Meh.

SCARED!!!!!!

Anyone who claims they weren’t scared is EVEN MORE SCARED.

First time I saw it, in the cinema, I was freaked out by it. The strange noises in the woods shit does it for me every time.

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

Twigs aren’t scary.

Madchen—you’ve ruined it!

I didn’t find it scary first time I saw it AT ALL. Mind you, I didn’t find The Ring scary, so maybe film just isn’t the right medium for scaring me.

Twigs aren’t scary

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.

In all honestly it’s the only film I can remember being scared by. I liked the fact that the ‘witch’ wasn’t seen.

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.

Scared. Also nauseated by the camera motion, which may have made me look more scared on emerging from the cinema than I actually was.

Scary. But totally reliant on willing suspension of disbelief.

like i can remember that long ago.

Jeepers Creepers

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.

I thought it was pretty scarey. Saying “But it’s just twigs and people screaming in the woods” is missing the point a bit. I think it’s down to how much you let your imagination creep you out in the end and how open to suggestion you are.

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.

I had a weird reaction. I thought it was okay, and well done for what it was (a couple of amateurs out in the woods with cheap camcorders). It’s more creepy than scary, a feeling of dread rather than pulse-pounding fright—but the following day I couldn’t stop thinking about the ending.

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.

Dog Latin, are you talking about that weird ‘sleep hag’ phenomenon, where a ghoul or witch-like creature sits on a sleeping persons chest?

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)

now sleep pralysis is scary, because it’s happening to me and not some actor on the tv.

Never had it, but I can imagine how it could be nasty. Like waking up halfway through an operation.

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?

I had a weird reaction. I thought it was okay, and well done for what it was (a couple of amateurs out in the woods with cheap camcorders). It’s more creepy than scary, a feeling of dread rather than pulse-pounding fright—but the following day I couldn’t stop thinking about the ending.

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

The “hag visitation” thing is supposed to be connected with sleep paralysis, yes.

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

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

Scary. But totally reliant on willing suspension of disbelief.

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.

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

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 have no idea how scary it’d be on a small screen without the theater sound—the rock noises, man, those were effective.

You always hear that “it’s what you DON’T see that’s the scariest,” and this movie takes it to a literal extreme. You don’t see anything ever. And it works really really well.

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

I watched it for a second time at home, alone. I was even more frightened. I don’t know why, it’s not like there was any real frights to anticipate.

IIRC, the directors didn’t have an ending when they started filming, and just made that one up out of desperation as shooting was coming to a close.

Like Coppola with Apocalypse Now. Good freakin’ job, either way.

i have no idea how scary it’d be on a small screen without the theater sound—the rock noises, man, those were effective.

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?

define “home theater.”

When it got to the end, my only reaction was “is that it?”

I saw it at a midnight movie once, people were gasping at the end, one guy yelled “haven’t you people ever seen a guy take a leak in a corner before!?!?”.

all i heard was someone in the front row yelling “WHERES THE FUCKIN WITCH”

the funny thing is, the night before it was sold out and i had to go see deep blue sea instead

Twigs aren’t scary

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.

The Sci-Fi channel ‘documentary’ was spookier, the end of the film itself was fantastic, neither was as quality as the sequel.

the sequel was hilarious! husband and i still laugh at it. we both saw it but seperately. we both thought that we were the only suckers who had watched it. hahah

For the record, I was enjoyously freaked by this movie, although THAT scene that has been overparodied to death was one of the LEAST frightening in the film (the most effective scene for me was probably when they heard their homie screaming from in the tent).

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

Overparodied? Which films parodied it? (I’m serious, not making a snarky comment or whatever.)

define “home theater.”

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.

Ah yes, Scary Movie. Of course.

most of the parodies were on tv shows, but there were at least 2 or 3 direct-to-video parody flicks.

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.

(no, not Grizzly Man)

DYING

i was flipping channels the other night and the tv show BONES had an episode which was a timely rip off of ‘blair witch project’. they were trying to figure out what happened in these woods, see, and there was a film depicting 3 people lost in the woods, and...etc.

I saw it twice in the theater and the first time, found it to be extremely eerie and unsettling. Three parts really affected me: 1) when someone unwraps a little cloth packet and finds what I think are bloody teeth inside (the implication being that whatever happened to the missing friend was very much not good at all); 2) the hand prints on the wall; and 3) when one of the last remaining characters mentioning that he’s almost out of cigarettes. That really ratcheted up the empathy (I were in their situation, food and water would be of secondary concern to having sufficient cigarettes and the idea of NOT having sufficient cigarettes was honestly terrifying to me) and made the rest of the creepiness more effective.

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.

i think it was scary when the promotion was all word of mouth. after it was on the cover of newsweek it just wasn’t anymore.

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”.

“Jar Jar Binks Project”.

ah, the innocent lives we led in 1999.

i think it was scary when the promotion was all word of mouth. after it was on the cover of newsweek it just wasn’t anymore.

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

I distinctly remember a Skinemax parody involving many fake breasts. I can’t even think of what the soft-porn take on the title would be.

The Bare Witch Project, of course.

Boob-prints on the wall instead of hand prints?

What’s that guy doing in the corner?

i have no idea how scary it’d be on a small screen without the theater sound—the rock noises, man, those were effective.

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.

Bare Wench Project

The Erotic Witch Project (complete w/ ape costume)

i remember being more frightened by a jar jar binks face jumping into the final few frames than i was at the final few frames of the real thing.