What makes a good horror movie? In fact, it is difficult to have a standard answer, because the audience's definition of horror in each era has always changed, but what is a blockbuster horror film, Hollywood has long given us the answer.
Routine character design; formulaic plot direction (even accurate to the time of death of each character); the only thing that needs to be done is to design a horror monster that can resonate with the audience, and finally add some dramatic conflicts, such as the emotional line of the male protagonist and the female protagonist, the emotional line between the female protagonist and the female protagonist, and even the emotional line of the female protagonist and the monster.
These horror films from the assembly line may not be able to sell well, but almost all of them can recover the cost one hundred percent, make some small money, if you are lucky to step on a popular theme, coupled with the director's hard work actor online, you can leap to become the benchmark of horror films of the year, fame and fortune.
"Cabin in the Woods" is such a benchmark work, people play with routines, but anti-routines, director Drew Gundam while laughing at the peers of those anti-intellectual plots, while still frantically punching the audience in the face, "horror movies are filmed like this, not all because you like."
So we can see at the beginning of the film a group of ordinary office workers casually performing the so-called "memorial" ceremony, and everyone has to throw a party to bet on the results, as if this living sacrifice ceremony is not common for them, but is just a diversion to pass the boring work time.
The ceremony is managed by The Organization, headquartered in the United States, with six branches around the world. All the memorial processes must be carried out step by step, of course, each place can also make some minor adjustments according to the habits of their respective "ancient gods", but there is only one central idea, which satisfies the "ancient gods".
With the failure of the Spanish, Argentine, German, Burmese, and Swedish branches, even the Japanese routine was mixed up by a group of small farts, leaving only the American headquarters to carry the banner of "ancient gods" and please them with standardized procedures.
Sweden released "No One To Enter" around 2008, breaking many of the original horror film traditions and receiving great acclaim, but in this film it was seen as a stupid act of abandoning the market and bowing to art.
In addition, the Japanese have a very special way of pleasing the "ancient gods", they release the female ghost Kiko (probably from "Midnight Bells") in a group of classrooms with only little girls, Em.... I don't know what I'm implying.
And what is the program that the American "ancient gods" like to hear? Of course, stupid and cute college students are killed by monsters one by one during the holiday, and it is best to die in the order of "swing*"-"*crazy"-"athlete","scholar"-"virgin".
However, people are inherently diverse, and seemingly pure heroines (virgins) actually secretly sleep with their professors (including deliberately wearing a pair of underwear in front of their girlfriends and boyfriends);
The ostensibly confused Marty (white*) is actually thoughtful;
"Brother Hammer" (athlete) is a high-achieving student with a full scholarship, and can also casually say Guroski;
The black guy (scholar) easily catches the football thrown from the second floor and is the best receiver in the school;
The second woman (slut) was never as fucked up as she was in a log cabin, except because the "tissue" agent added chemicals to her stain.
These people, who are born complex and diverse, are unqualified "sacrifices" in the eyes of the "organization", so they must be masked and nested into the pre-set "script" one by one like a formula.
Thus began this elaborate ritual of sacrifice, in which the "offerings" played their respective roles under the arrangement of the "organization". They want couples to have a passionate scene in the wild, add some pheromone spray in the air; after the female second is killed by the "red-necked zombie", everyone flees back to the wooden house, "Brother Hammer" suggests that everyone stay together and lock all the entrances and exits (it should be the normal reaction of normal people), but the "director group" is not satisfied, and uses chemical spray to force Brother Hammer to change his mind; the heroine kills a zombie, but inexplicably throws away the weapon. These counterintuitive bridges are a great irony of the plot of the current anti-intellectual horror films.
Don't those horror directors know that these bridges are very anti-intellectual, of course, but what can be done? Mainstream moviegoers prefer the fast-paced sensory stimulation of this stupid plot to the point of painstaking scrutiny and search for resonance with the characters.
"Cabin in the Woods" looks like a horror movie on the surface, but it is actually a spring dream of Hollywood filmmakers, who hope to make a work that is anti-traditional and can be accepted by most audiences at the same time, and reality is like the slap that the "ancient god" fell at the end of the film, which woke them up fiercely.
"Want to make money? If you want to make money, honestly follow the routine. ”
The palm of the "ancient gods"
The author is not saying that the current horror film market is really dead, of course, there will be quite good works from time to time.
Classic horror film heroine
It's just that after "Cabin in the Woods", this kind of routine horror film will definitely not disappear, and the same reason may also apply to the current situation of our film and television dramas in China, right?
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