How many horror films dare to use the word "adaptation of real events", the three films mentioned above do not dare to use because they are really pure compilations, but this "Summoning Souls" is really down-to-earth, which also allows Wen Ziren to use horror films to stabilize the unshakable position in the horror thriller world after the "Dead Silence" and "Latent" series.
Set in 1971, the Warrens have become supernatural kol figures, designed to solve supernatural events in life and give answers and explanations with a scientific attitude.
Among them, there is the end of the last "Annabelle", the grandmother bought the cute Annabelle doll for the nurse's daughter, and as a result, she encountered strange things one after another.
At this time, the Warrens began to summarize the three-piece set of supernatural events I mentioned earlier, the first layer is the appearance of evil spirits to brush the sense of existence, which is the so-called haunting, such as the sudden opening of electronic products, the displacement of objects and other primary temptations.
The second layer of spiritual oppression allows you to confirm the intentions of the evil spirits and begin to devour your fears and destroy your consciousness.
The third layer begins to possess to achieve its purpose, either to kill you or to control you.
After class, Mrs. Perren approached the Warrens and said that she had encountered a strange thing that was guaranteed to be on the hot search.
Things start with the Peren family of 7 moving to a big beetano, yes, horror movies generally can't get along with the big bejeno.
This big wild was enough to make the five daughters of the Perren family play crazy for a while, but as a result, they just moved in and there were many strange things.
The first is that the dog in the family does not want to enter the house, and the next day he dies.
Peren didn't know when, there were inexplicably more bruises on her legs, and the clocks in the house stopped at the strange 3:07.
And when Peren played hide-and-seek with the child, horror movies really love hide-and-seek, and Peren was blindfolded and actually heard the breathing and applause in the closet, but the child was not in this room.
At night, the third fell asleep and was naughtily pulled by something. The third elder woke up the sleeping second in horror and asked the second elder to look behind the door that was moving, but there was nothing, but there was a foul smell.
Then there was a bigger movement, the photos of the stairs suddenly all fell down and the glass shattered, Peren went to the basement to see what was going on, the courage was really too big, using matches, she suddenly had a pair of cute tender hands behind her snapped and clapped, asking if she wanted to play hide-and-seek.
Ah ~ let's pause for a moment, I have actually used popular words to describe these strange events, but I feel a little afraid when I say them, all because these supernatural events are woven very vividly, and the evil spirit has always remained mysterious and hidden in the shadows, which has also become a magic weapon in the soul-summoning universe, and the fear comes from the unknown.
Of course, the source of this sentence does not come from the Soul-Summoning Universe, nor from the Alien series, but from Lovecraft, the originator of Cthulhu's literary system.
And Wen Ziren just very skillfully controlled this method, using the audience's third-party perspective between the perspective of God and the perspective of the protagonist, participating in the plot scene of the film, and playing some hide-and-seek or one-man alone in the dark this old horror movie routine, playing a new trick, the sense of substitution is very strong.
I believe that everyone has also eased up, and we continue.
Peren thinks that her house is indeed haunted, so she has the beginning to ask the Warrens, but the Warrens are not master ghost catchers, but insist that they are only supernatural investigators, as long as they confirm that there are evil spirits there, they will inform the Vatican and then there will be priests to exorcise the demons, and this industrial chain is really perfect.
So the Warrens went to the big part of the house, and Caroline was born with yin and yang eyes, and soon noticed a lot of evil spirits, the most powerful of which was the tree in front of the house that someone swung around the swing with her neck.
It turned out that the first hostess of the house was a satanic witch, who sacrificed the child who had just been born seven days ago, and then she swung a swing in the tree at 3:07, and before leaving, the witch also cursed, and everyone who lived in this house thereafter would be haunted by evil spirits.
The next step is to use scientific methods to collect evidence, the Warrens put a video recorder in each room, this evil spirit is also smart, hiding from the video recorder to tease Caroline, but then was caught evidence, the fourth sleepwalk, opened a partition darkroom, so that Caroline found the music box, hey this is not six sides...
So Caroline saw a tragedy in which a witch forced her mother to torture and kill her child through a hexagonal music box.
