It was dark at night, and the atmosphere in the TPT screening room at Landmark Cinemas was depressing. Except for people like Gerstad who didn¡¯t watch much due to off-site factors, everyone in the small audience was nervous for Maggie. Those who had just The cold sweat from the exorcism was still chilling.
The first turning point made the three film critics more and more interested in the next 6 minutes. When and how will the devil really show up? They are all looking forward to it.
On the screen, Cotton and the others drove Maggie to the hospital. The dark night in a series of driving shots was glowing with a faint blue light, as if the whole world was being eroded by demons.
"The day makes the night, here the day makes the night" Gia clenched her fists sadly, that kid is so good at playing, this kind of distortion, weirdness and reality are mixed together
What a fucking horror
There is no audience that does not find it weird. It is rare to see this kind of night scene. Some young audiences have never seen it before. Now it has nothing to do with fakeness. The slightly shaky camera, scary colors, and tense atmosphere. It's a great horror movie viewing experience.
Custer really has to applaud these technical details. There is more than one such surprising detail in TPT. The daylight and night scenes can turn decay into magic.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is the editing technique. It is no longer limited to the main perspective of the character camera. Surveillance cameras are used, and there are many shots from regular movie angles that are just right. All of this does not damage the realism of the pseudo-documentary, but enhances the atmosphere. Make it more real and tell the story more delicately.
If it continues like this to the ending, it can be said that TPT has raised the pseudo-documentary to a new level.
"Andrew, you really did a beautiful job this time." Orr couldn't help but praise Grande and the two sitting next to him. He rarely did this during the movie viewing process because it was rare to see such a thing. surprise. Who would have thought that the 3 minutes that I thought would be wasted would be full of surprises from the first minute.
Grande smiled bitterly, and Potko touched his hair, both of them were a little embarrassed, "We are really not Yunique Culler.", "This is his movie."
"I know, I know." Al didn't say anything more and continued to watch the movie intently, obviously not listening. Neither Custer nor Sherk, who else could Culler be?
We quickly arrived at the hospital, and soon the next morning, Switzer came and told Cotton that after they left, Maggie acted abnormally again and disappeared soon. Was it because the devil hadn't been exorcised yet? He asks Cotton to cure Maggie once and for all.
"Maggie needs to see a psychiatrist." In the hospital corridor, a double medium shot, Cotton on the left is seriously persuading: "The devil has been driven away, but it has caused some psychological trauma to Maggie, which requires mental treatment ¡¡±
"Psychiatrist?" Switzer was furious after hearing this and glared at Cotton, "Eight doctors couldn't save my wife, eight doctors couldn't let her live for even one more day. You told me about a doctor? Psychotherapy? What do you think? Is my daughter crazy? I think you are lying, you don¡¯t know anything about exorcism, you are just a liar¡±
Cotton explained patiently: "There are many ways for God to save people, which are not necessarily what we can understand. It can be psychological treatment"
Switzer turned and walked away. Everything in the camera shows that in the parking lot outside the hospital, Switzer roughly pulled Maggie into the car and left. Cotton and the female sound recordist Marla were still there to persuade her, but Maggie showed a little struggle. Before getting in the car, her eyes were blank. He looked at Cotton and the others helplessly, as if asking for help.
The minivan drove away, and Cotton and Coton reluctantly discussed what to do. The photographer's voice said: "Let's not worry about it anymore, right?"
"How could you not care about Maggie's mental state? If she continues like this, she will really go crazy." The female sound engineer was a little angry.
"We will go to the farm and sit down to persuade him." Cotton made the decision, "The girl must see a doctor."
Everything in the scene, the driving shots, Cotton and his party drove into the farm land again. When the dilapidated old house standing in the ice and snow appeared in the distant view of the camera again, and jumped into the audience's eyes, every heartstring was suddenly tightened. , can foresee that terrible things will happen.
Sure enough, the atmosphere on the screen immediately became tense
¡°Oh no, look over there,¡± the female sound engineer said in surprise.
The camera panned from facing the old house to the woods on the left, and saw Switzer and Maggie arguing in the distance. Maggie cried, "I want to see my mother. I don't want to let me go here." Witze looked angry and roughly pulled his daughter back to the house.
Cotton and others who hurriedly got out of the car rushed up, "Hey, hey", "What's wrong?", "Don't hurt her"
"What else are you doing here? Leave my farm." Switzer glared at them as he walked, then looked at the camera, "Turn off the damn camera and leave immediately." He didn't stop, pulling the crying Maggie back. In the house, Cotton and the others followed.
What happened? The audience's hearts were hanging in the air, and they didn't dare toout.
