Bo Guang has written horror films in Europe and America before, except those psychological suspense films such as Shutter Island and horror science fiction films such as aliens, corpses, vampires and werewolves. As far as the subject matter is concerned, it should be two horror films in Europe and America.
One is sensory stimulation in texas chainsaw massacre, Texas, Texas.
The definition of this kind of film is very simple, that is, a large number of dismemberment and slaughter of human beings, and the lens is often intuitive. In the movie, the residual limbs were flying around and blood was spattered. Movies seem to be a lot of human anatomy classes.
The background of such stories is not important, such as Fatal Bend, There are Eyes Beyond the Mountain, Skin Inn, Wax Museum of Horror, Saw and so on.
The second is the supernatural horror type of exorcist.
The Asian horror film Ghost and Supernatural is also one of the most widely spread cultural elements. There are also "ghosts" in European and American horror films, but they are often called "demons" because of different cultures.
It is the priests in religion who fight the devil, then the knights and exorcists. Besides "devil", it can also be extended to things like "witch", "vampire" and "werewolf".
This school was carried forward by exorcists in 1973. Later, European and American thrillers were exorcising demons, and many demons appeared on the screen.
So, what's the difference between James Wan's evocation?
Perhaps because the director James Wan is Asian, this film is a very appropriate combination of Asian horror films and European and American religious exorcism horror films.
Before James Wan evokes spirits, European and American horror films can show the cultural elements of "ghosts"?
The answer is very few. Even if Europe and America usually show the abnormal state that the "devil" is possessed by the human body, and then occasionally enter hell, they are skeleton-shaped devil kids like Detective Hell, and they are rarely represented by anthropomorphic and gloomy ghost images.
Although the film Evocation is adapted from a real historical event, it tells the story that Rowling and warren couple have been engaged in exorcism for decades, traveled all over the world and participated in thousands of cases in which evil spirits possessed or ghosts harassed human beings.
Annabel's case is the couple's most famous supernatural case.
This movie is not about Annabel. The protagonist Peron and his wife moved to an old house because of family financial problems. Of course, the couple have several Xiong Haizi, many children at home and five daughters.
On second thought, Americans are not so "patriarchal". How can there be so many daughters in this family?
The family just lived in this house, and the children accidentally opened a board when they were playing hide-and-seek with their hands clapping, and then found the basement where they put things.
After that, the family encountered many strange things. First, their dog suddenly died, and then the little girls met. For example, when a girl was sleeping, she was suddenly pulled and smelled an unpleasant smell.
Of course, the horror index of movies is also gradually escalating. The second upgrade is the sleeping daughter, and when she was pulled twice. This time she woke up, and so did her sister who slept with her, indicating that she saw a ghost behind the door.
Both girls were frightened, but their parents didn't believe them at first, until a sleepwalking daughter ran to her sister's room and kept hitting the cupboard. The devil appeared for the first time after the elder sister put her sister to bed.
The family finally found out something was wrong. My mother found Mr. and Mrs. Rowling through the paranormal communication class. When they came and turned around, Rowling saw ghosts everywhere because of her "yin and yang eyes".
There are many ghosts around this family, including children, men and women.
They called the police and Asian brothers to come over and put down a lot of ghost shooting equipment. When the exorcist came, the devil didn't stop. At night, the sleepwalking daughter ran to the window and was rescued.
Rowling went into the closet in the window, found the secret of the music box and fell into the basement. The bloated nanny, and then the demon of the original owner finally appeared.
And the Asian brother filmed everything. After dawn, of course, the family will leave this broken house with their children. Mr. and Mrs. Rowling ran to the priest to find a way, but the priest said that the child was not baptized and was not within his responsibility.
So monotheism is so paranoid that if you don't believe in it, it will never protect you.
Mr. and Mrs. Rowling had to go back, and there was a little incident at home. After returning home to solve the problem. When I received the phone call, I found something was wrong at home. My mother was possessed by the devil and returned to the old house with her children.
Everyone rushed over. The reason why the mother took two children was because Bo Guang thought there were too many children, and all five were unscientific. It was difficult to control the chaos when there were too many people.
After Rowling and others rushed to the scene, the demon-possessed mother was about to kill her daughter with scissors, and was finally caught by everyone, and then began the exorcism mode.
This exorcism mode is still the mode of Exorcist used in European and American movies, that is, reading the Bible, holding a cross and expelling demons in the name of the Father, the Saint and the Son.
There are some twists and turns in Evocation. For example, female ghosts possessed by demons are very powerful, can shoot automatically, and finally summon some crows.
Finally, the little girl couldn't help it. When everyone was looking, they ran to the mezzanine. When the Asian brothers found out, they let out a scream just to remind the devil that the devil climbed in and found the little girl and wanted to kill her with his own hands.
However, the movie ended when Warren finally finished the exorcism, and then Rowling awakened the hostess's own soul with the gesture of "Virgin Mary" and defeated the devil.
On the whole, Evocation is still covered with historical events, and the main difference between the European and American horror films of Exorcist and this kind of horror films is the performance of demons and the way of exorcism.
In addition to giving ghosts a formal form, evocation 1 was rarely shown directly in European and American movies before. However, it is rare to perform ghosts directly face to face and then defeat them.
Evocation creates this pattern, and it is not obvious that evocation 1 defeats ghosts. Rowling, the heroine of Evocation 2, really entered the world of ghost life through the media, and then brought them back to the soul.
The expression of this ghost space is very similar to the Asian horror film "Sheol", and there are few or no traditional European and American horror films.
For example, tragic ghosts, gloomy space and scenery, ghostly ghosts, the protagonist defeated ghosts with knowledge, and finally returned to the world with his soul.
In a word, the success of James Wan's "Evocation" series is mainly due to the integration of Asian horror films into European and American horror films, and the very appropriate localization and integration are very successful.
For more questions about "evocation", welcome your attention and discussion!