Chapter 47 Official Screening
The Montreal Fantasy Film Festival is a film that mainly displays. A general film festival holds a premiere first and then opens to the public. Montreal is a bit different. The films in the competition unit start to be screened during the day, while the premiere is held in the evening. However, the ticket for ordinary events is $15, and the ticket for the premiere is $25.
The same is true for "Zone B No. 32". The premiere was on the evening of July 31, but the film screening began in the morning.
That morning, Xu Zhengdao and Jiang Tianxing came to the cinema screening "No. 32, Area B".
This cinema has seven or eight screening rooms. "Zone B 32" is a film in the competition unit and is arranged in the largest hall. A poster of "Zone B 32" is hung on the wall of the ticket hall. The name "Zone B 32" is not attractive to the audience, but the ghostly pictures are still very attractive to the audience who like horror movies.
Since today is not the weekend and the first one in the morning, there are not many viewers queuing up to buy tickets on site, only five or six, all of them are young people. After all, this is a film festival mainly based on horror and fantasy, and the elderly can't stand watching such movies.
After Xu Zhengdao and Jiang Tianxing bought movie tickets, they sat in the hall waiting for the two nurseries they were looking for.
Xu Zhengdao and his plan was to let two children dress up as audiences and go to the cinema to watch "No. 32, Area B". After the scary plot of the movie came out, the two children pretended to be scared to have problems. The woman cried and escaped from the screening room. The man foamed in the screening room and twitched all over.
The two nurseries were found by Xu Zhengdao and the others from the Actors' Union. The man was named Steve Rose, who used to be an actor in a troupe, but recently the troupe was disbanded due to financial problems. He could only find a job while being an extra. The woman was named Jennifer Ian, who was a college student. He attended acting classes in high school and has participated in several movies in the past two years, but they are all supporting roles without lines.
At almost nine-20, the two nurseries were one in front and one behind. Jiang Tianxing winked at them, called them to the corner, and handed them the two cinemas. After the two nurseries entered the venue, Xu Zhengdao and Jiang Tianxing also stepped into the screening hall.
There were only more than 40 people in the screening room where there were three hundred people, just like the crops grown in saline-alkali land, which were sparse. Since there were many empty seats, you could sit at will, so Xu Zhengdao and the others sat in the last row. Many directors went to the cinema to watch movies and liked to sit in the last row to observe the reactions of the audience.
Jiang Tianxing looked at the audience, turned his head and looked at the entrance, hoping to pull some viewers from outside: "There are too few viewers, only more than forty! Maybe we shouldn't choose the first hype, we should choose it at noon, there were more people at that time."
Xu Zhengdao insisted that the first hype was the best: "There is a concept called the snowball effect. The longer the rolling time, the bigger the snowball rolls. Although there are fewer people in the first game, the more time it takes to spread in the morning, the spreading effect will definitely be better than noon."
"It makes sense." Jiang Tianxing nodded, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He saw a couple who looked like a couple walking in. "There are two more viewers, which is great! Come on a few more!"
Unfortunately, Jiang Tianxing's wish was not satisfied. As soon as the couple sat down, the lights in the screening room went out and the lights on the screen began to illuminate; then, a beam of light shot from behind onto the screen.
Xu Zhengdao and Jiang Tianxing both took a breath and the screening that decided the fate of "Zone B No. 32" began.
The first person to appear on the screen is Xu Zhengdao. He sat in front of the school's digital editing stage and told the source of the incident as a director: "Mac is a classmate in the director department. He has always hoped that he could become an excellent director and make movies that shocked the world, but a few days ago he suddenly died mysteriously. Mike usually takes a DV camera in his hand. I got the content taken two weeks before his death. He photographed a lot of supernatural things in these two weeks and lost his life. He shot shocking materials, but failed to make these materials into a movie. In order to fulfill his last wish, I edited the materials and completed the film."
After Steve Ross entered the screening room, he leaned his back on the chair and sat in a very relaxed posture. Although he accepted Xu Zhengdao's work and promised to help him perform a scene, he was not optimistic about "No. 32, Area B", and even labeled the movie as a bad movie.
If "No. 32, District B" is excellent enough, why do you need to use this method? Xu Zhengdao and his friends do this method, which means that they have no confidence in the movie and can only rely on this method to attract audiences.
What else can a movie that the director himself lacks confidence in?
Seeing Xu Zhengdao talking to the camera, Steve Rose smiled disdainfully, thinking that it was another pseudo documentary. Since "Blair the Witch" became popular, a bunch of pseudo documentaries have emerged in recent years. "Blair the Witch" has not been very good at all, and it was completely hyped up by hype. These movies that follow the trend are even worse!
As soon as Xu Zhengdao finished speaking, the picture flashed and the name of the movie appeared on the screen - No. 32, Area B.
The picture flashed and the movie officially came to the point.
The first thing that appears on the screen is a mirror. Through the mirror, the audience can see that Mike, played by Zhu Yawen, is holding a DV and shooting in front of the mirror, telling his directorial dream. At this moment, Mike's cell phone rang. After answering the phone, he took out the camera and walked out of the room.
