" series, it was entirely because of the first popular black horse effect, let Lionsgate see the business opportunity, and then step by step to improve and enrich this series, including the aforementioned vertical sawman, in fact, the first description of him, it can be said that there is no description, but it creates a sense of unconsciousness.
The production policy of "Chainsaw Horror" is actually a common production mode in Hollywood, such as the popular American drama "Lost", that is, to dig a pit in the first season, and then after the explosion, the pit continues to expand, and even the gods have it in the back, of course, the drama is a good drama, I still like it.
The same is true of "Chainsaw Horror", when "Chainsaw Horror 1" began filming due to budget constraints, it did not expect this movie to become such an evergreen IP.
And do you know how much the first part of Chainsaw Horror cost?
As we all know, only a mere $1.2 million, only 4 days of daily salary, can be filmed in 18 days, "Chainsaw Horror 1", the director is now hot Wen Ziren, which is also his first feature film work, Wen Ziren and his "Chainsaw Horror", a hit.
The final box office was as high as 100 million US dollars, and the blood earned 84 times!
Although the cost of "Chainsaw Horror" increased, compared with those big star productions, the total cost of the eight films was only more than 70 million US dollars, but the global gold mining reached nearly 1 billion US dollars, which can be listed as one of the most bloody and cost-effective series IP in film history.
So the first Wen Ziren's "Chainsaw Horror 1", what kind of magic is relied on to make this IP stand firm from now on, how do we connect the complex stories and many characters of 8 movies, next, let's open the story of the "Chainsaw Horror" series!
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Before talking about the "Chainsaw Horror 1" film, I will first introduce you to the 9-minute short film "Chainsaw Horror 0.5", which is the touchstone that this series can really be seen by the world.
It is precisely because this short film was favored by Lionsgate that they invested money to make a feature film, and if you like to watch thriller horror movies, you should be no stranger to Lionsgate Pictures. Although Lionsgate has never been a rich lord, the 1.2 million budget is also a bit stingy.
The short film was created by Wen Ziren and screenwriter Ray Werner, and the male protagonist of the short film, who is also the young male protagonist of the "Chainsaw Horror 1" film, is Ray Werner.
The short film opens with the police interrogating the male protagonist who came out of the ghost door, the male protagonist recalls his experience after being kidnapped, he woke up in a closed room with a timed oral tearer on his head, at this time the TV in the room automatically turned on, and the cute vertical saw doll head appeared, telling him that if he wanted to survive, he must use a scalpel to find the key from the stomach of the person lying next to him.
Just when the male protagonist took the scalpel to do this, he found that the person was still alive, but he was medicated and could not move but was conscious, that is, if the male protagonist wanted to save himself, he must first become a murderer and kill others.
In the end, the male protagonist can talk to the police and record a confession, which shows that he has made a cruel hand.
Although the content of this short film is just a gimmick, many elements in this short film have become classic icons of the "Chainsaw Horror" series, such as the mouth tearer, as well as the dilemma of life and death, the cute swirling face doll riding a children's tricycle and so on.
The last scene of the short film also becomes the most important part of the main line of the chamber in the feature film.
Good! Are you ready?
Lights! The game begins!
In the darkness, the male protagonist Adam woke up in a bathtub full of water, when the light in the room automatically turned on, and Adam found himself tied to an abandoned closed toilet, and his feet were chained to the water pipe.
Diagonally across the room was a middle-aged man who was trapped in the same operation as Adam. After exchanging information with each other, they learned that Adam was the photographer and the middle-aged man was a surgeon, and the two did not know each other, nor did they know why they were kidnapped here.
What is even more strange is that among them lies a fresh corpse, judging from the color, it should have just hung up, the corpse holding a pistol in one hand and a tape recorder in the other.
Soon Adam found himself with an envelope in his pocket with a cassette tape, and the doctor's pocket with an envelope with an audio tape in it, and an extra key and a bullet than Adam.
The doctor saw the key and of course immediately unlocked his ankle chain, but it was obviously not the right size, and after both of them tried fruitlessly, they noticed that the body's tape recorder could play the tape.
