Two days ago, the famous American film website IndieWire rushed to select the top 100 horror films in film history on the eve of Halloween.
Many fans said that most of the people on the list are old faces with high exposure rates that make people tired. For example, European and American film critics unanimously approved no.1 of all-time, with the waist disc guess also know that it is "The Shining"!
Uh, sorry to misplace the picture...
There are also many die-hards of East Asian horror films, complaining that the American version of "Midnight Bells" has squeezed out the Japanese version with an unprecedented status, which is simply known as the annual unjust case:
Even on the Internet, there is a lot of noise, such as this benevolent brother who is dissatisfied with the 84th place of "Fierce Ghost Street":
Putting aside all the differences and controversies caused by aesthetic barriers, in this list, there is a classic old film that is still worth mentioning.
That is the famous film history of "Moonlight Panic" (1978)
Ranked No. 5 on the list, leaving behind competitors such as "Horror Story" and "Alien".
From the English title Halloween, you can smell a hint of mysterious holiday customization. As early as the well-known "Chainsaw Horror" series more than 20 years ago, the series has ruled the North American Halloween file for many years, setting off several movie viewing booms, and becoming the unyielding type handle.
And your favorite "Chinese light" Wen Ziren, was not weaned at that time!
40 years after the first release, the new sequel "Halloween Returns" appeared in the midnight surprise unit of the 30th Toronto Film Festival this year, and its reputation has gone all the way since the opening of the painting, and the current Rotten Tomatoes freshness is nearly 80%, which is a fairly good performance in horror movies.
In terms of box office, the first three days of the first weekend, the Lectra Lady Gaga's "The Birth of a Star" easily reached the top, rolling away $77.5 million, the highest in the series, and second only to last year's "Joker Returns" in the horror film premiere gold list.
All indications are that this will be another high-profile blockbuster horror film in the near future.
A little unfamiliar with it? It doesn't matter, let's pop up a prehistoric plot introduction:
Probably you, who have read countless ghosts and experienced hundreds of battles, will smash the bar and smash the mouth at this moment and say: "It looks nothing new." ”
In fact, when the Halloween series was first launched, it was also questioned by many critics. An independent film that took only 21 days to shoot and a budget of 325,000 US dollars, there are no mutilated limbs, blood plasma scenes, and only a mentally ill man wearing a mask and wielding a knife from beginning to end.
By any standard, it was a matter of being reduced to cannon fodder.
The counterattack that followed once again confirmed the old saying: gold always shines.
A few months after the film was screened, a group of film critics led by Tom Allen of Village Voice magazine first pointed out that this work broke the pattern of horror films relying on trafficking in violence and bloodshed in the past, and through the brilliant suspense creation, tightly hooked the audience's nerves, making it seem as if it was in an ice cellar, nervous and did not dare to breathe.
The deliberately blurred motive for the killing, combined with the slow push-and-pull shot, gives the impression that the murderer is approaching step by step, and may even be standing behind you - such an extremely infiltrative effect that has not been achieved in horror films on the assembly line in the past.
Since then, the mask killer has also emerged from the cloud-shrouded town of Hadenfield and become a superstar all over the world.
And these brilliant achievements are all due to the maker behind the demon, John Carpenter.
Speaking of Carpenter, I believe that all the fans of horror films are incredibly affectionate, and the name is like George W. Bush. A. Romero ("Night of the Living Dead"), Dario Aquido ("Storm of The Wind"), is synonymous with the avant-garde Cult films and B-grade films of the last century.
Hardcore Old Card: Screenwriters who can't play rock are not good directors!
As an all-round horror god who integrates director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer, Ka Laozi was born in New York in 1948, because of the influence of the family environment, he has a strong interest in western hero films and B-grade films from an early age, and naturally entered the SUGA Film Art Academy at the age of 20.
Even more envious, just two years later, the "Resurrection of Bronco Billy", which he co-produced, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film (look at the 22-year-old...). ）。
In 1976, Carpenter's first independent film, BloodsplatterEd Thirteen, was released and was nominated for Best Picture at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1978. This hot virgin made him a lot of fame, and also let insiders start to pay attention to this rising star.
From his debut, Carpenter maintained the tradition of doing the soundtrack himself
Later, at the invitation of an independent producer, Lao Ka came out of the mountains again and began to conceive a "psychotic homicidal movie about a crush on nanny" according to investors' requirements.
Since childhood, he has been immersed in horror genre films, coupled with the experience accumulated in the process of filming, so that Carpenter has an extraordinary intuition for all evil spirits. Soon, under his alternative brain hole creation, the classic image of Michael Myers was born.
Blue siamese overalls, white latex masks, and sharp knives in hand have become a nightmare imprinted in the minds of a generation of Americans, and have been stamped by fans to be selected as one of the "three major killers in film history".
Who are the other two?
They are Jason Vohess, who is armed with a machete and haunts Crystal Lake in Friday 13:
More stylish than anyone's mask?
And Uncle Freddy in "Ghost Street" wielding a pair of demonic "steel claw hands":
Although I know your focus is all on Depp's grand beauty:
Compared to the next two, Miles's appearance may not be fierce enough. But don't forget, in terms of generations, he is the one in the C position among the three villains. Therefore, since its birth in the late 1970s, this emotionless killer has been paid tribute to by film and television works in various ways.
