"Invasion of Darkness" has two lines, one bright and one dark, the bright line is that the six girls go on an adventure, and the dark line points to the dream, and the whole movie is somewhat similar to "Island Horror". If the audience only cares about the bright line, the movie is a simple horror film, with a fast pace and more exciting; If the audience wants to explore the dark line and analyze it from the perspective of dreams, they will find a lot of mysteries, one after another.

After the premiere, many people were discussing the end of the movie on their way home.

"I think the movie is a bit like "Island Cry", the front is very scary, and the ending is subverted after all, but the ending is more complicated than "Island Cry", there are a lot of things that I can't figure out, why don't we watch it again?"

"I think it's like Mulholland Drive, tomorrow is Saturday, let's watch it again in the afternoon!"

"It's a little bit of a screening at zero o'clock, let's go see it now!"

"Oops, I forgot about this stubble, hurry up!"

Judging from the statistical results of the second day, the box office of more than 20 theaters in Beijing exceeded 100,000, which was similar to "No Thieves in the World", and the performance was quite good.

However, in the evening, there were a lot of bad comments on "Dark Invasion" on the Internet: "What a bad JB movie, it's completely fooling people, it's a dream for half a day!" ”

"The director is just a trick, a neurotic film!"

"It's not as scary as it was blown, bad movie!"

This is obviously someone deliberately brushing up bad reviews, of course, there are some viewers who are disappointed with the results of watching a scary horror movie, but most fans still gave positive comments.

"It's super! It's a bit of an "Island Cry" feeling, the story is ups and downs, the rhythm is perfect, and the editing is amazing! All kinds of symbols, all kinds of metaphors, all kinds of analogies! Most of the plot is simple, only the ending needs to be savored carefully! Several of the leading actors are super beautiful! Support! It tastes! ”

"With the trials of Mulholland Drive, it is easy to understand when you watch this one again, because the death of her husband and daughter creates a dream with a reflection of objective things. But dreams are dreams after all! ”

And for fans, it was even more one-sided praise: "It's so good-looking, it's so exciting, I want to watch it again!" ”

"I couldn't believe it, I always thought that Lao Xu could only play a gentle woman and a girl next door, but I didn't expect to be so strong, too cool, too strong, and so handsome!"

"Ziyi acted so well. Especially the finale at the end. It's too realistic. I'm almost crying! ”

In addition to the praise of fans and fans, various professional media and film critics have also commented.

"A masterpiece of domestic horror films, an amazing movie!"

――Beijing Metropolis Daily

"The cinematography and editing of the film are very, very distinctive. And it has an almost perfect combination with the plot and theme. Perspective lenses make up a large proportion of the film, and there is a lot of use of foreground, close-up, and backlighting, and the cut is extremely simple and powerful, and the impact is strong. The soundtrack is just right, blending in with certain scenes to make a great impression. ”

――Nandu Entertainment News

"Thank you to radio and television, thank you to the big scissors of radio and television, if they didn't scissors the horror scenes of "Dark Invasion" and didn't force Cheng Peng to revise the ending, there would be no current "Dark Invasion". After so many years, radio and television has finally done a good thing! ”

- "Xinlang Entertainment" Zhang Chengjun

At noon on Saturday, the main creators of the crew gathered in Cheng Peng's office, waiting for the box office to be released on the first day, everyone believed that this number must be good, but when everyone saw the accurate number, the whole office was jubilant.

The box office on the first day was 6.8 million!

This figure surpassed the first-day box office of "No Thieves" of 6.5 million. Almost all the media reaction was: This is not scientific!

This does seem a bit illogical, the plastic surgery of "No Thieves in the World" is more powerful, Feng Xiaogang, Liu Dehua, Ge You, Liu Ruoying, and "Dark Invasion" is only Cheng Peng, Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei, and the appeal is obviously worse. Looking at the film schedule again, "No Thieves in the World" has reached 58%, while the schedule of "Invasion of Darkness" is only 42%, a difference of 16 percentage points, no matter how you look at it, "No Thieves in the World" should be higher.

But if you think about it, it's not surprising that "Blair the Witch" and "Ghost Record" are quite mediocre movies in themselves, why can they achieve amazing results around the world? Relying on clever hype. The same is true of "Invasion of Darkness", first scared the chairman of the jury to the point of hospitalization in Venice, then the secret war with "No Thieves in the World", and then the overwhelming publicity, the audience's appetite has long been satisfied, and many people rushed to see this movie that almost scared people to death in the first time.

At noon on Monday, the box office of "Invasion of Darkness" was released in the first week, with 25 million, and the box office of "No Thieves in the World" in the third week, 15 million, with a cumulative box office of 85 million, is still strong.

According to the current performance of "Invasion of Darkness", it is easy to break through 60 million at the box office, but it is difficult to say how far the next road can go, because the real giant "Kung Fu" is coming soon, and what is even worse is that "Kung Fu" has raised the schedule to December 23!

The strongest appeal in the Chinese film industry is not Zhang Yimou, not Feng Xiaogang, not Jackie Chan, not others, but Stephen Chow. Zhang Yimou's supporters are mainly middle-aged, Feng Xiaogang's supporters are mainly concentrated in the north of the Yangtze River, and Zhou Xingchi is suitable for all ages regardless of region.

Everyone knows that "Kung Fu" is very strong, but only Cheng Peng knows how strong "Kung Fu" is, "Kung Fu" has a domestic box office of 160 million, a Japanese box office of 1.7 billion yen, a North American box office of 17.1 million US dollars, a global box office of more than 100 million US dollars, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which is a masterpiece that has caused a sensation around the world.

