mentions Hong Kong movies, most people think of it for the first time, except for police and criminal movies, which are ghost movies.
Hong Kong is the only region in the world where horror films are called "ghost films". Before that, most horror films in the world only used the undead as a stimulating element to guide the development of the plot.
is also in the mainland. Most ghost movies end up with the protagonist having mental problems, which makes people feel less interesting after watching.
But Hong Kong is different, especially during the booming period of Hong Kong movies in the 1980s and 1990s. Hong Kong produced many bold, thrilling, and straightforward ghost films, which had a significant impact on the style of horror movies throughout Asia.
It can be said that this group of people born in the 1980s and 1990s have seen so many ghost movies in Hong Kong in their childhood.
Whether it is Lin Zhengying’s comedy thriller zombie film or a pure thriller ghost film such as "The Old Man in the Village", everyone is familiar with the style of Hong Kong-style horror films.
And now, just when everyone thinks that Hong Kong horror films are also in decline, another high-scoring work has appeared.
This is a Hong Kong drama with a Douban score of 8.5 points: "Golden Night Mansion"
To talk about ghost films, "Golden Night Mansion" is certainly not pure. In the official introduction, its label is just "Suspense, Fantasy". One kind.
But in this drama, we can really see the shadow of many Hong Kong-style ghost films.
For example, the semi-destroyed building at the beginning of the first episode:
rusty water pipes, damp and moldy green walls, gray light from the end of the corridor...
is enough to make people think. What age is this building
? Is it in disrepair and uninhabited? Will people or ghosts come out at the end?
While thinking, a security guard in uniform walked through the corridor, with a flashlight swaying in his hand, bringing the light into a trance and glare.
Then he bent down and picked up an extra red umbrella on the ground I don't know when:
In the whole gray-green abandoned building, a brightly colored and eye-catching red umbrella appeared, lifeless and gloomy. Every lens of
is the usual practice of Hong Kong film.
Then the screen changed. The security guard continued to walk forward and found that the umbrella he had just picked up was in front of him again:
He started to be scared and turned and ran away. However, the elevator closed and opened and couldn't close at all.
Outside the elevator is a bottomless corridor and unspeakable strange characters. What about the elevator?
looked up and saw that the red umbrella was on top of the security guard again... Is
scary enough?
has set the tone for "Golden Night Mansion" with this chilling beginning.
makes ghost films, the reality environment does not allow "Golden Night Mansion" to do so, but to help the audience restore the memory of the old Hong Kong-style ghost film, "Golden Night Mansion" still has two brushes.
Whether it's the picture, lighting, soundtrack, camera, or the re-adapted title "Treasure Tonight", let people find the long-lost Hong Kong flavor and ghost flavor.
As the name suggests, the story of "Golden Night Building" revolves around a building called "Golden Night Building". The
building has a prototype in real life, that is, the "Champagne Building" that flourished in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s:
Champagne Building was built in 1957 and is located at 16 Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. No. 20 and No. 40-46 Carnarvon Road, an 8-storey commercial and residential building, was also the tallest building in Kowloon at that time.
So in the early days of its construction, the Champagne Building was an aristocratic place in Hong Kong. It once attracted many art businesses such as photographic equipment and antique collections, and once became a concentrated retail area for famous watches.
In the 1970s, because the Le Palace Theater was next to the Champagne Building, it also attracted many celebrities to stay, making it one of the most expensive places in Hong Kong.
However, after the 1980s, with the rapid development of the Tsim Sha Tsui area, the status of the Champagne Building began to be replaced by more and more buildings, and it was in decline. After the decline of
, the Champagne Building was once reduced to a gathering place for gangsters and drug dealers, and even started a "first floor, one phoenix" business on certain floors.
At the same time, there are more and more murders and rumors in the Champagne Building. Public security here has become extremely poor, and fighting and trouble are not a problem. Over time, it has become a dilapidated building that no one cares about.
And the story of "Golden Night Mansion" happened after the fall of the mansion. The protagonist Xiao Weiming of
was originally a security guard at a sales center. He was surrounded by strange things since he was a child. Every time he fell asleep or took a nap, a woman in a cheongsam would enter his dream and woke him up.
was scared awake when studying, when taking exams, and also when working...so the life of the male protagonist has been very difficult since childhood.
failed in exams, lost his job, even had a girlfriend and was disgusted by the other party. Finally, due to fate, the male protagonist was introduced to work in the broken building Jinxiao Building. After
came to Jinxiao Building, the hero quickly discovered the weirdness of this building.
First of all, this building has repeatedly appeared in the male protagonist's dream.
In his dream, he followed a cheongsam woman to the top of the building, but every time he was about to see what the woman looked like, the male protagonist was hit by a murder weapon and woke up.
and stray black cats that have been shuttled in the building.
In the dream, the black cat always leads the male lead to a certain place, but every time the dream will end in an unstoppable way or wake up.
Secondly, it was the male lead who gradually discovered that everyone in this building was a little weird. The most important one of
is the hostess of flight attendant.
At present, it seems that the male and female protagonists should be two-way stimulation. Both of them hide more complicated identities, but they don't know it. It was not until they met that the truth began to slowly surface. One of the clues to the special status of the heroine of
is that the little black cat in the building only gets close to her.
