Similar to He Guanchang's reaction, all the viewers in the screening room immediately became very interested in the film after seeing the words "The Butcher on the Rainy Night" Lin Guoyun.
DreamWorks dared to use the banner of "Rainy Night Butcher" so blatantly, but it actually paid Lin Guoyun's father 100,000 in benefits, and was not afraid that Lin Guoyun's family would come out to protest and file a lawsuit.
Of course, since it is an adaptation, there are also some minor changes in details. For example, Lin Guoyun's name was changed to Lin Guoyu in the film.
The audience was eagerly waiting to see how the Rainy Night Butcher committed the crime, but the movie opened with several children playing, and then one of the children was scolded by his mother. As he continued watching, he suddenly realized that the child was scolded by his stepmother and teased by his brothers and sisters.
The child became the later perverted murderer Lin Guoyu.
The report from the photo studio attracted the attention of the police, and then the perverted murderer was arrested. This was just like the news reported in the newspapers.
The plot of the police interrogating confessions and searching for evidence was a bit boring. Some anxious viewers were almost cursing themselves with the wait, but suddenly the case made progress.
The murderous maniac played by Simon Yam began to recall the murder, and his neurotic and perverted expression made the audience feel scared. But this was just an appetizer. When Simon Yam began to dismember the corpse, the realistic and bloody scene was simply challenging the audience.
Mental endurance.
This kind of scene may be just a piece of cake for viewers who are accustomed to watching various horror movies 30 years later, but for today's audiences, it has an extremely strong impact.
"Ouch!" Finally, some viewers began to feel so sick that they vomited.
"...I don't want to watch it, it's so perverted!" The female audience member was completely frightened and did not dare to watch it anymore.
He Guanchang was also disgusted and shocked. This was the first time he saw someone making a movie like this. In the plasma movie directed by Chang Cheh, although the protagonist slashed with a knife and the scene was full of blood, it was all artistically processed, except for the red blood.
Except for the tomato juice, you won’t see messy real bloody scenes.
But the scale of "Doctor Lamb" is much larger. There is even a scene of a kitchen knife cutting into the arm of a female corpse, and then a chainsaw dismembering the body. Although the scene of the chainsaw dismembering the corpse is not shown, the sound of the chainsaw is flying around.
The blood plasma and Simon Yam's crazy and perverted expression were enough to make the audience vomit and scream.
Halfway through the movie, seven or eight viewers couldn't bear it and left early, and the rest felt uncomfortable watching it.
Several beautiful actresses were exposed, but their naked bodies could not arouse the passion of the male audience, unless this person was a pervert.
When they saw Zheng Zeshi holding the "breast" that had been cut off by the murderer, few people could laugh at the comical plot, which instead forced some viewers to leave early.
It wasn't until the female student was chased at the end that the depression that had been built up in the audience finally burst out.
"Run, run quickly!"
"Xie Jiazun, why is there no one in the police station?"
"Sai Zai, let her get in the car quickly!"
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The female student was finally caught by the murderer, and then the scene in which Simon Yam put makeup on the naked female corpse and then annihilated the corpse was too challenging to the psychological limits of the audience.
Some spectators felt cold all over and their hands and feet were weak, while others cursed angrily.
Of course, there are also some weird and psychopathic viewers who find the scene of killing corpses very exciting, but they dare not reveal their true thoughts in the screening room.
He Guanchang vaguely felt that this movie was going to be a big hit. Although it scared away many viewers, this movie was really shocking.
Ye Zipei couldn't stand it until halfway through the movie. She dragged Kang Jianfei out of the screening room and wanted to vomit. It took her a long time to calm down and complained: "Which director is so boring that he would make such a disgusting movie!"
Kang Jianfei curled his lips and said, "I warned you not to look."
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Immediately after the midnight screening of "The Lamb Doctor", it began to promote it with the gimmicks of "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" and "a true adaptation." The film reviews in newspapers and magazines were also varied and inconsistent.
Some film critics believe that "Doctor Lamb" is too bloody and ugly. It simply challenges the bottom line of human morality and can easily induce people with psychological problems to imitate crimes. The authorities should ban such films from being released.
Other film critics said that "Doctor Lamb" has a warning meaning. The beginning of the film succinctly explains the murderer's childhood living environment, revealing the discrimination he suffered from his stepmother and younger siblings since he was a child, which led to long-term emotional problems.
Extremely depressing, it laid the psychological foundation for what would later become the "Rainy Night Butcher". The exploration and expression of this deep-seated psychological cause of crime is actually one of the easiest and most difficult ways for directors and screenwriters to deal with the murderer's extreme perversion and ferocity.
