The result is embarrassing.
Up to now, the total box office is 31000000 dollars, which is not enough to make up for it.
Since it's not good, why is it awkward?
Because, too much pity-
Director guillermo del toro, one of the three Mexican heroes in Hollywood.
Pan Shen's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim are all written by him.
In addition, there are a number of Hollywood handsome guys and beautiful women, such as Shake Sen, Model Worker Sister and mia wasikowska.
But Sir believes that more people should be for this:
Shake Sam's ass.
Gyro director himself has long said:
Blade 2 and Hellboy are both for children, and this film is for real adults.
It is violent and horrible, and it is the most "abnormal" English film I have shot.
Not to mention, before the release, the horror master Stephen King also tweeted and exploded:
Great, so fucking scary!
As it turned out, we were all fooled.
IMDb6.9, the freshness of rotten tomatoes is 69%.
Douban is only a miserable 6.4.
Just passed.
Judging from most of the foreign media's comments on this film, it can be summarized as follows:
This is a terrible film with amazing beauty.
Next, Sir will tell you about it.
The exquisiteness of gyro director's filming can be seen from "Pacific Rim" and "Pan Shen's Labyrinth".
When filming "The Maze of Pan Shen", he made dense notes for each character and scene.
And hand-painted them.
This filming of Scarlet Peak is even more exaggerated.
Director Gyro directly built an old castle for this film.
Looks like this:
The corridor is like this:
Because he believes that the castle occupies an extremely important position in the film, to some extent, it is the protagonist.
The castle has three floors, and each floor has a different feeling.
The living room still retains its elegance and extravagance.
The basement is rotten and horrible.
Even if it is meticulous to every step, it will become more and more broken.
Because the director of the gyro said that this house, like the characters in the film, has a gorgeous appearance and a rotten heart.
Every prop that appears in the film also costs the director a lot of thought.
A 1800 newspaper, completely copied in that year.
The director insisted on hanging a portrait mural in the castle.
And-
Find the best painter.
He paid half the money for this painting out of his own pocket and spent six months painting it.
Only for less than 10 second.
In addition to props, each frame of the picture is also extremely beautiful.
Photography, refer to the Italian horror film director, Mario Bava's film.
When he shoots scary scenes, he often makes the faces of the characters half hidden in the darkness and the other half illuminated by the main color of the room.
Distorted and weird.
The same is true of Scarlet Peak-most of the time, we can only see half of Mia's face.
In addition, photographers make good use of natural light, especially the faint light from the window.
Let many pictures in the film be comparable to oil paintings.
These are all tasks that can be accomplished by experienced fans, master photographers and meticulous care.
Director Gyro once said that he had always been ambitious and wanted to make the most beautiful ghost film ever, and Scarlet Peak helped him realize it.
He is right.
Unfortunately, that's all.
The story is the biggest flaw in Scarlet Peak.
Almost all film critics can't stand it.
Entertainment evaluation:
The picture is beautiful, but the plot is really frustrating.
Bilge Ebiri, a film critic of new york magazine and Vulture, said:
If I hadn't walked out of the cinema, the beautiful pictures in the film would still linger in my mind, and I almost hated the director.
What's the story of this film, which is a gathering of Hollywood first-line handsome men and women?
The film took place in the United States at the end of 19.
Mia is a writer who specializes in horror novels.
She wears gold-rimmed glasses, is serious and stuffy, and is incompatible with other women. She is ridiculed as an "old maid".
She met Britain's down-and-out aristocrat, Tomson, who was handsome and polite.
At the dance, I can still hold a white candle and take her through a waltz. The candle will not go out.
They soon got married and went to the Scarlet Peak, the manor of Tomson.
Mia started bumping into horrible things.
There is a rotting body in the bathtub.
Saw a bloody ghost in the corridor in the middle of the night.
Shakeson's sister didn't look good at her either.
Gradually, Mia discovered the ancient house and the brothers and sisters' hidden secrets ...
The first half of the love story is basically the horror version of Jane Eyre.
The inexperienced girl met a lover and lived with him in an ancient manor.
Coincidentally, the heroine of Jane Eyre in 20 1 1 year happened to be mia wasikowska.
According to director Gyro, when he was a child, he watched Jane Eyre and was deeply moved, and regarded it as his favorite novel.
So take Jane Eyre as the inspiration of Scarlet Peak.
Unfortunately, it is not as good as the hero and heroine in Jane Eyre to enhance their feelings layer by layer through constant conflict and reconciliation.
In Scarlet Peak, the love process between Tomson and Mia is too hasty.
Especially when the original arrogant woman was captured in less than a moment ...
Many people should want to ask: Isn't this Jack Su?
Well, let's just say love comes too fast, like a tornado ...
When you enter an ancient house, you should have something exciting.
But all the horror stories that followed, foreign media used one word.
Predictable
Predictable.
This word should be the nightmare of all horror film directors.
The film stepped on many old-fashioned plots.
For example, what are you afraid of and what are you biased towards?
Mia's mother warned her "don't go to the scarlet peak" when she was a child.
As a result, when she grew up, she really went to Scarlet Peak.
What a coincidence, right?
For another example, when the heroine is alone, she will see ghosts nine times out of ten.
Mirror, bathtub, corridor.
What a coincidence, right?
There are more such dialogues and plots in the film.
Sir, it's not a drama.
Douban User @ Siam copen summed it up:
This plot is just the level of domestic horror movies.
Gyro director is actually a good suspense maker.
Sir was scared many times when he saw his old work "Ghost Children's Home".
For example, at the beginning of the film, half a huge shell was buried in the center of the orphanage, and it seems that children have become accustomed to it.
Such a contrasting scene sets a strange and mysterious tone for the film at once.
Surprisingly, there is also the old doctor in the orphanage in the film.
Gentle and respected.
He has a mysterious rum and sells it to the whole town to earn money to keep the orphanage running.
It was not until the middle of the film that director Gyro revealed the truth about these rums to us.
It is also unexpected.
But somehow, director Gyro spent 12 minutes on Scarlet Peak this time.
The effect is a pity.