For example, once when the hostess was taking an elevator, she found that the elevator door could not be closed at all, and she would open it again when she closed it.
Later, the hostess discovered that the black cat was waiting for her at the elevator entrance. After she carried the cat to the elevator, the elevator started to operate by itself. The second clue of
is that strange things always happen when the heroine stays with the heroine.
For example, in the second episode, the heroine was accidentally locked in the elevator, and the hero rushed to rescue her.
Before the search and rescue personnel arrived, the two were in the elevator and the other was leaning outside the elevator. They chatted for a long time:
finally found that they were not on the same floor after the elevator door opened. The heroine
did not see the hero after opening the elevator door, and the hero also heard the voice of the woman who had been guiding him in a certain direction in his dream.
So both of them chased into the corridor, looking for each other, and this corridor was the corridor leading to the rooftop in the hero's dream.
also has this paragraph: the male lead
found the female lead in the basement, but was robbed by the robbers. The robbers forced the male lead to knock on the lid of the vent, but this action instantly aroused the male lead to follow Many memories related to that dream.
In those incomplete images, women are all wearing cheongsams, the male protagonist himself has also suffered a blow, and there are horror elements such as the cry of the child, the figure of the grandmother, and the corpse of the dancing girl.
can predict that there is a high probability that the male and female protagonist has a relationship between the past and this life, and this relationship happened to be recorded by Lin Ruosi, the grandfather of the Jinxiao Building and the owner of the bookstore, in a book called "Sleepwalking".
So the uncle was surprised when he saw the male lead for the first time, because he found that the male lead looked exactly like Liu Xuhui in the book.
visually observed that the uncle would be the one who personally witnessed the relationship between the hero and the heroine in the past life. As for his feelings for the heroine, it remains to be seen.
In addition to the male and female main line, "Golden Night Mansion" has many sub-lines, 20 episodes of the whole play, a total of 10 short stories, each of which has an exclusive subtitle: "Baby", "Baby" ", "The Crow", "The Beautiful Witch", "Different Dreams"... etc. The names are very Hong Kong-style horror movies. Every small story of
will revolve around a certain person in the Jinxiao Building. For example, the chapter "Infant" tells the story of Mrs. He.
Mrs. He has been weird since the first time she appeared. She always pushes a stroller, and occasionally there are children crying in the car.Crying or making noise.
Whenever someone wants to open the curtain to have a look, Mrs. Ho will stop him. When
met for the first time, the protagonist offered to go to Mrs. He's house to help her look at the water pipes, but Mrs. He refused.
Then the camera is pulled back, and we will see Mrs. He’s room with a tablet:
It turns out that this tablet belongs to Mrs. He’s child. In fact, there are no children in the stroller she is pushing, and there is only one playing crying. Sound stereo. After
lost her child, Mrs. He’s mental problem also became serious. She managed to break into Mrs. Xu’s house, replace Mrs. Xu’s daughter-in-law, and rob the other’s child.
It can be seen from the play that Mrs. He can get satisfaction from stealing other people's children. One of the ways she sneaks into Mrs. Xu's house is to stew soup for the Xu family.
A good bowl of soup, but a vague silhouette is seen; after drinking Mrs. He's stew, Mrs. Xu's family will have hallucinations.
Judging from the current clues, this story will be slightly sensitive and heavy.
After being proposed by her boyfriend, Qingqing accidentally discovered that her "daughter slave" dad was hiding a doll at home. The story of
, which does not sound quite right, actually hints at an important message: Dad’s doll is a substitute for his daughter in his heart.
As for how the soul of the daughter enters the doll, and what is the relationship between the father and the daughter, we have not yet fully understood.
is certain that this will be a reversal horror story with a slight emphasis.
and the hotel proprietress who witnessed the robbers commit the murders, the solitary children who always ring the doorbell to go to the hostess’s house to eat... Everyone in the
Jinxiao Building who seems harmless to humans and animals has hidden secrets behind them. .
As for the main line of men and women, it is estimated that the trump cards will not be revealed until the finale. Looking at it as a whole, the sense of suspense and horror in "Golden Night Mansion" is just right, which can make people feel the authenticity of Hong Kong-style terror without frightening the audience.
After all, the size of the TV series is also very important to the scale.
However, in terms of details, the atmosphere of "Golden Night Mansion" is created with great care, compared to the chapters of Mrs. How:
hid in the stroller stereo, the tablet at home, the soup that makes people hallucinate, and the inability to invade private Feeling...
is both tense and exciting, and some people even said that they saw the taste of "Orphans".
As far as the series is about people talking about ghosts, the answer has not yet been revealed. As Douban netizens said, if "Twelve Legends" talk about ghosts, then this "Golden Night Mansion" is about ghosts talking about personnel. .
Fantasy is still an important label of the show, but in terms of quality, "Golden Night Mansion" is much more advanced than "Twelve Legends" in terms of style and atmosphere rendering.
said that it is TVB's annual extraordinary work, and it is indeed worthwhile.
Friends who love Hong Kong-style horror movies and fantasy suspense dramas have another drama to follow.