In the face of such a movie that will explode at the box office and word of mouth, the pressure on "Invasion of Darkness" is absolutely high, so the next week is crucial, especially the three days of Christmas. If it is not resisted in the past three days, the film schedule of "Dark Invasion" will be slashed, and the box office may come to an end of 60 million, just like "Casting a Name" was cut in half by "Assembly Number".

Of course, the strength of "Kung Fu" is expected, and Cheng Peng is also prepared for this, the fans of horror films are limited, and the next promotion must attract other audiences as much as possible. Now the main force of domestic movies is young white-collar workers between the ages of 25 and 35, and in order to attract this part of the audience, it is necessary to come up with something with depth and thickness, and this is the strength of "Invasion of Darkness".

In the afternoon of the same day, a film review appeared on the entertainment column of the "Beijing Metropolis Daily" with the headline: "'Invasion of Darkness' is a high-IQ movie." If your IQ is less than 100, you won't be able to read it! ”

The article reads: "It's a dream, and the whole world is in it. And our world always contains countless dreams. There are always a lot of unsatisfactory things in our lives, there are many things that need to be changed, and we can't change them, and many times we can only achieve them through dreams.

Dreams are projections of reality, but what is reflected in dreams is only the tip of the iceberg, the movie only talks about one-third of the things, and two-thirds of the things are hidden underneath, which is for you to slowly reminisce. I think that's good. Some things don't need to be said in plain language. Saying that, one-third is enough. The IQ of the audience should be trusted. The audience knows that what they see is a third of the water exposed, and if they want to know the whole thing, they have to figure out what the bottom two-thirds looks like, if you don't like to ponder. That may not be very clear. is like a wine with a high degree of alcohol, and you will be dizzy as soon as you come up, but his wine, which is not high, is slowly infecting you, mellow but not strong, this movie needs someone to taste it slowly. I don't think people who have patience will definitely not be able to understand people with an IQ of less than 100! ”

The author of the article is Wang Shuo, a man who has many readers in China. His novels have been remade into a large number of TV series and movies, such as the TV series "Addicted", the movies "Sunny Day", "Looks Beautiful", "Father and Son" and so on are all adapted from his novels. At the same time, he has led the screenwriting and planning of many famous film and television works, including "Beijingers in New York", "The Story of the Editorial Department", "I Love My Home", "Party A and Party B", "A Sigh" and so on, which have great influence.

Cheng Peng naturally has no ability to invite this awesome character who even Jin Yong and Zhang Yimou dare to scold. It's all up to Xu Jinglei to help. When Xu Jinglei took on "Dark Invasion", she wanted to broaden her acting path, but she didn't expect the role of Zhu Zhu to be too successful, whether it was the media or the audience, they were full of praise, and the limelight even overshadowed the female number one Zhang Ziyi, so she worked very hard to publicize it.

In addition to speaking out on her blog, she also invited her friends to come out and speak, the relationship between Wang Shuo and Xu Jinglei is known to everyone, and it is definitely okay for him to stand up and say two sentences.

Almost at the same time, many media outlets also spoke out together, declaring that "Invasion of Darkness" is a movie with depth and thought, a high-IQ movie, and it is impossible to really understand it after watching it once, and it needs to be revisited repeatedly.

Internet publicity has always been the focus of Cheng Peng's attention, so in a short period of time, a large number of analysis posts about "Dark Invasion" appeared on the Internet, analyzing dreams, analyzing Chen Ran's knowledge that Zhu Zhu had an affair with her husband, analyzing why Li Weiran died in a dream, analyzing why Chen Ran laughed weirdly, and so on.

This situation is a bit like the propaganda of metaphors in the later "Let the Bullets Fly", everything is a metaphor, for example, the horse-drawn train at the beginning of the movie can lead to the road of Marxism-Leninism, you can't say that he is wrong, if you say that he is wrong, there will immediately be a bunch of people who refute that you don't understand the connotation. Now "Invasion of Darkness" is this feeling, whoever wants to say that this film is not good, will immediately be deducted with an IQ of less than 100.

For example, someone posted on the post bar: "I feel so bored after reading it, watching it for a long time turned out to be a dream, I was speechless, not good-looking, very bad-looking!" ”

The following immediately followed a large post: "The owner's IQ is lower than 100, and the identification is complete!" ”

"It's not your fault that you have a low IQ, it's your fault when you come out! It takes IQ to watch this movie, didn't you read the hints? I can't understand something with an IQ below 100! ”

"The landlord baked cakes!"

"Little steel cannon powder with an IQ of less than 100, the identification is complete!"

In an extreme period of time, the entire Internet set off a wave of detailed analysis of "Dark Invasion", and words such as "masterpiece", "awesome", and "invincible" were pressed on the head of "Dark Invasion".

On December 23rd, "Kung Fu" came, and the schedule of "Invasion of Darkness" dropped to 27%, "No Thieves in the World" 14%, and "Kung Fu's film schedule was as high as 55%, and "Kung Fu" did not disappoint, with a box office of an astonishing 10 million on the first day.

The 24th was Christmas Eve, and "Kung Fu" achieved an astonishing 20 million box office, and when the box office was released on Monday, "Kung Fu" shocked everyone's attention with a box office of 64 million, becoming the first-week box office champion of domestic films in history.

"Kung Fu" is too strong and crazy, so many people think that "Invasion of Darkness" will definitely be crushed into fans by "Kung Fu", but when they open their eyes and look at the box office rankings, their eyes widen, no, they performed so well!

"Invasion of Darkness" grossed 35 million in the second week.

ps：

In fact, the ending of Cheng Peng's new version of "Dark Invasion" was changed from the ending of the movie "Life and Death", which is one of the thirteen high-IQ movies that some people have arranged.