Chapter 36 Classic Movie Appreciation (X)
In order to better identify and judge, the four people played the four movies in the two series of "Headless Story" and "Village Evil" for a while respectively.
To avoid being caught off guard by the end, each video will only be watched for a maximum of ten minutes and will be quickly closed.
After forty minutes, they had a general understanding of what these movies were about.
The first ten minutes of "Village Evil " are about an old lady sitting in front of a thatched cottage, cutting meat, then chopping the meat and mixing it. Next to her is a pile of dough and a mold, as if she is going to make meat buns. She repeats this process silently.
When I jump to "Village Evil 2", the beginning is still the same scene and the same old lady, still chopping stuffing and making buns. But if you look closely, you can find that the old lady's hair seems to be bald for a small part, replaced by burn marks, and two fingers are missing on her hands.
"If this old lady is a demon, and the second part starts the same way and she is injured again, according to the laws of horror movies, she must have become stronger."
Guo Guo whispered confidently.
Zheng Wanqing: "Who summarized this law?"
Guo Guo: "...I summarized it myself."
Zhang You also agreed: "The name of this movie is "Mountain Village Evil Spirit". If this old lady is the evil spirit, it proves that it was not eliminated in the first part and is even more dangerous in the second part."
Of course, this is just their temporary guess. After all, there are precedents. The information in these dozens of minutes of the movie may be just the tip of the iceberg, or even deliberately misleading, and the actual truth is completely different.
Next is the "Headless Ghost Story Series". The beginning of the first part is the same as what Tang Xinjue and Guo Guo saw at the beginning, which is the story of a headless corpse suddenly "resurrecting" and terrifying several young students while looking for its head.
The part where the ghost descends the wall is indeed a bit creepy, but the scene with no progress lasted for ten minutes and soon became boring.
It was not until "Headless Ghost Story 2" began to air that Tang Xinjue's eyes lit up.
The scene on the screen this time is a four-person girls' dormitory.
The scene moves to a desk near the door, where four girls, about 20 years old, are sitting together and writing on a dark yellow paper.
"Can we just write our names on a piece of paper?"
A girl with dyed red hair was a little hesitant.
"Jin Wen, stop talking nonsense. If you don't want to play, just go away."
The girl next to her pushed her impatiently and wrote her name on it.
Three black names soon appeared on the yellow paper of about 8 sheets, and the handwriting dried up little by little on the paper.
The red-haired girl Jin Wen looked at the yellow paper, hesitation flashing across her face. "I don't think I really want to find a boyfriend. It doesn't matter if I'm almost there..."
"This can do more than just improve marriage."
The girl who had just finished scolding her and wrote the words "Wei Xian" on the paper immediately refuted Jin Wen, "My master said that from marriage to wealth, it can also ensure the health of your family and bring in a lot of money. It can even bring bad luck to the people you hate."
"Just write your name on the four corners, pray silently for what you want, put your hair and red clay in the middle, wrap it up in paper and hang it at the door of the dormitory. It will work within a month."
After listening to Wei Xian's confident speech, the other two girls also advised: "Hurry up and write. It takes four people writing this to maximize the effect."
A girl took the initiative to adjust the atmosphere and comforted Jin Wen: "Besides, even if it doesn't work, we won't lose anything. It's just writing a few words. We can just take it off when the time comes. You have to spend money to ask for a lucky bag in the temple."
After hearing the persuasion, Jin Wen's expression relaxed and she gritted her teeth and wrote her name on the yellow paper.
…
“Don’t write it!”
Outside the movie screen, Guo Guo was so engrossed in watching the film that he couldn't help but let out a wail, lamenting the protagonist's suicidal behavior.
Zheng Wanqing said faintly: "Guo Guo, you still sigh for others. Isn't this the you who used to be obsessed with the supernatural every day?"
Guo Guo: “…”
Zheng Wanqing continued, "If it was before entering the game, you would have written without saying anything, and you would have been the one to instigate others. Look, you are the cannon fodder."
Guo Guo: “…”
Guo Guo laughed dryly and changed the subject: "Keep watching... Hey, why is the screen black?"
Several people frowned at the same time. As soon as the screen went black, a girl's scream came from the speaker, and others consoled in confusion: "It's okay, it must be a power outage or a circuit breaker. Take a picture with your phone."
After a few seconds, the battery was restored and the screen became bright again. The girls were all stunned: the yellow paper on which they had just written their names was crumpled into a ball and fell under the table for some reason.
Wei Xian immediately pushed Jin Wen hard: "Did you throw it? I told you not to play if you don't want to play, what do you mean by sabotage?"
Jin Wen looked bewildered and could not defend herself: "It wasn't me! Besides, there was a sudden power outage just now, and I was busy looking for my phone, so how could I have time to do something like this?"
The other two people hurried to try to stop the fight. They picked up the yellow paper and saw that it was not damaged except for being wrinkled. They breathed a sigh of relief and said that as long as the paper was fine, the important thing was to complete the process.
Wei Xian snorted proudly: "Of course, the paper and red clay were specially given to me by my master. They are special props for rituals and cannot be bought."
