When overseas horror films scare the audience out of their minds, we still stay at the low-level fun level of selling meat and eyeballs. Domestic audiences can hardly expect a good horror film to appear.
Under the strict review system, domestic horror films are developing in a strange direction. The taste of it is only the viewer knows it.
Just in July 2016, a small-cost film arrived, and became a masterpiece of domestic horror films. It was praised by some film critics as "the best domestic horror film in the past 10 years." The editor felt that this statement was a bit exaggerated, so I changed it to "nearly 5 years".
This is a ill-fated film that has experienced the storm of file withdrawal and shocking the audience, full of strange colors. It uses a different shooting technique, and at the same time has a name that goes straight to the theme-"The Evil".
This film is the first screen debut of the director Ma Kai of "Heng Piao". Excluding the 20,000 yuan medical expenses for the actor's accidental injury during the filming process, and 4 days of recording equipment failure, it only costs 50,000 yuan and 14 days of shooting time. , Became the domestic horror film with the least investment cost and the shortest shooting time. The director of
, Ma Kai, used a pseudo-documentary filming technique to interpret a scene full of magical reality in the countryside. It is real and ethereal, terrifying and frightening.
's tight shooting conditions gave the film a rustic color to the whole. When this extraordinarily real and simple picture comes into view, a very substituting fear will emerge spontaneously.
From "Blair the Witch" to "Ghost Record", pseudo-documentary style horror films have been common. But when this shooting technique is localized, the horror it brings is beyond the reach of foreign films.
"The Evil" won the "Best Art Exploration Award" at the 10th FIRST Youth Film Festival, which proved another possibility for domestic horror movies. The
film focuses on the issue of rural superstition. The bizarre experience of two college students and the "glorious" couple connects the entire horror story of the magic.
College students Xiaoding and Xiao Liu decided to make a documentary about fortune-telling in order to reveal the secret of rural superstition culture. They came to a certain village in Shandong and got to know Wang Po, the "spirit" and his husband and "agent" Uncle Liu. Wangpo
is a well-known fortune teller in the local area. She is good at a spell called "Returning People", designed to drive away evil spirits for the villagers in the ten miles and eight villages.
Once accidentally, Wang Po received an "order" from the villager Daqing, inviting her to hold a "returning" ceremony for Chen Li, her sister Chen Li, to kill demons and exorcise demons.
Faced with generous rewards, the Wang Po couples who love money like their lives are reluctant to shirk themselves. Xiaoding and Xiao Liu could also take this opportunity to shoot material for their documentary. Under their respective interests, four people and one car rushed to the destination. At this time they still don't know-a strange blood and light disaster is quietly coming.
After a long journey, the four finally came to Chen Li's house. This is a remote residence with no shops in front of the village, no internet connection, inconvenient transportation, and all the classic elements of horror movies.
According to Daqing, her sister Chen Li has been possessed by evil things since her husband and children passed away bizarrely. Sure enough, in the process of "returning people", Chen Li, who was previously extremely weak, suddenly got upper body with evil spirits, stuck Wang Po's neck and almost killed her.
Wang Po and his wife realized that something was wrong, and Hun Hun made up an excuse and planned to slip away. Unexpectedly, the car punctured on the way, and in desperation had to stay overnight here.
As educated college students, Xiaoding and Xiao Liu do not believe in ghosts. They felt more and more weird, so they secretly installed cameras in their room while Wang Po and his wife were out. It turned out that the prince had no exorcism, but a despicable liar.
Horrible things always happen in the dark, because people are emotionally sensitive and fragile at that time. The next story became even more bizarre and confusing.
The exposure of the identity of the liar and the subsequent abnormal behavior of Chen Li's sister and brother will involve a series of creepy and weird things. The next plot editor will no longer spoiler, and hope that friends who have not seen this film will watch it in person.
As a fan friend commented:
"national fear" has become a slightly biased phrase, but"Restored the dignity of this genre in the form of a pseudo-documentary. It is full of classic horror segments and typical images, and it turns all localization into an experience without a trace. The director did not classify everything as strange power and chaos, but took the initiative to set the tone. I hope this is not an occasional inspiration from the director, but a sustainable exploration.
is a low-cost horror film, "The Evil" has not been reduced to a shoddy "defective product" due to funding restrictions. Ingeniously, it instead uses this rough and simple image to bring us a most down-to-earth viewing experience, vividly interpreting what is "fear born from the heart" and what is a "Chinese-style horror film".
