Friends who pay more attention to horror movies must have noticed a recent new news.
Wen Ziren's new film "Fatal Induction" will be released in North American theaters on September 10 + streaming media online.
Many netizens cheered loudly, and the horror master finally returned to his old business.
After filming classic horror films such as "Chainsaw Horror", "Dead Silence" and "Conjuring", Wen Ziren was invited to shoot science fiction movies such as "Fast and Furious 7" and "Aquaman".
Although both films have grossed extremely high at the global box office, Wen Ziren's horror film is still the most anticipated by audiences.
In addition to looking forward to "Fatal Induction", today we will review Wen Dao's classic works.
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Director: Wen Ziren
Writers: Ray Werner
Starring: Downey Wahlberg / Amber Valletta / Ryan Coventuren
Michael Fairman / Bob Gunton / Laura Reagan
Release: 2007-03-16 (USA)
Duration: 89 minutes
Released in 2007, this high-scoring film is Wen Ziren's second film after director Debut", Chainsaw Horror.
Despite the low horror genre ratings, it still received a 7.8 rating and ranked fifth on the list of high-scoring supernatural films. (The first four are "The Shining", "Island Horror", "Master Key", and "Summoning Spirits")
Everything about the story begins with a "puppet".
On a rainy night, the protagonist Jamie and his wife Lisa receive an anonymous package containing a strange-looking puppet, which they do not take as an ominous sign.
Jamie then went out to buy dinner, leaving Lisa alone at home.
Lisa put the puppet on the bed and hid it with a white bedcloth, intending to surprise Jamie.
At this point, the surrounding area began to become strange, and the sharp whistling sound of the kettle seemed to tell the audience that something bad was about to happen.
Sure enough, Lisa was killed.
She was ruthlessly dragged away and her tongue was cut off.
By the time Jamie realized something was wrong, Lisa had been killed and died a terrible death.
The room was empty, and the officer had to suspect that Jamie had murdered his wife.
But Jamie did not have an emotional breakdown, but calmly searched for clues to his wife's victimization.
The package containing the puppet became the biggest reason why he killed his wife in his heart.
He hurried home and carefully examined the hidden messages on the package.
Mary Shaw's puppet curse was then revealed.
He returned to the town of Lavins, where puppet-related events occur all year round, there are not many permanent residents, and the streets are depressed.
He returned to his father's house to find out.
The door was opened by his stepmother, whom he had never met, who said he had suffered a stroke a few months earlier and had lost the ability to walk independently and rely on a wheelchair for a living.
The two estranged fathers and sons did not communicate deeply, and Lisa's death made him have no intention of caring more, and after a few words of communication, he turned and went to walk to walker funeral home to prepare for the burial of Lisa.
On this night, the terrible event happened again.
The scary ventriloquist puppets began to move, the room kept calling for "Jamie", mary shaw's face behind the curtains flickered, jamie could not sleep at night.
The next day, after Lisa's funeral, Jamie learns from Marianne (the wife of Henry, the funeral home's cadaver), that the ventriloquist puppet must be buried to stop all tragedies from happening again.
That night, Jamie arrives at The Ravens Phil Cemetery and tries to bury the ventriloquistic puppets.
At this point, the camera kept spinning, as if someone had been silently observing him.
Don't worry, this time it wasn't Mary Shaw, but the police officer who had been watching him waiting to solve the case.
Jamie did not get rid of the suspicion of killing his wife, and the ventriloquistic puppet was used as a crime object and dug out of the grave by the police officer.
Jamie returns to the funeral home to look for Henry and Marianne, trying to find more valid information.
But Mary Shaw left a great shadow on them, and they were reluctant to mention her name.
After repeated entreaties from Jamie, Henry was finally willing to sit down and have a good chat with him about the late woman who had brought fear.
—Mary Shaw
Mary Shaw is a famous ventriloquist in the town of Lavance, she has no children, only puppets who depend on each other.
She had always believed that her puppets, like her children, were living people.
Until one day, MaryShaw was performing on stage, and a clueless child punctured the lie of her puppet.
The child said bluntly: "I see your lips moving, your puppet is not a real person." ”
Maryshaw's last psychological defense line was completely broken, and hatred slowly spread in her heart.
In fact, as early as the beginning of the film, the director introduced us to the concept of the belly whisperer.
"In the 6th century BC, it was believed that the undead spoke through the abdomen of the living, and according to the Latin words "abdomen" and "talking", people formed a new word, the belly whisperer.
Mary Shaw is one of the belly whisperers, who voice her ventriloquism puppets through belly talk, one playing two roles.
A few weeks later, the little boy mysteriously disappeared, showing no signs at all.
Soon after, Maryshaw was also mysteriously murdered.
