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NikolaiFarkoff

2009-07-10 02:40:34 PM

I was camping just outside Burkittsville, Maryland. Why?

Trivia Jockey

2009-07-10 02:41:05 PM

I know a lot of people hold subby's opinion, but as a guy who doesn't much care for scary movies (because most aren't scary), when I saw this in the theater it scared the crap out of me.

Egg. I mean Ann

2009-07-10 02:47:55 PM

I was working in a book store in the west village in nyc. A bunch of coworkers went to see it when it premiered at the Angelica. They all fell for the marketing campaign that had swept through & thought it was a real documentary.

Hender

2009-07-10 02:49:03 PM

Trivia Jockey: I know a lot of people hold subby's opinion, but as a guy who doesn't much care for scary movies (because most aren't scary), when I saw this in the theater it scared the crap out of me.

Same here. I think most people objected to the hype machine, not the movie itself. Hell, the entire movie was pretty much just filler to get to the last 20 minutes or so, and then within that to the last 30 seconds.

That final scene, even ten years later, still gives me the willies.

davedirt01

2009-07-10 02:49:37 PM

I was on the phone breaking up with one girl while walking into the theater with my (now) wife to see it.

/liked the last 5-10 minutes, and that's about it.

bmr68

2009-07-10 02:49:55 PM

I went opening night.My smoking hot girlfriend that was out of my league thought it was real.

/nuff said

I Said

2009-07-10 02:50:40 PM

I was trying to convince a few 20-30 year old's that there was no way in hell it could be a true story. (I was about 17)

I lost respect for a lot of people when that film came out.

Joe_diGriz

2009-07-10 02:51:34 PM

I couldn't get scared by the movie, because I was too busy trying not to get sick from the "hand-cam" technique.

ne2d

2009-07-10 02:53:42 PM

I saw it on opening night. I thought it had some neat creepy visual elements (the piles of stones, the stick figures, the handprints on the walls) but was a pretty lousy movie. Also, ten years? WTF? I'm old.

Linger

2009-07-10 03:02:59 PM

Saw a bootleg copy before it hit the theaters which being a boot gave it extra creepiness.

Roook

2009-07-10 03:03:47 PM

I remember the media hyping it up like crazy. Some entertainment news sites were like 'zomg, we just got this trailer for a documentary, those poor kids'.

I actually went to see it around opening night at the little art theater by my house and it had a huuuuge line. We were in it for 5 minutes when someone came out and said 'All shows are sold out for the rest of the day! You can go home'.

I eventually caught it on DVD and other than the last 5 minutes I was like 'meh'

Rev.K

2009-07-10 03:04:17 PM

For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

Roook

2009-07-10 03:06:04 PM

Joe_diGriz: I couldn't get scared by the movie, because I was too busy trying not to get sick from the "hand-cam" technique.

I've never had problems with motion sickness in films. Do FPS video games also affect you? Or do you get motion sickness in cars? I'm just curious if they are connected.

AzDownboy

2009-07-10 03:08:40 PM

Experiencing the future joy of people answering their cell phones during a movie.

RING RING RING
"Hey! What's up girl!"

It was more annoying because the sound quality of the film was... less than ideal

benlonghair

2009-07-10 03:12:13 PM

Pocket Ninja

2009-07-10 03:13:16 PM

I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Obdicut

2009-07-10 03:22:33 PM

Pocket Ninja: I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Agree with you entirely.

Sure, it's not a great movie. It was enjoyable at the time. And it's better than the vast majority of big-budget horror movies.

At least it tried something different. At least it wasn't a remake.

logieal

2009-07-10 03:23:38 PM

davedirt01: I was on the phone breaking up with one girl while walking into the theater with my (now) wife to see it.

/liked the last 5-10 minutes, and that's about it.

I call Shenanigans! Your cordless phone with the metal antenna couldn't have reached that far. And cell phones hadn't been invented yet.

impaler

2009-07-10 03:24:35 PM

It's been 10 years since "The Blair Witch Project." Where were you when this crappy, one-joke, overhyped piece of crap crapped its way into the movie theaters?

In the bathroom vomiting.

brap

2009-07-10 03:35:41 PM

Even knowing it was going to be a complete steamy loaf I was dragged to see it. I can't remember who I saw it with but I do remember that they were completely freaked out by it. I was wondering if we saw the same movie.

It was such a sleeper I had to envision that Scooby Doo was going to pop out in the final scene and then they would all say "Scooby you kooky nut going out and looking for your Scooby Snacks like that, get back in the Mystery Machine."

CheekyMunky

2009-07-10 03:40:49 PM

Obdicut: Pocket Ninja: I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Agree with you entirely.

Sure, it's not a great movie. It was enjoyable at the time. And it's better than the vast majority of big-budget horror movies.

At least it tried something different. At least it wasn't a remake.

All of the above for me, although I do agree there could have been a bit less hype about it.

That said, though... if it was such a pointless pile of crap, subby, why are you submitting threads 10 years later to talk about it?

Nabb1

2009-07-10 03:44:39 PM

Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

Yep. I saw it in the middle of the week with my roommate and we were the only two people in theater. Scared the hell out of both of us.

sigdiamond2000

2009-07-10 03:45:54 PM

Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

Off the top of my head, I honestly can't think of one movie in the last 20 years that was billed as a horror movie that I've found truly scary. I just don't find witches, vampires, monsters, ghosts, and comic book violence all that frightening anymore.

I'm not trying to say I'm better than everyone else; I just don't get it. Every time I see my brother-in-law, he's got whatever the hot new torture porn movie is and he always thinks it's going to blow my mind, but those movies are almost comical to me. I get the sense that even my bro-in-law isn't actually "scared" by them as such, just excited by them.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

bighasbeen

2009-07-10 03:46:13 PM

That movie gave me such a headache. At least the second one had titties.

Thanks for making the shaky camera cool.

Egg. I mean Ann

2009-07-10 03:49:52 PM

sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

Off the top of my head, I honestly can't think of one movie in the last 20 years that was billed as a horror movie that I've found truly scary. I just don't find witches, vampires, monsters, ghosts, and comic book violence all that frightening anymore.