Adam managed to get the tape recorder on the corpse and play his own tape, which consisted of Adam's previous voyeurism and dirty deeds.
The Doctor's tape, on the other hand, tells the Doctor that there is a clue with the X marker, and the mission is to kill Adam before 6 o'clock, otherwise his wife and daughter will suffer.
The doctor also found the details at this time, the tape that amplified the volume, and heard the more secretuous follow your heart, following your heart.
Soon they found that the toilet was marked with 6: The shape of a heart, so Adam dug into the soup filled with rice fields, making a hand full of chocolate but finding nothing.
As a result, I found that there was a black package in the water tank, and there were 2 saws in the package, so they took one by one, frantically sawing the chain, but in the face of the chain as thick as their legs, this vertical saw did not work at all.
The doctor then realized that the boss behind the scenes wanted them to cut off their legs and get a chance to escape.
From the motives of this behind-the-scenes boss, the doctor recalls a strange case that he had been exposed to earlier.
It was a serial murder case, and the killer has not yet been found.
There have been several horrific serial killings in the local area, such as a case where a fat man who does not value life is arranged in a basement, and if he wants to escape, he must pass through a barbed wire fence full of thorns, and he dies tragically inside.
At the murder scene, there is a box of tape recorders, which are also life and death game play.
Another time was a little brother who declared that he was sick and dying, in order to be passive and sluggish, and then he was also arranged to live and die, to go back and forth to see the code combination of the wall repeatedly on the glass slag floor, and he was coated with a layer of easy fuel grease, and as a result, in the process of watching, the illuminated candle accidentally lit itself and burned itself.
Why the doctor knows this is because the police found a flashlight with the doctor's fingerprints at the scene of the murder, so the police took the doctor back to the police station and asked the doctor to provide an alibi, and the doctor finally had to confess, that night he went to steal the lover.
After the doctor provided an alibi, the police asked the doctor to stay and listen to the confession of Amanda, the only survivor in a similar kidnapping case.
Amanda's horror experience is actually the essence of the previous "Chainsaw Horror 0.5", Amanda dug out the key in the stomach of a living, lying person, and exchanged the life of others for her own.
At this time, the vertical saw doll rode out on his beloved little three wheels and said the motif of the "Chainsaw Horror" series of trials, people often do not know how to cherish life and trample on life, only after surviving the test of life and death, they will cherish life again and be a good person.
Unfortunately, Amanda's escape experience did not make any waves for the doctor, and when he returned home, the doctor coaxed his daughter to sleep and continued to run out to steal the affair, and as a result, he came to this large toilet.
It was at that time that his wife and daughter were kidnapped.
On the other side, the old policeman finally picked up the lights all night to find the clues, found the so-called old nest of the serial killer's vertical saw, and as a result, he was trapped in the planned trap by the matryoshka doll, on the one hand, the hostage had sat on the electric drill chair, on the other hand, the vertical saw was controlled, the police faced the dilemma of saving people or arresting people, saying that it was too late and fast, the vertical saw briefly transformed into Assassin's Creed, and wiped the neck of the old policeman.
The young partner was even more blinded.
The two people on the other side who were still in the large toilet accidentally found the camera behind the mirror, and the vertical saw at this time was probably secretly observing.
At this time, the doctor opened the door of memory again and shared his family photo with Adam, but Adam accidentally found that the wallet had a photo of the kidnapped doctor's wife and daughter, and there was a clue of X mark on the back of the photo, which could not be seen by the doctor, otherwise the doctor would really kill Adam.
Then Adam guides the doctor to turn off the light, the X mark appears on the wall, the doctor chisels open the wall and takes out the box, the box has a mobile phone that can only be answered and cannot be called, there is a cigarette, and there is a note, and a note suggesting that the doctor uses a cigarette to stain the body's poisonous blood for Adam to smoke, and adam can be rescued when he dies.
The doctor counted on his mind, turned off the lights and colluded with Adam, let Adam deliberately smoke and pretend to die, I want to say, as far as Ray Wyner's acting skills are concerned, it is better to continue to be a screenwriter.
But who knew that the chain had a live function, directly to the dead Adam electrocuted, the two performance time ended.
