384 Doctor Lamb
Like He Guanchang's reaction, all the audiences in the screening hall immediately became very interested in the film after seeing the words "Butcher on a Rainy Night" Lin Guoyun.
DreamWorks dared to so blatantly play the banner of "Butcher on a Rainy Night", in fact, it also gave Lin Guoyun's father a benefit fee of 100,000 yuan, not afraid that Lin Guoyun's family would come out to protest the lawsuit.
Of course, since it is an adaptation, there are also some small changes in the details, such as Lin Guoyun's name was changed to Lin Guoyu in the film.
The audience waits with interest to see how the butcher commits the crime on a rainy night, but the movie opens with several children playing, and then one of them is reprimanded by his mother. I continued to watch it and suddenly realized that the child who was reprimanded by his stepmother and teased by his brothers and sisters was the later perverted murderer Lin Guoyu.
The photo studio's report caught the attention of the police, and then the psychopathic murderer was caught, just like the news reported in the newspapers.
The plot of the police torture and the search for evidence in the middle is a bit boring, and some anxious viewers are about to scold their mothers, but suddenly there is progress in the case.
The murderer played by Ren Dahua began to recall the murder, and the neurotic perverted expression made the audience's hearts furious. But this is just an appetizer, and when Ren Dahua begins to dismember the body, the realistic and bloody scene is simply challenging the audience's psychological endurance.
This kind of picture may be just a piece of cake for audiences who are used to watching all kinds of horror movies 30 years later, but for the current audience, it has an incomparably strong impact.
"Gross!" Finally, some viewers began to vomit nausea.
“…… I don't want to watch it, it's so perverted! The female audience was completely scared to watch it again.
He Guanchang was also disgusted and shocked, it was the first time he had seen someone make a movie like this. In the plasma film directed by Zhang Che back then, although the protagonist slashed with a knife, it was all artistically processed, except for the red tomato juice. There will be no real bloody scenes of chaos.
But the scale of "Doctor Lamb" is much larger, and there is even a shot of a kitchen knife slashing into the arm of a female corpse, and then a chainsaw dismembering the corpse. Although the footage of the chainsaw dismembering the corpse was not given, the sound of the chainsaw, the flying plasma, and Ren Dahua's crazy and perverted expression were enough to make the audience vomit and scream.
Halfway through the movie, there were already seven or eight viewers who couldn't stand to leave early, and the rest of the people were also uncomfortable.
Several beautiful actresses have exposed two points, but the naked body cannot arouse the lust of the male audience, unless the person is a sexual pervert.
When I saw Zheng Zeshi holding the "breast/room" cut off by the murderer, the plot had a comedic effect. But few people could laugh, but forced some audience members to leave the venue early.
Until the female student in the back of the most Lu was chased, the depression that had accumulated in front of the audience finally exploded.
"Run, run!"
"Shovel, why is there no one in the police station?"
"Decrepit boy. Let her get in the car! ”
“……”
The schoolgirl was finally caught by the murderer, and then Ren Dahua put makeup on the thrush of the naked female corpse. Then the scene of the rape of the corpse is too challenging to the psychological limit of the audience.
Some of the audience felt chills and weak hands and feet. Others are angry and scolding.
Of course, there are also some psychopathic strange audiences who find the scene of the rape of the corpse very exciting, but they dare not expose their true thoughts in the screening room.
He Guanchang vaguely felt that this film was going to be a big hit, although it scared away many audiences, but this movie was too shocking.
Ye Zipei couldn't stand it when he saw half of it. Pulling Kang Jian and flying out of the screening room, he wanted to vomit, but it took a long time for his mood to calm down, and he complained: "Which director is so boring to make such a disgusting movie!" ”
Kang Jianfei pouted. said: "I warned you not to look at it. ”
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After the screening of "Doctor Lamb in a Serious Case" at midnight, it immediately began to promote it with the gimmicks of "Butcher on a Rainy Night" and "Real Adaptation", and the film reviews in newspapers and magazines were also varied and inconsistent.
Some critics have argued that "Doctor Lamb" is too bloody and ugly, that it simply challenges human morality, and that it is very easy to lure people with psychological problems to imitate crimes, and that the authorities should ban such films.
Other critics called "Doctor Lamb" a warning, and the beginning of the film concisely explained the life environment of the murderer's childhood, revealing that he was discriminated against by his stepmother and younger siblings since he was a child, which led to a long-term extreme depression of emotions, and paved the way for becoming a "butcher on a rainy night" later. The excavation and expression of this deep-seated criminal psychological cause is actually the easiest and most credible explanation made by the director and screenwriter for the extreme perversion and cruelty of the murderer, which has a bit of human nature and goodness, and reminds the public to pay enough attention to children's education and psychological problems.
