Chapter 88: This won't work, decided to magically change it into a horror movie!

"Chotto matte Naoki-san, do three high school girls dare to go to the deep mountains and forests to soak in the hot spring?"

Otomo Yoshimura was the first to raise an opinion.

Ah, the deep mountains and forests of this era are indeed quite dangerous. Except for real big cities, some places are still disorderly, and underage young girls are a bit too bold.

"Why would the hot spring hotel fabricate the legend of the Karasawa gorilla? It's very dangerous..."

Mina Ohno couldn't help it either.

One question after another popped up.

Indeed, compared with the short dramas in "World's Fantastic Stories" before, this short drama is much weaker in terms of reversal and plot... The acceptance level doesn't seem to be very high.

Anyway, it's just filming a simple one. Naoki Nagayama decided to put down the original plot and magically change it himself.

"In that case," Naoki Nagayama's eyes turned, and he decided to increase the spiritual elements, "Why not change it to exploring the haunted hot spring hotel in the deep mountains and forests!"

"Several college students on autumn vacation agreed to go to the legendary haunted hot spring hotel to explore, but they didn't expect to really encounter spiritual events."

Moving doors, skylights that opened at some point, ghosts outside the door, weird movements...

As Naoki Nagayama's thinking became clearer and clearer, the images of another movie in his mind began to appear—"Paranormal Activity". This low-cost, simple-to-film spiritual horror movie actually swept more than 200 million US dollars at the box office.

After the ghost story films of the 60s, Japanese movies were increasingly influenced by the West, especially after the 90s, when a special classification of Japanese spiritualism was born. In the 80s now, pseudo-documentary horror films hadn't come out yet.

"Spiritual events? Not bad~" Otomo Yoshimura didn't say anything else. Anyway, in his opinion, this was just an attempt at a movie by Naoki Nagayama.

"In that case, we need to bring a filming team~ And we need to add actors~"

Naoki Nagayama waved his hand, "Well, the Staffs that Shuichi Ito often cooperated with before should still have contact now. Find two filming assistants who are a bit free, and then I can perform."

"What about the director?"

Naoki Nagayama said shamelessly: "That is of course the director himself!"

It's just that finding a dilapidated hot spring is a bit troublesome.

3 actors, 1 director, and 3 filming personnel were all found quickly.

A total of 7 people, the filming personnel can drive, and two vans can take them away.

Naoki Nagayama planned a total of 3 or 4 days, at most not more than 1 week of filming time.

"Otomo-san, why did you follow?"

When gathering the next day, Otomo Yoshimura actually got on the van together.

"Because I am also very idle, soaking in the hot spring is also very good~" Otomo Yoshimura laughed, Naoki Nagayama was speechless.

Sure enough, after earning a lot of money, no one wants to work seriously.

After a two-hour drive, he drove directly to Mount Takao and found a hot spring hall in the mountains that was on the verge of closing.

Because he had said it on the phone in advance, the older boss lent the venue very readily and was excited to participate in it.

Take out the script written yesterday afternoon.

Of course, the plot inside has been adjusted appropriately to conform to the national conditions of Japan and the change of the performance location.

In fact, "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project" before it, the prominent feature is the use of pseudo-documentary form, all small costs to fight for big box office, and it doesn't matter if the plot is changed.

The horror elements were not greatly changed. After all, the film itself didn't have many bloody elements, and it was still biased towards layer-by-layer psychological oppression.

One man and three women from the Film Department of the University of Tokyo (Masamori, Mina, Fei, Ayako) just had an autumn vacation. Hearing the news of the haunted spiritual hot spring hotel that was about to close, they decided to explore for a week and record their journey with a camera as homework for this vacation.

A total of 5 cameras, greeting two assistants to use two cameras as God's perspective to follow, and the protagonist line brought 3 cameras as the source of the documentary in the movie.

After driving to the hot spring hall, I found that it was just an old hot spring hall. As for the hot spring hall owner, Naoki Nagayama didn't tell him the plot, just let him play the original boss, facing the camera on Naoki Nagayama's shoulder, a bit nervous and at a loss, looking more real.

"Boss, I heard that the hot spring hall is haunted, is it?"

"Haunted? No such thing. My hot spring hall has never been haunted!"

"Then why is there news reported?"

Naoki Nagayama was carrying the camera, and it was Mina who asked.

"How do I know? TV stations always do some strange things."

Ayako, who was looking around in the hot spring hall, checked a sentence on the side: "What is this shrine?"

"The local mountain god, worshipped for more than ten years."

At night, several people were eating at the dining table in the living room.

"Masamori-san, it looks like an ordinary hot spring hall. The news and so on are all fake."

"Mina-chan, Fei-chan, Ayako-chan, most of the legends must be fake. Believe in science. We are just here to film the truth. Even if it is proven to be an ordinary hotel, it will complete the homework."

"That makes sense."

After checking in, several people set up 3 cameras in the guest room, courtyard, and hot spring of the hotel, planning to film all night.

However, after nightfall, strange things happened constantly. The door of the room suddenly opened, scaring several girls to call Masamori to the room.

"It might be the boss on purpose!" Masamori said firmly, "If I catch him, I will definitely beat him up."

When several people were drowsy, the lights in the room flickered a bit, and a black shadow appeared outside the door...

With a "pop", the decorative painting on the wall fell down...

"Ah!!!" X3

Naoki Nagayama, who played Masamori, was also woken up, but he was still hard-mouthed: "Alright, alright, it's just that the nail came out."

Drowsily supporting until morning, thinking that there would be no strangeness in broad daylight, but after several people went out, in the empty room, a book on the table moved strangely until it fell off the table.

All this was filmed by the camera in the room...

And the next day, everyone was exhausted. The most timid Ayako even wanted to go back:

"Mina, Fei-chan, what if there are really ghosts... let's not film it..."

"Ayako, don't be fooled. All this must be the boss making trouble behind his back!" Mina herself didn't believe in ghosts and gods, "If we film it, let him waive our room money!"

"Hahaha, Ayako-chan, if we really film ghosts, our homework must be the highest in the class!"

Although a bit exhausted, Masamori still didn't change his head, insisting on continuing filming.

In the next few days, more and more strange things happened.

When soaking in the hot spring, there seemed to be long hair on the water surface; in the courtyard, there was always a shadow that flashed by; the shrine in the lobby was broken at a corner; the empty toilet made a flushing sound; the cabinet door sometimes opened by itself...

These strange phenomena that occurred between half-dream and half-awake made the protagonist's daily life basically unable to sleep well.

On the third day, Fei and Ayako couldn't hold on anymore and begged everyone to go back, but Mina and Masamori insisted on persisting for another day.

That night, the camera in the lobby filmed Ayako kowtowing at the shrine in the middle of the night until blood flowed all over the ground...

After Masamori and the others discovered it, they hurriedly drove along the mountain road to send her to the hospital.

But after a mist, what appeared in front of them was still that hot spring hotel...

The last picture was a newspaper. Several college students went camping in the mountains and disappeared. The police found their abandoned car and camera.

Wanting to film nearly a week's time in 3 days, especially since they were all night scenes,

These few nights really tired the 7-person filming team...

Strange moving objects, using transparent thin lines to pull; flashing shadows, relying on several people to pull ropes quickly; even Otomo Yoshimura, who was watching the fun, was forced to put on black clothes and pretend to be a ghost outside the door several times...

The so-called strange phenomena were all the hard work behind the scenes of Naoki Nagayama and his party! ===== CHAPTER 89 =====