"It's much worse than "Blair Witch", even the camera is so stable when running" Gusta muttered dissatisfied again, "I'm so disappointed, I don't want to continue watching it"
Because of the good viewing effect of this seat, there were several spectators sitting in front and behind who had been putting up with him for a long time. Now they all started to curse in unison: "Please, brother, stop making noise, okay" and "Then why don't you leave quickly?" ", "If you want to watch "Blair Witch" go home and watch it, this is the screening room for "The Exorcism Video"
At the same time, blood appeared on the screen again. It turned out that Ramon's face was scratched by Maggie with a knife. The strange thing is that the location of the wound was the same as the wound on Cotton's right face.
"Get out of my house" Switzer is taking his son to the hospital and viciously expels Cotton and the others.
In a neat scene change, Cotton and the others had to pretend to leave first. After Switzer drove away, they returned to the old house and slipped into the house through the open window. The light in the room was dim, and from time to time a hoarse cat meow could be heard, filling the audience's hearts with a sense of desolation and danger.
The camera slowly follows Cotton as he steps up the stairs to the second floor. The upward angle is so depressing at this moment, and the suspense of the devil appearing at any time is like a huge boulder pressing down on him. When they arrived at Maggie's room, the female sound engineer suddenly exclaimed, only to see Maggie being chained hand and foot to the bed, crying silently.
In a panicked scene change, Cotton and his team found a hacksaw to cut off the locked chain.
"No, no, daddy will be angry when he comes back and sees that I'm not locked up." Maggie cried, on the verge of collapse, "I scratched Ramon, I'm a bad girl, I can't go to heaven, I You will go to hell"
"Maggie, it's okay, it's okay, God sent me here just to help you, it's okay, it will be fine"
After being comforted by Cotton and Marla, Maggie gradually calmed down. Amidst the squeaking sound of saws, she answered their questions. Switzer did not hurt her, but she really couldn't remember how she was hurt. Ramon. The chain was cut with a click. Cotton and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but the audience outside the screen took a deep breath. The devil's shackles were gone
Everything in the camera, Maggie is having a good rest in the room, Cotton and the others return to the living room on the first floor to discuss countermeasures. At this time, a phone message comes. The doctor said Maggie is pregnant? The audience can guess why, but this situation shocked Cotton and the others. Marla definitely said that it was an incest tragedy, while Cotton said not to jump to conclusions easily and wait until Switzer comes back to ask more questions.
Maggie¡¯s pregnancy really chilled the hearts of Christian audiences. It was a huge blasphemy. The scene was gentler than Regan stabbing her lower body with a cross in The Exorcist, but it was just as abominable in meaning. Who was the virgin pregnant? The Virgin Mary, pregnant with Jesus. But now Maggie is pregnant with a demon, it makes people tremble just thinking about it
The story has no intention of continuing in this direction. After a brief argument between several people, tension arose again.
"Maggie?" The female sound engineer looked at the camera in surprise.
With his back turned, Cotton looked back, and the camera also made a big rotation to shoot towards the entrance of the corridor behind. This time it was very shaken and blurry. When the picture stabilized:
I saw Maggie standing there. In the middle of the long shot, she was barefoot and still wearing the off-white dress. Her long hair was spread and hanging down. She was holding the gray cat Katie in her left hand and a handful of sharp fruits in her right hand. knife. Her face was submerged in the darkness and could not be seen clearly, as if it was the face of a demon.
Looking at her posture, the audience couldn't help but have their hearts in their throats. What did she want to do, no, what did the devil want to do
For a time, there was only the faint ticking sound of the pendulum clock in the two screening rooms, which was the sound coming from the ancient house on the screen.
"Maggie, calm down, put the knife down" Cotton stepped forward with both hands to dissuade her, the back of his head and shoulders appeared at the bottom edge of the screen, and the camera zoomed in.
Although the image was blurry, Maggie's big brown eyes could be seen with a cold light. Suddenly, her right hand was raised, and she suddenly thrust towards Katie in her left hand. A fierce cat meow sounded from Cotton's back. The back appeared just in time to block Maggie's figure from the neck down, but it could not block her expressionless face. The right hand that was raised and thrust down violently could not stop the bloody knife from splattering with flesh and blood, let alone the splash of blood and flesh. Katie's scream¡ª¡ª
"No" Cotton was screaming, and several people in the film crew were screaming, "Oh my", "No"
"No, no" many viewers in the screening hall were also screaming. They couldn't see the bloody scene, but it was even more terrifying and indescribably uncomfortable.
Emma covered her mouth with both hands and almost vomited out. As a cat lover and cat owner, how could she possibly bear it? When her own "Stranger" flashed through her mind, she trembled all over and tears filled her eyes, "Too sad." It's so cruel" Although this is just a movie, how did this cat meow be recorded? What happened? It's so tragic. Oh my God.
