When talking about American horror movies, most people think of plasma horror movies such as "Chain Saw", "Fatal Bend", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", even the famous Wen Ziren, Later, he became famous in the horror film industry for his series of "Annabelle" and "The Call of Souls", but at the beginning, he also made the industry's first shot with "Chain Saw".
However, American horror films do not only rely on plasma to win. Kubrick's "The Shining" is enough to prove that horror films can also take off the crown of classic film history. Ali Esther, the American director who once lived in England for a short time, and Kubrick from the United Kingdom not only have geographical ties, but more importantly, he himself is a loyal believer of Kubrick. "The Shining" is the creative standard in my heart.
In his feature film debut "Genetic Doom", he entangled his family fetters, closed houses, and unknown fears in "The Shining", which became the biggest surprise of the critics in 2018. A year later, Esther continued to bring his second work "A Midsummer Night Before", a horror story about the ancient Swedish cult, extending the family into a family and even a community tribe. Although this story is purely fabricated, the culture and cult rituals presented in the film undoubtedly become the most amazing horror movie of 2019.
This film is similar to "Genetic Doom", with an inexplicably sad beginning. The heroine Danny's parents and sister suddenly committed suicide for some reason. Dani felt gradually cold and boring when she was getting along with her boyfriend Christian. In the case of extreme insecurity, Dany, together with her boyfriend and three of his roommates, embarked on a journey to a Midsummer Eve festival in a certain part of Sweden, hoping to heal her heartache. Among the five people who came with
, Pyle is not only Christian’s roommate, but also a member of the Swedish ethnic group. He led everyone to see Artestupa, a celebration once every 90 years. When these outsiders thought that this was just a sacred celebration ceremony, what they faced was unexpected suicide and massacre.
"Midsummer Nightmare" is not like "Genetic Doom", it uses dark scenes and spiritual calling rituals to render every horror atmosphere. What it presents is rather an "anti-terrorism" strategy.
Sweden is located in the extreme north of the northern hemisphere. In June and July each year, the sunshine time can even reach 18 hours, and the dark night time is very short. Therefore, Esther arranges almost all the main scenes in the daytime. With the lush green grass, the beautiful residential houses, and the white linen clothing of the crowd, it is difficult for us to feel gloomy. For those occasional weird behaviors, such as the scissors under the crib and the abruptly raised forbidden ground, it will only be like seeing a red chain snake swimming fast by the river in summer, a kind of warm and strange moment That's it.
However, the paradox is that whether it is Dani, Christian, or other outsiders, step by step, they are falling into a comfortable muddy. Dany eventually became the Queen of May, Christian finally became a sacrifice, and they unknowingly merged into this peaceful ancient tribe. The strategy of
, which is just like boiling a frog in warm water, is the most cool background of the film. How did Dani fall into the trap step by step? Was Pyle confessing to her, exchanging the tragic experience of losing their parents? Or from the very beginning, when she lost her parents and sister, she had been in the sight of the cult? At this point, the film did not directly give an answer.
However, regarding how the tribe allows all outsiders to either disappear reasonably or join willingly, "A Midsummer Night Terror" gives a delicate and intriguing image.
For example, Pyle used the ancient tribe’s Midsummer Eve festival as a bait to get his roommates to travel far and wide to go somewhere in Sweden; when Dany’s psychological defense line was removed, Pyle lost no time to use the same points as the "orphans" again. Empathy; when Christian is copulating with the red girl, other naked women give out unanimous gasps; when Danni is extremely sad, the girls around give out similar sorrowful shouts
baby co-raising, community co-governance, life is divided into four seasons, Life repeats the cycle. This ancient tribe has its own logic of behavior and handling. It is not afraid that young people who travelled will never return, because 20 years are enough to make a person completely brainwashed; it is not afraid that there will be no members of the tribe. At the right time, look for outsiders to pass on from generation to generation, they can live or die.
From the outside, this closed-loop community tribe looks like a cult organization; however, from the insideFrom the outside, the so-called killings and life changes are all pre-modern tribal civilizations. The reason for
is that the ancient tribal civilizations and cult brainwashing behaviors in "Midsummer Night Terror" do not violate all human nature, it just violates modern individualism. In the West more than two thousand years ago, this kind of arresting outsiders as a source of blood, or using various rituals to assimilate foreign thoughts was not a shocking behavior.
And for this movie, what we fear is not just the bloody fragments that occasionally appear in it, but after more than 100 years of individualism and liberation, the spiritual kidnapping and awe of the tribal collectives, We have already had a physical feeling of vomiting, which is far more terrifying than plasma horror movies.
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