The camera cuts out of the apartment, and a taxi is parked on the side of the road. Shen Ang, played by Yang Shuo, came out of the car, opened the trunk, took out the wheelchair, and placed it next to the taxi. Gao Yutong, played by Tong Yao, sat in the car and smiled at Mike. Then, Shen Ang carried Gao Yutong into a wheelchair and pushed her into the apartment with Mike.
Next was a slightly dull literary drama, explaining the relationship between Mike, Shen Ang and Gao Yutong. They both graduated from the Film Academy and are good friends. Since Shen Ang took on a new drama soon, he had to join the group, so he asked Mike to help take care of Gao Yutong. In the following days, only Mike and Gao Yutong were left in the apartment.
During lunch that day, Gao Yutong talked about something strange. When she was sleeping at night, the wheelchair was clearly placed beside the bed, but when she woke up in the morning, she found that the wheelchair ran to the door. Mike thought that Gao Yutong was doubting her, so she asked her if she had closed the doors and windows when she was sleeping at night. Gao Yutong told Mike that she had closed the doors and windows before going to bed.
Mike didn't take this to heart. Unexpectedly, Gao Yutong told him the next day that he put it in the wheelchair beside the bed, and when he got up in the morning, he ran to the door again. Mike realized something was wrong, so he went to Gao Yutong's room to look at it, but he didn't find anything unusual. Mike thought of an idea, put the camera in Gao Yutong's room and see what happened at night.
The camera switched to the surveillance screen, Gao Yutong covered her blanket and lie on the bed to sleep. The time displayed at 11:15 pm in the lower right corner of the surveillance screen. But soon the screen began to fast forward, and the time in the lower right corner moved forward rapidly.
The audience couldn't help but feel that the camera might have taken something, or even something terrible jumped out of the darkness. However, the camera didn't take any photos and spent the night safely.
When the screen switched to daylight, Steve Ross breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that I was really thinking too much. A pseudo-documentary like this will take a long time to lay the groundwork, and the more scary the end it will become. There will be no scary scenes in the opening part of the movie.
Xu Zhengdao obviously knew what audiences like Steve Rose thought, and soon gave them a surprise. Just as Mike and Gao Yutong had supper, the lampshade in the restaurant suddenly fell down and fell into pieces with a bang.
The audience was frightened by this sudden scene, and the screams were heard. The female audience sitting in front of Steve Ross was frightened and screamed "ahhh". Steve Ross' heart was already suddenly bursting, and was scared by the female audience's screams. He scolded fiercely in his heart, shit! I hate this shocking scene the most. Only third-rate directors can scare people with this method!
Mike and Gao Yutong on the screen were also frightened. They didn't understand why the lampshade suddenly fell. The two were discussing whether to continue installing cameras in the room, but now the lampshade suddenly fell, and they were a little excited. They felt that there might be ghosts, so they decided to continue shooting and see what would happen.
The third night arrived silently.
After Gao Yutong fell asleep, the time in the lower right corner began to move forward quickly.
When the time reached 3:05 a.m., the time bar suddenly returned to normal.
The audience believed that something should have been taken this time, and they couldn't help but stare at the screen. At this moment, a strange scene appeared, and the wheelchair parked by the bed suddenly moved. They moved slowly in the room, as if someone was pushing it.
Steve Rose gasped, feeling his spine cold and his scalp numb.
On the fourth night, Gao Yutong's clothes placed beside the bed were pulled underground by a force; on the fifth night, the blanket covered by Gao Yutong's body was pulled a little by a force; on the sixth night, the key placed on the desk suddenly fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.
The horror atmosphere in the movie is getting stronger and stronger, and the continuous supernatural phenomena make the audience feel unstoppable, making their inner fear deeper and deeper, so that every nerve of theirs begins to tense up.
The seventh night is coming soon.
Gao Yutong lay on the bed, covered her blanket, and sleeped with her eyes closed. In the surveillance screen, an extremely shocking scene soon appeared. The blanket bulged up, as if a hand was reached into the blanket. The hand slowly pushed forward, looking very careful, as if she was afraid of waking Gao Yutong up.
The audience was shocked by this scene and held their breath. A female audience clenched her fists tightly and said in a slight trembling voice: "God! The ghost is here! Wake up! Wake up!"
When the "hand" moved to Gao Yutong's legs, Gao Yutong moved a little and woke up in shock. She suddenly sat up and screamed "ahhh".
While Gao Yutong was screaming, the girls at the scene also started screaming. Some timid boys even didn't care about their faces and screamed with the girls.
The next morning, Gao Yutong and Mike discussed what was going on. They both felt that the ghosts were getting more and more powerful, which made them feel very uneasy. At this moment, Gao Yutong talked about the story of her broken leg. At that time, she was filming the horror film "The Resentful Spirit" in an abandoned hospital. During the filming process, supernatural events continued to occur in the crew, and her legs also broke during the filming.
Mike asked Gao Yutong, have you contacted the crew members after you left that crew? Gao Yutong was not very familiar with the crew members, but there were people they knew. She hurriedly called the other party. After just saying a few words, Gao Yutong collapsed on the sofa, her face pale as paper, her eyes were empty and unconscious, as if she was lost.
Mike asked quickly, "Yutong, what's wrong? What happened?"
Gao Yutong's eyes were filled with endless fear, and her whole body shivered like fallen leaves in the cold wind, and said in a dry voice: "Everyone in the crew is dead! Only I am still alive!"
Chapter completed!