In about the same time, Perren slept and was possessed, the second was also pulled by the hair and mopped the floor, the evidence was already sufficient, began to go through the declaration of the Vatican exorcism process, the result is that because the Perren family is not a believer, delayed the review and there is no one.
The Perren family also moved out, but do you remember that Perren was possessed, and then she secretly brought the old four and five back to The Great Beye, with a foul smell on her body.
By the time the Warrens arrive, Perren has already attacked his heart and is going to kill the fourth elder with a bayonet, and the fifth is missing.
The possessed Peren is extremely powerful, and his face is getting more and more cute, and he feels that he has completely lost his original consciousness.
At this time, the Warren couple could not wait for the Vatican priest to exorcise the demons, they themselves temporarily transformed into exorcism CP, and the evil spirits frontal hard bar, obviously the Warren couple for the first time is still too strange, the evil spirits directly came to Wuhu to take off, fell on the ground and smashed the chair to try to break free.
At this time, the crowd also found the hidden old five, Perren took the big scissors and was about to run over, the crowd rushed to follow, just at the most critical moment, Caroline held Perlen's head and shouted loudly Perren, are you really going to stab your beloved child, do you remember the good times when your family played on the shore of Daming Lake that summer?
It is also these few words that immediately touched the flame of family affection in Perren's heart, completely awakened Perlen's consciousness, Andellen spat out a mouthful of blood, successfully rescued, and the greatness of maternal love.
The release of "The Conjuring" in 2013 made the horror film that has always been the selling point of fright out of the circle again, which was hotly discussed by everyone and given a multi-layered interpretation, until 2017, another "Escape from Desperate Town", which was more out of the circle to the Oscar level, made the horror film go to a higher level.
"Conjuring" I think the biggest empathy point is to return to the metaphysics of love rather than exorcism, what really makes Perren's soul return to defeat evil spirits is love for children, and the film emphasizes that Perren's family has no religious belief, children have not been baptized, and Peren's family is not a church person, this detail expands the fact that love can transcend religion and divine power and defeat evil spirits.
And Wen Ziren because of the practice of many previous horror thrillers, when directing "The Conjuring", the grasp and scheduling of the atmosphere of fear has reached the level of pure fire, coupled with real events as gimmicks, which makes this film have more discussions and makes the audience more engaged.
Since then, the "Conjuring" universe has also successfully stood up after the release of this movie in 2013.
At the beginning of "Conjuring 2", the Warrens felt that the scientific method of investigating supernatural events was outdated, and caroline did not use it directly since she had the superpower of yin and yang eyes, so she directly played psychic in the investigation of a murder case.
Caroline restored the previous murder, the murderer of the male owner claimed to be driven by the evil spirit to kill the whole family, and Caroline did see a very sweet-looking nun when restoring the scene, which is simply Marilyn Manson laid off and re-employed. The beauty of the nun also made the battle-hardened Caroline Beauty cry herself.
At this time, the main plot officially began, and the Peggy family in England happily moved not to the big beetano, but also to a small beetle.
The two daughters slept in a room, and that night the little daughter woke up in the middle of the night to find herself sleeping in the living room on the first floor.
The eldest daughter heard a powerful knock at the door while she was sleeping, thinking it was her sister's prank, but later found that her sister was drowsy and hazy.
The next day the strange thing continued, the little daughter sleepwalked up and sat up feeling nagging with someone, frightening the eldest daughter to sleep with the lights on. The younger son's room tent also moved in the middle of the night, stimulating.
Then it is the appearance, the little daughter sat on the sofa one day to watch TV, but felt that someone in the room was grabbing the TV with her to change the station, and then scared the little daughter to quickly turn off the TV, it turned out that the old sofa had a bad old man, which scared the little daughter not lightly.
In order to make herself not continue to sleepwalk, the little daughter tied herself to sleep with a rope, but the result was still slept under the bed, and the old sofa downstairs began to shake up, and the original sofa was still designed as a rocking chair, the three laws of horror movies, and the rocking chair hide-and-seek curiosity.
Then the daughter's bed turned on the fully automatic massage function constantly shaking, the little daughter's shoulder still had a tooth mark, Peggy's mother quickly called the police, the police of course did not believe this nonsense, the evil spirit did not have time to explain everyone to get on the car, directly in front of the police moved the chair.
