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Closer to home, "Annabel 2: Birth" is known as the most anticipated horror film this year.
Why is this movie so famous in the horror world? There are two reasons.
NO.1: Open the soul-calling (horror) universe
"An 2" opens the first chapter of the soul-calling (horror) universe, reconnecting to Warner's previous "Annabel", "The Soul-calling 1," and "The Soul-calling 2".
In other words, this year is really lively, Hollywood is no longer a popular group movie series, but a group movie universe. Earlier this year, "King Kong" opened the monster universe . After that, "The New Mummy" opened, opening the monster universe .
And the "Call of Souls" series that successfully attracted the attention of the world , of course, couldn't bear loneliness. It broke out in the silence and sent "An 2", and the "Call of Souls" series constructed a scary ghost (horror) universe. .
Warner Horror Universe, in addition to "Ann 2" now released, there will also be 2018 "Nuns", "Tuobei", and "Call of Souls 3" in the future.
This is not the most exciting. The most exciting thing for horror fans is that these horror movies are more or less adapted from real, real and supernatural events, and there are countless real and supernatural events all over the world. If the soul-calling (horror) universe is true What a terrifying and gloomy world will be formed if you succeed! Surprise! Not surprisingly!
NO.2: Wen Ziren
On the popular horror film in recent years, it is the Chinese director Wen Ziren , born in Malaysia, now living in the United States, and Australian citizenship.
In 2004, he became the spokesperson of the horror film genre with "Chain Saw Horror". After that, the "Chain Saw" series went through "Chain Saw 234567" under his supervision. 2017 "Chain Saw: Game Restart" will continue to make a comeback.
In 2011, the "Latent" series created a horror + suspense drama, which made people's minds open, but unfortunately the "Latent" series is not a Warner Theater movie, and there is no way to join the horror (horror) universe.
With so many successful works, Wen Ziren did not stop, but continued to come out scary and launched the "Call of Souls" series . When Da Cong entered the movie theater, he could hear the screams one after another, which absolutely overwhelmed the movie. Horror sound effects.
Wen's scary Dafa is different from other horror movies. In Wen Ziren's words, the real fear comes from the heart.
Wen Ziren's horror film prepares you to be scared, but it is not accurate to the first few seconds. Waiting is the most tormented. It's as if you are blindfolded and told to get a needle, but you won't be told when you will get in!
Under the supervision of Wen Ziren, "Annabel 2" received the true biography of Wen's scary method and successfully attracted everyone's attention.
"Slight spoilers, will never affect viewing"
The genre of horror movies, because of its own particularity, horror movies generally exist to stimulate the senses. Therefore, it is difficult for horror movies to get a high score, let alone how much achievement can be made in film art. .
So Da Cong mainly wants to comment on this "An 2" from two dimensions, one is the horror dimension, and the other is the traditional plot dimension.
Dimension 1: Horror
"Ann 2" is produced by Wen Ziren and the director is David F. Sandberg. They should be regarded as a kind of teacher-student relationship. David F can find Wen Ziren's shadow in many scary ways and atmosphere creations. .
For example, there are a lot of silent moments in the film, the characters hold their breath in the film, and the entire movie theater has only the rushing sound that the audience is afraid of. The tranquility before the storm is too warm and scary.
In addition, several new fancy scary techniques were created in the film, which are expected to become classic bridges in the future. The whole film gives a general feeling that people are in the light, ghosts are in the dark, and the characters who eat melon are played around by ghosts.
Official Trailer-"Ghost" Fragment
Official Trailer-"Toy Gun" Fragment
In the atmosphere of horror, although David F is striving to move towards the Wen-style scary Dafa, if it is really compared with the "Call of Souls" series directed by Wen Ziren, it is still a few ranks behind.
From my personal experience, Wen Ziren's atmosphere rendering, the scheduling of the seats, and the scary timing are all quite good.
Especially in "Calling the Souls 2", Wen Ziren even added some humorous plots to make the film reconcile in a tense atmosphere. From a physiological point of view, people should not be tense all the time, sooth them a little bit, and then try again. Re-secret adrenaline, the next wave of scary links will be even more exciting!
In the horror part of "Ann 2", the rhythm appears to be a little slower, and the foreshadowing is a little too long, destroying the originally rendered horror atmosphere.
