It's hard to imagine a horror film without blood that will become the mainstream of horror films in North America, but the "Ghost Record" series has created such a miracle.

As Sid, and also the first phenomenal film of Fire Lion Pictures, "Ghost Shadow" not only created a new genre of "pseudo-documentary" giant crocodile "DVD horror film", but also the only DV horror film that has been successfully serialized so far.

Just like the "historical" "Blair the Witch" caused a craze, although "Ghost Story" did not come out of the independent film festival.

However, after "Ghost Record", a series of independent film festivals represented by the Sundance Film Festival and the San Francisco Film Festival were full of all kinds of shoddy so-called "DV movies", of which horror films were of course the most, but in addition to horror films, the so-called "movies" shot with handheld DV cameras were by no means a few.

Although Sid reduced the proportion of hand-cranked cameras as much as possible in "Ghost Shadows" to make the viewing as comfortable as possible, the handheld DV photography that broke the routine still went deep into the bone marrow and made quite a few people happy.

In the years after "Ghost Record", this has become a popular trend, shaking to the disgusting DV hand-cranked lens, and countless viewers have been tortured Yuxian Yu to death.

It wasn't until "Ghost Record 2" came out that Fire Lion Pictures became the big man in the DV horror film industry with an undoubted attitude, although it was no longer handled by Sid himself, but the essence of the "Ghost Record" series was grasped by everyone in Fire Lion Pictures.

In the past two works, whether it is the search for parallel stories or the excavation of the sisters' childhood roots, they have created a credible and interesting supernatural world for the story of "Ghost Record".

In the past, such a successful model with a small and broad scale would definitely be filmed by the film company until it rots, and it will not be able to squeeze out a penny of profit.

But this time, "Ghost Record 4" has already told all fans before its release that this will be the final work of the series.

It's not entirely that Fire Lion Pictures and Jon Fairheimer are willing to do this, but with the original heroine Amy Adams winning the "Golden Globe Queen" throne, it is impossible to invite her again in the future to make a cameo appearance in such a million-dollar small production.

In Sid's view, at the moment when the "Youth Musical" series has ended, the "Ghost Record" series has already completed its historical task and can end perfectly in the theater.

So the biggest anticipation of this year's Halloween schedule, the end of the "Ghost Record" series - "Ghost Record 4" was finally released on Friday the 18th.

Although "Ghost Record" no longer needs to spend tens of millions of dollars on publicity like the original generation back then, the pressure on the two rookie directors James Winand Ray Werner has not diminished at all.

To the outside world, this is the last game in the series, and for many fans of "Ghost Record", it can be described as a long-awaited game.

And James Winwin Ray Warner has also spent a lot of effort to figure out how to master the shooting of DV movies, after all, they are from a professional background, and they are also heavy horror movie lovers.

Rather than the change of shooting equipment, they are more concerned with the filming texture, the rhythm of the story, the mysterious symbols and the singing to show the plot of the film, and capture the horror in the environment with an intimate and relatable perspective, and finally bring a very magical evil force to the film!

This is also a fundamental difference from regular plasma horror films, and Sid deliberately did not intervene in the film at all in order to test the talents of James and Wing this time.

In the previous two "Ghost Shadows", although Sid did not participate in them, he still gave tips to company executives and project leaders in the general direction and key points, but this time, Sid wanted to see how far James Win, the future "king of horror films", could go.

On the 18th, an AMC's flagship theater in Santa Monica, Los Angeles held the premiere of "Ghost Record 4", although Sid was not present in person, but both the two protagonists of the original generation and the high-level bosses of Fire Lion Pictures attended the premiere.

"Hey, Jeremy, Jeremy!!" "Amy, Amy——!" When Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams walked the red carpet, they immediately attracted the "firepower" of most of the reporters, who shouted Jeremy and Amy's names while "clicking" the camera.

In front of the flash wall, several other young actors who actually starred in the film stood in a row with Jeremy, while the film's two young directors, James Win and Ray Warner, were also interviewed by reporters on the red carpet.

"Hello, James, are you nervous?" asked a reporter from Variety Magazine holding up a microphone.

"I'm feeling okay. Although James Wing is 25 years old, it is the first time he has walked on the red carpet as a director, so he is still a little nervous in the interview.

"As a rookie director, what is the biggest feeling between you and Lei in this "Ghost Shadow 4"?" the reporter asked.

"Well, sure enough, the shooting and the script are still different. "We did encounter a lot of unexpected things during the shoot, some of them were funny, some of them were embarrassing, but overall, it was a great experience." ”

"Not bad. James Wynn nodded, "When we shoot on location, we will encounter a lot of 'unexpected situations', and we will learn a lot in the process of dealing with them, which is a very new process for both of us." ”

Looking at James Winn Ray Warner, who was being interviewed, Sean, the manager of the production department nearby, smiled and said to CEO Jon Philheimer, "It seems that the newcomers this time are of a good standard." ”

Before the release of "Ghost Record 4", these executives had already tested the movie internally, although "Ghost Record 4" was different from the "original" era, and some modern technology could not be used, but James Win Ray Warner made some adaptations, and did not get too entangled in the burden of the series in the plot, but let them out of their own style.

From this point of view, the two of them have performed much better than most rookie directors.

"Indeed," Jon Philheimer nodded, he knew about Sid's "horror film plan", so he also knew the importance of the two young people, James Win, and Ray Warner, to the next layout of Fire Lion Pictures.

Therefore, he is very much looking forward to the performance of "Ghost Record 4", because the final movie is still valuable if it is tested in the commercial market.