It seems that the police are also powerless to ask people out of the church to investigate this supernatural incident.
The church and the reporter soon heard the noise, and the ghost was still very cooperative, possessing the little daughter and talking, it turned out that he was the old uncle of the previous owner of the house, when he was lying on the old sofa with cerebral hemorrhage and hanging.
The younger daughter's talk about the way the old man died completely corresponds to the facts.
The people of the church were also a little provocative, and could only ask the Warrens to investigate.
However, the Warrens are not happy on this side, since the last time they met the nun, Ed has also begun to paint, drawing the nun's sweet appearance, after which the nun constantly harasses Caroline, and makes Caroline produce the scene of Ed being killed, and also briefly possessed Caroline.
The Warrens went there and began to negotiate with the ghosts, which also attracted many friends from the media to come and catch the wind.
Soon something strange happened again, and the little daughter continued to sleep and tied herself with a rope, only to wake up to find herself in the previously haunted room, which was still locked from the outside.
Then the little daughter was stuck in the water pipe trough, her body twisted and painful, and I just wanted to get a good night's sleep.
But then the reversal came, everyone from the video recorder to take the picture, the house objects were smashed to pieces, this is not the object by itself to fly, but the little daughter herself threw it, in today's words is self-hype, her own drama.
Seeing all this, the media friends immediately withdrew, and the Warren couple was ready to leave, but then the reversal came again, they played the previous recording together, and the result was clearly heard in the voice of the old man, "Save me, she will not let me go!" ”
At this time, Caroline's yin and yang eye superpowers were also activated, and it turned out that all this was the nun's ghost, and she asked the old uncle to deliberately collapse the Peggy family in order to directly take the soul of the little daughter. Caroline also learned the name of the real evil spirit behind the nun, her name is *&%... &%¥, let's call her evil spirit!
So the Warrens rushed back to save the little daughter, in the boss battle, the Peggy sisters took off again, Peggy hurriedly took the child away first and then went back to save the little daughter, but the little daughter was already poisoned and attacked, ready to be sacrificed, fortunately, when Eddard caught the little daughter at the moment of the first shot, then Caroline called out the name of the evil spirit behind the nun, and then recited the sealing spell, and finally repelled the evil spirit.
"The Conjuring 2" continues Wen Ziren's exaggeration of some trivial matters in the family, and then transforms them into frightening behaviors, such as sleepwalking, the disappearance of the remote control, the noise of the upstairs, and so on.
In this part, Wen Ziren also added some black humor scenes, adjusted the mood of the whole movie, and gave the audience a fresher horror movie experience, the most impressive thing for me was the scene where the police came to the house, the police did not believe it, but the ghost immediately appeared and said to move the chair, and the next picture of the police and Peggy they looked panicked and walked out of the haunted house.
When I was in the theater, everyone laughed and made a mess.
And as a horror film "The Conjuring 2" Wen Ziren also made good use of the preconceived way of watching the movie, deliberately creating horror in some scenes that were not actually intended to create horror, such as the scene where the Warren couple ate breakfast and chatted, their daughter suddenly quietly and quietly spread her head into the picture, at that time, the audience in the theater where I was scared screamed, but in fact, this is really their daughter, not Caroline's yin and yang eyes and see what, there are many other ways to deal with the film.
Although the film's final boss-fighting technique is somewhat traditional, "The Conjuring 2" is still a rare and good quality horror masterpiece.
Well, the current eight movies of the Conjuring Universe have been combed and explained to everyone, and soon "Conjuring 3" is coming, the current word of mouth has been lifted, and it feels good to see the word-of-mouth, although Wen Ziren does not direct, it is estimated that it will still be more attentive to other supervising films, after all, this is the third movie of orthodox conjuring.
At present, the trailer gives very little information, but the horror atmosphere of the rendering is still very sufficient, and I don't know what new tricks will be played this time in terms of scary index and creativity!
If you watch this "big" series "The Conjuring Universe" and are interested in the next "Conjuring 3", or in fact, you have been paying attention to "Conjuring 3".
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