Chapter 257: Sensual Terror
Tension emanated from the screen, enveloping the two screening rooms, and most of the audience held their breath, their hearts beating out of order.
The photographer apparently stood at the edge of the pit, looking down at the coffin in the camera very close, obliquely occupying the entire screen, the light of the flashlight dim, illuminating the blurred edges of the frame. Switzer crouched on the ground, his small half reaching into the camera, and he reached in to open the coffin's flap.
The camera is pushed closer to close-up, full of strange yellow light, and the hand is lifting the lid of the coffin-
Even the filming crew at the time was very uneasy at this time, and the average viewer was about to have a heart attack, what was in it? What was the purpose of the demon?
That terrible imagination of the unknown, fear of demons and monsters, and fear of darkness are actually part of human nature
There was a seeping squeak, the coffin was opened, every audience member frowned, and the theater was so silent that there was only the sound of the lid lifting, bang
The upturned lid of the coffin blurred the image for a moment, and at the moment when the audience's nerves were tense to the extreme, a black shadow suddenly rushed out of the coffin, and a large close-up of the hideous skull appeared clearly, the two eyeholes were filled with blood, and the demon's face flashed alternately, and at the same time a terrifying and twisted scream sounded: "Ah"
"Ahh
No one thought that it would be this kind of expression, the first-person view of the camera suddenly turned into a terrifying close-up, so vicious, so deadly
In that moment, the tense nerves broke, the beating of the heart stopped, the source of fear was opened, and the endless fear consumed the mind
The more fascinated I looked, the more scared I became. The three film critics are all pale, and they are still frightened when they watch a horror movie almost every day, which really makes people wonder if the screening hall is full, and there will be an audience who will faint under that probability.
Grande and Potcoe are really different from this formalistic lens, and they use it well
With this fear, tonight is worth it
It was Maggie who was called on the screen, and when the flash of a second or two ended, the camera camera had already hurriedly swayed to Maggie's side, and the scene inside the coffin was not clearly photographed, and the chaotic and fast voice-over sounded, and Switzer said sadly, "Did I lie to you?" Ramon panicked "Mom, Daddy......" The female recording engineer was stunned "Maggie lied?"
"I said a long time ago that we need to calm down, Maggie is sick......" Cotton's tone was very helpless.
The camera has already focused on Maggie who is standing not far away, she listens to their words, with a faint smile on her face, without the sad crying like before, as if she has made up, her face and lips are paler than ever like evil spirits, and her tone is much rougher: "Because of your stupidity, now I can play with this well." ”
In the sweeping shot, Cotton, Switzer and others were at a loss.
The demon officially appeared, and the audience realized this, and their trembling hearts told the situation, and the demon became even stronger, powerful enough to appear
"How about gouging out one of her eyes first?" Maggie's right hand raised to reach out to the eye, "Left eye or right eye?"
She didn't have an abominable demon face like Regan, she was still a beautiful and delicate girl's face despite her makeup, but wasn't it surprising that a face that was so sweet and innocent when she smiled could be so scary, so demon-like, and in a calm way.
Emma opened her mouth slightly, and after screaming just now, she turned into a stone sculpture and did not react.
"Oh shit, what a pervert..."Gia patted her chest in shock, not bothering to relive the fright.
On the screen, Swiftzer pleaded with Cotton: "Sir, help us it us, save my daughter"
Cotton is not clear about the situation.
But the three critics knew, and the general audience also knew, that it was obvious that the demon had a little scruple about Cotton before, but not now, because those people desecrated the grave of Maggie's mother Amy, and desecrated the few remaining faith guardians on the farm, and the black shadow was the sealed magic, and now it is all on Maggie.
was led into the trap by the devil step by step, all because they lacked the heart to discern the truth, and they were all inclined to the devil's lies, even including Ramon, who thought that the grumpy Sweitzer should be a bad person, and that the weak Maggie should be a good person, and Sweitzer himself lost his faith and became a bad temper, which led to this situation.
