This Halloween movie, which costs only 4.8 million US dollars and has a global box office of close to 200 million, was released in China on February 2.
This is a peculiar horror film, in addition to horror, there are some other things-
"Happy Death"
The film was released in North America on October 13, and it won the box office of 26 million dollars in the first weekend.
abruptly pulled "Blade Runner 2046" and "British Showdown" to win the weekend box office championship.
, as a film costing only 4.8 million dollars, won six box offices in a week!
Douban scored 7.2, better than 67% of thrillers.
68% of rotten tomatoes, word of mouth is basically the same as domestic.
"Irish Weekly" is touted beyond doubt-
If you can't enjoy "Happy Death", give up the movie. In 2017, when
shined in horror films, this film still played tricks.
has various style elements, which can be scary and half-dead, but also make people laugh, suspense, reversal and reversal, and finally a convincing ending.
Let’s see its diversification. Open:
Style 1: Horror film
A girl named Xiaocui (played by Jessica Rhodes) is a veritable green tea bitch.
is blond and blue-eyed, with long chest and thighs, and a nice face.
Of course, while is the school flower, she is still a streaking, dating, as a junior, playing with men's sociables.
September 18th is Xiaocui's birthday, and it is also the birthday of her deceased mother.
On this day, she woke up from the dormitory of a strange boy-she was drunk in the middle of the night and was picked up by a dull boy.
Boy Carter is particularly reserved, but the hostess wears pants casually, and hung up his father's phone at the same time.
got dressed and went out, and met his ex, sneered.
returned to the dormitory, and her roommate surprised her-a small cake, but she casually threw it into the trash can.
turned around and flirted with the professor secretly, secretly giving away.
At night, Xiaocui packs up and prepares to go to a party organized by her classmates. When
passed the underground passage, a weird music box appeared in the passage, spinning and playing "Happy Birthday Song". The heroine
didn't care, thinking that her classmates made a little joke with her, and then the street lights began to flash non-stop. A masked man appeared behind
and said nothing. The
heroine talked to herself bravely, but it was useless. Before finishing the passage, the masked man raised the butcher knife.
female lead lunch, the movie ends.
WTF?
Don't worry, where is this? The really scary ones haven't appeared yet.
Style Two: The moment the crime film
was stabbed with the knife, the heroine suddenly opened her eyes-finding that the same day had begun again.
think of "Edge of Tomorrow".
Xiaocui began to look dazed, thinking it was just a dream.
immediately realized that this is not a dream. Get dressed, walk out of the tunnel, everything is exactly the same as it happened. All the people and things of
happened again in an orderly manner. The only difference between
is myself.
Thinking of her death yesterday, Xiaocui decided to take a detour.
Xiao Cui, who successfully attended the party this time, picked up the boy she likes, got into the room, and prepared for the rain.
As a result, the masked man suddenly appeared, and this time he took the life of his partner.
Style Three: She woke up again when the room thriller
was added.
everything happened the third time. At night, she locked herself in the dormitory.
This is all right, if the murderer can't get in, she is naturally safe.
young! The
mask man was still unstoppable, rushed into the airtight dormitory, and completed the triple kill on the female lead.
Style Four: The heroine of the suspense film
woke up again, this time she completely broke down.
She seems to be caught in some kind of curse replay, infinitely killed, infinitely resurrected, and trapped on September 18th and unable to come out.
This time, she finally decided to open up to Carter, the boy who "picked up the body" and told him everything. After a detailed analysis of
, Carter gave her an idea, which is probably not a good idea-
Then, the heroine started her own plan to find her enemies. In the meantime, she was killed twice.
Style 5: After the action film
has experienced death after death, the heroine found in the details on TV that the murderer was actually a murderer in the hospital.
So, the heroine rushed to the hospital, trying to kill him before killing him.
was a step too late and had to escape by himself.
ran to the underground garage by accident and escaped smoothly after the start.
was too excited and was caught by the police for speeding on the highway.
hadn’t finished speaking, the masked man came again, caught fire, and the heroine exploded.
style six: the heroine of the romantic movie
woke up again and talked about love with the male protagonist Carter~
style seven: the dog blood tearing forced movie
was finally designed to kill the murderer, the heroine was back the next day after falling asleep Woke up on September 18. Only when
found out that the one who really wanted to kill himself turned out to be-
and the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day" as a key, but in the previous work, the male protagonist was stuck on February 2.
Moreover, the mask of the murderer in the film just looks like a groundhog, which is a bright tribute.
The mask is not good, and the lines are not let go. The director
also remembered to pay tribute to the famous "Terror Cruise Ship" due to psychological horror.
Xiaocui's axe is almost the same as Jesse.
The title "Happy Death" is actually spoiled. The death of
is nothing more than telling the audience that someone will die on this day. Happy
, connected with the anniversary of death, is syntactically the same as "happy birthday". It is not difficult to guess that this day should be someone's birthday.
has said so, and the director is afraid that the audience will not be able to guess it, so he has done tricks on the poster-
even without words, it is not difficult to see the two elements related to death-mask and cake.
Many people have only seen the mask killer, but they have forgotten the cupcakes left behind like blood on the poster.
Actually, the real culprit director has pointed out in the poster, hasn’t he?
is a diversified genre film. The director combines all the elements of horror, comedy, action, suspense, affection and even love into the movie.
is cleverly pretended and advanced. On the surface,
is killing, dying, and torn; behind
, the director quietly throws dog food, throws off the burden, and spreads chicken soup.
Xiaocui, after 16 deaths, has transformed from an unruly green tea bitch in the beginning into a virtuous little wife.
The whole "Happy Death Day" actually refers to the process of constantly killing the previous self, constantly re-understanding oneself, constantly reconciling with the past self, and embracing the future self.
chose to complete the cycle of death on her birthday, which means that family affection is in the heroine's psychology, which is originally an unresolvable knot.
hung up his father's call more than a dozen times, not because of the depth of the conflict, but because the heroine was unwilling to face it. After
"dead", we will understand that family affection is priceless, and only then will the hostess and father have a face-to-face conversation.
whyThe director chooses to make the heroine see Carter at first sight every time she wakes up?
Yes, you and I know that Carter is the true love of the heroine. After also experiencing several deaths, the originally domineering and evil heroine would actually commit suicide for Carter.
is also in the endless death, the heroine realizes the appearance of love, whether
is dating a male teacher, or picking up guys everywhere, in the end, what is in his heart is the shy corpse boy who has no words.
Through death, the heroine becomes positive, upward, gentle, and kind. It is also through death that the heroine understands the value of family and love. The death anniversary of
is not only the past, but also the appearance that I once hated.
is just like the sentence posted on the door of Carter’s dormitory: Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Many of us often fantasize about jumping out of our lives, but in the end we still return to the original track of our lives.
It's just that the effort to jump out of life is like the death of the "day of death", making the previous track more clean and bright.
is a chick movie. Under the seemingly chaotic plot arrangements and mixed elements, what
wants to talk about is the inner world of every young man.
This may be the meaning of our youth.
