Chapter 36 - Discussion (1/2)

The director’s Weibo didn’t have many posts and he even bumped this one to the top.

Su Min scrolled down and saw that the director had received a lot of questions about the islands past in an old post, so he took the initiative to make a new post explaining it.

This post was a long article. At first glance, all the basic explanations were listed.

Su Min picked out the ones he wanted to read and read through them.

The director himself filmed it so he naturally knew of the background of the story and the characters that didn’t have a name in the movie also had their own backgrounds and set ups.

For example, the one screaming pitifully in the bathroom. Su Min didn’t know what it was, but the post explained that he was an islander that was killed in the bathroom and was even cut into pieces.

The two dark shadows crouching on the floor were the murderers.

The post didn’t mention the water from the showerhead, but Su Min guessed that it was probably something the movie did to make things a little scarier.

The one in the sea was also an islander. There originally weren’t many islanders and females accounted for half of that. The remaining male islanders were all killed.

The most important thing was naturally the explanation for the skinning.

Su Min had always thought that it was Uncle He and the others who had that ability to changes skins but unexpectedly the director said that it was originally something the islanders possessed.

The islanders have had this method passed through the generations, but they rarely used it. Because every time it is used they would need a sacrifice and the blind granny didn’t allow outsiders to be harmed, they could only do it if one volunteered.

There were cases of couples volunteering for each other or parents doing it for their child.

The blind granny was the one responsible for the handling of this skill, but she had passed away several months ago.

Uncle He and the others had only stayed on the island for a week when one of the villagers relapsed. They didn’t want to harm themselves so they wanted to use the outsiders, but they didn’t’ expect Uncle He to overhear them.

He later secretly learnt the method and even used it on the islanders in a successful act of counterattacking.

The islanders wanted to harm the outsiders but was eventually killed by them.

The director explained this very simply and allowed the audience to guess the rest. Afterall, it’s more interesting if you thought about it yourself.

“So, this island met its own retribution?”

“I think that this set up is unnecessarily complicated. What’s with all the changing skins and the like? Killing people directly is much simpler and easier to understand.”

“Although I don’t get it, it seems pretty amazing.”

“I was confused after watching the movie but fortunately I saw this post. If I didn’t, I would be thinking about it for the rest of the week.”

Su Min read through some of the popular comments and then exited Weibo.

He still had a class at night. When he just placed down his book and sat down in his seat, he received a message from Li Wenxin: “How was it? Have you come out? I saw the reviews outside.”

Su Min replied: “I’m out.”

Li Wenxin: “Don’t tell me you reached the ending again? You’re really amazing. What was the ending like?”

This time he had invited a junior sister to watch the movie with him, so he knew about the movie’s plot. What he didn’t know was how Su Min had changed it.

Su Man answered him casually.

Li Wenxin sent him a link: “I thought it was just people from school that remembered you but I didn’t expect people in the forums to still remember you.”

Su Min instinctively sensed that there was some hidden meaning behind his words and proceeded to click on the link.

【Question: To the master who lived until end of University Thriller, did you experience Murder Island?]

Below that were many responses. In fact, this post was almost overloaded.

“I don’t know but I went to experience it myself. I was lucky enough to live a day, but I died the next day. It was really thrilling.”

“I now realise that it isn’t easy experiencing horror movies. I originally thought that there would only be ghosts but I didn’t expect it to also include humans. The scariest part of it was that even if you bite your tongue to try and kill yourself, it doesn’t count. After all that pain and suffering, you still didn’t die………”

“I also want to know if the great master went to experience it. I want to see what happened this time.”

“There aren’t any notices from the cinema. We might need to wait a few days to know. They should send out a notice if it was successful.”

“I just want to eat sugar……”

The cinemas would naturally actively promote it if a horror movie experience was successful.

Su Min also didn’t know if he achieved the required score for the movie to be rereleased this time. He was fine even if it wasn’t achieved.

Afterall, no one could guarantee that he would succeed every time.

Watching a movie like this was nothing more than a thrilling experience that’s more interesting that watching it normally.

Su Min placed down his phone and started to pay attention to class.

His two classes finished very quickly and the bell signalling the end of class rang.

His classmates still remembered Su Min’s earlier incident and they quickly rushed over to ask: “Su Min, did you watch the movie?”

Su Min said: “Watched it.”

His classmates were curious: “How was it?”

Su Min said while holding his books: “It’s okay.”

His tone was dull. This made his classmates think that he has had a bad viewing experience. Not wishing to rub his sore spot, they voluntarily left him alone.

Su Min himself didn’t expect them to have such a different interpretation of his words.

****

The cinema was very efficient. Three days later, Su Min received a message.

Again, it was while he was doing his evening self-studies.

Su Min quickly logged onto the website and checked the line-up for the upcoming movies. There was another suspense movie and a romance movie in the line-up that was being rereleased because of successful audience participation.

This time the name was still “Murder Island” and his name appeared in the participating audience column.

Su Min noticed that the movie synopsis was a little different.

The original synopsis spoke about the consecutive deaths but, because he had changed the ending, this time it was the complete opposite.

After his evening self-study, Su Min received a call from the person in charge: “Mr. Su, have you received the text message?”

Su Min said: “I have received it. I will go.”

The person in charge said: “It’s like this. Because the ending is completely different to the original movies ending, the cinema wanted to use that aspect of it to promote the film and attract more viewers.”

Afterall, horror movies were originally not very well received so they would want to make use of anything that could potentially attract viewers.