The most wonderful thing about this film is that it laughs at all the bad stalks in the horror film, but if it just stays at the ridicule and finishes it, then it is no different from "Screaming". Its cleverness lies in The act of mocking itself has become a means to advance the story.
What's the meaning? Just watching other horror movies, you will always see disapproval, and in this film, the director took the initiative to sneer at the film where you felt disapproved, but it’s not that he behaved himself, he is not so stupid, he This sniff is part of the plot and theme.
For example, when everyone was attacked by a zombie for the first time, they returned to the house. Hammer said that they would seal the doors and windows and act in unison. This is something that should be done under normal logic, but in traditional horror movies. , The characters tend to be in a mess, especially the heroine will cry and crawl around (not even walking properly), and bother the hero to take a life to save her, so the hammer will be a normal person. The decision made was tantamount to mocking the horror of traditional horror films, but the manipulator in the film immediately took action to correct his behavior, because they were responsible to the "superior" and did not allow Hammer's decision to be implemented. , So he forced Brother Hammer to change his mind and forcibly locked the characters in their respective rooms.
If Hammer’s action is a mockery of the horror film itself, then this action of the manipulators is a mockery of the horror film production company-in order to cater to the values of the mainstream movie viewers, they deliberately create something that is contrary to common sense and careful thinking. The ridiculous plot of laughter comes.
Another cleverness of this film is that it captures all horror films. Just as the Koreans declared that everything in the world was invented by them, the director of this film (and the screenwriter, he is also the new film "Martian Rescue", "Zombie World War", "Clover Archives" and classics The screenwriter of the American drama "Lost" is equivalent to saying that all the characters of horror movies, including monsters, zombies, ghosts, ghosts, etc., American, European, Japanese, they all go out of this film of Lao Tzu of. They have different forms of existence in different cultures (Sigourney Weaver said at the end of the movie, she is the unified heroine of the four aliens, known as the mother of aliens), but they all have a unified program of action, that is, sucking young Human flesh and blood to satisfy the ancient giants, so as to prevent the giants from poisoning the world. Therefore, all horror films in the world are from "The Cabin in the Woods", and Drew Gundam is equivalent to declaring himself as the father of the world horror film.
——He said so well that we were speechless! [World Horror Film Directors Association]
In fact, there is still a big slap hidden in the end.
The ancient giants sent monsters to inflict small injuries in human society from time to time to entertain themselves. In order to stabilize the giants, some humans had to conceal the truth from all mankind in order to maintain this dangerous balance, which is tantamount to human safety. Is it a great irony of the movie market because of the joy and anger of the giant? The informed human beings (that is, the manipulators of the film) are the film production company, and the audience is the giant, whose unreasonable demands forced the production company to make one bad horror film after another. Of course, the giants didn’t do it deliberately, it was just by their nature, and the audience was the same. It was not their tastes or vulgar tastes, but they were difficult to adjust. Under the restrictions of various consciousness and cultural taboos, they formed their mediocre viewing taste; production company It’s not that they’re forced to shoot bad movies every time. Many bad movies are made by them in order to make quick money. They are like many movies that are afraid of not passing the review of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and castrate themselves first, but in the final analysis, the producers are always Considering the audience’s feelings, carefully deciding which stalks should be used in the film, and to be on the safe side, they generally use the worst stalks.
Therefore, unlike many viewers who think the film is unfinished, I think this ending is also a good moral, because the production company will never be able to compete with the market, who will have trouble with the money? In the end, it is the audience's demand that destroys the quality of horror films.
Therefore, after "The Cabin in the Woods", there will still be a steady stream of vulgar horror films. The heroine with big breasts, beautiful face and white skin will continue to cry and yell and will not run away. The police will still underestimate the severity of the incident. The monster was stabbed to death by a monster before he had time to draw a gun. The lustful supporting male and female actors would, as always, ignore the gloomy surroundings, undress and lose their lives early. The more you watch this kind of horror movie, the more you feel that "The Cabin in the Woods" is really a brilliant work, because it has surpassed horror and has a black humor.
Therefore, we also want to thank those vulgar horror films. It is their hard work for decades that made "The Cabin in the Woods" such a masterpiece.
Of course, if there is any regret, it is that there are no zombies in Hong Kong films in the film, otherwise Chinese horror film fans will watch it even higher.
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