I'm not trying to say I'm better than everyone else; I just don't get it. Every time I see my brother-in-law, he's got whatever the hot new torture porn movie is and he always thinks it's going to blow my mind, but those movies are almost comical to me. I get the sense that even my bro-in-law isn't actually "scared" by them as such, just excited by them.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

Psychological thrillers/mind fark movies are scarier than jumpy slasher flicks. I like slasher flicks. They make me jump. But the really scary stuff is less literal for me, so I get what you mean. Any scariness to Blair Witch depends on your imagination, not gore or violence. Which is pretty farking scary.

sigdiamond2000

2009-07-10 03:53:55 PM

Egg. I mean Ann: Any scariness to Blair Witch depends on your imagination, not gore or violence.

Maybe I'd like it then, because that's more the sort of thing I find scary.

brap

2009-07-10 03:54:46 PM

Gee whiz, I love the occasional loquacious outburst as much as the next guy but that load of flotsam doesn't deserve that level or oratory.

- Keats Ode To A Greasin' Turd

elchip

2009-07-10 03:56:46 PM

Pocket Ninja: Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

This. The first time around, I loved it.

The second time around (at home), I was very "eh."

It's hip to hate it, but at the time it was widely loved. I suppose the loses-effect-with-repeated-viewings bit has something to do with it.

Also, you have to give them credit for their trailblazing advertising campaign.

gimmeafuckinname

2009-07-10 03:58:31 PM

It was kind of 85 minutes of filler but I would argue the final few minutes/last scene are creepy and good and at this point, iconic.

Joe_diGriz

2009-07-10 04:03:40 PM

Roook: Joe_diGriz: I couldn't get scared by the movie, because I was too busy trying not to get sick from the "hand-cam" technique.

I've never had problems with motion sickness in films. Do FPS video games also affect you? Or do you get motion sickness in cars? I'm just curious if they are connected.

FPS games only affect me if they have bad framerates or if the center of view moves around too much over an extended period of time. (Older games, with the low-res blocky graphics and relative lack of color palette, tended to make this effect much worse.)

I generally only get motion sickness in cars (or even boats and airplanes) if it's really bouncing around, and I can't find something relatively steady to focus on (closing eyes doesn't work). Looping roller coasters, for example, I can (mostly) deal with, but only as long as I don't look around while moving.

Blair Witch is the only movie I've had real problems with, and I believe it was a combination of the hand-cam (which was distracting enough) and the washed-out, sometimes semi-fuzzy picture. (Yes, I realize that was how it was supposed to look, but it bothered me far more than I thought it might.)

Somacandra

2009-07-10 04:11:02 PM

On a date with a very brief girlfriend. Got motion sick--had to close eyes for most of the movie.

/we're still friends
//Doofy: "Gail Swallows."

Diogenes

2009-07-10 04:12:40 PM

Seeing it in the theatre was key, I think. Sitting there in the darkness, hearing nothing but their voices in the tent and the creepy noises "outside," really pulled you into the characters' perspective.

UberDave

2009-07-10 04:14:58 PM

elchip: Pocket Ninja: Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

This. The first time around, I loved it.

The second time around (at home), I was very "eh."

I went to see it opening night in one of the artsy theaters here in Houston. The entire movie pretty much relies on your imagination to frighten you (as do the best horror flicks) - this was enhanced by the way the opening night crowd acted during the movie. When the scene would go to one of those silent shots in the woods at night, you could have heard a pin drop in that theater. The end was wild and pretty much scared the piss out of everyone there.

I have it on DVD yet have never watched it since that opening night as I knew at the time that it wouldn't hold up to repeat viewings. I'll probably watch it if I catch the time right - sitting around drinking beer with friends is not prime viewing time for that movie.

Anyway, I remember that the biggest complaint immediately after the movie was that "you didn't see the witch".

oi_piss_me_off

2009-07-10 04:16:26 PM

i said it before and i'll say it again. i liked it and i don't know why people hated it so much. It scared the crap out of me, but it really doesn't take too much. It was scary in an actual scary kinda way and not a "things popping out at you to make you scream" kinda way.

Gwendolyn

2009-07-10 04:23:05 PM

I thought it was so farking stupid we jumped theaters and watched the six sense.

Pastor of Muppets

2009-07-10 04:25:26 PM

I think BWP's biggest impact was its use of the Internet in creating hype for the film. The website was, for the time, pretty spectacular.

eddie van heinous

2009-07-10 04:28:53 PM

A bunch of us went, we all knew it wasn't real and I enjoyed it. The last creepy minute was worth sitting through the entire movie.

Like Pocket Ninja said though, that movie doesn't stand the test of time.

DarthBrooks

2009-07-10 04:30:17 PM

The basic reason people hated it was because they had the piss scared out of them and they were screaming like little girls during the last five minutes of the film.

When they finally pulled their dresses back down off their heads they were FURIOUS that a movie made them wet their diapers. So they whined and moaned about how awful the movie was. When in reality, the movie was 100% effective.

/HAHA BUNCHA SISSIES.

AzDownboy

2009-07-10 04:31:56 PM

DarthBrooks: The basic reason people hated it was because they had the piss scared out of them and they were screaming like little girls during the last five minutes of the film.

When they finally pulled their dresses back down off their heads they were FURIOUS that a movie made them wet their diapers. So they whined and moaned about how awful the movie was. When in reality, the movie was 100% effective.

/HAHA BUNCHA SISSIES.

There is so much projection in that post it could show the film itself

Gwendolyn

2009-07-10 04:32:03 PM

DarthBrooks: The basic reason people hated it was because they had the piss scared out of them and they were screaming like little girls during the last five minutes of the film.

When they finally pulled their dresses back down off their heads they were FURIOUS that a movie made them wet their diapers. So they whined and moaned about how awful the movie was. When in reality, the movie was 100% effective.

/HAHA BUNCHA SISSIES.

No, I found the Sci Fi channel special to be mire entertaining and scary.

bighasbeen

2009-07-10 06:15:26 PM

Diogenes: Seeing it in the theatre was key, I think. Sitting there in the darkness, hearing nothing but their voices in the tent and the creepy noises "outside," really pulled you into the characters' perspective.

I shared a room with an older sibling. Between she and my father they did everything they could do desensitize me to that sort of fright. Someone making creepy noises in the dark stopped scaring me when I was 8.

savage henry

2009-07-10 06:30:24 PM

Gwendolyn: No, I found the Sci Fi channel special to be mire entertaining and scary.

The Sci Fi thing, with no buildup or explanation, was scary.

