On the third day of Producer Lin's arrival in Beijing, he received a call from a friend, saying that he would help him find a small building called Red Mansion in Dongcheng, which is now the temporary office of a magazine agency, which is very similar to the small building that Producer Lin was looking for, and asked him to take a look. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After Info Lin went to the film, he found that the small building itself was a building in the Republic of China, and it used to be the private residence of a high-ranking official, and after liberation, it was arranged for the Cultural Bureau as an office space. In the past few years, the magazine has been sluggish, and there are not many people working in the office, only one floor is used, and the remaining three floors are vacant.

The small building sits at the end of a hidden alley on the side of the Second Ring Road, and a small courtyard remains. It is called the Red House not because of the red walls on the outside, but because it was the office of the Red Guards during the ten years of unrest, and it is said that many people died in it during those years, and the building is famous for this. The exterior of the Red Mansion is somewhat dilapidated, and some of the carved capitals used for decoration are covered with moss, and the original appearance can no longer be seen. Many of the stone bricks on the exterior wall are peeling off, and the cracks in the walls are full of blue-gray cement, which shows that the original construction was very strong. Most of the exterior walls are crawling with creepers, but it is still difficult to hide the gloomy atmosphere emanating from this building.

The doors and windows on the first floor have been replaced, and the aluminum alloy frame looks very incongruous with the small building. The upper floors are still the same windows, although the color is very dark, but they still look very solid, but because the window frames and wooden lattices are relatively wide, the glass windows appear smaller. But on the top edge of each window peeks out a wooden awning frame, long gone, but the ornamental carvings of those wooden frames are very well preserved, and on the head of each wooden frame is carved a winged cherub, smiling at the people who come in and out.

Producer Lin was shocked when he saw this small building. He immediately took out the writer's script and read it carefully, and the writer's description of the small building in the story was exactly the same as the red mansion in front of him, and it was exactly the same. The appearance of the exterior wall, the specifications of the doors and windows, the two large locust trees at the door, the size of the small courtyard, the vines on the wall, and even the awning column head of the wood-carved angel on the window are all introduced. But Producer Lin knew that the writer from Shaanxi had never been to Beijing, and it was impossible to see this small building. All this should be a coincidence, it was a coincidence that he got this script, it was also a coincidence that he found this small building, and it was also a coincidence that the owner of the small building was willing to rent out the building, but all the coincidences came together, and what Producer Lin felt was no longer his luck, but a deep chill from the bottom of his heart.

Fortunately, everything in the building is completely different from the description in the script, it is estimated that so many years have passed, because of the change in the use of functions, the internal structure of the small building has been greatly adjusted, the partition has been re-added, the old furniture and decoration have long been gone, and I can only faintly feel the magnificence of this mansion. But there was no change above the third floor, the hallways and rooms were full of clutter, and the dust was so thick that it seemed that no one had used it for many years.

The editor-in-chief of the magazine is nearly sixty years old, although his complexion is not very good, but he is very talkative, he didn't talk for half an hour, and he basically negotiated the lease agreement, the price is not high, but there is only one additional condition, the editor-in-chief hopes to play a small role in the movie, which is not difficult, and Lin Producer himself has to recruit more than 20 extras, and happily promised him the small role of the janitor. Without saying a word, the editor-in-chief vacated the house in a week and handed it over to Producer Lin.

A month later, Producer Lin handed over Xiaolou to the props team, and according to the description of the script, he began to build several large scenes. A few days later, Lao Hu of the props team found him, saying that several scenes described in the script are in small buildings, basements, restaurants, bathrooms, and power distribution rooms, all available, except for the replacement of furniture, the ground and walls, and the cleaning of the walls without any need to build it.

When the scene was basically built, Producer Lin took the male and female No. 1 who came from Hong Kong to the small building, so that they could familiarize themselves with the environment. Producer Lin was very strange about the abnormal change of the male number one, pulled him back to the hotel, and carefully inquired about the reason.

The male number one surnamed Huang is from southern Fujian, but he is a native of Hong Kong. He is not yet forty years old, but he has acted in more than a dozen horror movies, and he is a well-known horror film professional, and he has earned the nickname of Huang Buxie. He told Producer Lin that when he made his first horror film six years ago, in order to show realism, the director chose the filming location in an old mansion where a murder occurred more than ten years ago.

As a result, from the beginning of filming, he began to suffer from insomnia, and after a few days, he was tired and had a splitting headache, and often when he came to his scene on the set, his brain was blank, and his lines and positions were completely forgotten. One day, he felt that he had complete amnesia and didn't know how to complete the shooting, so he wanted to ask the director for a leave of absence and take a two-day break before filming, but he didn't expect the director to look at the content just shot on the monitor, Huang Buxie leaned over to take a look, and scared himself.