The most credible explanation is that people with surnames are inherently good, and it 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 attracted countless people's attention even before it was released, especially since the film also has the title of producer Kang Jianfei.
People are curious, and sometimes they even make mistakes. It was clearly stated in the newspaper that "Doctor Lamb" disgusted the audience during the midnight show, scaring many viewers into leaving the show midway. But the more this happened, the more they wanted to watch it.
There are even some perverted and salty people who salivated with saliva when they heard that there was a scene of naked corpses being annihilated in "Doctor Lamb" and couldn't wait to rush into the cinema.
After a week of promotion period, "Doctor Lamb" was finally officially released, with a box office of 730,000 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. Based on the ticket price, it has a box office of nearly 5 million now.
However, Hong Kong films at that time were classified, and the number of theaters showing three-pole films was not large, but now they are released in more than ten theaters at the same time in the new era.
And the most important thing is that Lin Guoyun's case was only decided a few months ago, and people still remember this case fresh.
There is always a dark side in the human heart. Although bloody, violent, and pornographic things are shameful to be spoken of, they have great appeal to many people.
In particular, the sentence "Minors and patients with heart disease please do not watch" on the promotional poster of DreamWorks has become a great temptation.
Not only adults come to watch, but even some minors sneak into the cinema quietly. After watching it, it can become a capital to show off among peers.
Of course, there is still a lower limit to Kang Jianfei's sexual prowess. The ticket window will never sell tickets to an audience that is obviously too young.
When "Dr. Lamb" was finished, Kang Jianfei had already gone to Italy to film. The local box office in Hong Kong actually reached 9.14 million, almost breaking the 10 million mark.
The cost of this movie was only 800,000 yuan, including the 100,000 yuan paid to Lin Guoyun's father. It made a lot of money at the box office, right?
This kind of low-budget film is the best to follow the trend. At that time, there were countless "serious case" and "bizarre case" movies in Hong Kong, all of which used bloody and explicit elements to attract audiences.
Director Lee Hsiu-hyun is naturally famous, but Simon Yam has become a murderous maniac that people talk about. Even timid people tremble when they see him.
As for the actresses who were killed and dismembered by Simon Yam in the film, they were all pretty former Phoenix TV actresses, and now they have become famous because they stripped naked.
Another interesting fact is that because the murderers in "Doctor Lamb" all kill people in taxis, it has been difficult to do taxi business in Hong Kong for a long time. Especially prostitutes and female students, they will never do it unless they have to.
Take a taxi, rather walk or take the bus.
As a result, hundreds of taxi drivers in Hong Kong filed a collective lawsuit against DreamWorks to compensate for their losses one month after the release of "Dr. Lamb". Because of this, DreamWorks officially established a special legal department to handle the company's affairs.
Legal disputes encountered.
Although "Doctor Lamb" was rejected, the public attention attracted by the film and television works was obviously higher than when the court ruled on this case.
The most positive impact is that within a few years after the release of "Doctor Lamb", most schools in Hong Kong have successively established student psychological counseling rooms to prevent students from going astray due to psychological problems.
The most unlucky person is Lin Guoyun, the Rainy Night Butcher 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 of the great impact of "Doctor Lamb", Lin Guoyun
Guoyun's amnesty order aroused strong resentment among the people of Hong Kong, and finally the Queen of England withdrew the order for the first time - in fact, it had nothing to do with the old woman, it was all a decision made by the departments in Hong Kong, and then issued in the name of the Queen.
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Another major influence of "Doctor Lamb" is that it transformed the originally "clean" Hong Kong horror films into a bloody and bloody horror film. Before this, there had never been any film in Hong Kong that dared to present the horror film so realistically.
Brutal and thrilling flesh and blood scenes.
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When "Doctor Lamb" was selling well in Hong Kong, Li Qiming and Ip Xueyan had already registered a food company called "Kangle Food Co., Ltd.". The company's slogan was: Kangle Food, healthy and happy every day.
After contacting the Investment Promotion Bureau, Li Qiming and Ye Xueyan also went to Shenzhen/Zhen to select a factory site, and contacted two instant noodle production lines from Japan. After the factory is built, production can start next year at the latest.
As for Kang Jianfei, he was hanging out with the gang of ghosts from Industrial Light and Magic.
Xu Ke's "New Shushan Swordsman" will use a lot of special effects, and the special effects team hired is none other than Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects team of "Star Wars".
In the original time and space, Xu Ke led a group of people who stole a lot of lessons. These people later became the top special effects team in Hong Kong movies. The special effects of "A Chinese Ghost Story" were made by this group of people.
Kang Jianfei will naturally not give up this opportunity. He is also planning to set up a professional special effects department in DreamWorks.q
