Happy Death Day 2
Director: Christopher Langdon
Writers: Christopher Langdon
Starring: Jessica Rod / Isel Brossard / Ruby Modion / Sura Shama / Steve Zisis
Infinite loop.
Suspense comedy.
Pit filling.
"Infinite loop" has always been a model for thriller suspense genres.
From the fantasy love theme of "Groundhog Day", to the thriller suspense theme of "Lola Run" and "Horror Cruise Ship", the "infinite loop" mode has been played to the extreme by film creators.
Released in 2017, "Happy Death Day" used this model, and finally earned nearly $100 million at the foreign box office with a low production cost of $5 million.
In China, the cat's eye score reached 8.3, which won a good reputation, and was also known as the "campus version" of "Horror Cruise" and the "thriller version" of "Groundhog Day".
Let's first briefly review the 11 tragic deaths of the heroine Xiaocui in the first part.
Xiao Cui, a school flower that combines beauty and bichi.
In school, with his own appearance, he attracted bees and butterflies everywhere, and all kinds of old love and new love were silly and unclear.
Because her date is too broad.
On September 18th, early in the morning of my birthday, I woke up from the bed of a strange man named Carter, and I wanted to pat my ass directly and leave, but I just opened the door and bumped into Carter's yellow-haired roommate.
However, Xiao Cui, who was not strange, not only did not care, on the way back to the dormitory, he even remembered that he had just kissed his roommate's boyfriend the night before.
In addition to these temporary, there is also a long-term shameful object, a married handsome male teacher.
After her plastic sister Hua knew, she kept advising her not to do this, and to be careful to ignite the fire.
Xiao Cui, who was originally dissatisfied with his roommate, managed so much, and directly shook it up, which is not your business.
She also threw the cake given to her by her roommate directly into the trash.
Confirmed the eyes, is Xiao Cui does not want to pay attention to the person, should go to the birthday body at night and prepare to go to the birthday body.
Who knows, at this time, an accident happened.
Xiao Cui was killed by a man wearing a Bayfield baby mask.
You read that right, in the opening thirteen minutes, the heroine died, but who knows the next second, Xiao Cui is back to the beginning of the day - waking up from Carter's dormitory bed.
Everything is the same as it happened, the same phone call at the same time, meeting the same person, the other person saying the same thing, the same thing happening again... In the end, he was killed again.
Xiao Cui is trapped on this day unless the murderer is found.
But the is angry that she has difficulty in finding out who the murderer is, and everyone around her is suspicious.
Fortunately, after 11 times of trick death, Xiao Cui finally found the murderer, ended the cycle, harvested love, walked out of the shadows, and Bi Chi was finally whitewashed, which was gratifying!
However, in addition to surprises, think about it carefully, although the film has its unique charm, there are still many loopholes in the plot logic, and because it has never explained the reasons for the infinite loop, it has attracted many viewers to complain.
Sister Tiao thought that she would just let it go, who knows, after two years, she launched a sequel "Happy Death Day 2". (i.e. pit filling)
The second part follows the previous one, and Xiao Cui has just broken the time loop and focused on Carter's housemate Ryan. (This yellow-haired boy who ran a dragon suit in the first part)
A drunken Ryan wakes up in the car.
I received a call and went to my lab to check on the latest progress of the project.
It is a pity that the dean who puts money first.
The dean yelled at Lane and stopped his research project.
The project was suddenly stopped, and Ryan became loveless, collapsing on the couch alone and thinking about life.
At this time, a photo came from the mobile phone -
Ryan couldn't sit still, the voyeur was still so bright and upright, it was a naked provocation.
Ryan followed in the direction of the camera.
outcome...... Killed by a knife.
Ryan returned to Number 19 again and woke up from the car.
I have to say that Ryan is worthy of being a school bully, and after only dying once, he detected an abnormality and interrupted Carter and Xiaocui, who were making love, to seek help.
Xiao Cui, who died 11 times in the first part, is experienced in this regard, and soon helps Ryan catch the murderer after learning about it.
But after unmasking, what? Human cloning? Duo body? Is this plot going to reverse the future?
No, no, it turns out that Ryan's self-righteous experiment created the time loop, causing chaos in parallel universes and the emergence of multiple dimensions. This is really "self-inflicted sins, not to live" ah.
After Ryan learned the truth, in order to eliminate "himself", he took out the "six relatives do not recognize" posture, despite the persuasion of everyone, restarted the machine, and insisted on ending all this.
As a result, Ryan was fine, but Xiao Cui, who helped him, was sent to another dimension, returning to the 18th of his birthday.
In this dimension, all the setting encounters have undergone subtle changes.
Not only is the boyfriend someone else's —
Even the teacher who cheated on him before was someone else's—
There is no protagonist aura.
The only relief is that in this dimension, Xiao Cui has seen her long-dead mother. (Xiao Cui's mother died very early in the first part)
In order to continue to live with her mother and experience the long-lost maternal love, Xiao Cui chose to stay in this dimension and prevented Ryan from starting the machine.
As she immersed herself in the joy of family reunion, she discovered that the killer was still there.
Xiao Cui, who has already experienced all this, comes to the hospital to prevent this tragedy from happening, but finds that it is not Lori who is behind the plot, but someone else.
Sadly, the regiment is gone.
Xiao Cui's mentality exploded at this time, in order to break the cycle as soon as possible, eliminate the wrong variables, restart the machine, stay in this dimension, open the trick death mode, and carry out crazy self-sacrifice.
The bathtub was electrocuted when it was energized——
Drinking the detergent was poisoned -
Bikini skydive to death ——
He was hanged in the leaf crusher—
Through continuous sacrifice, Xiao Cui finally eliminated the wrong variables of the machine and restarted the machine.
But Xiao Cui can't end the cycle of two dimensions at the same time, and must make a choice.
Xiao Cui ushered in a century of problems, boyfriend and mother, love and affection between how to choose?
In the face of her boyfriend's soul torture, after a long conversation with her mother, Xiao Cui recognized the reality and knew that she did not belong here.
At the same time, Carter was also killed by the murderer, in order to save Carter, Xiaocui chose the most gorgeous way of death before the machine started, ending the cycle.
After rescuing Carter, Xiao Cui chose to say goodbye to her mother and warmly spent her "last birthday".
As for who the murderer is, there will be no spoilers here.
In addition to continuing the atmosphere of the previous suspenseful thriller, the film has added many new elements.
For example, a lot of comedic elements.
In addition to the previous trick dead clips, there are also in order to regain the machine, the crowd cooperates with the dean's office.
At this time, the dean was knitting sweaters
While stealing the key, Daniel did not forget to ravage the Dean.
Not only that, the director also cleverly added science fiction elements, and finally filled in the big hole of the first "infinite loop".
In terms of movie experience, although "Happy Death Day 2" bears the title of suspense thriller, the film is constantly funny, making people laugh and watch the whole movie.
This kind of "thriller" for all ages please give me a dozen in the future!
Editor-in-Charge: Camel Card