A selection of 22 movies that emphasize human nature! Must see at night

1. Mist 2007

Director: Frank Delabonte

Average review score: 8.2

Stephen King's film adaptation sparked a dispute over religion and politics, and the fog was highly symbolic, but the most controversial was the film's ending.

2. Fruit Hard Candy 2005

Director: David Slade

A movie that makes people feel very angry at the end, a underage little girl, with her high intellectual layout, to avenge her friends, the story is very cleverly designed.

3. The Ninth Gate 1999

Director: Roman Polanski

Average review score: 8.3

Polanski's surreal thriller film with Depp is also one of the few works by Polanski that is detached from the real world and emphasizes the artistic beauty of the picture.

4. Silent Hill 2006

Directed by: Christopher Gans

Shot by Christopher Gans, a die-hard fan of the ps game Silent Hill, it became the only successful game adaptation film in years, both commercially and word-of-mouth.

5. White Ribbon 2009

Director: Michael Haneke

Average review score: 8.4

"The Story of a Group of German Teenagers", the subtitle of the film clarifies the inner meaning, the film does not have a horror shot, but the association between history and human nature is frightening.

6. Chaos Hell 2005

Director: Akio Shishoji

It consists of four stories, of which "Mirror Hell" is the most popular and profound, a person who kills people because of his enchantment, the reason is because of a deep love for something, perhaps the most perfect love is not between people.

7. Crisis Ten Days 1990

Director: Rob Reiner

Average review score: 8.5

Stephen King's original thriller films are all fine, but this one is the most special - the thriller actually comes from a genuinely enthusiastic fan, and King may have had a similar experience?

8. Jaws 1975

Director: Steven Spielberg

Spielberg later reflected: It's a despicable film, each of its shots is carefully designed for one purpose: to bring the greatest fear.

9. Mental Games 1997

Director: David Finch

The translation of "mental games" is appropriate, because the film is based on psychology, that is, through psychology, it is possible to accurately predict people's behavior. David Finch successfully substituted the audience into the character played by Michael Douglas, and together they were fooled by a strange game, with repeated accidents and surprises, and the ending would not be guessed until the last moment.

10. Guillotine Valley 1999

Directed by: Tim Burton

Average review score: 8.6

Depp plays a science detective in the film, and this identity is set up to serve the theme of "anti-science". In the end, the unexplained ghosts of science were summoned to break through the ground and kill the ring. The classic of "Guillotine Valley" lies not only in its horror technique, but more in its artistic achievements, its Gothic style pre-industrial world and magical world excellent to create a dark mysterious and terrifying atmosphere, and finally the headless knight finally gets the head, and the passage of hunting and killing Depp and others under the command of the summoning is also tense enough to suffocate.

11. American Psycho 2000

Director: Mary Harlan

It is relevant to relive the film today, when the Occupy Wall Street movement is in full swing. A Wall Street manager with a dual personality, personable during the day and murderous at night. The "Doctor Incarnate" sci-fi parable is a perfect metaphor for this contradiction of human nature. As the American review put it: "In this world, clothes are more important than skin, wealth is more important than blood, and the soul can only be explored by knives, axes and drills." ”

Fatal id 2003

Director: James Mangold

Average review score: 8.7

At the beginning of the film, the usual forbidden killing route, but its plot is becoming more and more mysterious, just when the audience has doubts about the authenticity of this killing, the film reveals the truth, in fact, the space for killing only exists in the mind of the criminal. "Fatal Id" combines psychological concepts with traditional horror film techniques, which not only always makes people fall into an atmosphere of horror and suspense, but also gives people intellectual pleasure when revealing the mystery.

13. The Exorcist 1973

Director: William Fredkin

Average review score: 8.9

One of the most terrifying films in the eyes of Westerners is related to the film's touch on Christian culture, a religious belief that has lasted for two thousand years has affected the composition of Western society as a whole, and when horror is based on a sense of familiarity with this culture that has been deeply rooted in the bones, horror becomes incomparable (this is the same reason that Chinese audiences often find Japanese horror movies the most frightening). The director said that 90% of the events in the "Exorcist" movies happened in real time, and for Chinese audiences without The Christian faith, "The Exorcist" is scary enough.

