"Orphan: First Kill"
In this movie, a nine-year-old girl single-handedly killed seven people and a mouse .
A movie thirteen years ago stirred up the stagnant horror film market. It currently dominates the major horror film lists with a super high score of 8.2. Yes, this is " Orphans " released in 2009. 》.
"Orphan's Grudge"
Now, has finally ushered in its prequel sequel "Orphan's Grudge: First Kill" .
"Orphan: First Kill"
Isabella Fuhrman, who was only 12 years old at the time, participated in the first part of the series, playing the role of 9-year-old girl East in the film. Now 25-year-old Isabella Fuhrman once again played the same role, a little younger than 9 years old. Regardless of the plot, this exaggerated age gap has become the biggest flaw of the film.
Comparison of the first and second parts
In this issue of [Horror Horizon], let us walk into the much-anticipated sequel "Orphan: First Kill". The director of the first part of
is Spanish-born Zomi Sirra. He started his director career with " Horror Wax Museum " in 2005. In addition to "Orphan", he also worked with Tough Guys. ml5 Liam Neeson has collaborated on three crime action films " Commuter Rescue ", "Unidentified" and "Dark Night". The director prefers thriller and suspense themes, and has also produced " Shark Beach " , "Mystic River".
To be honest, these films directed by Zomi Sirla are all ordinary commercial films, and some are suspected of being copycats. The film's rating hovers between 5 and 7, which is not too bad, but it is definitely not good. , but among them, there is such a masterpiece as "Orphan's Revenge".
Director Zomi Sirla is telling a play to young actors
The most important factor in the success of "Orphan" is the change in the image of the little girl. When a harmless little loli takes off her veil, she appears. It is a 30-year-old female murderer who is deformed, perverted and fully armed. The contrast is indeed too shocking.
Therefore, although the director of the second film was changed to William Brent Bell, he still insisted on having the female lead from the first film return because she is the soul of this series of movies.
In the first part, Isabella Fuhrman had to put on makeup to look older, and in the second part, she had to put on make-up to look younger. There was always an age difference of more than 20 years across the world. It was really difficult for this actor.
When the video became available, almost half of the comments criticized the heroine’s face.
"This face is too inconsistent."
" Xie Na !"
These remarks must have been expected by the creative team. This can be seen from the thick softening filter added to the film. In addition, the crew also adopted a special method to solve the problem of a 25-year-old actress playing a 9-year-old child. Let me give you an introduction to the specific method used to solve the height problem caused by girls. I will talk about it in the behind-the-scenes segment at the end of the article.
The plot of the first part of "Orphan" is: Kate, who was happily waiting for the arrival of her baby, had an unexpected miscarriage, which caused her emotional collapse and put her marriage with her husband in jeopardy. In order to save their family relationship, the couple adopted a 9-year-old girl named East from the orphanage who was "well-behaved, cute" and "versatile". The key is that she exuded a "unique temperament".
After East came to this family, various strange things happened. She gradually revealed her true colors. After seducing the adoptive father she liked to no avail, she killed him, and then launched revenge on the adoptive mother and her two children. In the end, the adoptive mother exposed the truth and killed him. In the first part of
, the clues of the little girl's past experience were shown, which is the gap that this prequel needs to fill.
The film is divided into three parts. The first part tells the story of how Esther escaped from the Russian asylum and went to heaven. The second part is the story of her entering American family life. The third part ushered in a shocking reversal and started killing.
1. Russian Madhouse.
The story begins in the winter of 2007. Anna, a caregiver who wanted to use art to help mentally ill patients, drove long distances to work in a mental hospital in , Estonia.
The dean introduced her to the most dangerous person in the hospital: Lena.
Lena suffered from a glandular disease, which caused dwarfism. Her body and appearance stopped growing at the age of 10. She looked like a 9-year-old child, but she was actually a 31-year-old adult woman. .
The scars on Lena's neck and both wrists were also the marks left by trying to break free from the straps that restrained her when she first came to the asylum.
She suffered a lot because of the appearance of her child, but she also learned the ability to confuse people from the suffering. Usually she would use her deception to be adopted, and then run away after making a lot of money, but 2 years ago During an adoption, she went on a killing spree, so she was caught and sent to this lunatic asylum.
After Anna arrived, Lena realized that she had a chance to escape from this isolated madhouse. She first used her female charm to seduce and kill a male security guard and obtain the access card.
Then he used a piece of candy to trick the mentally ill woman into killing another security guard.
