On Weibo, discussions about the movie are in full swing under the related topics of the Yannan University Student Film Festival.

[I just watched "Short Night" today. It was very immersive. Thinking of the hardship I went through when I just graduated, I couldn't help but shed tears]

[This "College Entrance Examination! College Entrance Examination! College Entrance Examination!" is too ridiculous. A group of senior high school students are not studying hard but are instead talking about family matters. There weren't so many trivial matters when we were senior high school students before.]

[The Wailing was the film that surprised me the most this time. I never thought a horror film could be shot this way. I won’t say more. My cabinet is moving.]

[The love between the male and female protagonists in "The Past is Like Smoke" is really a fairy tale love, so sweet, really amazing! ]

[I heard that many people didn’t even dare to leave the cinema after watching “The Wailing”. To clarify, they didn’t dare to leave the shopping mall!]

[I tell you, you must buy the late night show for "The Wailing" and watch it at 11 or 12 o'clock. This is the most enjoyable and immersive! I'm not going to say it anymore. I watched it during the day before and I feel a little regretful. I plan to find time to watch it again at night! ]

[The Wailing seems to be very scary. People like me who are timid won’t go to the cinema. It would be so embarrassing to get scared.]

Among these topics, there are also some news. For example, after the audience left the mall last night, they were afraid to take a taxi home by themselves, and public transportation was suspended, so many people who lived nearby simply walked home together, causing a driver who drove in the middle of the night to think he had seen a ghost and called the police.

Also, a staff member of a cinema that screened "The Wailing" last night was found huddled in the employee lounge this morning. It was said that after watching the movie in the lounge, he did not dare to leave or go to the bathroom, and just waited until dawn shivering.

For young audiences, it doesn't matter what the movie is about.

Many people go to the cinema simply to kill time when they can't find anything to do. The real purpose is not to watch the movie, but to hold hands while watching the movie and to talk about it afterwards.

Most audiences don’t really care about the specific logic of the movie. As long as it’s generally smooth, the pictures are exciting enough, and the plot is thrilling enough, it doesn’t matter if there’s no logic.

There are also hot topics. If a movie is very popular and has gone viral, and people around you are watching it, then many people will subconsciously choose to watch it, so that there will be common topics in social situations. For example, if a girl you secretly love posts a message on WeChat Moments saying that she just watched a certain movie, would you want to watch the movie as well and find a common topic with her?

Therefore, this wave of "The Cry" can be said to have gained popularity.

The first day box office came out. Since the screening schedules of several movies were similar, their final box office were also very similar. Only "The Wailing" was fully booked for the second day, and even the third and fourth days were full. It is expected that the box office has already reached the first place.

In response to this situation, the theaters and film festival organizers were not stupid and announced the next afternoon that they would add more screenings for "The Wailing."

Just to be fair, these screenings will not take up the screening time slots of other movies, but will all be shown in the midnight show.

Midnight shows, which are shows after midnight, usually show a package of bad movies or classic old movies, except for the premieres of some movies. There are also all-night shows, which show three movies at a time from midnight to six in the morning.

Normal people would not go to watch this kind of show.

Who would stay up all night in the cinema instead of sleeping at this hour?

But this time it's different.

The Wailing is a horror film.

Horror movies are only exciting when watched at night!

Moreover, the sound and picture of the cinema are first-class. It is so cool to watch a horror movie in such an atmosphere.

So, when the news about the midnight show first came out, "The Wailing" generated a lot of ticket refunds - they were all tickets that were refunded for the daytime show and bought for the midnight show instead.

Of course, not everyone can like the same thing, and even the most popular things will have opposing opinions.

"The Wailing" uses horror and thrills as its selling point, so naturally some people who are numb to horror movies and seek horror excitement will sneer at it.

Someone made a comment on Weibo.

[I am a forensic doctor and have seen all kinds of corpses. I think movies like "The Wailing" may just be a gimmick. It may be scary enough for the general public, but it probably won't scare me. I am going to try it with my classmates.]

The person with the account name [Spicy Eggplant] is indeed a forensic medicine student named Zheng Li.

He posted this on Weibo because, on the one hand, he really felt that ordinary horror films were boring, and that films like "The Wailing" that everyone is praising were probably just traditional horror movies with sudden jumps and frights.

On the other hand, it's also a way to show off and attract traffic and popularity, just in case you become popular.

However, someone soon came to challenge him on Weibo, asking him to start a live broadcast or to arrange a movie theater to do the challenge.

Zheng Li certainly couldn't back down, because whoever backed down would be a grandson. After a debate online, he bought tickets for the midnight show and made an appointment with several netizens to watch "The Wailing" together.

After buying the ticket, Zheng Li searched for the key words of "The Cry" just to be on the safe side.

"I'm not afraid. This is called knowing yourself and the enemy, so you can fight a hundred battles without danger."

He wanted to find out if there were any analyses or spoilers. He wasn't afraid of horror movies, but he couldn't stand the scare of a ghost face that suddenly appeared. It's not that he couldn't stand it psychologically, but he would definitely react physiologically.

Zheng Li felt that he would not be afraid at all, but his body had a conditioned reflex and he could not suppress his instinct.

So he wanted to know in advance whether the movie had any such explosive points and make preparations in advance. After all, he couldn't lose face in an offline PK.

However, when Zheng Li searched for information related to "The Wailing", he unexpectedly found news about Nan Hua Private Renji Hospital. According to the plot synopsis, this seems to be the hospital that the movie was based on.

Following the link, Zheng Li saw that it seemed like this hospital really existed?

He looked at the information summarized in the post, as well as the various photos and news. As he looked, Zheng Li discovered something.

“Is this movie real?”

He felt a chill on his back. After all, this was too real. It was not just a few words from netizens, but even the local news reported it. It didn't seem like something fabricated for publicity.

"No, I can't watch this anymore. The more I watch, the more scared I get..."

Zheng Li decisively closed the webpage, trying to drive those things out of his mind and stop thinking too much.

At night, around eleven o'clock, he came to the cinema. To his surprise, the cinema was crowded with people. Everyone gathered here as if they were not going to sleep.

They all came to watch the midnight show.

At around half past eleven, Zheng Li heard a sudden noise coming from the front.

He saw that it was the audience from the previous show of "The Wailing" who had just come out.

The audience were all silent, as if they were still immersed in the movie and unable to extricate themselves.

One of the girls, supported by the person next to her, took two steps and suddenly seemed to see something. Her expression became ferocious and she took several steps back, screaming.

"Don't come over here, don't come over here..."

She fell to the ground, as if she had seen something horrible.

"hiss--"

Zheng Li took a breath. He felt that as a forensic doctor, he had seen all kinds of situations and would not be surprised.

However, he had never seen such a scene before.