14. Lockdown Island 2010

Director: Martin Scorsese

Average review score: 9.0

The personality split theme of "Forbidden Island" is not uncommon, but Martin Scorsese's performance is masterful, before revealing the mystery, the director arranges a lot of suggestive details in the development of the plot, but only successfully increases the audience's confusion and horror, before reaching the lighthouse, all the audience is deceived and believes in the protagonist's fantasy, and the most shocking thing is the end of the movie: Tedmin knows that the result of obeying his woven illusion is only death, but still irresistible choice to live in the illusion.

15. Isle of Horrors 2001

Director: Alejandro Amanba

Although the main idea comes from "The Sixth Sense", the revelation at the end will be slightly unsatisfied after making people suddenly realize, but the horror atmosphere created by "Isle of Horror" from beginning to end is far from being comparable to "The Sixth Sense", Nicole shows excellent acting skills in this movie, and the image of the mother she created with madness and maternal love makes this horror story have a strong sense of reality. The plot of the film is also cleverly designed, and a large number of details are laid out before the ending reveals the truth, and the audience can only fully understand it when they re-watch it for the second time.

16. Midnight Bell 1998

Director: Hideo Nakata

For most Eastern audiences, this is probably one of the scariest films. The "curse," an element of Eastern witchcraft culture, was for the first time revealed in such horror in the form of a movie, and the horror-making elements borrowed from the film were all the most common things: videotapes, television sets, telephone ringtones. The image of the white-clothed and black-haired Sadako has become the representative of the oriental female ghost, and unlike the blue-faced fanged ghost image that often appears in western horror movies, the ghosts in oriental horror movies are mostly shown in feminine images, which is also the reason why oriental horror movies naturally have a psychological horror temperament.

17. Carrie the Witch 1976

Directed by: Brian de Palma

Average review score: 9.1

"Carrie the Witch" has only two few thriller scenes, but because of its deep meaning of horror and strong shock, it has become one of the most outstanding horror films in film history. The film is made from the perspective of a girl, which is an excellent interpretation of "others are hell", but unlike reality, the heroine has superpowers, which makes her anger and despair not only stay at the psychological level, but transformed into a tragic massacre, a bloody Carrie, its visual horror is a metaphor for the horror relationship between people in society. Carrie's religiously brainwashed mother is one of the most classic characters in horror films, and this horror is also the horror of the system created by human beings to change human minds.

18. Psychopath 1960

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Average review score: 9.2

It has almost become synonymous with thriller films, paying tribute to the learning and tribute of future generations of thriller directors. Although the bathroom murder scene was created by Hitchcock to avoid censorship, this 48-second picture composed of 78 shots, not even a bloody picture of a knife stabbing into the human body, has reached an unsurpassed height in its horror with montage techniques. The theme of the film, a person who fantasizes about another self because of schizophrenia, and even after being arrested, he is still dead set on believing that he is another person who has fantasized, and this observation of human nature has also benefited many excellent films in the future, including "Fight Club" and "Forbidden Island".

19. Rosemary's Baby 1968

A couple moves into an apartment and their wife becomes pregnant, but she gradually discovers that things have become strange and abnormal, is she insane, or is something really wrong? The truth is revealed at the end of the film: in order to become famous, the husband of the undesirable little actor, together with the cultists in the apartment, betrayed his wife to Satan and conceived and gave birth to a child. This eerie ending can be seen as a filthy truth hidden within the superficially glossy family society, and as a horrible symbol of the loss of traditional religious beliefs in Western society (the cover that appears in the film reads "God is dead?"). Time Magazine did exist in 1966) and can also be seen as a great symbol of the idea that "the other is hell." This is the first film made by the master of terror Roman Polanski in the United States, the whole film almost does not appear a horror scene, purely relying on the plot to create a horror atmosphere, but made an epoch-making horror movie, and this film is more "cursed horror movie", a life of darkness, the life of Polanski, who was almost arrested in a concentration camp, added a bloody stroke to this film: Polans Gene, a movie related to cults, was retaliated against by cults, and his wife who was eight months pregnant was killed at home. It also makes the film forever associated with darkness.