She hid in the trunk of Anna's car, arrived at Anna's home in Russia, killed Anna, and occupied the magpie's nest.
She searched for announcements of missing girls on the website, and finally zeroed in on a girl who looked somewhat similar to herself: East.
Anna found the police, pretended to be a missing girl who had been trafficked to Russia, and contacted East's parents in the United States.
2. Return to the American family.
From then on, Anna's identity became East, and she was transported to the United States.
Because their daughter has been missing for two years, her parents and her brother did not show the slightest suspicion on the surface and readily accepted this family member who spoke Russian-style English.
However, it is a fake after all, and still shows some flaws in the small details in memory.
For example, my mother took out a photo of her grandma and said she couldn’t wait to see her grandma, but her grandma had already passed away.
In the psychological clinic, East also misidentified a macaw.
However, family members believe that it is understandable that the child's memory will be abnormal after experiencing such a setback.
The next plot is very similar to the first one. East covets his "father". Because of the return of the child, the couple rekindles the passion for life, but East's jealous anger burns. When she got angry, she tore her "mother's" dress and harassed her "brother's" party.
Until a Chinese police chief appeared. The police chief was responsible for investigating the disappearance case. With his keen intuition, he believed that something was wrong with the little girl, so he sneaked into the room and obtained her fingerprints. After comparison, he confirmed that the little girl was Not the missing person himself.
At this time, East arrived and was ready to silence him.
The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole follows, and this is where the film takes a big turn.
3. Big reversal! Evil people will be punished by evil people.
A gunshot rang out, and the police sergeant fell in a pool of blood. However, it was not East who shot him, but her mother.
It turns out that the real East is already dead . Two years ago, his brother accidentally killed East. In order to protect her son, the mother created the illusion that her daughter was missing.
East, this perverted devil, never expected to meet another even worse female devil, so the two began to fight.
In front of her husband, they all have their own agendas. On the surface they act like a loving mother and a filial son, but privately they are secretly competing with each other.
Mother put chronic poison in East's food. East accidentally fed the rice to the mouse, and the mouse was poisoned to death. East also pretended to make a cup of freshly squeezed juice for his mother in front of his father. The mother reluctantly took a sip and found the dead rat inside.
When my father went out to attend an art exhibition, both demons knew that it was time to make a break. Because the nights were long and there were many dreams, and there was no room for two tigers in one mountain, they had to decide the winner, otherwise they would be the ones who would die.
East tried to push the mother and son off the tracks to be hit by a train, but failed, and then drove away. In the car, she put on lipstick, smoked cigarettes, and listened to little songs, but she didn't feel cool for a while. , he was taken home by the police who arrived after his mother called the police.
Mother, son and East played a game of cat and mouse at home, hunting each other. At this time, the father was about to come back.
In the end, the house was burned down, and East killed all three members of the family.
Then, she pretended to be pitiful and became an orphan, waiting to be adopted by the next family.
The story of this film ends here. After watching the entire film
, the audience has a strong feeling that it almost replicates the plot of the first film. In the first half, the same East enters the house step by step, slowly revealing his true nature, and in the second half, his identity suddenly reverses. The turning point in the first part of
is the reveal of East's true identity, and the turning point in the second part is the reveal of East's mother's identity.
Another feeling is the appearance of the heroine. It’s not that the audience is an appearance association and deliberately insults the actress’s appearance, but it is too far-fetched for the 25-year-old heroine to play a 9-year-old girl. .
The crew also insisted on not using age-reducing special effects. After all, doing special effects would increase the cost a lot. In addition to the full-level dermabrasion filter, the film used avatars and height-increasing shoes.
There is no panoramic shot of the heroine from the front in the film. As long as the full-body shot is taken, it is shot from the back, and the back is the stand-in of a young actor. And when the heroine is with an adult, the height difference is created by using 20 cm super-high height-increasing shoes.
Based on the current data of streaming media , the performance is quite good. The film is basically certain to be filmed as a sequel. Because East has been killed in the first film, the sequel will still be a prequel. The title of the sequel to
may be called "Orphan: First Kill 2". We know that in "Orphan: First Kill", the director of the asylum revealed that Anna was sent to the asylum precisely because she killed someone before her 's adoptive parents, the next sequel will be the first kill before the first kill!
Obviously, it is very difficult to continue to adapt this. You must come up with new tricks, otherwise it will be boring and repetitive.
Although the performance of "Orphan: First Kill" is somewhat unsatisfactory, this IP is still worth expanding. Let us look forward to its next work together.
