Archive 81: Masterpiece of Terror and Chungo sound

James Wan, Master of Modern Terror, is the most recognizable name of file credit titles 81.The creator of the SAW SAW, Insidious or File Warren hosts under his umbrella as executive producer this Netflix series.Its author is Rebecca Sonnenshine, to which from now on we will give you an equivalent title: Terror Teacher.Because with his series he has achieved something that Wan is very clear with his films: that the horror genre is for many things, but the main one is to scare.Archive 81 is very afraid.

It is true that I am not the most appropriate person to judge this.I am afraid of the Bigfoot of the Henderson.I still have nightmares with the supposedly endearing extraterrestrial of my friend Mac and every time in the fourth millennium Iker Jiménez is invented another embrujo place I see how the fence closes on which I frequent.If they offered to live for free in the building in which file 81 is developed, I would say no.In neither buildings.Neither in the apartment that burns in a mysterious fire in 1994 nor in the isolated mansion in which a video tape restorer faces disturbing recordings made just before the incident.In fact I consider I ever go to Pittsburgh, a city where the Rebecca Sonnenshine series is filmed.If they gave me an apartment in the New York Dakota building, I would think very much if living in such a perfect place...that comes out in the devil seed.

Unlike the Roman Polanski movie, which trusts everything, archive 81 knows perfectly the language of its gender and knows that assaulting the senses is the best way to produce concern and unease in the spectator.Her sound treatment is very aware that many of her spectators will see her alone and with headphones.On a train full of people and in broad daylight, the series has put my hair just with its sound.I blamed that (that is: applaud) to your sound design team.I can also associate it with the fact that file 81 is freely inspired by a podcast.

But a fear story not only has to scare.If it does not scare, we are going, of course, but fulfilled that purpose to the genre of terror we can ask for more.File 81 gives it.With the occasional script inconsistency, the Netflix series soon becomes the clearest referents and acquires its own personality.On the other hand, the absence of great stars in its cast automatically generates a plus of credibility and likelihood, because when Gal Gadot or Matt Damon live, one can almost guarantee that both will reach the end of the story, if not healthy andsaved, yes alive.With the characters that in file 81 interpret Mamoudou Athie (Dan) and Dina Shihabi (Melody) we do not have that certainty.However, that does not mean that we don't care, because we connect both his curiosity and her innocence.At the same time, we know that both are reckless because we have seen many movies and fear series before.That is why we are clear from the beginning of file 81 that what they propose to Dan at some point will be a trap.The horror genre is made of comforting certainties and surprises that make you hit a boat in the bird seat.How to combine these two ingredients knows a lot of Rebecca Sonnenshine.And to take advantage of the benefits of good headphones with external sound cancellation function.