Why do we love horror movies? The latest research of
found that it is mainly because people can experience two extreme emotions at the same time, and they are happiest when they are most fearful. ——The "Consumer Research"
horror film is a "perverted" medicine that occasionally relieves the pressure of life. It is a black humor that relieves the boring world of the complex and oppressive world. It is an alternative "mental patient" in various types of films. Horror movies are often called "junk" food like snacks, but those who complain about them can't escape the law of "true fragrance" and can't stop them. While spitting and swearing, he couldn't overcome the magical curiosity that greeted the bloody and thrilling scene. Once the word "domestic" is used in horror movies, it will become the only object of condemnation by a large number of fans. Whether you have watched it or not, it will be defined as a "bad movie". "The suggestion that people will overturn all the horror pictures and become angry, but some people have a very clear attitude: just to be happy, to complain for the sake of complaining, so the overwhelming "Tucao culture" in the movie has also formed. .
traces the history of the development of horror films. ! The
horror movie was born in the silent film period and has a long history of development. George Mélière invented the "ghost photography" or "double exposure" in the early film special effects. The freehand technique of "carriage turning into a casket" frees the movie from the shackles of video recording tools, giving it a dreamlike magic. In the three-minute short film "The Devil’s Castle 1896" (The Devil’s Castle 1896), Meili Ai contributed several first terrifying images to film history, including the transformation of a bat into Mephistopheles, the devil summons a skeleton, and a ghost. Although the purpose of the film was more entertainment than fright, its excellent film skills still frightened many audiences at that time, and the film became the first horror film in film history.
has been carried forward by film directors along with the double exposure technology, George Abbott Smith’s "Corse Brothers", and the Swedish master director Victor Schusström's film "Ghost Carriage" was born. And after the great director Griffith became the first hit horror based on Poe’s short story "Leaked Heart", horror movies ushered in the spring. After a long period of precipitation and development, horror movies have risen to religious taboos, racism, wars, diseases, natural disasters and other social reality fields with the visual surprise horror caused by the original entertainment, giving horror movies a higher level of depth and ice. degree. With the development, the horror film itself has also changed. It is no longer a derivative of simple film techniques, nor is it a tool used by film directors to scare the audience, but has gradually formed its own sociological and psychological significance. .
horror movies are gradually "globalization", and horror movies with different characteristics from various countries present a spectacular scene of blooming flowers and a hundred schools of thought. According to the different national conditions and cultural differences of each country, horror films have different forms of expression. For example, horror films in Europe and the United States are mostly related to religion. The pictures use extremely bloody tricks to create intuitive horror. Representatives include "There are Eyes Beyond the Mountain", "Fatal Bend", "The Silent Lamb", and "Saw Horror" And "Reaper Is Coming" series, etc.; South Korea's "Girls' High School Strange Story" series, "The Apartment", "Human Shaper", "Wigs", etc. have been mainly narrative, the pictures are more beautiful, not so scary and not so bloody; Thailand Most of the horror films are derived from Buddhism's karma, and most of them talk about sin and fate, with a strong human touch. The storyline is also relatively compact and suspenseful. Representative works include "Ghost", "Ghost Dormitory", "Ghost Wife", "Ghost Three Surprise", "Ghost Four Opponents", "Demon Art", "Siamese Baby", etc.; Japanese horror movies often hit people directly The most scared place in my heart will slowly torture you and let you be immersed in the sense of fate that you can’t escape. A single "Midnight Ring" is scared enough; Hong Kong’s zombie movies are the most talked about by 8090. Yes, some of the ghost films he shot in the early days have a super high horror coefficient, such as "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", which was scared to death by the hair emerging from the toilet. And now there are two kinds of horror movies in mainland China: "Ghosts" are sick or people are sick, although they used to be "Midnight Taxi", "Desolate Village Inn", "Snow Mountain", "School Flower Bizarre Incident" (School Flower and Weird I haven't seen it), "Bat Villa", "Fright Game" and other films have been well received, but due to the relatively single subject matter and the more unified ending, they have become the best genre films that have been ruthlessly criticized by the audience.
with peopleThe psychological endurance of horror films has improved. The audience’s experience of horror films is no longer just the pursuit of pure adrenaline stimulation, but requires the use of horror phenomena to find flesh and blood and more human images, and induce the essence of horror. . And the "Prop Master", which will be released on October 31, has a deep understanding of horror. Behind every murderer is a soul struggling, and reality shows that if the role of a horror film loses this support, it will be perfect. The makeup and special effects will be overshadowed.
"Prop Master" is adapted from the real ghost drama troupe event of the Republic of China, directed by the young director Du Ziyue, written by Xiaosheng, Fan Daming, Liu Zuguang, Zou Qian is the producer, Bao Zhenjiang, Hu Junming, Wang Yilin, Zhang Linyue, Ke Yan, Guo Shijia , Yang Xiaodong and other co-starring. During the period of the Republic of China, the Sichuan Opera props master Lu Moshan was imprisoned on several occasions, during which his daughter was killed by several students from powerful families. After being released from prison, Lu Moshan concealed his name, returned with the grudge, and used life-killing props to start the vengeance story of the vicious demon for the female. The film puts aside the inherent definition of "mental illness" for the first time, incorporates the essence of national quintessence opera, and adds the production process of "props to the end", while the parents' affectionate, unswerving love, bad campus bullying and other elements echo, promote national essence and development The sense of mission of the horror counterpart has also risen to a certain extent to the connotation of the film.
watched it untiringly, and spit out enthusiastically! The
horror film continues to be "being" in the downturn, why can it still stand amidst the slander? ! This just shows that the market has demand and audiences have preferences. If you compare horror movies with snacks, then horror movies are the same as "spicy lobster", just like when people are eating, they say unhealthy junk food in their mouths, but they don’t see the actions of feeding them with their hands. stop. Regarding whether a movie is horrible, it is like that people who do not eat spicy may be scared by the word spicy when they hear spicy lobster, and those who can eat spicy will definitely want to add more millet and pepper to mix it. To meet their own heavy taste requirements, so according to the different levels of personal acceptance, everyone sees that the thriller index in the movie is not the same, but these factors do not prevent the general audience from watching and working together like a tide. The
movie itself promotes truth, goodness and beauty, and has entertainment attributes. People chase happiness and avoid troubles, so they hope to alleviate negative emotions by "confronting drugs with poison", watching horror movies with pleasure, and then unscrupulously complaining while enjoying the audiovisual shock and horror nightmare. Catharsis of inner boredom, this may be the greatest significance of the existence of horror films!
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