The Blair Witch, coming at a time of overwrought thrillers, was a smart movie. Everyone was accustomed to the constant building music, cats jumping from behind curtains, the whole formula.

wjllope

2009-07-10 06:31:38 PM

I never saw it actually. Not that I'm not a fan of those type movies - I just never got around to it.

Despite subby's opinion - should I?

/does own a TV

The Dreaded Rear Admiral

2009-07-10 06:31:53 PM

Coelacanth

2009-07-10 06:32:27 PM

I know people who still think it was the real deal. And the SciFi special, damn near a heartstopper all by itself.

Lenny_da_Hog

2009-07-10 06:32:28 PM

It was overhyped, so I waited for video.

Great student film. I'd'a been a little peeved if I'd paid full box office to see it.

Dariodevil

2009-07-10 06:32:30 PM

I threw it in the river.

deathon2legs

2009-07-10 06:33:10 PM

Hell, I enjoyed it, and enjoyed the hype and websites and everything else. I knew it wasn't "real" from the get-go. My girlfriend and I went to see it, and the power died with about 40 minutes to go. It didn't come back on. So, they gave us free passes for another show, which we saw a few days later. Still enjoyed it.

N. S. Radieaux

2009-07-10 06:34:03 PM

Rehearsing my role as the royal secretary, Phra Alack, in The King and I.

meat0918

2009-07-10 06:34:08 PM

Hender: That final scene, even ten years later, still gives me the willies.

That was the only scary part of the movie...

ukexpat

2009-07-10 06:34:42 PM

Me? Watching something else.

swaxhog

2009-07-10 06:35:05 PM

I was watching The Matrix instead.

jerkobson

2009-07-10 06:35:13 PM

Getting a bee-jay in the back of my car by the captain of the girls swim team not caring a damn bit about that movie.

/wait the gym is calling.
//I'll be back in 26 min.
///don't wait up

phone4

2009-07-10 06:35:21 PM

movie was in no way scary. Lame and a total waste of time

kenposan

2009-07-10 06:35:21 PM

I was sitting in a theater wondering why the hell I paid to see this steaming pile of hype.

Harry_Seldon

2009-07-10 06:35:34 PM

I always wondered where the profits went for this movie. It's total cost when all was said and done was about $25 million (not 20k). Still the movie generated well over $300 million overall.

Desmo

2009-07-10 06:36:01 PM

Crapping.

logruszed

2009-07-10 06:36:46 PM

I was living in Englewood FL (near Sarasota, the home of the author/director). It sucked.

Still never seen it, still don't want to see it.

I agree with you

2009-07-10 06:36:48 PM

yeah,,,I finally got around to watching it for the first time I think,,,last year sometime. Wasen't excited about it when it came out, and the only reason I watched it then,,cause nothing elese looked good at the time. Guess I should have picked up a book, cause it pretty much sucked,,lol

NotoriousW.O.P

2009-07-10 06:36:56 PM

Saw it in Richmond with a couple of my roommates that summer. The theater was almost packed, and I remember that during the final scene, everyone in the theater -- and I mean everyone -- gasped.
Then we went home and slept with the lights on.

Ringtailed79

2009-07-10 06:37:16 PM

Saw it opening weekend. Knew it was fake. The last 5 minutes was worth it.

What was really creepy? The theater I was in sold out of seats, and all 300 people or whatever walked out in complete and total silence. Nobody in our theater talked about the film on the way out the door.

DiscoInferiorityComplex

2009-07-10 06:37:20 PM

Where were you when this crappy, one-joke, overhyped piece of crap crapped its way into the movie theaters?

Exactly! I didn't get one full belly-laugh out of this flick at all.

hej

2009-07-10 06:37:29 PM

I Said: I was trying to convince a few 20-30 year old's that there was no way in hell it could be a true story. (I was about 17)

I lost respect for a lot of people when that film came out.

I never saw the movie. Did it not have credits that rolled at the end to name the people acting in the movie?

grinderman

2009-07-10 06:37:53 PM

I watched my best friend run out of the theater three times to puke his guts out from motion sickness. That really was a lot of shaky camerawork.

skinink

2009-07-10 06:38:07 PM

I liked the movie, and the last 5 minutes were real scary (youtube) Although I blame the Blair Witch Project for all the shaky handheld crap they use in movies like the Jason Bourne films and Cloverfield.

And the Blair Witch website created a pretty interesting backstory. That Heather girl in the movie was a real biatch, though.

Mercury

2009-07-10 06:38:10 PM

Right after I saw it, a co-worker and I got a pile of rocks placed it on the desk of our manager who was off on a weeks vacation. Said manager mentioned that he was going to see the movie. Co-worker also took some Smarties and dental floss and made little "men" with them and hung them over the manager's cube. Lots of lols when he came back to work on Monday.

bburgis

2009-07-10 06:38:22 PM

Wow,
I guess it's also the anniversary of the first time I ever watched a $2 bootleg DVD.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 06:38:50 PM

What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film.

marcand

2009-07-10 06:39:19 PM

I was in the movie theater watching it. I liked it. Go figure.

The Dreaded Rear Admiral

2009-07-10 06:39:20 PM

Gwendolyn: I thought it was so farking stupid we jumped theaters and watched the six sense.

And that... is why you fail.

/1999 was such a great year for movies, interrupted ever-so-briefly by that steaming pile of crap
//the week before seeing The Sixth Sense, I saw Bowfinger. And liked it 100 times more. Yes, Bowfinger.
///mmmmm, a still young and pert Heather Graham

thrasherrr

2009-07-10 06:39:31 PM

I liked it better as Cloverfield.

beoswulf

2009-07-10 06:39:56 PM

Nothing special about the original but going to the first matinee of the sequel it was just me and a date in the auditorium(a heavily trafficked multiplex). They didn't even bother starting the movie, and we didn't care, walked out and were given refunds and a ticket pack.

miltonbabbitt

2009-07-10 06:40:03 PM

On the sidewalk outside the theater with my girlfriend suffering from motion sickness.

Dug the movie though. The motion sickness side effect only made it more eery.

Ringtailed79

2009-07-10 06:40:05 PM

shipofthesun

2009-07-10 06:41:11 PM

savage henry: The Blair Witch, coming at a time of overwrought thrillers, was a smart movie. Everyone was accustomed to the constant building music, cats jumping from behind curtains, the whole formula.

excellent point. Went the complete opposite way, and very effectively. And for all you folks biatching that it doesn't stand the test of time, the point was that it was a see it once and be scared, see it twice and be bored. It wasn't made to challenge the Exorcist, or even Halloween, it was just a one note scream, constantly building til the end, if you will. A first effort that got the filmmakers in the door, in a big way.

