Attending the "premiere" of The Exorcism Video?

Kevin Custer was initially uninterested, anyway, he was the Los Angeles Times film critic in charge of thriller and horror films, and "The Exorcism Video" was just a small-budget pseudo-documentary of "unknown origin", and it was not really a screening for film critics, and they agreed to go to the theater together at a time.

Christopher Orr and Frank Sherk also felt offended, what are you kidding, they have better options for watching the movie, and they won't have **.

So all three of them turned down Grande and Potko's invitation. But the two Grandes did not give up, they did a lot of invitation, almost every day begging, not only to the three, but to many critics, Custer was the first to be moved to change his mind, then Orr and Sheker.

The landmark cinema is bustling at night, one of the only two screening venues for TPT.

"Welcome, gentlemen" Grande and the two were smiling in the ticket hall to greet the critics, who were not on time sooner or later.

After shaking hands and talking, everyone walked to the TPT screening room, and the three film critics certainly didn't have to spend money to buy tickets, and the tickets were issued by Cliff Films. In front of the two Grande, they were both a little proud, and Sherk deliberately asked, "Is the director of the film, Cooler, here?"

When it comes to this question, they are curious, and when they first receive the invitation, they will naturally ask about the film, director Yunik Kuller, who is that? But they can only get extremely simple and vague information, male, newcomer, the main creator of the film, will not attend today.

"Kuhler was unable to attend for personal reasons. Grande said with a smile. "Cooler isn't very good at attending such occasions, eccentric genius. Grande coughed, saying that genius is easy to think of Ye Wei, and hurriedly said: "He asked us to thank you, this is not a normal premiere, but it is the best premiere we can give." ”

"The most important thing is the film itself. Custer said. Shek asked half-jokingly, "Cooler wouldn't be you, would he?" Orr let out an intriguing sigh.

The details of these two people, they are clear, "Puzzle Storm" and "Mail Order Bride" are just barely films, and the reputation of the two is very poor, maybe this pseudonym is used in order not to let others have any bad impression of TPT? Or is it for the mystery of pseudo-documentaries, to get such a person who does not have zài to come out?

"Actually, you can say bluntly, we don't care who made a movie when we evaluate it. Custer shook his head slightly, and he could see that the faces of the two were very unnatural, and he was almost sure that this was the truth. Is that a doubt about their professionalism? Only unprofessional film critics will watch people and not watch films, and Polanski will still be praised for making good movies.

Sherk and Alton were also a little unhappy.

"Kuler is really not us. Grande didn't know how to say it, "To be honest, we haven't been able to shoot an exorcism video yet." Potko nodded, and said, "When you watch the movie, you won't think it's made by us." ”

The three film critics didn't continue to dig deeper, and they all became flat, so let's just listen to what they say

Anyway, I came tonight for the sake of their hard work, and I didn't expect to see a good movie. Will Grande and Potcoe be transformed into a pseudo-documentary horror film? The three of them really don't expect to pass, and it would be nice to pass.

When walking into the medium-sized screening hall that was not very lively, the five of them walked all the way to the front row and sat down, surrounded by the crew and relatives and friends, filled with a happy atmosphere.

At the back of the middle row, Lev, Bard, Chennuo, Corwin, and Jay Chen sat sneakily together, and they also carefully dressed up, or wore wigs, or wore caps, glasses, and headbands......

"We shouldn't be recognized, right?" said Bard, nervous from time to time.

"Guys, guys, who's terrible, those two guys over there are staring at me. He suddenly exclaimed again, looking at a pair of young men and women not far from his right, "They seem to recognize me, should I go over and warn them?"

Colwin said calmly, "No one recognizes you, they don't know who we are. ”

"We've made cameo appearances in 'The Wedding is Coming'" Bud almost roared, his face trembling, "my instincts tell me, they recognize me, I'm big, it's easy to recognize" Lev suddenly relaxed, and everyone was relieved, Bud's instincts were never accurate outside of food.

At this moment, the young man and woman stood up, left their seats, and walked to the empty seats in the two rows ahead.

