Chapter 256: Opening the Coffin
As the camera slammed forward, the image on the screen blurred and darkened, and then it recovered, and the camera shook very much, sweeping the concerned faces of the two Cotton in front of him, and the photographer's voice rang out: "I'm fine, the camera is fine."
The audience was able to exhale, only for the photographer to fall and think he had been killed.
The camera looks down and sweeps a pile of blood on the snow, without saying whose it is, like the photographer's, or maybe Maggie left it.
"Keep looking." As soon as they reached the snow-covered grove, and there was no sign of Maggie in a sweep, the female recording engineer looked around anxiously and said, "It's getting dark, we need to find Switzer before she comes back."
When they stood next to the car parked in the far side of the ancient house, it was dark, not the real night scene of the "day and night" style in the car before, Cotton flashed a strong flashlight, and the three members of the film team discussed: "She may have left a long time ago.", "Like last night.", "What to do."
The camera pans over, and a pickup truck drives back from the left side of the screen, and through the lowered window, Switzer's angry face can be seen, "You're still there"
The headlights of the pickup truck illuminated the surroundings of the road, and a figure suddenly appeared on the screen, standing not far from the side of the road opposite Cotton and the others, Maggie stood barefoot on the snow, her face expressionless, and her hole fell on her long, on the bloodstained gray dress.
"She's there," the female recorder exclaimed, and the pickup truck had already driven by, and they hurried towards Maggie, but she turned and ran again.
"Maggie, stand, Maggie" Cotton shouted.
"Mr. Pastor, it seems that you still don't believe in my existence." An eerie screeching sound could be heard from afar.
In the exclamation of the film team, and also in the nervous hearts of the audience, the camera was pushed closer, and the flashlight light was turned on, only to see Maggie at the far end of the head leaning back first, and then the upper body was broken and reversed, the upside-down face was crooked, as if there was a crackling sound effect, and the female recording engineer frightened voiceover: "Oh my God."
Viewers like Debbie, who were first attracted by the viral marketing video "Demon Girl's Extreme Body Twist", were slightly stunned, but they finally came, but they didn't expect that the feature film was a hundred times more terrifying than the video
Maggie pressed her hands into the snow, arching the bridge, like a tribute to the classic shot of Ruigen climbing down the stairs in "The Exorcist", she didn't climb, she stood upside down, jumped up and continued to run forward, constantly twisted in fear, and suddenly looked back again, with a cold face, brown eyes, full of resentful eyes, trembling slightly, and her expression gradually became hideous.
"It's typical hysteria, she thinks she's overrun by a demon......" Cotton's panicked voiceover, running into the camera, "Demon, I order you to leave"
So pale and powerless.
"Hahahaha" Maggie burst out laughing, and the audience knew what the demon was mocking and saw her turn around, twisting her body a few times like a rattle, each time the magnitude was terrifying, for fear that her bones would break somewhere
"Maggie, wake up", "Stand back, back off" Cotton They panicked back, and Maggie turned and ran again.
"Let's leave, it's not right......" The photographer couldn't hide his frightened voice.
"She's just a 6-year-old girl, there are no demons in this world," Cotton shouted, leading the way to chase after her.
Many viewers feel breathless, the weirdness, depression, coldness, and cruelty accumulated from the first second of the beginning are all now erupting, looking at the string of barefoot footprints on the dark snow, it is really terrifying
"It's not a special effect, is it...... She really twisted herself like that, really performed barefoot in the snow...... "Emma doesn't know what to say.
"That kid is really willing." Jiya sighed, "If this is a movie made for pickling girls, I don't understand, does he understand pickling girls or not?"
On the screen, the dedicated photographer and camera assistant still chased after them, and as soon as the camera was in place, they went to the grove again, and then chased to the back of the woods, and the flashlight swept around, and they saw a dark and blurry front, where Maggie was standing, and next to her was the tombstone of a grave.
Her right hand rests on top of the tombstone, half of her face obscured by scattered lengths, and the other half drowned in darkness.
