In a bedroom with the lights off, the man on the bed opened his eyes, and the clock next to it showed the time: 5:30.
"Why, every morning at half past five..."
The man stood up slowly, stood by the window, opened the curtain a little and looked out.
Across the road, there is a wire fence. After the fence, there is a dilapidated basketball court. A basketball is beating continuously without anyone controlling it...
"Am I sleepwalking... No, if I am sleepwalking, what will happen next..."
The man turned around, picked up a baseball bat from under the bed, slowly moved to the door, and put his head against the door.
tick,
The clock jumped to 5:31.
Bang!
There was a muffled sound.
I saw him immediately unscrewing the door lock and rushing out with a baseball bat: "Who is it? Who is it?"
The moonlight shines in from the balcony of the living room, a breeze blows by, and the white screen window keeps fluttering...
The man turned around and looked at every corner.
Qin Xiaobao's arm was held by Wang Bingbing. The young lady had turned sideways, half of her face facing the big screen. Looking around, she saw that many girls in the audience were similar to her.
"Afraid?"
Wang Bingbing nodded.
Qin Xiaobao was a little proud. He just wanted to scare people, so he took advantage of it.
In a horror film, the most important thing is of course the atmosphere. Compared to shooting, he spends the most energy on finding the soundtrack. Only with the right BGM can the atmosphere be perfectly set off.
At the beginning of the film, it was completely quiet until the male protagonist was awakened by the sound of hitting a ball and nervous music officially started playing.
By the way, he also used some of his favorite techniques from horror movies,
For example, the moment he opened his eyes, there was a sharp soundtrack, and the loud bang heard by the male protagonist as he pressed against the door also came very suddenly.
Then he roared and rushed out, accompanied by the sound of urgent breathing. The camera was from a first-person perspective and was shaking in various ways.
It seems to be working well so far.
The plot continued. After a frantic search, the male protagonist found nothing unusual. He tried to turn on the light, but found that there seemed to be a power outage.
He held the bat tightly with both hands and curled up on the sofa, his body trembling slightly.
At this moment, on the man's left side, the drawer in the kitchen slowly opened,
He seemed to have noticed it, and turned his head slowly,
It doesn’t seem to be an illusion,
The man is still hesitating, he is trembling, he is scared, he wants to go over and have a look, but he doesn't dare.
Boom,
There was another sound,
The kitchen knife was chopped on the cutting board,
The man couldn't bear it any longer. He threw down the bat and tried to open the door to escape, but found that the door lock was turned again. He rushed back to the room, pulled out the suitcase from the closet, and hid in.
It seems like the ghosts are getting more and more outrageous...
Various voices of conversation sounded in the man's ears, including men and women, but he could not hear what was being said.
He hid his head between his knees and covered his ears with his hands,
But I can still hear it.
The narration continued: I regret it. I should have listened to that mother-in-law.
The screen turned and a row of words appeared: A few hours ago.
The protagonist is carrying a bag and standing in an old building. The camera moves to the left. In front of him stands an old woman, spinning a string of rosary beads in her hand.
"Young man, this is not the place you should stay, please leave!"
The man didn't understand what it meant, and was a little flustered by the old woman's glare. Under her gaze, he entered the elevator.
Then, I found that the elevator door could not be closed, and there was a beep... overweight sound.
He pressed it several times, and it still happened.
When the man turned sideways to face the door, he found that the old woman was standing outside at some point and continued to stare at him.
He was frightened, and ran out of the elevator, crawling on the ground, and ran towards the stairs on the opposite side. When he reached the corner, the man turned his head, and the old woman was still watching, but the elevator door that could not be closed closed again, and the numbers began to beat.
The man gave up and ran to the fifteenth floor to take out the key.
Something strange happened, the door was unlocked.
He took off his down jacket and went to the bathroom, wanting to take a bath to calm down.
Poof, poof,
He seemed to be out of breath.
The man discovered that the water seemed not as cold as he thought.
Then, from that day on, all kinds of strange things happened at home.
The boiling water was obviously boiled, but it was empty in an instant, and the living room, which had been tidied up, was in a mess the next day...
Every morning at 5:30, the man will be woken up by the sound of basketball, and then the door will automatically close and open...
After a series of memories,
The camera cut back and the man regretted it.
There were always signs that he had rented a haunted house, and the old woman wanted to remind him.
At this time, the sound in his ears seemed to be louder, and the man raised his head in fear. He seemed to hear something,
"Leave quickly, leave quickly, leave quickly..."
Bang!
The closet door was opened, and the old woman appeared in front of her,
The audience came to the man's perspective, looking at the ferocious old woman, blinking again and again,
After a blur, the entire screen went black.
Wang Bingbing looked confused: "It's over? Is the old lady a ghost? Or something else?"
Not only she, Chen He, Zhang Zixuan, but also other viewers all looked at each other, it was quite scary,
But it ended like this, which was very strange, and it felt like there was no beginning or end.
Qin Xiaobao smiled and said nothing, pointing to the big screen.
About ten seconds passed and the screen turned on again.
"This is our new home."
In the familiar living room, the family, led by their father, happily entered the house.
Due to deliberate arrangements, the family could not see anything, everything was blurry. The camera followed them to each room, and in the final bedroom, the male owner placed the alarm clock on the bedside.
Outside the living room, the child turned on the TV and slapped a basketball on the balcony. His mother came over and told him not to be naughty.
A news report came from the TV: A gas poisoning incident occurred in a community in our city a week ago, and the deceased was a male...
The camera turned and showed a close-up of the TV. There was a photo on it. Although the eyes were mosaic, everyone recognized it.
The deceased is the protagonist.
ha...
Many people in the theater took a breath,
This...this...
It turns out he didn't encounter a ghost...
After the audience understands, the movie begins to introduce the ins and outs.
Yes, the man is a ghost, but he doesn't know it. Through the split screen, everyone discovered that the time of ghosts is opposite to that of humans.
Two clocks, two times,
The man looked out the window and saw nothing. In the other half of the shot, there were several children playing ball.
The sound of the door closing was the master's return.
The boiling water ran out and the room became messy, which all had explanations.
While the man was panicking, the family was also scared.
The baseball bat that dad put under the bed inexplicably found its way to the living room, the box in the closet... everything seemed to tell them that the house was not peaceful.
So, my father found the old woman, who turned out to be a witch. After chatting for a few words, he arrived at the building.
The same is split screen,
One screen showed a man's perspective, but on the other screen, it was a family hiding at the door, with no one in front of the old lady.
The same goes for the elevator. It's actually full of living people standing inside, but the men can't see it.
The camera showed a close-up of the man who went up to the fifteenth floor without even taking a breath. He took out the key, but did not notice that it was actually an electronic door lock. Cold water was not cold enough to take a shower...
Wang Bingbing showed an expression of sudden realization,
It turns out that there were various signs in the past, which already showed that the man was the ghost in the house.
It's just that everyone has preconceived ideas and misunderstood.
As for the last murmur the man heard, it was also revealed that it was the old woman leading her family outside to perform an exorcism.
He was the man who died of gas poisoning, but he didn't know he was dead and was still living in the house.
Just when everyone thought it was over, the camera shook in the darkness and there was a bright spot,
After slowly advancing, the electronic clock appeared, showing 5:29.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock,
Click!
The camera panned suddenly, and the man on the bed suddenly opened his eyes.
The weird music sounded again and the subtitles floated up.
"tenant"
Adapted from Wei Ronghua's novel "The Tenant", directed by Qin Xiaobao.