20. The Shining 1980

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Average review score: 9.3

Even for Kubrick, whose works are difficult to understand and "never explained", "The Shining" is one of his most obscure films, and the horror of the film lies in this difficulty, making people feel that horror is everywhere, so that it spreads to the level of reality, so that the whole world has a sense of horror. From a young age, you can see how a man in a mid-life crisis, a writer who is full of Talent in Jiang Lang, in a claustrophobic environment, how the inner loneliness and despair are urged to become a terrible killing poke. Speaking of the great, the continuous mention of the West, the pioneers, the Indians, the cemeteries, etc. in the film makes this palatial hotel built on graves and bones a microcosm of American society. The film ends with a puzzling photograph, but the time marked in the photograph, July 4, 1921, American Independence Day, and the image of a smiling Jack Nicholson victor with a glass of wine all give the film a stronger allegorical color. For Kubrick, who has always focused on the ultimate interpretation of things, his understanding of horror is more than that, as the writer's wife finally sees the well-dressed skeletons, this horror comes more from the surface of the bright and bloody human society itself.

21. Strange Talk 1964

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Although Hu Jinquan has also expressed a pure oriental aesthetic in his "Heroine" and other films, the most able to show the simple and thick oriental cultural aesthetics in the horror film genre is Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 film "Strange Talk", watching this movie will even make you sigh: As the inheritors of Chinese culture, perhaps the Japanese are closer to the cultural Chinese. This film is very similar to the film version of "Chat Sai Zhiyi" ("strange talk" is originally a word of consent), adapted from four stories in Koizumi Yakumo's "Masterpieces of Japan", namely "Black Hair", "Snow Girl", "Earless Yoshiichi", and "Bowl", with its magnificent and simple set, elegant horror techniques, no vulgarity, borrowing a lot of no-show techniques. Among them, the two most successful stories, "Black Hair" and "Earless Fangyi", the former is an anti-traditional horror method, until the end, the night passes, the truth of the horror is revealed, and the latter has a full sense of epic heaviness, beyond the level of ordinary horror movies. The music made by the soundtrack master Takemitsu for "Strange Talk" is also very distinctive, giving the film a mysterious sense between drama and reality, real and unreal.

22. Mulholland Drive 2001

Director: David Lynch

Average review score: 9.4

As we said, there are two kinds of fear, one is genetic, one is psychological, and the other is social, so a best thriller should include both, and Mulhollando is exactly such a movie. Psychologically speaking, this is a movie that will make Freud worship, which can be called the film version of "The Interpretation of Dreams". It makes Freud's theory that "dreams are the fulfillment of wishes" and "dreams are the activities of the subconscious" clearly, and in the nightmare of a desperate woman who is crushed by reality, she transforms into her ideal image and fulfills all her wishes, while everything she fears in reality appears again and again in various forms in dreams, reminding her. From a social point of view, "Mulholland Road" is only more terrifying, two young girls who broke into Hollywood, because of the casting of a movie, and became gay, but then one gradually became famous, hot, the other is still lonely, the future is bleak, and after the former gradually in order to successfully hook up the performance, and even began to have other female companions, the latter hired a murderer in despair to kill the former, and then in the guilt and pain of a nightmare, and finally committed suicide. In the eyes of David Lynch, the "hollywood" that appears many times in "Mulholland Road" is a big underworld organization, and the best representative of all the superficial and filthy things in human society. It creates the illusion of beauty, but only despair and filth, it makes humanity vain and frivolous, and finally falls back to the ground. Human nature is fragile and terrifying. Many people will feel obscure when they first watch "Mulholland Road", but as long as they find the junction between dreams and reality (probably in the 4/5 of the film, that is, the section where the cowboy is used to shout the girl to get up), it is basically not difficult to understand.

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