This year is a big year for horror films, although it is a little thunderous and the rain is small, it is still worth looking forward to, especially "Psychic Medium" and "Crying Sorrow".
1. "Psychic Medium"
This is a Thai-Korean co-production film, but the main production team is the Thai director Ban Zhuang, Whose status in the Thai horror film industry is one level higher than the status of the Peng Shun Peng Fa brothers in the Hong Kong ghost film industry, a veritable industry tycoon.
Ban Zhuang's film horror style is biased towards the kind that is sharp and sharp into people's hearts, which is much more explosive than Wen Ziren's warm boiled frog progressive horror style, and the representative works are estimated that everyone has seen it, including "Ghost Shadow", "Ghost Chaos 5", "Death's Crossroads", "Ghost Husband", "Conjoined Yin", "Twenty-six Kinds" Death Methods, etc.
South Korea's co-director Luo Hongzhen, the famous "Yellow Sea" and "Chaser" are from his hand, a few years earlier horror film "Cry", although Douban only has a 7.3 points and the failure of the Korean local box office, but it is also a thriller that I like very much in recent years, and the strong cooperation between the two is still very worth looking forward to, the current Douban 7.7 points.
2. "Crying Sorrow"
The story line of weeping and sorrow should be relatively simple, there is no complicated conspiracy and trickery, that is, after the virus invades and infects, the normal life order is completely destroyed, and the evil side of each person is magnified to the maximum, showing the most cruel side of people to people.
Within an hour and a half, the director used a large number of daily life scenes to show a variety of absurd and disgusting torture scenes, which are typical of sadistic films, and it is not recommended to watch them if they are not strong in endurance.
3. "The Spell"
"Don't Fall Down", "Get Off the Single And Urgent", "Ghost Seal" director Ke Mengrong directed, starring Cai Gangyan, Gao Yingxuan, Lin Jinglun, Ah Q, Huang Xinting, is expected to be released in the second half of 2021.
The film tells the story of Ruo Nan and his friends forming a video team, breaking into the forbidden place in the cult ceremony 6 years ago, angering the sleeping evil spirits, and everyone dies one after another. Inspired by the horrific real events of the real people in Kaohsiung, when a family of six thought they were possessed by gods, the whole family went crazy, fed each other feces and other bizarre behaviors, and finally led to the death of family members.
4. "Southern Witch"
It's a thriller, not a horror film, and even more a political metaphor, and thrill-seeking audiences don't have to watch it.
The film uses realism to tell the magical story of a Chinese family who "stole clothes and dropped their heads due to neighbor entanglements". Western medicine has no solution, Chinese medicine is difficult to treat, Datuk gong is not spiritual, and the god of Xiangyushan has nothing to do with it. This kind of strange thing can only happen in Southeast Asia, which has a profound influence on Chinese culture, and is humid and hot.
In the northernmost part of Malay, Kedah is the Malay-Thai border, where Malay-Chinese are mixed, Kedah Hokkien, Teochew, Chinese, Malay are mixed, and the mysterious relationship between man and witchcraft is equally inseparable. Politics, race, culture, and beliefs are intertwined.
5. "Strange House"
The story takes place in an apartment and consists of five platter shorts, the story is basically a separate chapter, the characters live in the same building, do not know each other, and then a short film plays a role in the finishing touch, connecting the five short films together.
The overall structure borrows from the "Morgue Collection", if you have not seen the "Morgue Collection" and watch this film, it is estimated that it will feel somewhat interesting. Overall, there is not much surprise, if there is no final short film to explain the ending, the film becomes a pure platter, but the final ending reversal, there is still some aftertaste - reincarnation.