Regardless of the newspaper's evaluation of "Doctor Lamb", this small-budget film with a budget of only 800,000 yuan has not yet been released, and it has already attracted the attention of countless people, especially since this movie is still under the title of Kang Jianfei's producer.
People are curious, and even often make mistakes. Obviously, the newspapers said that "Doctor Lamb" was so disgusting that the audience was disgusted at the midnight show, and many viewers were scared to leave the theater halfway, but the more this happened, the more they wanted to watch it.
There are even some perverted salty wet guys, who salivate and can't wait to rush into the cinema when they hear that there are nude rape scenes in "Doctor Lamb".
After a week of promotion, "Doctor Lamb" was finally officially released, earning 730,000 at the box office on the first day, becoming a dark horse in Hong Kong's sluggish film market.
In the original time and space, "Doctor Lamb" had a box office of 13 million when it was released in 1992, and according to the ticket price, it is now a box office of nearly 5 million.
However, at that time, Hong Kong films were classified, and the number of theaters for tertiary films was not large, but now they are being released at the same time in more than a dozen theaters in the new era.
And most importantly, Lin Guoyun's case has only been adjudicated for a few months, and people still remember this case vividly.
There is always a dark side to the human heart, and although blood, violence, and lust/eroticism are ashamed to talk about, they have a huge attraction for many people.
In particular, on the promotional poster of DreamWorks, the sentence "Minors and people with heart disease should not watch" has become a great temptation.
Not only adults come to watch, but even some minors sneak into the cinema quietly, and after watching it, it can also become a capital to show off among their peers.
Of course, there is still a lower limit to Kang Jianfei's discipline, and the kind of audience who is obviously too young will never sell tickets to them at the ticket window.
When "Doctor Lamb" was painted, Kang Jianfei had already gone to Italy to make a film, and the box office in Hong Kong was as high as 9.14 million, almost breaking the 10 million mark.
And the cost of this movie is only 800,000 yuan, including the 100,000 yuan paid to Lin Guoyun's father, which is simply a box office profit.
This kind of small-budget film is best to follow the trend, and for a while, there were countless "serious cases" and "strange cases" movies in Hong Kong, all of which used bloody and exposed elements to attract audiences.
Director Lee Xiu-hyun is naturally famous, but Ren Dahua has become a murderous maniac that people talk about, and timid people tremble when they see him.
As for the actresses who were killed by Ren Dahua in the film, they are all former Phoenix TV female artists with some appearance, and now they have become famous because they stripped naked.
Another interesting anecdote is that because the murderers in "Doctor Lamb" all killed people in taxis, it was difficult to do business in Hong Kong taxis for a long time. Prostitutes and schoolgirls, in particular, never take a taxi unless absolutely necessary, preferring to walk or take a bus.
As a result, hundreds of taxi drivers in Hong Kong sued DreamWorks for damages a month after "Doctor Lamb" was painted. Because of this matter, DreamWorks has officially established a special legal department to deal with the legal disputes encountered by the company.
Although "Doctor Lamb" was painted, the public attention aroused by the film and television works is obviously higher than when the court decided the case.
The most positive impact is that within a few years after the release of "Doctor Lamb", most schools in Hong Kong have successively set up student counseling rooms to prevent students from going astray due to psychological problems.
The most unfortunate is the Rainy Night Butcher Lin Guoyun himself, although he was sentenced to death in the original time and space, he was pardoned by the Queen of England in April next year and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. But now because "Doctor Lamb" has too much influence, the amnesty of Lin Guoyun has aroused strong disgust among the Hong Kong people, and finally the Queen of England has taken back her life for the first time - in fact, it doesn't matter what the old woman does, it is all a resolution made by the department in Hong Kong, and then issued in the name of the Queen.
Another major impact of "Doctor Lamb" is to make the originally "clean" Hong Kong horror film derive a kind of bloody bloody horror film. Before this, there has never been a film in Hong Kong that dares to present such a ferocious and exciting bloody scene so realistically.
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When "Doctor Lamb" was selling well in Hong Kong, Li Qiming and Yip Xueyan had already registered a food company called "Kangle Food Co., Ltd.", and the company's slogan was: Kangle Food, healthy and happy every day.
After contacting China Merchants, Li Qiming and Ye Xueyan also went to Shenzhen/Shenzhen to choose the factory site, and contacted two instant noodle production lines from Japan. Once the plant is completed, production will begin next year at the latest.
As for Kang Jianfei, he was mixed up with the gang of ghosts of Industrial Light and Magic.
Xu Ke's "Swordsman of New Shu Mountain" uses a lot of special effects, and the special effects team invited is the special effects team of "Star Wars" Industrial Light and Magic.
In the original time and space, Xu Ke led a group of people to steal a lot, and these people later became the top team of special effects in Hong Kong films, such as the special effects of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Kang Jianfei naturally would not give up this opportunity, and he also planned to create a professional special effects department in DreamWorks. (To be continued......)