Recently, there is another popular horror film coming, and it is also the annual horror film that many friends have been looking forward to for a long time.
We thought we were going to have a terrible food that we hadn't seen for a long time, but as a result, we fell into the pit.
Yes, this is the ninth installment of the popular horror series Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex.
Yesterday, Douban was 5.4 points, and now it has fallen to 5.3 points.
Of course, it is not only our Douban Douban low score, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and even SAW's fan groups, in fact, everyone is a bit broken.
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After all, "Chainsaw Horror" was in that year, but it shocked too many people.
This horror thriller suspense B-grade film uses the small and fine mode of "small pattern low cost high concept", so that everyone remembers the good friends of Wen Ziren and Ray Werner.
Since then, the 7 sequels released since then have also reached a considerable box office.
Even the lowest-rated "Chainsaw Horror 8", Douban also maintained a score of more than 7 points.
The first "Chainsaw Horror" was recognized as a horror classic, and squeezed into the Douban Top250, making the entire series an epic masterpiece of B-grade films.
However, this "Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex", which gave everyone high hopes, was really not very good, and it fell below 6 points.
And it is the kind of thing, how to catch can not be recovered, but also fell more and more violently.
So, how can a horror thriller IP that has lived for 9 long lives be so serious in middle age?
Scholar Justin Wyatt summarized the three elements that make up high-concept cinema as: the Look, the Hook, and the Book.
Look refers to good looks, that is, handsome and beautiful women, magnificent or magnificent scenery.
Hook refers to the plot as brilliant, engaging and intriguing to the audience.
Book refers to the sophisticated methods of film shooting, such as clear presentation, reasonable storyboarding, and logical narrative.
Director Darren Lynn Boseman is the director of 2, 3, and 4, and this return should be able to carry forward the initial temperament and core tone of "Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex" again.
Screenwriters Pete Goodfinger and Josh Stoobug are also the second pair after the 8th collaboration, which will not be too much of a problem with the screenwriting ability, the run-in process, and the degree of cooperation.
So, we filtered through the Book problem first.
Conversely, what about The Hook of Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex?
Anyone who has seen the Chainsaw Horror series will know that the first one was especially surprising because it created a fresh visual experience of killing.
The next few also at least satisfy curiosity through the ingenious design of special killing mechanisms, and then there are also soap opera plots of the puzzle killer John and his followers and his wife.
So, what's in this Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex?
- Anyway, all the past is gone.
A whole new worldview, a whole new character, a new story, a new killer, and a whole new motive for killing.
The whole structure is single, but the deceased is a policeman, and the police investigate the story of the new killer who imitates the vertical saw, which may be the police station itself, and all the people who appear have become suspects.
The whole motive for killing is inexplicable, and the character's previous history background is also illogically related, if it is not based on the protagonist's action to take the audience a little reasoning to find the perspective of the murderer, I am afraid that even killing people is not enough.
In short, the jump off is too strong, resulting in play flying.
In the first eight seasons, what makes people "haunting" and "sighing" is actually the big boss, the puzzle killer John.
The Jigsaw Killer John is a "poor man" suffering from cancer and suffering from illness, who cherishes extra because there is not much time left; he resents the evil people who laugh at the suffering of others.
It is precisely because of this understanding of the value and meaning of life that I hate those waste firewood that is not blessed in the blessing.
As soon as external conditions and internal emotions collide, a strong antisocial spark is generated, so they begin to design a killing game, hoping that people can realize the preciousness of life at the last moments of life.
This initial motive, and the ultimate design of the purpose of killing, form a synergistic closed loop, not only rationalizing the reason why the bad guys become bad guys, but also making people sigh "judgment on life" after feeling the horror.
Therefore, many people have many interpretations when discussing the English name of "SAW" of "Chainsaw Horror".
But in this dimension, if saw only as SEE (i.e., seeing), then John is looking at the victim's past and faults with his own sober eyes, and the death game he has designed is also looking at the world with an invisible pair of eyes.
The saw is just a relatively terrifying looking killing knife, the killing method is just a visual stimulus, and what ultimately makes people frightened is this ubiquitous peeping and judgment.
In Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex, the protagonist, Zeke, is an unpopular cop.
Everyone ostracized him because he had reported the abuse of lynching colleagues.
Then, because he was isolated and could not grab interesting cases, he had to investigate the cold rice bowl of the street nameless death with his new partner William.
One day, he receives a USB package related to the Puzzle Killer, only to discover that the street nominees were actually police officers.
At this point, you will find that the protagonist is a tool man with no subjective initiative, and it is completely to help the appearance of this new killer who imitates the puzzle killer.
After that, the nature of the case became larger, and everyone began to pay attention to it.
But with the investigation, the black-hearted police were bloodily punished one after another, and even the boss finally treated the police station as a cemetery.
Only then did Zeke turn his suspicions to the inside of the police station.
The so-called focal point of the plot is also placed, and the legendary police detective, Zeke's father, has also been labeled as a suspect.
Yes, that's it.
- That's the end of it?!!
Not to mention, Zeke is like a tool person who slows down the progress bar of the plot, in terms of the above plot climax point and the result of the follow-up father being killed by the meter, what is "Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex" trying to express?
Compared with the previous game, "Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex" not only continues the past world view and retains the entertainment elements of the horror and murder B-grade film, but also adds a suspenseful reasoning mode.
But this suspenseful reasoning technique is only entry-level.
Because the murderer is really very good to guess.
Zeke lives, all thanks to the screenwriter's exclusive tailor-made "out of the mud without staining" of the righteous and kind person.
So who else is left???
If the plot is halfway through, and the lockable killer is also dead, then the plot directly comes to an earth-shattering reversal to be able to match the word "horror".