In her will, she wanted people to bury her with her 101 dolls.
Henry, the narrator of the story, is the witness to her burial.
Henry's father took responsibility for her burial, and in addition to this, another hidden will of Mary Shaw has also quietly emerged.
She hoped that the body disposer would turn her into a doll too.
Henry, who was still a child at the time, walked into his father's morgue out of curiosity, and the terrifying picture of the doll Mary Shaw stayed in his heart forever.
After she was buried, bad news kept coming from the village, and some families were wiped out, their bodies were all tongueless and in the same pose.
The next day, Marianne hid again out of fear, and Henry was so angry that he prepared to bury the doll.
And once again misfortune struck.
Henry's tongue was cut off and he died a terrible death.
At this point in the plot, we can't help but ask why Mary Shaw cut off people's tongues?
The ensuing fragments unravel the mystery for us.
It turned out that the little boy who had disappeared 70 years ago was Jamie's relative: Michael Anson.
The ancestors of the Anson family believed that Mary Shaw had kidnapped their children, so they joined the citizens of Lavins and cut off her tongue and killed her.
But she did not die, but survived in another way (parasitizing on dolls).
Cut off her tongue and kill the descendants of the Anson family, formalizing Mary Shaw's way of revenge.
She was inspired to cut off the tongues of those who made her quiet and kill them, their children, their children's children.
The protagonist of the film, Jamie, is the last member of the Anson family.
The puzzle is now solved and the final duel is about to begin.
Jamie, who receives a call from Henry, rushes to the theater where Mary Shaw used to live.
But what he didn't know was that Henry's voice had been taken away by Mary Shaw, and that the theater had bigger secrets waiting for him to uncover.
Meanwhile, Mary Shaw is determined to end her final revenge there.
As he and the officer went deep into the theater, they were surprised to find 101 dolls neatly arranged in the cupboard, which had been buried with Mary Shaw.
The largest disappearance case in the town in the last century was also solved.
The missing Michael Anson (his grandparents) is being hung in the theater as a live-action doll.
Finally, Mary Shaw appeared.
She carries a sinister face and hopes to kill Jamie to complete her revenge.
After a few rounds of fighting, Jamie discovered her weakness.
That is, she must live by clinging to the doll, and if the doll is destroyed, she will also disappear.
Jamie then unleashed a fire and all 101 dolls were destroyed.
When we think it's all over, the really scary reversal has only just begun.
After Maryshaw's death, Jamie returns home to confirm her father's safety.
What he didn't expect, however, was that his father was long dead.
All along, the father who talked to him was manipulated by MaryShaw.
The stepmother who has been at his side is the perfect doll that was finally made in the Mary Shaw doll making manual that appears earlier in the film.
There are such songs in the town:
"Watch out for Mary Shaw's gaze,
She has no children, only puppets;
If you see her in a dream,
Please don't scream."
Clever he knew that as long as he didn't scream, Mary Shaw couldn't kill him.
Even if the situation was difficult, he closed his lips tightly.
And this time, Jamie finally broke through the defense and lost her voice.
What was hard for him to accept was not only that Mary Shaw was not dead.
He was always cautious and extremely intelligent, blinded by the fantasies created by Mary Shaw but completely unaware of it.
By this point, Mary Shaw's story of horrific revenge is over, and Jamie and the entire Anson family have not escaped the tricks of fate.
At the end of the film, all members of the Anson family appear in the book of death, and Mary Shaw's ballads continue to be played back, and the thrilling emotions and atmosphere linger for a long time.
In fact, it is not uncommon for the protagonist to try to break his cursed identity and instead plunge himself into a deeper hell.
The narrative mode of the ancient Greek classic drama "Oedipus The King" has appeared as early as.
In King Oedipus, Oedipus is cursed by the murder of his father and mother, and even though he tries everything he can to avoid this tragedy, he is unable to escape his fate.
Eventually, Oedipus blinded himself in grief and exiled himself forever to make up for his heinous sin.
Similar to Oedipus, the protagonist of Dead Silence, Jamie, was also born with a heavy curse, and he tried to break Maryshaw's curse and explore the truth of the matter, but he still could not escape the fate of being killed.
However, even if such stories are not uncommon, under the exquisite creation of the horror master Wen Ziren, we can feel the new vitality of this story.
The tense narrative rhythms of Dead Silence, the thrilling quick editing, and the emotional horror soundtrack and environmental atmosphere all make us feel sorry for Jamie's fate.
Perhaps, the real charm of art lies in how to tell others a story that has been heard a thousand times, but still can make others deeply touched after listening to it.
If you're eager to relive the horror world of Wen Dao before Fatal Induction arrives, you might as well find this Dead Silence to create a summer coolness.
*Author: L