Nuclear Monk

2009-07-10 06:41:42 PM

Ringtailed79: sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

Off the top of my head, I honestly can't think of one movie in the last 20 years that was billed as a horror movie that I've found truly scary. I just don't find witches, vampires, monsters, ghosts, and comic book violence all that frightening anymore.

I'm not trying to say I'm better than everyone else; I just don't get it. Every time I see my brother-in-law, he's got whatever the hot new torture porn movie is and he always thinks it's going to blow my mind, but those movies are almost comical to me. I get the sense that even my bro-in-law isn't actually "scared" by them as such, just excited by them.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

Did you see Event Horizon?

That movie bothered me....as did Blair Witch

Mongo cut wood

2009-07-10 06:41:59 PM

I made my own version that Christmas; The Blaire Josh Project

My nephews and I went walking through the woods in search of places to hunt for deer. My nephew is on film picking up deer poop and rubbing it in his hands. Too big for YouTube though.

RodimusPrime

2009-07-10 06:42:36 PM

Great ending, shiathouse everything else beforehand. I still distinctly remember the theatre I was in filling with laughter at the "famous" scene where Heather is apologising via torchlight.

FlashHarry

2009-07-10 06:42:45 PM

i was on tour, playing a show in youngstown, oh.

The Dreaded Rear Admiral

2009-07-10 06:44:15 PM

Ringtailed79: Saw it opening weekend. Knew it was fake. The last 5 minutes was worth it.

What was really creepy? The theater I was in sold out of seats, and all 300 people or whatever walked out in complete and total silence. Nobody in our theater talked about the film on the way out the door.

Same here. That's only happened after two movies I've ever seen at the theatre. One, Blair Witch. The other? The Passion of the Christ.

/mostly because we had just watched a 2-hour snuff film for the second one

Nowhereman

2009-07-10 06:44:30 PM

After reading the hype in fangoria and knowing that it wasn't real I saw it against what a co-worker had told me. My pregnant wife was getting nauseaus and during the last shot i said to myself "That's it?" then made some snarky comment about how it should have been called "Mtv's The Real World:Goes Camping" Then months later I read about how the film makers saw the last broadcast at cannes the year before and ripped off that movie.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 06:44:36 PM

I will not be watching this movie, but am curious why the last scene was so 'good'. I just watched it without sound (at work) and obviously didn't understand what was going on.

Can someone explain why seeing your friend in a corner and then dropping the camera (or dying whatever the case may be) is not the most anti-climactic ending ever?

Rosco P. Quatrain

2009-07-10 06:44:58 PM

I was sitting next to a girl I liked at the theatre and I farted REALLY loud. Tried to pass it off as a shoe-squeak. Not sure if she bought. Didn't smell or anything.

/nope, didn't ever date her

zez

2009-07-10 06:45:02 PM

Gob Bluth

2009-07-10 06:45:04 PM

I've never seen it. I was probably playing GoldenEye on the N64

angrycrank

2009-07-10 06:45:08 PM

Brainwash

2009-07-10 06:45:09 PM

It's been 10 years since "The Blair Witch Project." Where were you when this crappy, one-joke, overhyped piece of crap crapped its way into the movie theaters?

I was in a movie theatre, watching the film, being scared shiatless.

All you need to appreciate this movie is an imagination.

Don't piss on my parade just because you don't have one subby.

Squidgilum

2009-07-10 06:45:16 PM

elchip: It's hip to hate it, but at the time it was widely loved.

I've never seen it. (I rarely go to horror films.) But "hip hate" is one of my pet peeves. The way people pile on when it looks like public sentiment is turning. I remember way back when all my theatre pals thought "Phantom of the Opera" was the cat's pajamas. Then a few years later, the very same people are mocking it mercilessly. Hip hate and pulling a complete 180 are very big in theatre.

It's one thing to love something then get tired of it when it's overplayed. In that case, you just step back for a while until you can appreciate it again the way you first did. But it's really obnoxious to go from love to hate.

Rubber Biscuit

2009-07-10 06:45:40 PM

Subby: I was with your mom. We were having intercourse.

dbaggins

2009-07-10 06:45:40 PM

goddamn shaky-cam.

forever cursed that movie will be. They can rot in hell.

Ncoded

2009-07-10 06:46:15 PM

Better movie...

/MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW

shipofthesun

2009-07-10 06:46:29 PM

I was probably sitting on the floor, watching baseball, playing with our 1 yr. old daughter, watching her attempt to walk.

go for the eyes boo

2009-07-10 06:46:35 PM

Never saw it, for two reasons: I get major heebie jeebie nightmares from scary movies, and the handicam technique makes me want to puke.

I couldn't play First Person Shooters for the longest time either, because of the motion sickness, but I finally found one that can I play, and as an extra bonus, it has zombies in it!

Mirrorz

2009-07-10 06:47:01 PM

Actually we had a bootleg and went to my cabin in the woods. Late at night we ran an extension cord into the woods to power the vcr and tv and set up the lawn chairs.

That was THE best way to watch it. I'm not saying who but someone shiat my pants while we were out there.

Treygreen13

2009-07-10 06:47:17 PM

Sweet. The rest of my submissions will be about events from 10 years ago.

TonnageVT

2009-07-10 06:47:25 PM

I was standing in the corner of some busted house in the woods somewhere in Md...I was admiring the wall.

Modest Proposal

2009-07-10 06:47:45 PM

Pocket Ninja: I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Sort of a meta-elitism here, with a dash of empathy in the end. Pocket's forumla is showing its age.

Ow My Balls

2009-07-10 06:47:54 PM

crap crapped

i471.photobucket.com

...is getting a kick out of these replies...

yeegrek

2009-07-10 06:47:57 PM

Wow, subby sounds quite jaded with life.

consciousNOT

2009-07-10 06:48:21 PM

Walked out of it after about 10 minutes. Went next door to some Eddie Murphy movie that sucked just as bad. That also lasted about 10 minutes. The only 2 movies I ever walked out of were on the same night.

Squirrels_of_Wisdom

2009-07-10 06:48:33 PM

I remember seeing it the week it opened and being a bit creeped-out by the ending.

