It's really gratifying to see such an amazing horror movie again: in these years, there must be murderers in remote mountain villages, seeing mentally ill college students running to the village to chase Shuangbao, from zombies running around the crowd to see all kinds of monsters gathering in the forest cabin, moving to a new home There is no change in the stalk of the demon, and the bloody movies of the escape room type have gone from trying hard to get out to trying to get in, tossing the living to death, and then being tossed by the dead and unable to live... Routines fly in succession Patterns are difficult to refurbish. The appearance of "Anonymous Female Corpse" is not only a clear stream, but also a new soup. Not counting blockbusters, there are only a limited number of witch-themed horror films, and the appearance of this more brain-burning and compact film is simply gospel. Not only is the director's accusation of the witch movement, but also proves that this is an excellent horror film in the eerie atmosphere of one climax after another.
The film tells that a morgue run by a father and son in a small town received a strange female corpse. There were no scars on the corpse, but the inside of the corpse was full of scars. What's more terrifying is that the corpse is probably still alive... ..
It is not known whether the corpse was a witch or not. From the point of view of modern people, the so-called "cleaning of witches" hundreds of years ago was purely the persecution of women by the combination of religion and patriarchal society. This girl was subjected to various painful so-called "exorcism" or "methods of suppressing witches" by people at that time, such as cutting her tongue, stabbing her, poisoning her, breaking her limbs, burning her, etc. In pain, or an ordinary girl has the ability to take revenge after her death because of powerful resentment, or she is indeed a witch, and even after her death, she still has the power to avenge herself, no matter what the reason, there is only one result, that is, the girl is strong Resentment turned her corpse into a ticking time bomb, and anyone who came in contact with her became the target of her revenge.
Hundreds of years of resentment have not disappeared. Even during the autopsy, the father and son found that the girl's brain was still alive. It is speculated that although the girl has a strong ability of revenge after death, she can create hallucinations for those who come into contact with her, so that they can feel what they once felt. The pain, in the final analysis, is that her pain has never disappeared - that is, the pain when she was stabbed with poison and burned hundreds of years ago by her tongue, hands, feet and knives has not stopped for a moment, and this huge pain has also created her resentment. And the source of magic power, forming an inextricable knot. The pain does not stop → the resentment does not stop → the witch power does not stop → the curse does not stop → the abuser must be the target of the curse, and the injuries of the new perpetrators (including the coroner father and son) cause a new wave of pain, and the female corpse must be one by one. also went back. The endless pain of new hatred and old hatred was repeated on the female corpse, and it was strange that her resentment could stop.
This has the revenge object of the female corpse, that is, the abuser, who must have caused a new wave of harm to the witch's body will be revenge by the witch. What can be explained here is that the father who likes to tie bells on the feet of the corpse is dead, and no one has hung bells on the feet of the female corpse, but the close-up of the female corpse's feet at the end of the film is matched with the sound of a bell. This is actually a reminder to the audience: a With a dead body, a girl who is a witch and not a witch, a night of murder that seems to be true and false, with the sound of bells that should not exist. The truth and the falsehood finally cover the eyes of the viewer, and the precise truth can no longer be drawn from the right and wrong. Like the coroner's father, who doesn't care about the cause but only seeks the cause of death, like the persecutor who launched the witch movement hundreds of years ago: he doesn't care about the truth and just wants to kill all suspects.
If it weren't for the fire that destroyed the video recorder and some of the photos, I would have doubts that the father and son died of their own fear, just as countless innocent women died hundreds of years ago in the atmosphere of fear that pervaded society at that time. Beginning with the most imaginative religions and myths, priestesses descended from the sacred altars of goddesses, considered dangerous heresies by Judaism and Christianity, and then pushed to the extreme with the spread of the Black Death Fears desperately needed an outlet, and the infidels bore the brunt of the victims. Catholic monk and inquisitor Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger co-authored The Witch's Hammer to help people identify and punish witches, and for the next two hundred years reach the peak.
