From the 1977 Arkinto movie "The Storm" will be remake, "Fifty Shades of Grey" heroine Dakota will be the heroine of this film, "Doctor Strange" ancient master Swinton will play Principal of a ballet school. Hearing this news is both excited and apprehensive. The 77-year-old "Gloomy Wind" has become a classic, and it is impossible for it to be remade to reach the level of the year. It's like the "Dahua" in the 1990s, if it is remade now, it will no longer have the artistic conception of the year, let alone the complex of the year. So, I read Arkinto's "The Stormy Wind".
Then let's talk about the gorgeous horror classic of the great god, and give you a sleepless night.
At the beginning of the film, the spooky opening music takes you in, followed by percussion and goblin band "Suspiria" electronic music with horrific sound effects penetrating your eardrums, all kinds of eerie vocals and orchestration, making you horrified. For example, "The Shining", the theme music of "The Shining", allows you to cross the valley with the camera and see the protagonist step into the abyss. Such opening music and theme music are soul-stirring fears and extreme panic from the bottom of my heart.
Follow the heroine directly into the dreamy and coquettish world of different colors in a compulsive way. At this time, it was pouring rain in Germany, and with "Suspiria", the nerves were tense to the point of numbness on the scalp. The lights of the taxi and the strong light of lightning hit the heroine's face, sometimes changing and overlapping. This ever-changing colorful shadow stacks light, this terrified music of life-threatening death. The taxi drove into the dark jungle, the silent night, and the panic-stricken fleeing girls, implying that the danger was approaching step by step.
The sound of wind and rain intertwined, coupled with the supernatural human voice, the girl escaped from the claws in the dark forest, plus scattered light, Gothic buildings, and boundless darkness, as if to devour everything in front of her. It seems that although the plot is old-fashioned, it definitely created a strange style, and future directors will definitely learn from it. If I lived in 1977, walking into a movie theater to see this film would have been frightening half to death.
The biggest feature of the film is the use of various tones to create a terrifying atmosphere. Basically red, yellow, blue and green are the main tones, appearing in various scenes, with strong color difference to meet the visual impact. The world of the senses is satisfied, the murderous form of religious ritual is beautiful, lying in a pool of bright red blood, waiting for the devil to come. Every frame is very dreamy, like being in a dream.
The last thing I want to say is that I have also recently fallen in love with Arkinto's movies. Arkinto's first work, The Flower Breaker, was influenced by Hitchcock. In the 1975 movie "Blood at Night", the cooperation between Arkinto and Goblins brought a shocking audio-visual experience. Arkinto's unique use of the camera lens makes the film present a unique image style, coupled with the goblin screeching soundtrack, which has become a major symbol of Arkinto's films. And the film "The Storm" that made Arkinto famous, this is not a Giallo film in the traditional sense. And the unique mirroring technique he created in this film was used to the extreme in "Hell" in the 1980s.
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