Nothing scares me as much as fast zombies though. What movie am I thinking of that has the zombies who can run really fast? 28 Days Later?

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 06:48:33 PM

zez:

The Ring was pretty damn creepy

I rented it when it came out. Immediately following the fullscreen video (the 'haunted' one that kills you) my phone rang. I looked at it and was really and truly scared for about 2 seconds before I busted out laughing.

/decent movie

BobNesta420

2009-07-10 06:48:55 PM

ScottHimself: I will not be watching this movie, but am curious why the last scene was so 'good'. I just watched it without sound (at work) and obviously didn't understand what was going on.

Can someone explain why seeing your friend in a corner and then dropping the camera (or dying whatever the case may be) is not the most anti-climactic ending ever?

I think a lot is lost having not seen it in the theater. I watched it on DVD and was bored out of my skull. That last scene brought a sliver of excitement to the movie. But the cameras dropping as they're running through the house just didn't do much for me. I remember watching it for the first time and thinking, well, that was lame. I'm sure it was much more intense and scary in the theater though.

torch

2009-07-10 06:49:13 PM

Getting shucked for $8.75 at the theater. I can't imagine a filmmaker hating his audience more. And vice-versa.

trappedspirit

2009-07-10 06:49:36 PM

Was that the movie filmed by Michael J. Fox?

Atomic Spunk

2009-07-10 06:49:41 PM

Saw it in the theater with my wife who was pregnant at the time. The camera movements gave her motion sickness big time, but she was able to hold it together for the whole film. As soon as it was over, she went to the restroom and puked out a toiletful of popcorn and Pepsi.

Jocundry

2009-07-10 06:49:58 PM

sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

Off the top of my head, I honestly can't think of one movie in the last 20 years that was billed as a horror movie that I've found truly scary. I just don't find witches, vampires, monsters, ghosts, and comic book violence all that frightening anymore.

I'm not trying to say I'm better than everyone else; I just don't get it. Every time I see my brother-in-law, he's got whatever the hot new torture porn movie is and he always thinks it's going to blow my mind, but those movies are almost comical to me. I get the sense that even my bro-in-law isn't actually "scared" by them as such, just excited by them.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

I agree with you for the most part, everything except for Inland Empire. I didn't pay to see that and I still want my money back.

I really think people who like the torture porn horror only claim to find it scary. They really are just excited by it. They have to be (or just like blood and boobs) because it's not scary at all.

How freaked out can you be by: OMG! Hot young naked chick is getting attacked by that ghost in a mask with a hack saw! I'm so scared it's hard, really hard, to watch!

My scary movie is Pi. That freaked me out, got in my brain and spun around like a Tasmanian devil on a wild night out. I still twitch occasionally.

/only slightly drunk

Treygreen13

2009-07-10 06:50:02 PM

Squirrels_of_Wisdom: I remember seeing it the week it opened and being a bit creeped-out by the ending.

Nothing scares me as much as fast zombies though. What movie am I thinking of that has the zombies who can run really fast? 28 Days Later?

That...
and Dawn of the Dead.

susansto-helit

2009-07-10 06:50:18 PM

I went to see it. I'm not ashamed to say that the scene where "something" was shaking their tent in the middle of the night and the final scene scared the piss out of me. And I'm a dyed in the wool horror film buff.

I agree with the people who've said that it doesn't hold up to repeat viewings, though.

DGS

2009-07-10 06:50:19 PM

I don't recall. This had no impact on me, never saw it, never cared, and it doesn't stand out in memory. But thanks for reminding me why I continue to not bother, subby.

Dr. Flavenglaven

2009-07-10 06:50:42 PM

I was busy vomiting at The Phantom Menace.

falcon176

2009-07-10 06:50:47 PM

i saw this in 1999 and had heard alot of things about how great it was. throughout the entire movie i was wondering the when it was going to get good, and when it was over i was wondering how anybody could consider it good.

Treygreen13

2009-07-10 06:51:26 PM

I remember watching The Bare Wench Project. That was more enjoyable.

tuna fingers

2009-07-10 06:51:41 PM

Subby: I was with Rubber Biscuit and your mom. We were having intercourse.

idsfa

2009-07-10 06:52:06 PM

Barfing from overheat and motion sickness in the second row of the Uptown theatre.

/"A lot of people look pissed"

Cybernetic

2009-07-10 06:52:14 PM

I was puking in the lobby. Jerky hand-held camera work makes me motion sick.

shawn82

2009-07-10 06:52:24 PM

Didn't see the the film when it first came out, being turned off by all the hype. Watching it on DVD a year or so later, I thought it was a pretty good flick after all.
The sequel, on the other hand...

Skwidd

2009-07-10 06:52:39 PM

I didn't get to see it in a theater--I was in the middle of a deployment when it came out, but I had seen the hype earlier. The only thing I knew about it was that it had one hell of a marketing campaign.

We stopped in Sasebo at the end of the deployment, where I was able to get a VHS copy of the movie (it really is that old). I watched it underway, didn't like it; but when I got back to Yokosuka, one of the cute girls who ran the desk of the hotel I lived in wanted to see it badly enough that she came up to my room to watch it (back then, movies usually came out at the Exchange long before they made it to Japanese theaters).

The movie sucked. Then, so did she. It was awesome.

/true story, believe it or not

Jument

2009-07-10 06:53:05 PM

10 years? Goddamn thanks, now I feel old.

Blair Thumb was awesome. Blair Witch a bit less so.

rhiannon

2009-07-10 06:54:00 PM

You're going to have to give me something a hell of a lot more relevant than Blair Witch for me to be able to remember.

SpiderQueenDemon

2009-07-10 06:54:19 PM

I was thirteen years old. Thought about sneaking in to see it, but then this older guy from school on whom I had a crush let me in without ID -and with a dreamy wink like "You're mature enough for me."

And then I saw it.

Upon discussing the film with said dreamy guy, I discovered he had no concept of Hitchcock or Kubrick, that the oldest film he'd seen was 'Deep Throat,' and that his opinion of 'Casablanca' was "Didn't Bugs Bunny do that one once?" Had Brad Pitt announced his fondness for Barney the Dinosaur, the shock of pretty-but-dumb couldn't've been stronger.

Crush adequately crushed, I proceeded to educate him on classic films. We formed a school Movie Club and I was president during my senior year. Said dreamy guy remains a friend, is now out and dating another similarly dreamy guy -and the four of us still meet up at the Loew's sometimes.

