The film uses the same main perspective lens as Gaspar Noé's "Escape into Nothingness", which gives people a surprise. Compared with the other one-angle horror movies that carry the camera in recent years, the lens shake is not terrible at all, and it does not deliberately emphasize the falsehood. Recording, but it makes the scene more real and compact, giving people an immersive feeling, which is so cool.
This Franck Khalfoun has only made one feature film, which is enough to prove that he is a giallo movie fan. Even the color of the film is similar to Dario Argento’s "Stop Night". The diluted tomato juice is as deep and thick as the red blood sprayed from the body of the BITCH whose arm was chopped off in "Tennebury", which makes people look even more painful.
The soundtrack is an old-tone electronic music spelled out with a synthesizer. It is as concise and obscure as Mario Bava's movies of the same subject in the 70s.
If these two points are not enough to prove that FK is a giallo fan, then take a look at the long shot at the end of the movie. Elijah Wood walks from the door to the inner room holding the blood-stained dummy. The angle of view is from top to bottom. Are you familiar? Fans of Argento must feel familiar, because he also has a long shot with the same angle of view in "Sleepless", the only difference is that the angle of the camera is lowered a bit.
Today's horror films focus on sensory stimulation and plot suspense, but Franck Khalfoun carefully focuses part of the film on the portrayal of perverted psychology, making the character more full. When Elijah Wood was seduced by that tattooed and naked skank, I was anxious for him, thinking eldest brother, you will get on her soon, my JJ is hard, are you still hard? But he is a Maniac, and he can only show a nervous and suffocating expression under normal sexual temptation. Do you have a magical way? He is the protagonist of this film, he can only kill people. Don’t compare the mental description of these profiles with Hitchcock’s "Mentally Ill". Hitchcock is a master of film. His ambition is so big that fans who like B-level movies are a bit annoying. And "Maniac" is just a murderous horror film. That's it.
Congratulations to Elijah Wood for getting rid of his natural and cute baby face image for successfully playing a pervert; that girl named Nora Arnezeder must be a big hit, because she has a beautiful face and can also act like that French girl. Like a cat.
Mental distortion, cry bitch, big breasts, dark tones, B-slice elements, tomato juice full of half the screen. For a viewer who likes giallo movies, it has everything it should have, what else would you like to watch?
By the way, those who don't like to watch horror movies, you should go back and watch your blue life and death love, don't know not to be blind here.
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