From the perspective of the audience’s reaction in the theater, it also confirms Dah Cong’s personal feelings. In the previous theaters of "Calling the Souls 1, 2", the audience was full of screams. Sometimes it was not scared by the film, but I was frightened by the screams of a certain audience suddenly.
When it came to "Ann 2", the theater was full of seats, but the audience's reaction became much flatter, but as long as the doll appeared, the audience's decibels were never inferior.
In general, the scary degree of "Ann 2" is still remarkable. From the perspective of horror, some of the scary plots in "Ann 2" will definitely make you sleep thinking about those horrible scenes for days. And bridge section.
"Deep Spoiler Alert": Plot
If you look at this movie from the perspective of the plot, there will be too many flaws. In terms of the richness of the plot and the protagonist's motivation setting, they are much worse than the "Call of Souls" series.
The most important thing that is difficult to explain is: why does the little girl in the protagonist do this? ! What is her motive to provoke ghosts? The motivations of many characters are too "needed by the plot", which makes people feel a little anxious about the character's IQ.
If the protagonist in "Calling the Souls 2" can't be entangled by the evil spirits, but they don't have the money to move, the evil spirits harass them over and over again, these logics make sense.
But "Ann 2" is completely the other way around. The first time the disabled girl entered the haunted room, it was understood that it was driven by curiosity, but after the room had begun to be haunted, the disabled girl and her friends had to go in again and again. , It is no longer in line with normal logic.
In addition, the plot rhythm of the first half of the film is really slow, and it is a bit drowsy to watch. The explanation of the story in each scene has been delayed for a long time.
Although the entire movie is only 100 minutes long, the main storyline of "Ann 2" can actually be said in 10 minutes . The story line of "Ann 2" is not rich, which is the main reason for the slow pace.
In addition, the protagonists of "Ann 2" are almost all children, and adult actors are only auxiliary. This results in no iconic characters, and it is difficult for children to hold up a representative work. Although the little girl has played very hard, but The plot still appears to be very weak.
However, although the main story of "Ann 2" is simple, it belongs to the prequel of "Annabel" and the first chapter of the entire ghost (horror) universe. Therefore, the film explains how the doll "Annabel" was born and how the doll was born step by step. Towards evil.
In addition, in the film, the nun showed the hostess to the photo of the nun. In the photo, there is an evil nun looming in the dark. The nun can’t see it, but the host saw it. The evil nun should be released next year. The protagonist of "The Nun".
Some people may wonder whether the scarecrow in the film is a new horror image, but if you look closely at the activities of the scarecrow in the film, it should be that Annabel’s evil spirit possessed the scarecrow, not a new evil scarecrow.
But the soul-calling (horror) universe has been opened, and maybe it will really create the image of a scarecrow in the future. After all, the evil spirit scarecrow is also a very classic image in the West.
The end of the film is a seamless connection with the beginning of "Annabelle", so the beginning of the soul (horror) universe, the timeline should be:
Man of the house is a hand-made doll craftsmen, made a "Annabel" doll, and his daughter died because of an unexpected car accident, man of the house and his wife because of missing daughter, looking for a media Ling would like to call back her soul, but An evil spirit was summoned.
And this evil spirit was possessed on the doll "Annabel". The host later sealed the doll in a secret room. Who knew that the disabled girl who came to the orphanage unblocked the evil spirit, and the evil spirit successfully possessed the disabled girl. The little girl changed her name to "Annabel" and successfully escaped to another orphanage.
Finally one day, a couple took in this little girl possessed by evil spirits, and when they first met, they gave a doll to the little girl, and this cute doll is exactly the "Anna" in the true story. Bell" prototype!
Annabel dolls in true stories
The film production team has incorporated the real doll prototype into the movie plot. In the real story, since this doll does look cute, it cannot be used for scary purposes in horror movies. Therefore, in "Annabel 1", the prototype doll was changed to a somewhat hideous look. The image is good for scary purposes.
And this time in "Ann 2", the cute dolls are incorporated, which deliberately makes people feel that the plot of the movie is a little more connected with the real story, and suddenly makes people feel a little creepy. Really played a good card!
Finally, I sent a trailer and echoes from the beginning to the end, and put up a statue of Jesus to soothe my uneasy heart!
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