Blair Witch Project - Scary or Shit

I saw it for the second time about 3 weeks ago, and thought it was shit, and not even slightly freaky.

hahaha, otm. and it seems to be common that even the people who were scared of it on first viewing now think its shit.

i had all my movie frightenings for me when I was very young, and a lot of them, therefore nothing on the big screen is scary anymore for me. Which is a shame tbh, I'd really like to write a screenplay for a scary film actually.

Jeepers Creepers was all right until the dude with the wings made an appearance.

I don't think there's such a thing as the perfect horror movie with the power to scare just about everybody.

see, i really dug the little van the guy drove around in and i had high hopes for it when i saw this at the start. But then suddenly i think something happened to the acting and the plot when soggy too.

re Blair Witch, the whole getting lost in those woods was fucking feeble.

The amount of horror movies that aren't scarey though... I was disappointed by Ring, but thought the remake of the Grudge was very frightening.

People being visited by ghouls in their sleep is scarey.

The Asians have really perfected the sledgehammer horror stuff; Ju-on, Kairo, Ringu, Audition, A Tale of Two Sisters, etc. If you're not frightened by the bedroom scene in A Tale of Two Sisters, you may in fact be dead.

I think I read somewhere that there's a link between this and sleep-paralysis (that's if we're talking about he same thing)

Are all people who claim to be awake during operations able to prove it? Do you dream under aneasthetic? Do the surgeons chortle at your pubic hair-style?

OTM! the ending is great, easily the best part of the film.

(it's only happened to me once so far)

Blair Witch: the ending is indeed great, but the first hour or so is awful.

OTMS. and i was suspending really hard and found it to be creepy and even a little terrifying at the end. the only thing that's unnerved me that much since then - at all, really - is the first sounding of the siren in silent hill and the little evil dwarf monster things. oh and pyramid head with that redheaded chick.

Yeah. A dude standing in a corner and handprints on a wall have never been so gasp-worthy. But to be fair, you need the rest of the movie to make that work.

I don't know that this movie stands up to repeated viewings, though.

Sound design is often a make or break element in horror. Ringu is creepy even when nothing's happening because of the burbling soundtrack.

Get one home theater system, aren't they widely available for ~ $100 now?

As if!

Yeah yeah yeah, twigs aren't scary. What the fuck are you lot on about? If that's how you think, you can dismiss ALL horror movies cause some of the best out there is about IMPLYING something. Or you could just say:Well, fuck the Exorcist cause the devil doesn't exist. You have to go with the (scary) flow. And it isn't about the twigs, it's about (unknown) evil (who cause the twigs to rustle/break/whatever). Sheesh... Weren't you ever scared when you were alone in the house and you heard a door creak? No? Well, then I'll shut up now. :-)

You can sort of guess which group I belong to. It's a bit like a ride at a funfair: there's no point to it if you don't let yourself go.

xpost oh no I saw the sequel, it was kind of fun

I dunno, Dolby 5.1?

Which films parodied it?

Scary Movie comes to mind, just in the past few weeks there was a Blair Witch reference on the US version of The Office.

there were even parodies of parodies, that's how rediculous it got!

the best parody was one i saw on either Sundance channel or IFC (maybe even HBO), it was a guy and his stuff bear camping and being scared n' shit.

The second time I saw it in the theater was not quite as good in part because I knew what was going to happen and in part because the friend I saw it with kept clutching my arm and distracting me.

also, there is no way a movie like this could be succesful in the post youtube world, right?

the best parody i ever saw had jar jar binks in the final shot. (came out the same summer at e1, right) cant find it on youtube, but i think it was called "Jar Jar Binks Project".

ah, the innocent lives we led in 1999.

Would've loved to've been at the Sundance screening, where it was screened as a documentary.

i saw a leaked copy at friend's house a while before release, and the lack of a huge system didn't make a difference.