Gesta and Debbie really felt inexplicable, they were stared at by the fat man for a while, and they became more and more weird, and they didn't want to cause trouble, so they had to change seats by themselves.

The two are a couple reading 6uar spoons, and they found an exorcism video on the Internet a few days ago.

First of all, Debbie accidentally watched an amazing video "Demon Girl's Extreme Body Twist", she was shocked, the girl twisted so exaggeratedly, although probably a professional gymnast can do it, but the eerie scenes and depressing music in the video make people feel chilled to watch. Debbie watched it a few times, and then went to the TPT official website, and was attracted by the mysterious, suspenseful, and pseudo-real.

She wanted to see the film and shared her findings with her friends, and Gesta was intrigued to share them. Some of them are interested, and some are not, they all went through the era of "Blair the Witch", when they were teenagers, they believed the Blair incident, and then they were angry and said that they would never be fooled again, but now TPT still aroused their interest.

This time I was not fooled, I was willing, watching this kind of movie just had a special atmosphere, knowing that it was fake, but I could feel that it was a real person.

So on the first day of the release, the two made a special trip to watch it, looking forward to this unforgettable movie-watching experience.

At this time, the movie trailer is playing on the big screen, there are about five minutes before the opening, any audience in the hall only needs to look around, you can know that the attendance rate is very average, 150 seats except for the front row is almost full, the other areas are empty, and less than half of the audience is seated, this is the golden viewing time of the night

"It's not getting any better, it seems like that's it. Kern, Lionsgate's successor investigator, watched the attendance at the entrance of the screening room, and recorded the survey in his hand, which showed that from midnight to now, the attendance rate of the whole day was not good, and he could not do a few surveys.

This is expected by the company, what else can a pseudo-documentary horror film do, the audience can be fooled once.

And with such a meager distribution fee, regular horror films will not work.

Let's just say that on the poster wall of the ticket hall, the poster of "Exorcism Video" is pasted in a very inconspicuous position, not in the middle or on the edge, but near the edge. Even if customers look at it for the first time, they will quickly look away, and there is no star on the poster, and there is no familiar name.

Looking at what films are around, Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn starred in "Translation Storm", and the more popular among young people Ashton Coetzee and Amanda Pitt starring "Meet and Hate Early", black audiences will naturally look at the black film "The King's Ransom", and this week Asian audiences and kung fu fans will look at Asian superstar Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu".

If you want to see thriller horror films, there are "Devil May Cry", starring Ryan Reynolds and others, 1.96 million production costs, high-investment distribution, 332 theaters, although the film reviews have a bad reputation, there are also a large number of audiences who will buy tickets because of its publicity. It's just that this week's 6 test screenings with single-digit theater numbers are not at the same level as it.

There are many other films of various genres......

"Two tickets to Devil May Cry. ”

"Five tickets to "Brave Daddy", thank you. ”

In front of a ticket counter in the bright ticket hall, customers were queuing up to buy tickets, and after the female conductor gave the family five tickets, she heard the name of the movie that she hadn't heard much today: "Please give me two tickets for the exorcism video." ”

The female conductor was not as flexible as she had just now, and almost asked them, "Are you sure?"

The ticket was bought by two young girls, one tall and one short, the taller one was older, wearing a neutral T-shirt and slacks, with long brown hair and a fierce face; The short blonde hair, feminine T-shirt and jeans didn't look happy either, she felt that the short girl was a little familiar, but she couldn't remember why.

The two girls took the tickets and paid for them and left, and the next male customer who bought the tickets stepped forward and said, "Two copies of Sahara Cavalry." ”

"How did he do it? 18 days to make a movie, it's too difficult......"

"It's not too difficult, it's simply not something people do, there is no rehearsal during the whole filming period, you have to think about how to edit when shooting, and the shots are arranged early......"

Gia would not have been so late, she had thought about coming in the afternoon before school ended, but she received a call from Emma, and the little girl had also received a notification from the genius bastard, and wondered if it was some belated April Fool's joke...... Then the two made an appointment to watch the "premiere" in the evening.