At this time, the mobile phone rings, and the doctor learns that his wife and daughter have been kidnapped, and only Adam's death can save the family.
The doctor also finally learned that Adam had actually known the doctor before, and was hired by a mysterious person to take pictures of the doctor stealing his lover, and these photos, which had been placed together with the vertical saw, were only hidden by Adam at the time.
The person who hired Adam was not a vertical saw, but an old policeman, who was not dead but suspended, but the old policeman, with his stubborn intuition, thought that the doctor was a serial killer, and as a result, he took a lot of photos of the doctor stealing love, and found nothing else.
In these photos, they inadvertently found the doctor's home, standing the doctor's nurse, it turned out that the nurse kidnapped the doctor's wife and daughter, and they also believed that the nurse was the serial killer.
At this time, the mobile phone rings, the other end is the wife and daughter of the nurse and the doctor, at this time the game stipulates that the time has arrived, the nurse is ready to kill the doctor's wife and daughter, but the wife has previously loosened herself, and the nurse has fought, and the doctor can only hear multiple gunshots on the phone, and his wife and daughter are uncertain.
The doctor saved his wife and daughter at this time, gritted his teeth and really used a saw, sawed off his legs, that sour! The doctor then picked up the corpse's gun and loaded it with bullets and shot Adam.
The nurse on the other side was stopped by the appearance of the old policeman, and the doctor's wife and daughter had already fled the scene.
The nurse's plan was disrupted, and he could only run to the secret room to kill the doctor and Adam, just when the nurse was about to shoot the doctor, Adam suddenly woke up and killed the nurse, and it turned out that Adam was shot by the doctor and hit the critical part, which was also considered to be the anti-nesting doll of the nesting doll.
The doctor promised to go out and come back to save Adam, ahem, who knows.
At this time, Adam wanted to rummaging through the nurse to see if he could find the anklet key, but he turned over an identical tape recorder and helped him pour a direct listening seed.
It turned out that the nurse was not a vertical saw, he was only a poor participant, the nurse was chronically poisoned, and had to choose between self-help and killing the doctor's wife and daughter, and he chose the latter.
At this time, the strongest reversal of the whole film came, and the "corpse" of the room lying for nearly a whole movie really "cheated the corpse", and slowly stood up... he! It is the real behind-the-scenes boss of this Chainsaw Horror game, the ultimate nesting doll king of kings of kings! jigsaw!
After the vertical saw woke up, the truth was revealed, the vertical saw was a terminal cancer patient, the place of medical treatment was the doctor's hospital, in the process, he saw that people had healthy bodies, but did all kinds of immoral things, and then the vertical saw once again tried Adam incriminating evidence, and then when he left, turned off the lights, and locked the door of the secret room firmly!
"Chainsaw Horror", although the cost is only a small $1.2 million, but the meticulous setting of the suspense point of the script, as well as the surprise and ingenuity of the layout of the level life and death game, the visual stimulation of restrictive violence, and most importantly, the various reversals at the end, make the film gain a good reputation and box office.
Never personally kill people vertical saw also made a name, the film vertical saw has a hand on the old police, but the old police later survived, but also showed that the vertical saw has a good control of the strength, not to put people to death, the power of life and death, left to their own choices and fate.
Of course, the "Chainsaw Horror" series, the reputation in the West has not been blown to the heavens, such as the professional rating of the entire series on Rotten Tomatoes has not been passed, the first part has only taken 50% of the professional rating, or the results that have risen in recent years, which were lower when they were first released.
The main reason for these differences is still entangled in the value and moral thinking of John Kramer as the protagonist, many people think that the film is excessive to whitewash the name of the vertical saw, but in fact, the social issues and sources of evil expressed are empty.
In fact, these are all true, but for a thriller horror genre film, not only plasma recharge and violent pictures, but also some moral issues and social issues that are worth discussing and controversial, for an entertainment-based thriller, it is already rare.
I believe that many people look at the vertical saw, and do not rush to agree with his attitude of judging the life and death of others, sympathize with him, but do not agree with him, and then watch it coolly, and the purpose of "Chainsaw Horror" is achieved!