I don't understand the cabin in the forest!

A cabin in the Woods: the bad taste of horror movie fans

earl

Cabin in the Woods can be regarded as a masterpiece for the vast number of horror film lovers. In just one and a half hours, this film pays tribute to at least dozens of classic horror films. In addition, it also ridicules some elements of traditional horror films, which makes people laugh and cry, but it is definitely a kind of happiness that horror film lovers will understand. The House in the Woods. Let me briefly talk about this movie from several points: (1) The laboratory paragraph at the beginning of the character format "The House in the Woods" is quite confusing. When the movie title appears like lightning in the form of the classic old horror movie title, the movie gradually gets to the point. The character model and story line of The Cabin in the Woods is a classic five-person game for young people in distress in traditional horror movies. This horror movie mode is really a universal routine. I don't know how many horror films appeared after the death of the five-person mode, and how many people can be changed, but the characters of five typical horror films in distress can basically be found in horror films playing this routine. That is, at the end of the film, there are five kinds listed on the sacrificial platform: bitch (open-minded and big-minded), athlete (simple-minded and muscular), scholar (knowledgeable, smarter and calmer than others), fool (usually otaku who smokes marijuana and plays video games), and finally virgin (more virtuous, healthy and smart lady). These five kinds of characters are the common formats of characters in horror movies. Then why is this horror movie character format that has been used for decades still so popular? In fact, the reason is that these five personalities have strong complementarity and hedge, which can form a more reasonable and appropriate drama conflict, and the number of people in this format is also more suitable for low-cost horror films. I think this is one of the fundamental reasons why this format is still popular after the baptism of time. As for why they are all young and middle-aged, it is actually very simple. This is to look at the picture and meet the potential psychological needs of the audience. It's unkind to use children, and I don't watch much with the old people. This mode of killing handsome guys and beautiful women one by one is liked by the broad masses of the people. This is a kind of viewing appeal that horror movies themselves need to face. Two environmental elements The word "cabin in the Woods" already contains two horror film elements, one is a cabin and the other is a forest. In fact, it is obvious that the director is paying tribute to Remy's evil dead, Sam. The scenery of the film is exactly the same as that of the evil dead, and the forest elements of horror films are rare. A bunch of horror movies, such as Fatal Bend, Lake Eden, Bloody Forest, Evil Forest, Iron Warrior, Python and so on. The forest is the main battlefield. The forest actually represents an unknown exploration and a new mysticism. In the city, people can conquer nature, but in addition, there is a secret room, which always makes the story atmosphere more cohesive. A group of people huddled in a small place can always produce many stories. The Chamber of Secrets also represents the unknown and the mysterious. People outside can go in, but people are often difficult to come out, which forces people to face fear and have nowhere to hide. I believe that even if I watch it a hundred times and a thousand times, there will still be horror movies with forests and secret rooms as narrative elements in the future. "3" Onlooker's perspective Onlooker's perspective refers to the perspective of watching or manipulating terrorist acts in the form of movie characters, such as Skin Inn 3 and Panic Square. Onlookers generally exist in a very cold form. They are manipulating death and consuming the fear and pain of others. This can bring a strong abnormal and cruel atmosphere to the film. The bystander's perspective in The House in the Woods controls the development of death and the story. In the end, the bystander himself was involved in the terrorist incident, which brought the climax of the whole film. This is also the most amazing part of the whole film. In fact, this passage is very funny, which is a kind of reverse horror thinking that breaks the logic of traditional horror movies and makes people who are used to the traditional horror movie mode dumbfounded. In the final analysis, the biggest audience perspective is actually the audience themselves. The earliest zombies in the monster carnival "cabin in the forest" are actually not so scary. In today's picture of zombies appearing in the size of a legion, several zombies fighting alone are really scary. Of course, in the cabin in the forest, there are several zombies and murderers, which can be regarded as soy sauce makers. The last paragraph of the legion of terror is the last trump card. It was when this horrible figure appeared at the end of this huge legion that the hut in the Woods had no scruples. It pays tribute to a large number of classic horror films. I saw zombies in night of the living dead, ogres in Fatal Bend, devil worms in the fog, little girls in Silent Hill, female ghosts in The Ring of Midnight, killers in haunted houses, clowns in The Return of Clowns, demons in Ghost Catcher, as well as werewolves, pythons and fish. All kinds of transformed, deja vu horror movies are full of old and new friends. For horror movie lovers, this is tantamount to a big carnival. This crazy subversion of traditional horror movies is an eye-opener. This is also the most successful place of this film as a horror film. When you see the beginning, it's hard to guess the end. It's a mockery of traditional horror movies, and it's also a personalized label of this movie, which has both inheritance and inheritance. The last one of "Five" is always sigourney weaver's appearance in women's films, which is very surprising and makes people laugh and cry. Her appearance is so funny, and the director's scheming is terrible! As a long-term survivor of Alien series, this Alien Queen can be regarded as a benchmark figure of the era horror film. In addition, sigourney weaver may be the earliest and most classic female survivor in the history of horror movies (not verified). It is meaningful to leave sigourney weaver as the last survivor in ridley scott's Alien, because women can have children, which represents a kind of hope. In the cool color of the whole story, the director specially gave space. But after the sequel, for the sake of business, sigourney weaver survived alien wars again and again, becoming the "pioneer" who left only women in horror movies. In the following decades, this setting magically became the default hidden rule of American horror movies. Many horror movies we see now have no survivors, but the survivors are basically women. These women grow up while the terrorist incidents continue to occur, and finally they are completely "baptized" (is it a symbol of women's awakening consciousness? ), in short, "The House in the Woods" made the biggest mockery of the "hidden rules" of the horror film that lasted for decades, which made all the horror movie fans have to smile bitterly. 6. Punchinello and horror movies seem to be in-laws with comedies. An excellent horror movie should not only have enough bad taste, but also some jokes, so I won't spit out all kinds of teasing and ridicule that make people laugh in the cabin in the Woods, including a bassoon that can be magically extended as a weapon, watching the "encounter" between the controller and the fisherman, and all kinds of funny conversations. To say this film is not good, there is one thing: it is not scary enough. Although smart enough to deal with horror and ridicule, it is not so scary when the scary monsters in horror movies become the products of black humor. But most of the current horror films don't sell thrillers with stories and plots, and most of them only sell plasma and violence. The orientation of the cabin in the Woods is different from this kind of horror film. Anyway, the cabin in the Woods, 7 and the cabin in the Woods should be regarded as the leader of this year's horror films. Black humor, full of all kinds of horror elements, makes people shine and unforgettable. It can be regarded as a small summary of the horror film industry. All kinds of subversion and reverse thinking have broken through some frames of horror film creation. In addition, the film satirizes the rigid filmmakers in Hollywood. The last altar and those big hands are meaningful and make the finishing point ... At the moment of aesthetic fatigue of horror movies, "Cabin in the Woods" gave the horror movie a shot in the arm. Nevertheless, the development of horror movies can't rely on this accidental one or two for a long time to open up new themes and create. Of course, as a horror film whose ending people will never guess, The House in the Woods not only won the audience well in the story, but also pleased a large number of horror film fans in the use of various elements and jokes, so that the horror film culture can be carried forward. "House in the Woods" gives horror movie fans who are getting tired of the aesthetics of horror movies the best gift. As a horror movie fan, it is hard for me to restrain my affection and love for the cabin in the forest. Finally, I wish the spirit of horror movies eternal life in plasma and screaming! Long live the spirit of horror movies!