/fiance was too scared to watch '1408' with me
//have to call The Boys...

djklambake

2009-07-10 06:54:32 PM

I sat in a packed "ultra screen" theater in Milwaukee, WI, fed up with the whole POS movie, and at the very end when the dude was standing in the corner, I yelled "HE'S TAKING A LEAK" and half the theater laughed - the other half was very upset that I ruined the only scare in the whole damn movie. I proceeded to drink the rest of the night away. The drinking was more memorable.

Speedbts alt

2009-07-10 06:54:50 PM

I thought it held up pretty well to repeat viewings. I never found it scary, just jarring.

The mysterious cracking noises and the house are still creepy to me.

I don't hate Heather (isn't that her name?) like I did when I first saw it.

I guess when you don't think much of it to begin with it can't get much worse.

steadyfwd

2009-07-10 06:54:52 PM

Great movie totally over analyzed and chopped to pieces by all those who "know better".

To the unbiased, it is the only movie that actually provides
genuine horror.

Bio-nic

2009-07-10 06:55:41 PM

Getting laid...

BY A WITCH

wait. maybe it was the other...

kb7rky

2009-07-10 06:56:23 PM

POOP THREAD!

(simply because of all the "crap" usage...)

Speaker2Animals

2009-07-10 06:56:46 PM

AzDownboy: Experiencing the future joy of people answering their cell phones during a movie.

RING RING RING
"Hey! What's up girl!"

Which is why I avoid theaters/movies that are likely to attract those people. Last and only time I did was the first Spike Lee movie (the one with Danny Aiello) in which the audience was split about 50/50. Guess which half spent the entire farking movie flapping their gums more than the actors on screen?

Cornwell

2009-07-10 06:57:10 PM

I was busy pissing in the cornflakes of what was later to become a surly, lifeless and soulless entity known as subby

Godzilla

2009-07-10 06:57:24 PM

Making a parody, of course:

Clicky pop

We premiered it at a sci-fi convention in New Orleans where I got to meet Tom Savini. There were Klingons in the audience at the premiere. It was very fun.

epyonyx

2009-07-10 06:57:56 PM

Haven't seen it. No desire to.

Lollipop165

2009-07-10 06:57:59 PM

I was a freshman in college and went to the Angelica to see it. I didn't think it was real only because I'm a major fan of "true" (I use that term lightly) ghost stories, and knew who the Blair Witch was a take on (the Bell Witch). If there was a "true" story of the Blair Witch, I would have been familiar with it already, so I assumed it was a marketing ploy.

/but only after the movie did I consider this

Noticeably F.A.T.

2009-07-10 06:58:05 PM

Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

I have an excellent imagination, and thought it kinda sucked.

sandogtim

2009-07-10 06:58:10 PM

I thought the coolest thing about this film was that it was very low budget and rocked the boxoffice.

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 06:58:14 PM

This was a good film, I liked it. I don't care if it's not cool, or whatever.

Bite me, subby...yeah bite down hard.

SpinzGirl

2009-07-10 06:58:17 PM

bburgis

2009-07-10 06:58:35 PM

trappedspirit

2009-07-10 06:59:24 PM

djklambake: The drinking was more memorable.

Then yer doing it wrong, lightweight!

Tenebreux

2009-07-10 06:59:35 PM

What a Blair Witch might look like (Loved the film the first time I saw it, second time was equally as good, when you know whats coming)

Dr. Flavenglaven

2009-07-10 07:00:08 PM

Noticeably F.A.T.: Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

I have an excellent imagination, and thought it kinda sucked.

You sound fat.

\sorry, couldn't resist
\\low-hanging fruit and all

andygump

2009-07-10 07:00:24 PM

I was waiting for it to come out on DVD, laughing at all the morons who thought the viral marketing was a true story.

/travelling to NY to make sure that cloverield didn't actually happen.

kb7rky

2009-07-10 07:01:28 PM

subby:

It's been 10 years since "The Blair Witch Project." Where were you when this crappy, one-joke, overhyped piece of crap crapped its way into the movie theaters?

There there...you'll get over it.

Beeblebrox

2009-07-10 07:02:33 PM

phone4: movie was in no way scary. Lame and a total waste of time

This. From the first time I heard anything about this movie I knew it was a fake. I honestly don't understand what is scary about it. I did laugh a few times during the movie, though; mostly at the horrible overacting.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers scared the crap out of me as a kid (the one with Donald Sutherland). Still haunts the back of my mind even to this day.

S.A.S.Q.U.A.T.C.H.

2009-07-10 07:02:37 PM

I never saw it, or have bothered to see it, so HAHAHAHAHHAHA! You sat through it and I am immune.

But money-wise, I sure wish I filmed it though.

Burn_Atlanta

2009-07-10 07:04:34 PM

steadyfwd: Great movie totally over analyzed and chopped to pieces by all those who "know better".

To the ~~unbiased~~ young, naive and uneducated, it is the only movie that actually provides genuine horror.

FTFM and anyone else who saw, oh, I don't know, Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan or any of a couple hundred others I'd list if I had time to waste on someone who probably thinks Jackass is the only movie that provides genuine comedy.

JonnyBGoode

2009-07-10 07:05:12 PM

I was scared when I first watched it - until they got to the end, and I realized that the entire film was a set-up for a lame-ass campfire joke punchline. Then I was mad.

Noticeably F.A.T.

2009-07-10 07:05:33 PM

Dr. Flavenglaven: You sound fat.

\sorry, couldn't resist
\\low-hanging fruit and all

I have chubby vocal cords. Thanks for drawing attention to that, it's not like I'm self conscious about it or anything.

Cthulhu Theory

2009-07-10 07:05:48 PM

Roook: Joe_diGriz: I couldn't get scared by the movie, because I was too busy trying not to get sick from the "hand-cam" technique.

I've never had problems with motion sickness in films. Do FPS video games also affect you? Or do you get motion sickness in cars? I'm just curious if they are connected.

I'll add to the previous responses on this, if you can get FPS motion sickeness you can get car ride motion sickness, and vice versa.

The problem is the motion around you, you're in a car and the cars interior isn't moving but the stuff outside is moving in your peripheral vision and your body gets confused by it causing dizziness because it doesn't know what to do.

