In the 21st century, the film industry offers viewers a lot of film entertainment that is somehow based on fear. As they say, if there is demand, then there will be offers. It is clear that the goal of any “horror movie” is to cause fear, fear and shock to the beholder. A variety of methods are used for this, ranging from disgusting pictures to pure atmospheric stress. Horror film "Erased" reviews of moviegoers refer to the golden mean: it is enough and the first and second.
The reality of the horror "Erased"
The reality of the “Erased” slasher (expert reviews ranked the project precisely to this subgenre) is the existence of a lawless inhuman experience. But how else can one designate the murder of ones like oneself for the sake of sadistic, sophisticated entertainment? The main antagonist of the film - Kurt Baker, is perceived as not a person. According to the authors' idea, its very existence was initially territorially moved beyond the boundaries of social dormitory; therefore, it appears as a borderline public order and human consciousness. The film "Erased", the plot of which is not original, does not require a variety of plot-plot constructions. The creators simply frighten the beholder with the pain of the victims and the bloody scenes, but the depressing atmosphere of danger, into which the unfortunate victims fall one after another, is more impressive.
Plot. Almost no spoilers
"Erased" (2007) experts recommend that you look at the reviews to the end, because it is at the climax that the understanding of the root causes of what is happening will come. And the action begins with the fact that the birthday of the girl Sarah is celebrated in the country house of the sheriff of the city of Pat Baker (Tony Dup). Her younger brother, eight-year-old Kurt, wants to attract attention, behaves extremely disgusting. Mother scolded the boy and sent her to her room. The holiday was over, and a tired woman went to check on her naughty offspring. As soon as she went up to her son’s room, the child beat her to death with a baseball bat. His crime was recorded on a video camera. Smith Haven, a provincial town in Washington State, was shocked by the behavior of a small sociopath.
13 years have passed ...
Thirteen years pass, Kurt (Aaron Blakely) escapes from the rehabilitation center and, having acquired a clown mask, goes to his hometown. On this very day, his sister Sarah (Alena Deshil), with a small group of friends, goes camping in the forests surrounding the city. The sheriff is torn between fulfilling his duty, protecting the residents of the city, and fatherly feelings for his son, suffering from dissociative personality disorder . Meanwhile, the number of victims continues to grow, and a terrible secret about the boy’s past will very soon come to public view. This is a brief description of the storyline of the film "Erased" (2007). Much was said about the film, but the introduction to the plot of a secret explaining the maniac’s actions was called justified.
Fear for yourself
After a detailed analysis of the picture "Erased", the reviews of viewers and critics noted a curious fact. There are victim characters and villain characters in the film, they are static. But there is also opposition - this is the real world of the average citizen and the real evil personified in a negative character, lurking in the dark. Therefore, the peculiarity of the perception of the tape "Erased" ("Frayed", 2007) reviews indicated that the heroes of the victim on the screen are extremely close in spirit to the beholder, to some extent psychologically related. This belief is not formulated explicitly, it is hidden deep in the subconscious, but its presence makes the viewer forget about the game played by the creative union of directors and fully feel the real, animal fear and almost physiological aversion to everything that happens on the screen .
Deconstruction of Values
So, “Erased” (the reviews mostly confirm this fact) is not just a slasher about murders, it’s also an attempt by the authors to analyze the problems of the society in which these crimes occur, to outline a separate audiovisual model of the world, which is based on the deconstruction of universal values. The creators managed to provocatively capture the attention of viewers and plunge them into their own semantic space. This "clue" occurs at the points of maximum attractiveness, that is, emotional rejection or attractiveness. By the way, we add that the effect of emotional rejection in the film prevails and does not give the viewer the slightest respite from the exciting, but uncompromisingly atrocious scenes.
Training film for nerves
"Erased" (2007) - a horror film that reminds the beholder of all kinds of troubles, is a kind of training for the nerves of the viewer, because at least some psychological depth is embedded in it. It can not be attributed to the production of the horror film industry, which is saturated to the limit with scenes of unjustified violence. Such films simply suppress the psyche of the audience and even dull the instinct of self-preservation. But in this slasher, without exception, all episodes are justified by the subgenre format. The viewer, sublimating the abominable, disgusting and terrible, comprehends and rejects it. Great therapeutic effect. Moreover, the picture certainly does not pretend to be a work of art in its highest understanding.
For skeptics
Many moviegoers, watching the movie "Erased", immediately assume that this is a real clone of the cult "Halloween", shot by John Carpenter in 1978. There, too, the main character is a psycho, having escaped from a special clinic, where he spent fifteen long years, in a mask he committed murders out of a sense of revenge. But "Erased" is different in that, due to the simple tracking of the camera and the almost monotonous sound of music, the viewer has an inexplicable alarm. It’s as if the energy of a psychopath really materializes, and the horrors that are inside each of us turn out to be the most terrible in the world. The film "Erased", of course, cannot be put on a par with "Halloween", and it is difficult to name the scariest movie in the history of cinema, but fans of the genre are definitely worth recommending for viewing.