In the monitor, Huang Buxie acted very devotedly, his body movements were even a little exaggerated, and the lines were not like his own voice at all, and the dialogue in the script was not the same, but this tone of speech revealed a yin and evil temperament. But Huang Buxie also found that he in the monitor, from the beginning to the end of the shooting, his eyes did not turn, and he always had that kind of straight look. This film was filmed for three parts, about fifteen minutes, and the director didn't stop at all, but Huang Buxie couldn't remember the situation at all when the film was made. It felt as if he was possessed by something, not by himself, but by something attached to him.

The director didn't find this abnormality, and after watching the sample, he kept praising Huang Buxie for entering the play, acting well, having his own understanding, and raising the original book to a higher level, the future is limitless, and he must be promoted well. At that time, Huang Buxie had just come out of the training class, and he was still a tricky actor, it was not easy to mix a role, he could make the director blue-eyed, and he was reluctant to let go of the opportunity to get it, so he swallowed back what he wanted to say, gritted his teeth, persevered for two days, and finished filming his role.

But when he returned home after filming, Huang Buxie couldn't afford to get sick, saw a lot of doctors, took a lot of medicine, and didn't get better. On the contrary, his body became weaker and weaker, and he often talked nonsense at night, shouting that he wanted to go back to the set to continue filming. The family was frightened, according to the customs of southern Fujian, this was a manifestation of obviously hitting the evil god, and there was no way, so they went to invite a famous local Taoist priest to do it. It was another opening of the altar, another formation, and another pouring of runic water, and after two days of tossing, Huang Buxie could be regarded as relieved.

The Taoist priest and Huang Buxie had a good conversation, so he told him that the set was a murderous house, and there was a very powerful unjust soul in it, because he died very miserably at the time, so he was very resentful, and he wanted to borrow his body to reproduce the scene at that time, but fortunately, he didn't have many scenes, and he left after filming, and if he stayed for a few more days, he didn't know what kind of disaster would happen.

Huang Buxie was frightened, it was very similar to stop making horror movies anymore, but he was forced to make a living and couldn't find a role. In addition, after the release of the previous movie, the box office was red, and his acting skills have been recognized by many horror film directors in the industry, and there are a lot of horror film appointments. Once this person is labeled, it will be difficult for you to tear him off. There was no way, Huang Buxie went to the Taoist priest again, and wanted to find a solution, that is, to be able to catch the film, and not to go around the ghost gate like last time.

The Taoist priest thought about it and gave him three principles for filming, first, don't shoot in the old house where he had an accident before, second, don't shoot if he doesn't open the altar before filming, and third, don't shoot if he has a low-grade fever when he shoots his body. At the same time, the Taoist priest gave him a bracelet made of peach wood and asked him to take it, if on the set, the bracelet stabbed and sharpened his hands, and he couldn't shoot.

Huang Buxie kept in mind the Taoist priest's instructions, as long as the bracelet came out to film, he would never leave his body, so that his wife filmed peacefully for six years without injury.

But this time, he turned around in the Red Mansion, and his wrist seemed to be bound by something, and it was numb and painful. As he spoke, Huang Buxie rolled up his sleeves and showed it to Producer Lin, and sure enough, there was some redness and swelling on his wrists, and there were faint dark red pinhole-like wounds on it.

"It's not that I don't want to shoot, it's that I don't dare to shoot, Mr. Lin, you chose me to act, I am grateful, but I can only repay it in the future, there must have been a big event in this building before, you should be careful." These were the last words that Huang Buxie and Producer Lin said, and the next day, he booked a ticket to go back to Hong Kong.

In the seventies and eighties, the Hong Kong film industry was actually controlled by the underworld, and this was the case for several large film and television companies, and Lam Productions was no exception. Huang Buxie dared to do something that breached the contract, in fact, he offended the film company, he wouldn't not understand this rule, but he insisted on doing it, so maybe what Huang Buxie was worried about was real.

(A gentleman can understand the will of the world, the changes of the world, and Qu Shu can only advance and retreat at the same time.) Therefore, when you know the place of the end, you should keep the opportunity to know the end, have the great virtue of protecting people, and be careful with the king, although you are in the upper position, you will return to your humility. Be virtuous, respectful, diligent in things, and make unremitting efforts all day long. I still know how to do it. Although it is dangerous, why blame the gentleman for cultivating his virtue and then his body. --"The Biography of Zixia Yi")

(To be continued.) )