The audience frowned, they could already guess that it was Maggie's mother's grave, what the damned demon wanted to do?
The tension in the screening room was about to freeze, and the tension on the screen had become qualitative, Cotton and the others slowly walked up, "Maggie?", "Are you okay?" At this moment, to the unexpected situation on and off the screen, Maggie suddenly cried out loud, holding the tombstone and crying helplessly, "I can't bear it anymore, Mom, I can't support it anymore......"
"Mental problems." Cotton turned back and whispered to the camera.
When they approached, Maggie didn't attack them, but cried bitterly, her face was frozen blue, and she was trembling, so pitiful that it was heartbreaking.
"There's it in the car, I'll get it." Voiceover for a camera assistant.
"Woo Mom...... I can't hold it anymore......" Maggie was still crying.
There are many reasons for the audience's worries, Maggie is undoubtedly pitiful, but is Maggie Maggie now, or is it a demon? Demons can deceive people, lies, provoke, and attack have a real purpose. Three-year-old children know, don't believe in demons
However, it is not clear to Cotton and his party that Maggie has really been invaded by demons.
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The three critics are all keenly judging that just as the voice is not weird, the demon of TPT does not seem to be particularly weird, and now it is definitely the demon who controls Maggie, and it deliberately leads them to Maggie's mother's grave, why?
Don't look at us Grande, Potko avoids the admiring eyes of the critics, and can't stand it
As far as the script is concerned, in fact, from the second act, Cooler has made a lot of changes not only in the setting, but only used a small scene of them to be compact, their cat killing scene is not so penetrating in front of Cotton and others, and there is no emotional foreshadowing rendering of Maggie and Katie in the front, that is, she went to the barn in the middle of the night to kill another twisted animal.
From the second half of the scene to the ending, it is also this period that is a completely new plot of Kuhler.
If it's the progress of their script, now Cotton and they have just sawed off the chains for Maggie, because a small scene from the beginning will be longer, and the plot of Cotton and them going to visit the local pastor Manley, etc., the rhythm is far less tense and exciting than tonight.
Not to mention the talent in directing, a good director can tell a bad story wonderfully, and a bad director can tell a good story boring.
On the screen, the camera is still beside the grave, Maggie has put on a pair of red shoes, wearing a thick men's black coat, red, black and white snow form a strong visual conflict, encroaching on the audience......'s eyes.
"You mean your father?" Cotton was surprised, and the female recording engineer was immediately furious: "He's a brute Maggie, don't be afraid, we won't let him hurt you again."
"After my mother got cancer, his temper became more grumpy, and that day he was very drunk and he touched me...... When his mother saw him scolding him, he suddenly went crazy." Maggie cried again as she spoke, a look of fear on her face, "He, he hacked her with an axe...... Mom fell to the ground, a lot of blood ......"
The female recording engineer hugged the trembling Maggie tightly and comforted her repeatedly: "We will help you, you don't have to be afraid." And then he said to the camera, "Cotton, we have to call the police."
The camera swept over Cotton next to him, he looked pensive and didn't speak.
Maybe the people on the screen are angry about Switzer's crime, but the audience has another chill, which is clearly a demon lying
"He burned her body, and he told me not to tell anyone or he would kill me, and Ramon went out that day and didn't know that...... He was afraid that I would sue others, so he wouldn't let us out, he lied to everyone and said that he took his mother out for treatment, and within a week, he said that his mother was sick and died, and brought back her coffin and buried it in our backyard......"
Maggie's tears fell in strings, like tear gas, "But no one else knows why my mother didn't even have a decent funeral, because she didn't go out for treatment at all, because there was no body of her in the coffin, she was burned by him, woo woo woo ......"
"Cotton, call the police." The female sound engineer added, and the photographer's voice rang out, "yes, it's a murder and a rape."
"We don't know...... Maggie is sick." Cotton's tone was tactful, and the subtext was that it was just a conjecture of her insaneness? He added, "Don't be impulsive, calling the police will ruin her, ruin a family."