No one else dared to say anything. They watched Wei Xian wrap the hair and red soil with paper according to the instructions and find a rope to hang them at the door.
"That's all." She called others over to see with satisfaction, "Don't forget to treat me to a meal when you succeed."
Three people gathered at the door, craning their necks to observe the yellow paper bag. Jin Wen stood in the dormitory watching this scene. For some reason, she felt a chill and couldn't stop shivering.
She didn't dare to think any more and quickly packed up: "Then I'll go take a shower first!"
"Jin Wen, why don't you come over and see?"
When the camera cut to Jin Wen's face, Wei Xian's voice suddenly sounded coldly from behind her, scaring her so much that she froze in place.
"I, I won't look at it. I believe you." She made a few prevarications, picked up the bath bag and was about to leave, but her shoulders were suddenly grabbed from behind.
"What are you waiting for? Come and have a look."
Another roommate's voice was heard.
"Come here, you are the only one missing."
The third roommate followed suit.
Jin Wen broke out in a cold sweat, and couldn't find a reason to refuse. Under the constant urging, she could only turn around and force a stiff smile: "Very good..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw with her own eyes the heads of her roommates with strange smiles falling in front of her like cut fruits.
As they fell, the heads kept their mouths open, urging Jin Wen to speak. Even after they fell to the ground, they were still opening and closing their mouths to ask Jin Wen:
"How is it? Is the paper bag hanging well?"
"Have I gotten better looking?"
"Say something...Jin Wen...say something..."
Her face was completely filled with fear, and Jin Wen screamed: "Ah——!!!"
"Snap", the picture turned into a line and disappeared, and Tang Xinjue closed the movie in time.
The roommates were still a little shocked, especially Guo Guo, who had goose bumps all over her body. "This movie really feels like a horror movie. My health has dropped."
Especially the movie content, both the scenes and the personnel configuration are almost exactly the same as their dormitory. When they put themselves in the shoes of the people in the movie, they felt a chill in their necks.
After getting a preliminary understanding of the four movies, the next step is to choose the time.
Unlike previous unanimous conclusions reached by all members, the results of this discussion showed differences of opinion.
Guo Guo and Zhang You chose the evil spirit of the mountain village, and Zheng Wanqing chose the headless ghost story.
After thinking for a few seconds, Tang Xinjue also chose the headless strange story.
Guo Guo shook his head frantically, "'Headless Ghost Story' is too bloody and terrifying, I don't want to turn around right after the show starts!"
Zhang You was also very hesitant: "The content of this movie is indeed very unfriendly to our dormitory. Of course, the difficulty of "Village Evil Spirit" is also uncertain."
They had already suffered a loss that seemed simple but was actually complicated in "Death Record of Class 3-1".
Zheng Wanqing shook her head and said bluntly: "I didn't think too much about it. I just felt that "Village Evil Spirit" made me feel disgusted. The latter is slightly better."
After listening to everyone's opinions, Tang Xin Jue pressed his brows and said, "The reason why I didn't choose "Village Evil" is that the story of this movie takes place in a deserted village in the mountains."
"Once we make the wrong choice and enter the movie, we will need to survive in this environment and face the ghosts to the end."
Tang Xin Jue pointed at himself, then at everyone else:
"But Zhang You, Guo Guo, Wan Qing, and I, the four of us just happen to have no experience of living in a mountain village."
If the movie time is extended, how can they find food to survive in it, and how can they adapt to the completely unfamiliar geographical environment? This is a huge natural disadvantage for them.
Realizing this, Zhang You's face became serious. "Indeed, I didn't consider this. Compared to the completely unfamiliar mountain village, the structure of the girls' dormitory must be more familiar to us."
They have fought many battles in the dormitory, and in a familiar environment, their panic when facing a terrifying enemy will be reduced.
Guo Guo said weakly: "Does it count if I lived at my grandma's house before I was three years old... forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything. I'll also vote for the headless monster."
After calming down, no one wanted to run into the deep mountains and deserted villages to fight with ghosts, and the votes reversed, and "The Headless Ghost Story" won.
So, "Headless Ghost Story 1" in the computer folder was played again, and this time several people watched the entire thing in one go.
In an abandoned factory , four young girls who were exploring accidentally triggered a dangerous seal. A headless ghost appeared. Several people screamed and dodged. After dozens of minutes of maneuvering, no one was injured or killed, and they returned home safe and sound.
A few years passed and they gradually forgot about it until they met again after work and talked about the adventure.
One of them said that he had nightmares frequently for a period of time. In his dreams, when he looked in the mirror, his head would suddenly fall off, and a red mark would inexplicably appear on his neck. After he finished speaking, he wanted to show it to others.
Everyone laughed and parted their hair, only to find that there was actually a red mark. Then they touched their heads and realized that everyone had a red mark on their neck.
In the silent room, the familiar blood oozed from the wall. Above the four people who were dumbfounded, the laughter of the headless ghost sounded again after many years...
[Ding! This movie has been watched, and the movie quiz test will begin now!]
[Excuse me, what is the theme of this movie?]
[A. Comedy]
[B. Family affection]
[C. Patriotism]
[D. Anti-war]
[Please make your choice before the countdown ends!]
