Accompanied by music that hides terror and tension, a carriage gallops through the night.

An old man in a white wig sat in a carriage with a nervous expression.

Suddenly, there was a thunderclap in the sky.

The driver of the car was startled, and the old man in the car looked out of the car uneasily.

In a blur, there seemed to be a phantom flashing from the side of the carriage.

The old man retracted into the carriage, but suddenly heard a neighing of a horse in front of him, followed by the sound of a sword unsheathed.

This made the old man sit on pins and needles, especially after hearing a slight "pop", he couldn't help but poke his head out of the carriage again-

The coachman's head is gone!

The old man's mouth grew in surprise when he saw this scene, and he didn't even have time to scream before he realized a little—

Without the driver's control, the galloping carriage will soon lose control and crash!

In desperation, although he was afraid, he could only barely jump off the carriage.

Even though the fall was not light, in the face of the fear of the unknown, he plunged headlong into the cornfield on the side of the road and began to run wildly.

"It's like a mime!"

Roger Albert couldn't help but smack his lips when he saw this.

- Because of the special invitation of Andrew Kevin Walker on the Paramount side, he was invited to the scene as soon as "Guillotine Valley" was released in Chicago.

As an elder among film critics, he also watched some silent movies when he was a teenager.

There is no dialogue at all, only sound effects such as thundering and neighing, and even the color is closer to black and white, which makes him feel a little bit of the silent movie era.

This made him miss it very much, and he couldn't help but have a little good impression of this movie.

Of course, as a film critic who has read countless films, Roger Albert knows very well that this is actually a little trick of the director.

However, he doesn't hate it.

In fact, he thinks the opening credits without dialogue are well applied.

That silent silent film feeling, paired with a monster that doesn't show up at all, is very appropriate for the situation.

Sitting in the screening room, Roger only felt a wordless sense of fear rushing across the big screen.

"Very good lens language!"

Feeling the faint sense of fear, Roger Albert muttered to himself.

Compared with the older film critics in Chicago, Emily, a young girl who is currently watching a movie in Washington, D.C., has a different feeling.

She certainly won't be afraid!

As a girl who grew up watching horror movies, Emily is not intimidated by fear, although she is not intimidated.

In fact, after experiencing the silent atmosphere of fear, Emily even felt that her adrenaline levels were slowly rising.

That's the feeling that a little girl feels when she sees her favorite horror movie.

"I love this movie!"

Emily said to herself.

She glanced at Abby beside her—

In the darkness, her newfound friend's face was indistinct, but her eyes were shining.

- Abby is really my friend!

Emily was sure of it in an instant.

At this time, a dull thunderclap sounded again in the screening hall.

On the big screen, after the old man ran over a large cornfield, his eyes suddenly disappeared. It just so happened that there was a thunderclap at this time, and he subconsciously looked up-

A scarecrow with a pumpkin head is standing silently there.

- Like the old man, many viewers in front of the big screen also breathed a sigh of relief.

Some even smiled and said softly:

"Happy Halloween!"

- It's the night of October 31st, after all!

However, Emily and other viewers who have watched more horror movies know that things will not end so simply-

The old man on the big screen feels the same way.

Even, he realized, that the horror thing that had been chasing him was right behind him.

With fear on his face, and even more with pleading, the old man slowly turned his head.

At this moment, the camera gradually coincided with the old man's perspective-

A sword flash flashed.

The audience didn't even see the person wielding the sword clearly, so they subconsciously leaned back.

No way, the sword light that came directly to the camera was too real, and people couldn't help but feel that they would be cut if they didn't dodge.

And by the time everyone restrained their defensive instincts, on the big screen, the old man's head had been cut off.

The blood splattered the face of the scarecrow not far from him.

The grinning pumpkin head, with the blood on it, looks inexplicably gloomy and terrifying.

"It's a pity that I didn't see it clearly!"

Emily had some regrets.

The moment she saw the sword light just now, she also subconsciously dodged, which made her lose the opportunity to see the person or monster chasing the old man.

"The director must have done it on purpose!"

The little girl muttered angrily.

Abby, who was sitting next to her, nodded in agreement.

"Of course I did it on purpose!"

In the premiere screening room in London, Charlotte answers Charlize's questions in her head.

The girl's questioning, as well as the whispers of complaints in the screening room, made the corners of Mr. Director's mouth smile.

"I've deliberately adjusted the camera here, so that the time is short enough to see the sword light rushing in my face, and definitely not the person wielding the sword. ”

"Isn't there enough frame rate for 24 frames?"

Charlize remembered the visual principles Charlotte had explained to herself in "Fatal Bend".

"Yes. ”

Charlotte nodded, then added in her mind,

"Moreover, I also deliberately used a bit of magic in this scene to cover up Rob Ingie, who was playing the Headless Horseman at the time. ”

"So, even if someone's eyes exceed the limit of a normal person, they can't see the Headless Horseman clearly?"

Charlize asked in his head.

"Yes, the fear of the unknown is the scariest thing, isn't it?"

“......”

Although Charlotte's words were completely correct, Charlize felt that if the audience found out, they would definitely send him the blade.

- Or, throw him into the river and turn him into a floating corpse?

The girl thought viciously.

Then, a floating corpse appeared on the big screen.

This is New York in 1799.

Johnny Depp's Iqab Karan has finally appeared.

- As the male protagonist, of course, he will not be a floating corpse.

He was the one who found the floating corpses.

A young and impulsive rookie police officer who wants to introduce various scientific methods into the detection, but is always rejected by his superiors.

Seeing the big screen, when the actor argued with his boss that the floating corpse should not be burned, but should be autopsied to find out the truth, Emily, who was in the 90s of the 20th century, couldn't believe it.

"Were the police of that era so simple and rude?"

She decided to consult the experts around her.

INTERVIEWER As a forensic officer at NCIS, Abby must know a lot about this, right?

Abby, who was sitting next to Emily, nodded,

"In fact, even now, many police officers are still very simple and rude. ”

Abby whispered in her ear,

"Moreover, although the post-mortem work has been around for a long time, it was at the end of the 19th century that it was really taken seriously. ”

"I see. ”

Emily nodded.

- In this way, in 1799, it was normal for the male protagonist Iqab's suggestion to be rejected by his superiors.

PS1: Halloween 3 is definitely also an episode of the "Halloween" horror series. In the plot description of the movie "Guillotine Valley", I will not introduce other titles, of course, 2: In the beginning paragraph of "Guillotine Valley", I basically wrote according to the original film, but the oncoming sword light was added by myself, and I prefer this kind of high-impact shot.