The information obtained after folding the cloth piece taken out from the girl's body in the film is a time and a sentence from chapter 20, verse 27 of "Leviticus": "Whether male or female, whether it is a ghost or a witch, They shall be put to death. They shall be stoned to death, and the sin shall be upon them." Leviticus is the third book in the Torah, the Jewish Bible, and this sentence is chilling even just to read. The time on the cloth is 1963, which is the most notorious "Salem Witch Hunt" in the witch hunt. In this case, because two girls in the pastor's family had a strange disease, the patient was forced to admit that they were killed by three witches who were often absent from church activities. The scope of involvement became wider and wider, and finally 19 people were hanged. , 1 person was crushed to death by a pile of stones, 5 people died in prison, and about 200 people were imprisoned because of this, but the trial ended quickly, because someone actually involved the then-governor's wife. From this, it can be speculated that the unnamed female corpse in the film is likely to be the victim of the "Salem Witch Hunt".
People's fear is transformed into the courage to hurt others, which in turn hurts themselves.
The father and son in the film express their fear of witches, the unknown. Several times in the film, a close-up of the clock on the wall is given: the time stops at nine forty-five, which is the time for the dissection at the beginning. Unnamed corpses with no scars showing strange, overly beautiful and overly pale women with traumatized vaginas, a basement in the middle of the night, accompanied by three miserable corpses, a radio whose signal suddenly went bad... it all made up It makes people doubt the face of the world, just like Europe that feared the unknown and heresy hundreds of years ago. Under the influence of extreme fear, people have made unbelievable behaviors. This also makes me wonder whether witches first had mysterious powers in Europe hundreds of years ago, or people who feared witches forced them to resist; In revenge, the people who hurt the corpse see hallucinations and die, or do people who fear the corpse and suspect witches have too strong a collective hallucination? There will never be only one reason. The burned images and photos cover up the truth like a maliciously written "Witch's Hammer". The clean and bloodless corpses of father and son are just as confusing as the corpse of a girlfriend who never existed. Presumably people prefer to believe the truth they can understand.
As the autopsy continued, the girl's dissected chest and the visceral bones that were examined were accompanied by more close-ups of the girl's face, without the slightest expression, as if she was so peaceful when and after her death. However, it is not. If she can feel the pain before and after her death, then her revenge is not excessive.
Aside from the witch's assumption, the girl is usually treated as a sacrifice and wrapped in strange symbols after painful torture, and what she finally gets is immortality with another meaning. Although "Leviticus" states that these people are to be killed, if there are witches, will their purpose of witchcraft include immortality? A corpse that never rots, a brain that's always perceiving, a powerful witchcraft, a body that's always regenerating...everything is perfect until something goes wrong. If the method of immortality is wrong, the girl is the victim of the sacrifice.
The three corpses in the morgue are very special: one burned to death, one of a tortured old woman (see the Salem witch hunt), and one committed suicide. In the hallucination of the father and son being chased and killed, only the burnt dead and the tortured old woman run around the corridor playing the game of chasing me, and the girls who suffered from these two corpses also felt the pain, that is, It is said that these two corpses are actually the spokesperson of the girl, the embodiment of her resentment. And only those who commit suicide have bells on their feet. The person who commits suicide has never appeared, but the sound of the bells has been chasing, and even appeared in the last shot at the end of the film. The bell not only represented the corpse of suicide, but also became the representative of the female corpse. I think it can be understood that suicide is actually the wish of a girl. Whether she is used as a witch or as a bargaining chip for immortality, she is a test and a victim of others. She cannot live or die, and it is impossible to commit suicide after becoming a corpse. , the desire is too strong has also become part of the resentment.
The girlfriend who was mistakenly killed in the hallucination also symbolized the absurdity of the witch hunt. People's fear made them unable to see the truth. When they imagined that the devil was approaching, they slashed the axe to the innocent woman. In fact, all the hallucinations came from The unidentified female corpse is a projection of harm to women in the absurd social environment of the year. Although the father in the film is obsessed with his dead wife, he also admits that he was too negligent to cause her death. The older man still blamed himself for it, while the younger son just wanted to escape. This also shows the director's attitude towards modern people forgetting that bloody history: ignoring it will only bring disaster, and fear will make people blind. The same is true of the perspective of the corner mirror that appears repeatedly in the film. What is reflected in the mirror is both ancient and modern, both illusory and real. It may be nothing, and it is also one of the trusts that human beings must rely on.
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