It’s really difficult to shoot a subject like this kind of spiritual fear. There is something in the director’s stomach. Knowing what kind of canvas ratio will give people a sense of oppression, knowing what kind of angle shooting will give people a sense of weirdness and suddenness. The weird BGM is just right, and there are some mirror skills. Moreover, there are few actors, and the length of the movie is really long. It really tests acting. Because there is no mysterious power like ghosts and demons to scare people, you can only start from other aspects. Then the facial expressions of the actor are particularly important. The protagonist is distorted and exaggerated when frightened. The facial expressions and body movements of the actor when the protagonist gradually loses control, and even the changes in his voice give people an absurd and weird feeling.
The suspense is also well set up. From the very beginning, the old Thomas stood in the lighthouse and gave a very strange shot from his perspective, and then to the little Tommy’s peeping perspective in the middle to hear the old Thomas’s gasp. The dripping mucus, the tentacles that flashed by. It really grasped the curiosity of the audience, so that I always wanted to know what was in the lighthouse from beginning to end.
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