The audience almost knew that the devil was deceiving people, but they still had a little suspicion, remembering the previous interview with passers-by in the town, who said that the Switzer family seemed to have disappeared, think about Switzer's irritability...... But the demon that is clearly present reminds every viewer that this is a conspiracy......
"What are you doing there" suddenly sounded in an angry voiceover, Switzer.
The camera became very shaky, and when she turned around, she saw Swaitzer and Ramon trotting over, "Leave me immediately" Switzer looked like he was going to hit someone, Ramon was going to pull Maggie to protect him, and the female recording engineer gave Cotton a look and said, "Let's leave first." Cotton asked directly, "Maggie is pregnant, do you know?"
In the close-up, both of them are stunned, and then Switzer's face becomes very ugly, muttering, "Demon, it defiled Maggie." Ramon asked suspiciously, "Are you kidding?"
The female recording engineer suddenly scolded out of control: "It's you brute, you killed your wife, you raped Maggie, you brute" She broke into the camera, "Don't record it, catch him" The screen was shaky and chaotic, and Switzer said angrily: "You say it again?" Maggie is holding the tombstone and crying.
With the cameraman's exclamations, the image blurred and it was obvious that the camera was turned off, and when recording resumed, Switzer and Ramon had figured out the situation
Swaitzer was angry and sad to Cotton and said: "The devil bewitched her, what she said was not true, Amy was diagnosed with terminal cancer when she was diagnosed, she was hit hard, she went very fast She is a simple person, she didn't want to have a big funeral, I wasn't in the mood at that time, so I ......"
"You're lying, you burned Mommy" Maggie suddenly screamed, breaking down and crying, "You're a murderer, you killed Mommy......"
Everyone on the screen is helpless, Switzer has a huge suspicion, and it seems that calling the police is the best way to do it, at this time the camera captures Ramon walking away with a calm face.
Off-screen, the audience vaguely sensed something, and Gia hissed, "They're going to open the coffin." As a horror movie, it's impossible to call the police to help, so how do you get the truth? There's a way there, Maggie says there are no bones in the coffin, and Switzer says there are, so just open it and look at it, and you can know who is lying......
At the same time, the three film critics were all thrilled and understood that opening the coffin was a blasphemy, especially Maggie's mother. The devout believer should be the most faithful and faithful to God in the screen story, and the demon wants to open her coffin
As soon as the "Ramon" camera was shot, Ramon strode back, holding a hoe in his hand, his face was expressionless, he walked over and didn't say anything, he waved the hoe with both hands and hoeed it under the grave, and immediately splashed
"Is she in there? Why don't you let us see her one last time?" Ramon scolded loudly, apparently with a lot of pent-up resentment towards his father.
"I just don't want you to see her dead......" Switzer grimaced, "I don't want us to think she's dead......"
The rough man revealed the fragility of his heart, and the rebellious teenager only paused, his eyes red, and continued to hoe, "If you kill her, I will kill you"
After a few quick cuts, he came back with a hoe and said sadly, "Gentlemen, the devil is lying, I'll show you that it's lying, Mr. Priest, if you really know how to exorcise demons, help us." Then he went and hoeed the dirt from the grave.
"Oh lord...... Lord......" Cotton was at a loss, and the female recorder was the same, very disturbed and said, "We should ask for help......" Maggie, who was standing next to her, was still sobbing, but much calmer than just now, and her brown eyes glanced at the swept camera, revealing a strange gaze.
The audience felt a chill in their hearts, it was the eyes of the devil, and it was about to achieve its goal......
After a few cuts, I saw that the snow had been hoeed off, and the earth had been dug up, digging a large pit that was neither deep nor shallow, and a Christian-style coffin was buried in it.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Cotton's voiceover, "I think we should all handle it calmly."
His words were not heeded by the Swaitzers and their sons, who put down their hoes and were about to open the coffin
In the two screening halls, no audience could bear to watch it, depressed, congested, and panicked, but they couldn't help but watch, nervous, suspenseful, and afraid