"Oh." Gia frowned as if she was in pain. Do you need to use a pseudonym? No one believed it when the guy said it was filming Anna and Bella dancing. This shot really looks like whiskey. It's so powerful.
Just a dozen seconds of images, let the screening hall.There was a collective mood that was about to collapse. Katie and Maggie, who were so loyal to protect the owner, had such a deep friendship with it, but it was so brutally killed by "her"
Emma¡¯s tears couldn¡¯t stop falling. There were more than one or two viewers like her. The three film critics both enjoyed and suffered. The complex emotions can only be savored after watching the movie.
"If in "Blair Witch"" Gerstad was about to say something.
"Fuck you "Blair Witch"" There was a male audience member in front of him who finally couldn't bear it anymore. He no longer just scolded him, but was about to beat the idiot with his fists. He was angry at the devil.
Gersta hurriedly got up and ran away, shouting "Debbie, let's go, it's boring." Debbie ignored him, and the audience around him seemed to want to beat him. The male audience member came up again, so he had to go to the screening room alone. He walked out and cursed in a low voice: "Disappointed, what did you film? Is this a fake documentary? It's really bad"
"Everyone wanted to applaud, go away, go home and watch your VH video of "Blair Witch", don't bother others watching the excitement of "The Exorcism Video"
The images on the screen continued, and the weird laughter resounded through the two theaters. Maggie¡¯s laughter
"Is this fun?" Maggie walked towards Cotton and the others step by step and threw the cat corpse in her hand towards the camera. The camera only captured a bright red and gray thing flying by, followed by a few drops of blood, which turned out to be huge blood spots on the screen, which was horrifying.
Cotton and others were retreating, shouting "Maggie, put the knife down" and "We are here to help you, no one wants to hurt you."
"Who wants your help?" Maggie rolled her brown eyes, suddenly glared, and rushed towards her brandishing a bloody knife, "I want you to die."
The audience's nerves were so tense that they didn't dare to blink or look any further. On the screen, Cotton and several others were dodging one after another, and they were still shouting "Maggie, we are here to help you" and "Be careful" Cotton. Suddenly shouted, "Believe in God, everything will be fine. Say to me quickly, I love Jesus, I love Jesus"
"Uh ah" Maggie's face showed pain and her movements slowed down. As Cotton read the scriptures, she began to tremble, and the bloody knife in her hand fell to the floor. Just before Cotton and Maggie When La wanted to control her, she turned around and ran back, "You will die miserably."
"Maggie" Cotton and others quickly caught up.
Even her voice performance suffered double damage. Emma was very distressed. She had been secretly hoping that when the devil took over Maggie, Nina's voice performance would not be able to act like a devil, or that someone else would dub her Now in this issue Hope was dashed
She read the poem herself, and it was very different from Maggie's normal cheerful and gentle character. She had a cold and fierce energy. How did she do it for the first time in a movie?
All three film critics were quite satisfied with Maggie's demonic voice. Voice performance is a key to playing a good devil. It seems that unlike the weird voice of "The Exorcist", Maggie still uses her previous voice after becoming demonized. Just perform in tone of voice.
Good performances are one of the reasons why the audience is so fascinated by the show. They can¡¯t let go of their suspenseful hearts.
When the scene changed, Cotton and the others were looking for Maggie in the house, but they couldn't find it, but there were some specious and scary shadows. Suddenly, in a gloomy utility room, Maggie was found squatting on the top of a wooden cabinet like a cat. Her neck was twisted abnormally, her eyes were filled with fierce light, and her hands were covered in blood.
She suddenly jumped down, startling Cotton and the others, and even more so the audience. She collided with the camera, causing the camera to stagger, and the demon knocked Cotton to the ground with a powerful punch.
But Cotton promptly read the scriptures, causing Maggie to run away again. They tracked her again, this time out of the old house and outside a snowy scene.
Seeing this, the TPT crew members were all looking forward to it. It was really hard to shoot this scene.
"Where did she go?" In front of the camera, the female sound recordist looked around, and the camera was also scanning. There was no trace of Maggie. "I saw her running out."
¡°Look around the area,¡± Cotton said. The camera follows the two people as they move forward bumpily. After walking for a while, they see a figure flashing across the woods. The two Cottons immediately run up, "There, there."
The audience was very nervous. There was no chance to take a breath after a series of performances, and their palms were sweating again. Suddenly the camera shook violently, and it obviously fell forward, and the photographer yelled "Ah" and the devil attacked from behind? There were screams everywhere in the screening room.
Only the crew members who were on the set at that time know what happened. The person called now is Grady, but the person carrying the camera at that time was not.