Please don’t wear VR glasses to watch "Urban Strange Tale" easily.
Whenever you mention a domestic thriller, many viewers will have helpless or contemptuous smiles on their mouths—it seems that the genes of our country and nation have lost the creative horror. The ability of story.
In fact, no matter for which country, thriller is a special type: in general, the thriller type mainly exists in the creation of movies, and the family characteristics of TV series and the wide audience group determine that it is not suitable for large-scale horror creation ——After all, the elderly and children in front of the TV are not suitable for watching horror stories——Because horror has almost no corresponding form in TV series, so "thriller TV series" has been absent for a long time. As a result, our audiences and creators all pin their hopes of revitalizing the domestic horror on the movie: everyone is eagerly waiting for the appearance of a blockbuster that is excellent enough to rewrite the history of the Chinese genre.
things went counter-intuitive. The limitations of censorship and the weak genre basis led to the continued downturn of thrillers-the blockbuster we were waiting for has yet to arrive.
But when everyone was desperate for domestic horrors, a horror web drama appeared in a pioneering posture.
This drama is called "Urban Strange Tale", which is a self-made online drama by iQiyi and the world's first VR feature-length thriller.
"Urban Strange Story" breaks through the traditional horror only restricted to the forbidden area of movie creation, and boldly expands the horror creation to the field of online drama; in addition, this is also the world's first attempt to truly apply VR technology to film creation and viewing. 720°-style horror experience will give the audience an unprecedented sense of presence. You can imagine: in your sleep, a ghost appears from your ear and crawls along your neck to your face. What will it be like? Experience... In daily life, the courage among friends will often be based on the number of horror stories they watch and the degree of horror. However, for this drama, the author still recommends to be mentally prepared before watching it and try not to turn off the lights to watch it alone-traditional stories, the audience is watching through the screen, encounter thrilling passages, turn their heads and cover their ears. You can "avoid risks." However, in "Strange City", the 720° three-dimensional horror scene will make all the blood and ghosts fly directly to your face. When you subconsciously turn your head and try to escape it, you will find more blood and The ghost is coming from behind you, at this time, unless you take off your glasses-otherwise, you will have nowhere to escape.
Therefore, even if the content of the story is aside, these two pioneering initiatives have given it the qualifications to be recorded in the annals of history-not to mention, the story of this drama itself is very in line with the genre paradigm of thriller stories. In other words, this is a real thriller.
Prior to this, one of the reasons why domestic horrors were repeatedly criticized was their pseudo-type color: Whenever the audience walked into the theater with expectations and prepared for a spiritual adventure, in the end they often only saw one neurotic , A pseudo-thriller pretending to be a horror. The main reason for this is that the creators are unfamiliar with the genre of the horror story. They often rely on the screaming and sound effects of the horror. There is no other way. In layman's terms, they are not scary at all.
But in "Urban Strange Story", we can see a story with clear genre characteristics: the character setting, plot trend and scheduling of the environment and space in this drama all show the style of a rigorous type of story, light and sound The reasonable effect of, also makes the originally thrilling story even more scary. A few days ago, the first part of "Urban Strange Story", "Bed Together" has been launched on iQiyi. "Bed Together" tells the story of the steel pipe girl Shanshan and a ghostly, hidden bedmate-when a person and a ghost are in the same bed. What kind of story would it be when lying in bed?
Everyone can go to iQiyi to see what is going on, but if you are not mentally prepared, please don't easily watch with VR glasses.