Demons are good at exploiting human weaknesses, and humans have no idea what demonic weaknesses are
At this time, there was a sudden bang, the camera panned, and I saw that the wooden lid of the coffin was closed, but no one had any movements without waiting for Cotton and others to react, boom, boom, and the whole coffin shook violently, just like the wooden bed during the previous exorcism.
Maggie uttered a strange series of words, not like any language, maybe demonic, with a look that looked like a smile rather than a smile, mixed with hateful and mocking glances.
In a multi-player medium side shot, Cotton is either shocked or angry, and the demon is desecrating Maggie's mother's coffin and laughing at them
Suddenly, the whole coffin broke through the ground and stood up diagonally, and a small section of the pit was already exposed, and only supernatural power could guide the movement in front of him.
"What, what's going on?" the female sound recorder looked frightened, and the cameraman was backing away in panic, which made the camera shake, and he shouted "Demon...... She's a demon......" Switzer in front of him said sadly, "Sir, aren't the facts clear enough?"
The camera panned, Cotton's face became heavy, the cold sweat on his face appeared on the screen, and he asked Maggie opposite, "Who are you?"
"I'm Amy. Maggie's tone suddenly changed again, and her expression was full of grief, "Why do I have cancer? I go to church every week, does anyone remind me? God says a word to me? Why do you treat me like this?"
"You're not Amy" Switzer rushed up angrily, "leave my daughter"
"Maggie is not your daughter, her father is someone else......"
Ramon, who was closer, was quicker than Switzer and punched her and "shut up"
The audience's hearts were sudden, they didn't see Ramon hit Maggie, they only saw Maggie's ghostly speed, grabbed Ramon's shoulder at once, and shook him off violently, the camera captured it so clearly, Ramon suddenly flew upside down like a puppet screaming, slammed on the coffin, and fell into the pit and disappeared.
The erected coffin was about to fall down, and the female recording engineer and camera assistant hurriedly ran up to pull the part that exposed the pit, but it was very difficult and difficult, and they were about to be pulled into it together, "I can't hold it", "Cotton, say something, say something"
The female recorder shouted to Cotton in a trembling voice, facing the supernatural power of the demon, and Cotton was the only one who could fight it.
Switzer, who also went over to help, screamed as if he was crying, so helpless and painful.
The tension in the two screening rooms outside the screen was about to penetrate into the screen, and the audience forgot how to blink, and could feel the grief, Cotton, say something
"This is an fornication, maybe God punished me because of her existence?" Maggie said, suddenly a hoe flew up on the ground and stood upside down in front of her, the camera zoomed in, the fingers of her right hand wiped off the hoe, and then her hand was covered with blood, "Then cut off this head, and God will forgive me?" Her head twisted to the side, and her right palm grabbed the hoe, and she was about to sink into it.
As soon as the camera opened, Cotton's face changed, and the cold sweat became more and more, and at this moment of great danger, he finally shouted: "I can be sure that you are not Amy Maggie, do you believe that your mother will hurt you? Maggie I am asking you, will your mother hurt Ramon, will she hurt you? Answer me, Margaret Witzer, answer me"
As Cotton shouted, the hoe fell limply to the ground, and Maggie looked pained, as if Maggie and the demon were fighting over the body. The more Cotton shouted "Answer me", the more painful and hideous she became, holding her head in her hands, trembling all over, and her voice became a little weaker: "Mom...... Won't hurt me and Ramon......
"Speak to me, he led me to rest by the water, and he revived my soul. Lead me in the path of righteousness for my name's sake. Cotton snapped out a Bible verse, as he had previously exorcized, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil." For thou art with me, and thy rod and thy rod comfort me Maggie, Maggie."
"Mom, it won't hurt me......" Maggie muttered, her voice extremely weak, and with a hint of tenderness, she suddenly fell to the ground and fainted.
The coffin over there was suddenly pulled by the three of them, and the tense breath melted slightly, and the audience almost breathed out one after another, okay......