She gritted her teeth as she strode along, "The director, screenwriter, producer, editor, soundtrack, how can he have such a terrible guy, is he going to drive me to a dead end?"

"It's amazing. Emma sighed, the more she thought about it, the more unbelievable it became, and the more she muttered, she didn't know much about exploitation films, but could she really make a good movie at this speed, and besides, zero rehearsal? That Nina was not even an actor, zero rehearsal, what kind of performance could there be......

She doesn't know what she's thinking, she's very conflicted, and she doesn't want Viy to fail, but she vaguely doesn't want Nina to be in the limelight in this regard, and the movie aspect is her advantage...... But it's not what she thinks, otherwise it would have been her boyfriend a long time ago.

Hey, Emma raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you think this can work?" "Cool Girl from Girls' School" has been done for more than 18 working days.

"Who knows......" Gia hung her shoulders in frustration, "There are exploitation films that are faster than him, but I can't think of any good movie, who knows......"

"Could this movie be that Viy made it to coax his girlfriend?" Emma felt that its release was also made at her own expense, and she really couldn't think of any other reasonable possibility. Spending so much money and putting so much effort into making your girlfriend happy and acting like a movie star...... It's romantic.

"I don't want it to be. Walking into the screening hall at this time, Ji Ya became serious, looking at the big screen in front of her, her eyes flickering, "Movies are not pickle tools used to make girls happy, movies are movies...... It wouldn't be impossible if he made a movie with a casual attitude, but then I would be disappointed. ”

Emma glanced at her, her eyes flashed with a hint of doubt, and she sighed softly, "If he treats movies like this, I will also be disappointed." "Unless the person he's coaxing me with...

"Attendance seems to be ......" she noticed, there were so many empty seats that she could sit almost anywhere she wanted.

"......Excuse me," Ji Ya frowned, the situation in front of her was really shabby compared to the full house when "The Wedding Date is Coming" just opened.

Does this mean that "Exorcism Video" is a bad movie? Emma's heart jumped, she was worried about him, and it was also a little bit dark, let you mess around with the god of movies for the sake of picking up girls, give him a lesson, don't be too serious, just let him understand......

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A few hours ago, Toronto, Scarborough, Odde's Studios.

The new screening of the TPT theater is about to start, of course, it is a "cold opening", the audience seat that can accommodate 180 is scattered with audiences, the front row is the crew and relatives and friends who arrived early, the Konstantin couple also sat there, and Ye Wei and Nina sat on the edge of the hidden middle row.

This is precisely to hide people's eyes, but now it seems that there is no need for this...... With such a bleak seat, how could anyone recognize him, the real audience of the audience was probably about 20 or nearly 30 people, all of whom looked like young people, and I don't know if it was because of the viral marketing of the viral audience, or the random audience attracted by the posters in the ticket hall.

"Why are there so few people...... Nina looked around, not having the full scene she had imagined before, and felt a little uncomfortable. Yunik next to him didn't speak, she looked at him, he was thinking about something, "Yunik?"

"Oh?" Ye Wei came back to his senses, "What?"

Nina frowned, "I said it seems that there are very few viewers ......"

Ye Wei nodded and said, "Yes, the Lion Gate has given us very little publicity, and it's already good to have this." Nina was skeptical: "That's good?"

In fact, he can't be sure of anything, but he is confident that this is a good movie, and believes that it can shine brightly, and encouraged: "Don't worry, this is only the first day, the first week of screening has just begun, and it will be different after word of mouth spreads." As long as we win word of mouth, it will definitely shake the world"

At this time, when the showtime came, the dimly lit auditorium became silent, and the opening animation of Lionsgate appeared on the big screen.

Everyone in the crew was very excited, and Nina was also excited, holding his right hand, glaring, and muttering, "It's started, it's ......."

“sh-tinp。 Ye Wei once again felt the tranquility under the excitement, clearly leaving this world, handing himself over to the big screen, and creating a movie world by himself.

18 days of hard work, immeasurable hard work, this is the long-awaited premiere of the crew, the premiere of Nina, the premiere of Yunic, and the thriller of the audience

On this night, terror struck