Same thing in reverse with FPS games. I've found with the latest generation of FPS, the graphics are usually clean enough to enable me to play longer periods for this to not take effect. I'm not sure why that is though. Also I noticed that personally I can play a game for longer times without getting nauseous if i play that game ferquently.

As far as the movie goes, I almost bought it as being real until i relized the preview was in a theatre which meant it was being made and it was still a month or two away. I

'm not the kind of person who pays close attention to much more than what actors are in a movie or what kind of movie it looks like it will be when I see a preview. Hell I honestly don't even care who directs the film. I'm more of a presentation and purpose type of film-goer, this movie had neither that interested me.

/came to make motion sickness point on this movie
//never saw the movie since even the commercials made me dizzy

WxGuy1

2009-07-10 07:06:08 PM

That is all.

/ Pretty freaky

little big man

2009-07-10 07:07:11 PM

Never watched it.

Ant

2009-07-10 07:07:12 PM

I loved BWP, including all the hype preceding it

Tony Baloney

2009-07-10 07:07:17 PM

brap: Even knowing it was going to be a complete steamy loaf I was dragged to see it. I can't remember who I saw it with but I do remember that they were completely freaked out by it. I was wondering if we saw the same movie.

It was such a sleeper I had to envision that Scooby Doo was going to pop out in the final scene and then they would all say "Scooby you kooky nut going out and looking for your Scooby Snacks like that, get back in the Mystery Machine."

Except for the motion sickness, I enjoyed the movie. Saw it with my wife and 1 or 2 of her sisters. The teenie girls sitting in front of us screamed like... well, they screamed a lot.

The subsequent "loosely-based on BWP's style" Scooby Doo Halloween marathon on Cartoon Network was probably the best thing to come out of that.

Nuclear Monk: Ringtailed79:

Did you see Event Horizon?

That movie bothered me....as did Blair Witch

I always thought the trailer for Event Horizon was infinitely more creepy than the actual movie -- its editors should have gotten an award, since it compelled me to go more strongly than any ad I've ever seen before or since. The imagery of the movie itself was certainly disturbing, but to this day nothing's creeped me out more than John Carpenter's The Thing. Sure the FX are dated and even cheesy in places by today's standards, but nothing I've ever seen compares to it in terms of sheer HOLY FARK WHAT THE FARK WAS THAT DID YOU SEE THAT FARKIN SHIAT???

phenn

2009-07-10 07:07:26 PM

Trivia Jockey: I know a lot of people hold subby's opinion, but as a guy who doesn't much care for scary movies (because most aren't scary), when I saw this in the theater it scared the crap out of me.

Kind of this. I knew it was not an authentic documentary prior to seeing it (saw it on video after the theater release) and I thought the scenes where they kept hearing noises in the wood and the end in the old house were creepily done.

If they had kept all the 'footage' of the bickering back and forth out of it and, instead, filled it with more of the above, it would have been pretty brilliant.

Good concept. Poor execution.

Oznog

2009-07-10 07:07:38 PM

Ncoded: Better movie...

/MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW

"So, 'Vic'- is that short for 'Victor'?"
"No, 'Victim'- my dad was bludgeoned to death!"

"We gotta get back to THE CAMP!"
"Oh yeah- the tents are safe! Nothing could ever penetrate THE NYLON!!!"

"IT'S HIM, MAN!!"
"No... he buys off the rack. That could be ANYBODY'S lower torso!"

The freak-out where they all ran headlong into trees was epic

"all of this has a logical explanation... well, except for the shark."
/deer don't have dorsal fins
//it was totally shark-y... COMPLETE!
///better than the original
////didn't really dig the monster ending- I know it was a setup for Frankenthumb and all, I guess it kinda laid out why showing "the witch" wouldn't have worked in the movie.

shipofthesun

2009-07-10 07:07:48 PM

Squirrels_of_Wisdom: Nothing scares me as much as fast zombies though. What movie am I thinking of that has the zombies who can run really fast? 28 Days Later?

Showgirls.

rostit

2009-07-10 07:07:56 PM

I went to Highschool with the lead girl in that movie.

My opinion of her varies, but I will say that she is pretty much like that in real life too.

dead_dangler

2009-07-10 07:08:06 PM

What a Blair witch might look like.

mrapier

2009-07-10 07:08:54 PM

I was in high school and it was scary and I didn't like it.

jadeblue

2009-07-10 07:09:42 PM

ScottHimself: zez:

The Ring was pretty damn creepy

I rented it when it came out. Immediately following the fullscreen video (the 'haunted' one that kills you) my phone rang. I looked at it and was really and truly scared for about 2 seconds before I busted out laughing.

/decent movie

I had a similar experience... a week later our TV went out while we were watching it. I immediately flashed to the movie and had a full second of utter brain shutdown. Then my brain booted back up and we laughed. In a slightly hysterical manner.

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 07:09:58 PM

Burn_Atlanta: Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan or any of a couple hundred others I'd list if I had time to waste on someone who probably thinks Jackass is the only movie that provides genuine comedy.

I don't think of Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan as providing genuine comedy, but you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

Cthulhu Theory

2009-07-10 07:10:15 PM

sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

Did you see strangers? That one made my spine tingle.

phenn

2009-07-10 07:10:20 PM

WxGuy1: That is all.

/ Pretty freaky

Yes. Yes, it was.

xeus8

2009-07-10 07:11:09 PM

got drunk for the first time within a day or two of seeing that movie in theaters

TonnageVT

2009-07-10 07:11:11 PM

dead_dangler: What a Blair witch might look like.

I would hit it and then stake it....wait, do you stake witches? I don't even know anymore, too many witch/vampire/zombie shiat going on these days.

Acid_Casualty

2009-07-10 07:11:12 PM

I smoked a hog-legger, after not having smoked in years. Then the viral type documentary came on sci-fi. I didn't see the whole thing, but somehow, my stoned mind filled in some gaps with some terror on a cosmic level. It spooked me pretty badly.

Later, I was walking home at night and heard a noise, which might have been my sister's horse getting loose, but at the time I couldn't see anything. If I had met with the origin of that noise, there in the dark, it would have been a bloody battle to the death.

Funbags

2009-07-10 07:11:13 PM

wjllope: I never saw it actually. Not that I'm not a fan of those type movies - I just never got around to it.

Despite subby's opinion - should I?

I'd say don't.

At the time, it was a refreshingly unique way to tell a story, and its fictional premise of being the discovered footage of the final days of 3 real, missing people was very compelling, very voyeuristic.

