The most remarkable thing about this movie is that it does not have any plot that suddenly scares you, and it does not have the bloody scenes that are almost always found in any horror movie.
That's right, it was classified as a horror movie and even labeled as cult, but the whole film really never appeared in a single drop of blood.
Its entire film is shrouded in an atmosphere that can keep your heart hairy, and this fear is probably in a...unknown to paganism.
Unknown is the best medicine to inspire fear, and this film is the best interpretation of this sentence.
It may be a little less effective for our Chinese audience, because it involves a lot of religious collisions, but let us try to put our thinking on the perspective of the British audience.
British, loyal Christians. In such an environment, this environment full of pagan atmosphere will inevitably make people feel that there is an incomparable unknown in their hearts.
It's like when we are walking, people suddenly float up without the force of gravity. Maybe you will find it interesting after getting used to it, but you will definitely be afraid when things happen suddenly, because it subverts the laws we know.
This movie uses this kind of psychology. For Christians, the doctrine is equivalent to the rules for them, and there is almost no option to violate the rules in their minds.
But when they suddenly saw that the group of people around them were living in violation of the doctrine, it was as if the world rules they knew well had been subverted, and what followed was an endless unknown that would bring fear.
When the police was jailed in the Wicker Man, he yelled the heretics, which is also the translation of the film in our country.
But when I saw the people around me singing sacrificial songs with joy and laughter, and when he was the only one who sang hymns desperately, I didn't want to ask...Who is the heretic?
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