But it did not, but did not hurry like boiling porridge, boiled the plot to the end, and told you the final truth plainly.
It's as if, either it's mentally retarded or you're retarded.
- Forget it, just be mentally retarded.
In the ending, we learn the lynching motive of the murderer.
From the deceased, it can be seen that all the targets of this new killer are police officers who have committed mistakes.
He has either killed witnesses indiscriminately, or used private practices, or has not shielded his subordinates with black hearts, or has engaged in collusion between officials and businessmen.
But what is the history of this character?
What is the driving force behind his so-called bloody revenge?
His "Batman" generally uses the ultimate killing delusion to punish the police system, where is the reason?
To tell the truth, a father became paranoid because of the corruption of the police circle and was killed by the black-hearted police, and the explanation of wanting revenge was put in the first part as a novice village training level, and it was really a little pediatric in the ninth part.
So in general, the whole motive of this killer learns John's appearance, but it only draws a tiger on the cat.
And in this boring plot, everyone's visual focus is on blood and horror.
This is also an exploration of how Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex does the Look that goes from peak to bottom.
And our perception is only: the plot is not enough blood plasma to make up.
It seems that the blood bag should be free of money.
Horror films and thrillers are very out of the circle in all genres and genres.
Because only the "sense of stress fear" can kill the audience.
The audience will be interested in the unknown stimuli, and will also capture different ideas because of this special fun.
This advantage of being detached from other types of things is to give everyone the pleasure in the shortest possible time.
"Chainsaw Horror 9: Whirlpool" directly overheated, making everyone feel sick to the stomach.
The innovative and painful way to die is the highlight and uniqueness of the Chainsaw Horror series.
But in "Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex", because of the proportion of plot arrangements for the new worldview, there are many fewer shots of death mechanisms. And in order to fill in the so-called bloody picture, plasma concentration and wantonness have become more and more rampant.
You know, at the time of the name, the ninth part was named "The Organ Donor", and the Chinese translator was the organ donor.
As the name suggests, all the dead have lost an organ because of the mechanism of terror, and they have also died painfully and cruelly because of the loss.
Tongue pulling, finger breaking, skinning, electric shock, being hit by a train and scattering the body, cutting off the spine...
It is nothing more than a derivative of the setting of the first novel, the saw-off of the handle to have a chance to escape.
Therefore, in "Chainsaw Horror 9: Whirlpool", the suspense line of the detective's case did not see any clear eyebrows, and the restrictive entertainment flowing into the river of blood was about to overflow the screen.
The discussion of social justice is only a dragonfly, and the joy of creative killing is repeatedly tested with the sinusoidal function of blood and pain.
In the end, are we watching Chainsaw Horror, or Is It Plasma Horror?
This plasma, and a pun intended, is better, called a tribute to the previous game, or an expansion pack.
Many people mention "Chainsaw Horror", and even most people's understanding of B-grade films is bloody violence, and plasma is full of screens.
In Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex, the doll that previously rode a bicycle and said "I want to play a game" became a pig-headed pull-string doll. The pig's head is the reference to the disciple in the previous work, and in this part it seems to be the imitation of the puzzle killer demon is the meaning of the disciple.
Originally, the swirl on the doll's face represented the symbol of the puzzle killer, and in this plot, it also became a graffiti decorative symbol painted on the wall.
The saw at Zeke's feet, and the attempt to cut open the handcuffs, also seem to be a nod to the first episode.
But this position, no matter how you look at it, can have better props, and better bridges to replace.
Therefore, a tribute like this is like the creator who is poor in donkey skills for a while, and is too lazy to innovate to take the tribute.
In addition, the previous "Chainsaw Horror" series of movies have all started with terrible organ killings, and the same is true of this part, which is a policeman chasing a robber, and finally finding out that it is a trap.
The previous design was to use abuse to try people who had been, where there had been, where lynching, forcing people to reflect on their own mistakes, and finally using terrorist organs to give sanctions.
The same is true of the headquarters, where the death of each policeman is related to what he has done before, using strange but brutal terrorist mechanisms to kill people, and leaving the deceased to choose whether to sacrifice something to survive.
So, in "Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex", we see that because of countless perjury before, repeatedly lying in court, and finally being killed by the organs to tear their tongues;
Saw that because he had killed teenagers indiscriminately, he was finally locked in a mechanism that had to pull out his fingers or could not escape from the electrocution pool;
I saw that because I had covered up the black-hearted policeman many times, I finally had to cut off my back spine to escape the mechanism of black hot wax on my face...
But "Chainsaw Horror 9: Vortex" does not want to be consistent, but also has to add a philosophical discussion that "the police strictly enforce the law in order to reduce the crime rate, and thus produce many additional black and white theories such as human rights violations and freedoms".
But isn't the latter a subsequence of the former?
Sequel It is a sequel, there is no way to expand in a grander dimension, simply continue the previous core directly in the main line to pick a special group to locate, and then cover a modern social pain point problem to cover up.
When to start, pay tribute to the previous game, play the copy terrier, has become a lot of sequels to cover up the plot loopholes and plot deficiencies of the universal golden hoop stick.
It is indeed easy to use, and it is true that multi-use can pull feelings. It is not wrong to visualize the abstract and discuss a microscopic phenomenon in the macroscopic, and even if the discussion is to the extreme, it is a wonderful entry point.
However, we look at the sequel based on the trust and expectation of the previous game, and we also hope that all the sequels can be excavated in depth.
After all, if you don't call the chainsaw horror, just watch and play, you can barely do it. However, since it is called Chainsaw Horror, and trying to link to the previous game in various ways, but only to this extent, it is really disappointing.