When it comes to domestic horror films, how many audiences who love thriller movies can't help but sigh, hindered by the current review system of the film and television circle, it seems that there has not been a high-quality horror movie for a long time.
Different from the psychological tactics of European and American horror movies, japanese and Korean horror movies, Chinese horror movies are often involved with legends, religions and various strange stories, with a sense of established reincarnation-like fatalism, and what they want is the kind of interlocking stimulation and the surprise of turning back to the shooting.
The recently released network movie "The Legend of Xing'anling Hunter" can be done in line with the requirements of the review, with the "evil" of human nature as the introduction, and then use the horror stories passed down by word of mouth in the northeast region as a knot, connecting the main story line into a closed circle, whether it is the plot design or the connotation of it is enough to be called the highest quality domestic horror film in recent years.
As a high-quality network movie, "The Legend of The Hunter of Xing'anling" has soared upwards after its release eleven days, and has approached eight million moviegoers, and the current cumulative account has exceeded 30 million, which is not only enough to play in the network movie, but also very good compared with the cinema movie.
So let's talk about it today, what is the superiority of this "Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling" that can get the love of so many audiences:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > One: The true story behind the three ghost stories</h1>
"The Legend of the Hunters of Xing'anling" tells three horror stories carved in the bones of northeastern people from childhood, and the best thing is that after the ghost story, it leads to three true stories behind it, one link and one link, which does not leave the audience with a gap of breathing, and directly pushes the atmosphere of terror to the top.
The first ghost story, about the paper man lifting the car, the fox fairy to repay the favor, veterinarian Li Dafu one day went to the big family to help deliver the baby, the result was only given to two handfuls of soybeans, although he was dissatisfied, but considering that the arm was not thigh, thinking about it could only endure, but after sitting on the palanquin to leave, he suddenly found that what he had in his arms was two golden beans!
When he got out of the car, the coffin carryer was even more terrifying, all of them were ghostly paper people, Li Dafu became rich because of this, and the villagers said that he had taken great luck and met the fox fairy and asked him to deliver the baby.
Li Dafu became rich, built a new house and lived a rich life, but bad luck entangled the Li family, and within a few days, the family of three died tragically, and the last generation of imperial hunter Liu Erye (Shang Tielong) began to investigate the massacre at the request of the villagers, and his eyes narrowed to find the beginning of the story.
The golden bean is true, but the fox fairy is false; the reward is false, the greed is true, and the giant horse monkey in the first ghost story is a purer existence than the human heart.
The second ghost story is even more terrifying, telling the long-standing resentful female dead baby human face tree, which is told through the mouth of a group of treasure-holding people.
It is said that they passed a broken temple on the way to dig ginseng, and when they were resting, they met a crazy woman dressed in red, who died of her son, and walked back and forth in the mountain forest all day holding a baby-like tree root, looking particularly crazy and terrible.
But what the group of ginseng diggers did not say was that they saw the color and, after hurting the crazy woman, they strangled the person alive in the broken temple.
And the third story everyone must have heard when they were young, about a group of passers-by who stayed overnight, and the old woman who opened the door boiled water and boiled porridge to warmly entertain guests, but after waking up in the middle of the night, she found that the old woman was creaking and chewing people's fingers.
The real story is definitely not as simple as it seems, the warm and welcoming old woman is originally well-intentioned, and there is another evil person who really kills.
It can be said that "The Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling" uses three well-known ghost stories of netizens as a lead, and then peels back the cocoon to uncover the bloody truth behind the ghost story, this setting is simply absolute!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > Second: ghosts are evil but not human hearts</h1>
"The Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling" focuses on the legend of ghosts and monsters, but the foothold of the story is still the good and evil of people's hearts.
Second Master Liu said at the beginning of the story that the old forest has the rules of the old forest, once you enter the forest, you must honestly abide by the rules, and this rule is also particularly simple, that is, you can not move greedy thoughts, otherwise it will be karmic reincarnation, unjust retribution, and this rule is the clue that connects the three ghost stories.
Li Changfu became greedy after treating the mustache who was responsible for guarding the golden vein, threatening the other party to poke out the news of the golden vein without selling the ancestral property, and this greed eventually burned into a monstrous flame, burning the sanity of everyone, and finally joined forces to kill the three members of the mustache family, and all of this was seen by the demon monkey that the mustache had saved, which led to the tragic death of Li Changfu's whole family at the beginning.
The story of the mad woman in red and the night stay are connected by the same character, that is, Chunsheng, who participated in the killing of the gold keeper, and he not only killed the guardian family, but also cruelly used the eldest daughter's feelings for himself, did a series of evil things and left.
Chunsheng has evil thoughts and greed, and there are ghosts in his heart, so he will see the illusion caused by the crazy woman, and then his liver and gallbladder will be split, and he will go into the old forest and eventually die at the hands of the pheasant neck.
"The Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling" uses three seemingly unrelated stories, and finally turns to an ending that surprises everyone, can only say that no matter how terrible the legend of ghosts and monsters is, it is not better than the evil thoughts in people's hearts, the logic of this movie from beginning to end is very clear, and several small stories are also worth a taste.
If you also like this kind of "Chinese horror" in front of the screen, then don't miss this "Legend of the Hunter of Xing'anling".