The camera swept over Cotton again, and the middle-aged face covered with cold sweat seemed to be calm and stunned. The facts are in front of him, what is he thinking, and is he still wondering if Maggie is just a psychological problem?
The scene cuts to a deserted barn, the floor is full of messy straw, and Maggie is curled up in a corner, her hands and feet locked to the chain. The female recording engineer is covering her with a blanket; Ramon stood next to him, his face bruised, but he didn't seem to be in trouble.
The camera zooms out, and at the barn door, Swaitzer is pleading with Cotton: "The devil is torturing her, and now you are the only one who can save her and our family, Pastor Marcus, help us" Ramon looked over.
"Honestly, I'm a little confused......," Cotton said, much stricter than before, "but I agree that another exorcism is necessary...... I'll do another exorcism for Maggie. ”
"Thank you, thank you. Switzer hurriedly thanked him first. The photographer asks in a frightened voiceover, "Will it work?"
"I tried my best. Cotton muttered, looking into the corner of the vistol, "I need to do something else this time." ”
Every audience member in front of the screen can see that his confidence is lacking, although he is the heir of the exorcism family, he has never been an exorcist seriously, he is just a magic stick. Will Cotton succeed? The audience couldn't imagine that this wasn't a comedy, this was a horror story......
In horror films, it is certain that someone will die, and in the end of "The Exorcist", Father Callas was martyred to save Regan and himself, what about the exorcism video?
"I wish I had the devil in my hands. Gia slapped her thigh, her frowning brows couldn't relax, it couldn't be a happy ending, right? That kid can make people happy when he makes comedy, and how sad he can make people sad when he makes tragedy, she knows that he can......
Emma didn't think much about how Nina was acting, she nodded when she heard this, and hoped that the demon would be killed and Maggie would get better, it was Maggie
"Hey" watched the movie so far, and the three film critics are sighing and sighing.
Custer thinks that the word "sensual" is absolutely indispensable in his TPT film review, which is a sensual horror film.
"I don't want us to think she's dead" is a classic line. Amy's death is a reality that the family has not yet accepted, the most important thing is that Sweitzer did not accept it, and he even maintained the family by not holding a funeral, not letting the children see what their mother looked like after her death, and not letting the children go out more, hoping that everyone would not feel that Amy was dead, or that he himself would not. The wife is just out of the house, and like she does every time she goes out, she'll come back......
The closed life did not bring Ramon and Maggie out of the shadow of sadness.
Ramon hated his father, he didn't understand, he was a rebellious teenage boy, he didn't understand a lot of things. And Maggie is stricter than Ramon, she still misses her mother all the time, always immersed in the grief of losing her mother, and underneath her optimistic and cheerful appearance is a scarred heart.
Amy's death represents the mysterious will of God, and the Swaitzers' non-acceptance, far from church schools and churches, is also far from God.
This is the reason why the demon has a chance, and the reason why the demon is growing stronger. They have not only lost Amy, but also the faith, happiness, and sunshine she represents, leaving only a dark farm blocked by ice and snow and isolated from the world, a broken family full of misunderstandings and alienation.
This is a very different look from "Blair the Witch", the mouth is dedicated to creating a terrifying atmosphere, until the last scene is talking about "fear of the unknown", and there is no such sensibility. TPT's fear doesn't just come from the unknown, it also comes from pain.
The pain of the characters on the screen, the pain that the audience can empathize with.
Orr sighed because he felt pain, and he knew he was in pain because he was at a loss.
It seems that the Switzer family has lost their faith, but the film has undoubtedly raised a big question: how to face faith when faced with sudden unbearable pain? When human beings fall into the pain of self-consciousness and innocence, there are two attitudes towards religious belief, one is to seek solace, and the other is to abandon and trample. But which one is sincere?
Orr thinks that the true believer should be like Father Dale in The Exorcist, who is not obsessed with or does not need holy objects such as crosses, but the devil cannot infringe on him in the slightest, because his heart is truly given to God, with true peace and the power given by Christ.
Cotton, could it be?