horror master's surprise

Demarcus 2022-03-22 09:01:19

At the beginning of the movie, it always feels like "The Conjuring", the house is haunted, possessed by people, there are people in the middle of the night, the heroine sees the ghost but her husband doesn't believe it. I was thinking that the ghost is about to show up, but the real ghost was really seen by the heroine.
When the pastor came to the house, I thought it was over, and it was like a ghost, relying on the "God" and "Jesus" of foreigners to save the little boy who was haunted by the devil. In the end, the priest was just a trickster, and it was two exorcists who looked very serious. The two exorcists had equipment similar to those in The Conjuring: a galvanometer to measure changes in magnetic fields, a camera to capture ghosts, and so on. Then, I took the "mine-sweeping tool" and tested it everywhere, and then the bearded man saw a ghost~~~
Just when I had the illusion that I was watching the "Conjuring" series, the real protagonist, the old woman appeared. But when I first came out, I still felt like I would fall into a cliché and use the method that those of us who don't believe in Jesus don't believe at all, that is, when we use religious rituals to exorcise demons. The director's true wisdom is revealed. He probably borrowed from the "Silent Hill" series (I didn't check the sequence of the two films), and created a "different world", a group of worlds controlled by the dead and the devil. What we didn't expect was that the old woman's suggestion was to let the boy's father, the male protagonist, go in to find him, and it finally echoed the inexplicable scene at the beginning-why there are hardly any photos of the male protagonist in the album. . At this time, the male protagonist's mother also revealed the truth that the male protagonist is also a "traverser" (forgot what it is called). The plot also reached its climax.
The director uses the psychedelic, foggy scenes of "Alien World" (let's call it that), and the eerie puppet-like people, and the soundtrack to make the audience feel the horror of being lost here, especially in one place. It was completely dark all around, only the small lamp mentioned by the male protagonist illuminated it. When the male protagonist saw the murder scene at home, I thought the ghost would be created because of a murder, and it wasn't. This paragraph has no practical significance, it is just to set off the atmosphere, and the director is joking again. Then, the male protagonist remembered the words in the little boy's room, knew the way to find him, defeated the little BOSS, the gatekeeper, entered the room, and found the little boy. The scene where the BOSS appeared again reminded me of the scene of the puppet cabinet in "Dead Silence", and the music also felt very similar to "Dead Silence". This is probably a big drawback. Many of the director's scenes always feel similar to his previous works. It is easy for the audience to be led to his previous works or other horror works. It also makes people feel that there is no novelty.
Okay, so far away, it turns out that the director started joking with us again (that is, surprising us). That's the ending that heralded the second part - the boy's father didn't actually defeat the devil in the "other world". It was the devil who came out, and also strangled the psychic master (the old lady), and the old lady was killed directly after seeing the photo (do you think he couldn't take pictures secretly) The devils probably came from the world.
The horror movie master Wen Ziren always surprises us. This horror movie, which seems to have copied a lot of horror movies, without being too bloody, can make the audience feel helpless and helpless when the devil comes, and the confusion of being trapped in a "different world". Although this movie made me see the Silent Hill series, the Conjuring series, The Silence, and maybe a little bit of Ghost Recording, and that attic and the moving boxes and books feel a bit like Iraq Sandhawker's "Sinister", but "Sinister" still produced its novelty and brought horror to the audience. Of course, there is also a very "horror movie" at the box office, with a cost of 1.5 million dollars and a global box office of 155 million dollars (enough to make one movie). Hundreds of) horror box office. In general, three times the movie is basically returning to the original and making a small profit. What do you think about 100 times? In a word, the horror master has brought us different surprises, and also brought him different surprises, looking forward to Wen Ziren's better works.

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Insidious quotes

  • Josh Lambert: [to Dalton] You may be a superhero, buddy, but you're not invincible.

  • Renai Lambert: I just want things to be different in this house. I just had such a bad day. I'm scared nothing is gonna change.

    Josh Lambert: It will, I promise. We just gotta give it some time.