No matter how the course of time and history develops,
It seems that fans of horror movies, fans will always have a passion.
Think about it, in the era of rapid development and peace, under the boring life day after day,
Occasionally enjoying a horror movie is also a new challenge in ordinary life,
And in years of disaster and turmoil, horror movies will also have an unexpected "healing ability",
The characters in the movie are even more miserable, after experiencing a "flight", we can also sigh - it is good to be alive!
In the post-epidemic era, as long as there is news of a horror movie, it will attract the attention and expectations of movie fans.
In the horror movie schedule at the beginning of 2021, there are many returns of horror masters, as well as the renovation of big IPs,
These works have also aroused the extreme expectations of the audience.
I have to say that in the horror movies of 2021, the most amazing one is the mysterious cultural works of East Asia.
Thailand's "Psychic Medium" is threatening, and various religious horrors are online,
After the beautiful heroine is possessed, the strange behavior of breaking the routine step by step is really chilling to see people's backs.
Or Malaysia's "Southern Witch", which is also quite novel,
The exquisite audiovisual language and the pure scene scheduling outline the new face of oriental mysticism,
The integration of traditional culture and jianghu flavor into horror movies is quite a bit of horror and sad poetry.
There is also Taiwan's "Crying Sorrows", which integrates the strangeness of society and the tone of folk grotesque with zombies.
It is also a work of fierceness and staying power.
On the other hand, the American horror movies in 2021 are really shrinking in an all-round way.
The return of the classic cult ip "Moonlight Panic" and "Fatal Bend" ended in failure,
It does not have the bloody smell of the previous work, but also integrates a lot of American "political correctness", and it also makes people look tired.
And there's a whole bunch of low-budget horror movies.
"Hot Hand Nanny 2", "Mighty Amusement Park", "Musket Milkshake", "Dark Fangs",
They are also products on the model assembly line, which are neither scary nor routine, and they are not good at all.
Fortunately, at the end of 2021, there is also a new work of Wen Ziren,"Fatal Induction".
It seems that it can temporarily rescue the shrinking American horror film market.
After all, Wen Ziren is currently a good hand at American horror movies.
That year's "Chainsaw Horror", the niche is brain-burning, the sense of ceremony is full,
Also created the biggest IP in the history of horror movies - saw, bicycle clown,
It can be said that the first play of the genius director Wen Ziren was a blockbuster.
2018's "Aquaman" "saved" dc in terms of commercial value and visual effects,
Even a scene on the sea in the middle of the night also incorporates Wen Ziren's horror elements, a word - absolute!
However, Wen Ziren in 2021 is almost every step of the "mistake",
The newly released "Fatal Induction" has a lot of controversy.
More importantly,
As the two most important horror IPs in his hands, the effect of the return of "Chainsaw Horror" and "Conjuring" is not good,
He has completely lost the horror essence of the previous game, and his "terror heir" level is not enough.
So, why does Wen Ziren's "Soul Summoning Universe" make the audience so haunted?
This also starts with 2013's "The Conjuring".
Lorraine Warren's answer to the "Conjuring" lecture directly laid the foundation for the beginning of the "Conjuring Universe",
"We are exorcists, we serve the Catholic Church, and we prefer to be called the Warrens!"
As the beginning of everything, "The Conjuring" is really a highly completed horror movie,
Moreover, the film also has a very penetrating sense of real horror, the prologue slowly opens, and the screen shows a line of large characters:
"Everything is based on real events".
In fact, the original elements in "The Conjuring" are not fresh haunted houses and exorcism elements,
However, Wen Ziren can always unexpectedly combine the dull and slow oriental, sudden sense of mystery and atmosphere at a certain moment with American plasma tablets.
A down-and-out middle-class father, with his wife and five daughters, came to a large mansion in the wilderness ridge to settle down,
With three points of curiosity, two points of loss, and five points of expectation, everyone came to this new house.
At this time, buried a foreshadowing, the family dogs refused to enter the house, here, Wen Ziren combined with the oriental traditional culture and atmosphere to create the first pen, it is highlighted,
The reluctance of dogs to enter the house is originally an inauspicious hint in the Oriental tradition, and this is also a precursor and foreshadowing.
The sense of luxury created by Wen Ziren's horror atmosphere lies in the fact that
There is no hurry at all, nor does it take the American simple jump scare set, but takes us to explore this house a little bit,
From bit by bit, from the branches, you feel an indescribable sense of strangeness.
The first night after moving in, there was nothing terrible in life,
But out of nowhere, there will be claps, cups that suddenly fall off when children sleep at night,
The little daughter sleepwalks inexplicably, and the mother is led to an empty closet while playing a game.
The second daughter walked over, and suddenly the door slammed shut, and as a result, her parents ran to turn on the lights, and there was nothing...
What is a high-level, deep-rooted sense of horror?
Wen Ziren understands too well, this kind of small plot, harmless abnormality, the creepy atmosphere created, only to make people really cold in the back, the more they think about it, the more afraid they are.
Several horror atmospheres can be said to be classic scenes in the history of horror movies.
Mom was trapped in the basement, and suddenly the lights went out, and a sense of unconventional tension came.
In the dark environment that human beings are most afraid of, mom constantly spends matches, and each ignition makes the audience's heart tighten,
The matches were burning and the audience was still in the safe area, when suddenly a pair of hands came from behind the mother, slapped twice, and the picture turned.
That high-class, suffocating atmosphere of horror was simply easily grasped by Wen Ziren.
I didn't see a ghost, but I heard it,
You think that the ghost is gradually approaching, and it turns out that people just play hide and seek with you.
Slapping your hands contemptuously is more frightening and helpless than rushing out a grimace.
Why is Wen Ziren's horror movie clean and retro, but it makes people feel a sense of high-level fear?
The so-called unfinished, very afraid, facing the screen time for a long time, can not help but keep looking back?
Wen Ziren understands very well that people's fear lies in the unknown, in the shock and confusion after breaking common sense.
So he didn't skimp on those high-level long shots at times of horror and excitement........
The rhythm of a static movement controls the essence,
There are both Eastern ominous hints and Western jump scares,
The most important thing is that Wen Ziren's atmosphere is quite in place, and a little bit makes you have nowhere to escape!