For example, in last year's "Extreme Car Thief", which exploded the summer program, a ridiculous plot was implanted: the big guy Dao Ge said that he wanted to buy Michael Myles' mask, and because "Michael" and "Mike" were pronounced similarly, the last thing he bought was the mask of Mike Myles, the star of "Ace Spy".
From the constantly emerging spoof cases, it is enough to glimpse the influence of the "Halloween" series in the American pop culture circle. As a butcher who kills people without blinking, the image of "Myers" is undoubtedly successful.
For decades, people have tried to understand why his mask has the ability to make people sweat and stand upside down. In addition to the key prop symbols of the entire series, it is more like a metaphor for personality distortion, projecting Myers' morbid and dark inner world, and symbolizing those marginalized groups that are as extremely anti-social and demonized as he is. It can be said that it is it that gives the demon a mysterious and enchanting temperament.
You are worried about the idea of Halloween cos, don't you hurry up and get started?!
Interestingly, due to the team's tight financial resources during filming, Uncle Ka hired a street youth, Tommy Lee Wallace, to serve as art director, production design director, and screen finder. Miles's pupilless human skin mask was bought and whitened at a small shop on the street for $1.98.
Wallace, who was obscure at the time, later became the director of the series (the third part), and in 1990, he made Stephen King's original adaptation of "The Return of the Joker", which was named the childhood shadow of countless people.
After the release of the new version last year, it broke a number of North American box office records in one fell swoop, and it was a well-deserved phenomenon winner.
In addition to the bloodthirsty Myers, another classic character in the Halloween series is undoubtedly the heroine laurie, who is also the sister of the murderer. In the first part, the 17-year-old escaped from the clutches of her crazy brother on Halloween Night, and a terrible scream is still fresh in people's minds.
Just as Sigourney Weaver was in Alien and Aunt Mira in Resident Evil, Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Laurie, also established herself as the "Screaming Queen" of the film industry with this housekeeper image. Although she only starred in three of the series, she was still highly sought after by fans, and Curtis also became an overnight hit after the film, winning the best actress at the Paris Science Fiction Film Festival.
I wonder how many people know that Janet Lee, the veteran actress who contributed to the screams in "Horror Story", is Curtis's mother? (up to duck frown .jpg)
It seems that the scream gene can also be inherited
The mother and daughter duo also played on the same stage in the seventh part of the series, which is the meeting of two generations of "Dolphin Sound Queen" centuries.
Despite the success of Moonlight Panic, the glory of Karst horror films continues, including the 1980 Midnight Hour and the "Revelation" trilogy (Strange Shape (1982), The Devil Returns (1987), and The Black Hole of Shudder (1994), which are also widely circulated among cult fans.
Carpenter's "Revelation" trilogy
But when it comes to film history popularity and input-output ratio, there is no one that can surpass Myers's achievements in the Halloween Harvest.
The film's total global box office exceeded 70 million US dollars, which can be called a typical example of small and large. After that, Mr. Ka retired and threw himself into other shooting projects. And 2 to 10 failed to jump out of the strange circle of sequels must be rotten, the quality is uneven, the lowest reputation is the sequel, the imdb score is only a pitiful 4.8...
This piece is named after... Uncle Cage sneezed
In contrast, the director of the latest work, David Gordon Green, is a newcomer to the American independent film industry in recent years, and won the Best Director Award at the 63rd Berlin Film Festival in 2013 with "The Avalanche Prince", which is enough to escort the film's success.
Of course, what makes fans more excited is the return of the heroine Curtis after many years, coupled with the soundtrack of the old card, which is bound to trigger a whirlwind of collective nostalgia and inject a shot of strength into the weak film market before the blockbuster is released at the end of the year.
Steven O'Brien, editor of the authoritative British science fiction journal "SFX", once commented:
"Moonlight Panic was the progenitor of the horror film genre for generations to come, and it was the hallmark of horror cinema for the next 20 years."
However, just like the controversy caused by the outflow of "divine works" resources such as "A Quiet Place" and "Genetic Doom" praised by foreign media before, for domestic audiences who blindly respect the sensory scale, our expectations for horror films are still mostly stuck in the surface of the frightening effect, that is, the so-called jump scare, rather than the layers of soaked and infiltrated sinister atmosphere.
This can somewhat explain why the veteran IP of "Moonlight Panic" is always in a tepid and embarrassing situation in China except for fans of real horror films, so that the only impression that most people have of it is the translation (fog) that sounds a little romantic at first.
On Douban, the number of evaluators of the film has only been more than 6,000 so far, and the score is more general.
No matter what type of film, its expression should be diverse. Even if the picture is not exciting enough, the fright is not explosive enough, but all the clever shots and narratives can make people gain an unforgettable psychological experience. When we let go of prejudice and harsh standards, we can really get closer and even fall in love with this perverted killer on the other side of the ocean.
What are the number one killers in the history of your pick? Radio
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*Author: A midsummer's Gate
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