And despite what the weak-stomached, dim-witted detractors in this thread say, the last 8 minutes are as close to true terror as a cinematic experience can get.

But alas, time has stripped away of the veneer of plausibility, and seen on anything less than a full blown movie theater deprives one of the mise en scène so crucial to the premise.

If you can't see it in a theater, don't see it.

down4afall

2009-07-10 07:11:50 PM

I was working the overnight shift at a Super America (for someone who wanted to see the movie) with other co-workers at that SA. They all came back saying that they were scared shiatless.

Throughout the rest of the week most of them admitted that they weren't really scared, but didn't want to make anyone feel bad because there were screams from people that sounded like they were dying.

I saw it a few weeks later and still remain "meh" about it today. I actually liked the marketing. Of course, I'm out in the midwest, so we didn't get hammered by it. I thought it was interesting, and it's the first time I could remember a marketing gimmick that seemed to reward people who were "in on" the mythos.

The movie itself is mostly disappointing. I liked the ending, but I get the feeling that that was where they started shooting and kinda lost steam towards the end.

/Never saw the sequel. Did play the demo for the PC game. Hated it.

Ant

2009-07-10 07:11:57 PM

brap: Even knowing it was going to be a complete steamy loaf I was dragged to see it. I can't remember who I saw it with but I do remember that they were completely freaked out by it. I was wondering if we saw the same movie.

saysomethingfunny.files.wordpress.com

...and that is why you fail (to enjoy movies)

PeopleSuck

2009-07-10 07:12:03 PM

Don't spoil the ending! I haven't seen it yet!

mud_shark

2009-07-10 07:12:25 PM

I ignored it - I finally saw it a couple of years ago. I'd rate ot 3 on a scale of 1-10.

jamiekate

2009-07-10 07:12:42 PM

At home taking care of a newborn. I wondered at first if it was real but didn't take long to figure out the truth. Looked dumb to me.

black_knight

2009-07-10 07:12:53 PM

In NAS Oceana shaking my head at this overhyped piece of shiat.

NeuroticRocker

2009-07-10 07:13:19 PM

In film class, after watching LADY IN THE LAKE (1947) and then we watched Blair Witch.

LITL is NOT to be confused w/ the Shaymalan movie Lady In The Water.

LITL is a detective story told in the FIRST PERSON. the whole movie is seen through his eyes. you never see him when except when he looks in the mirror and a soliloquy at the beginning and end.

We watched them to discuss the meaning, purpose and success/failure of first person narrative.

He confessed that he had not seen Blair Witch prior to that week. He said, "Okay. When I see the crosses hanging from the tree, I said 'Oh! Those are the things on the DVD cover and poster' but I still dont know what the hell they are! Anyone care to tell me?"

Anyway, Dr. Leitch was the farking man. Bitter. Sarcastic as hell. Rude. Abrassive. But funny as shiat. If you got on his good side, and I was one of the few who did, he really opened up and was just a ball of mush. He just had no tolerance for people who didn't try or didn't think. He loved being challenged and having students put new ideas in his head, and I was one of the few who actually participated on that level.

/my fav quote: "Many of you got D's on your midterm. But thats okay. Because some of you got Fs. And if you got an F...well....God loves you and I love you too."

Cuthbert Allgood

2009-07-10 07:13:52 PM

Dariodevil: I threw it in the river.

Awesome, I see what you did there.

I liked the movie, saw it in the theater when it came out. Much creepiness. But I watched it last year and it seemed pretty lame years later. Although the last few minutes were still pretty creepy. I just couldn't figure out why they trusted the compass, follow the river out you morans!

Oznog

2009-07-10 07:14:20 PM

You said "crap" twice...

highwayrun

2009-07-10 07:15:06 PM

logieal: davedirt01: I was on the phone breaking up with one girl while walking into the theater with my (now) wife to see it.

/liked the last 5-10 minutes, and that's about it.

I call Shenanigans! Your cordless phone with the metal antenna couldn't have reached that far. And cell phones hadn't been invented yet.

I call shenanigans on your shenanigans. In 1999 I was a corporate drone in Houston at a certain Evil Empire we've all heard of, and having a black plastic flip phone marked you as an up-and-comer, a technological point guard, because not everyone had one quite yet. Most people still used their "regular" phones for most things, the term "land-line" not being in regular use yet.

Lord Snoopy's G.P.E.H.

2009-07-10 07:15:07 PM

I don't remember where I was when it came out, but a few days later I was sitting in a theater yelling "CLIMB A TREE, YOU IDIOTS!" at the screen.

Richard Roma

2009-07-10 07:15:20 PM

Best horror movie I've ever seen. By a mile.

/yes, I've seen The Ring
//and Halloween
///haven't seen The Exorcist, though

Noticeably F.A.T.

2009-07-10 07:15:35 PM

ScottHimself: I rented it when it came out. Immediately following the fullscreen video (the 'haunted' one that kills you) my phone rang. I looked at it and was really and truly scared for about 2 seconds before I busted out laughing.

/decent movie

Damn near same thing happened to me. Watching it alone in my dorm room late at night, phone rings right after "the movie". It was a wrong number, but it still took me a couple minutes to come down off the ceiling.

Too-Tall

2009-07-10 07:16:02 PM

I was laughing my ass off at all the idiots paying money to see this crap.

Broktun

2009-07-10 07:16:11 PM

ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film.

What a Blair Witch might look like:

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Use your imagination. . .it is worse than anything they can put on screen

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 07:16:13 PM

Cthulhu Theory: sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

Did you see strangers? That one made my spine tingle.

Seriously?

I was so pissed I considered bringing it back to Blockbuster and telling them it wouldn't read (for a refund).

Oznog

2009-07-10 07:16:44 PM

I remember downloading it as one of the first movies I got that way... and found the DivX compression didn't work for crap on that hand-cam technique, all the motion all over the screen made everything blocky.

Gamecock2001

2009-07-10 07:16:46 PM

Despite all the internet hype (viral before viral was viral), it was a good flick, old school style. The scene with the chick dripping some snot close to the camera and the finale with the dude standing in the corner.

/I bought this CD
//in the discount bin

elkraf

2009-07-10 07:16:49 PM

I was with my GF. When I got home my wife was worse than the end of the movie. Some people just can't take rejection.

Byno

2009-07-10 07:17:05 PM

What scary might look like:

Lumoclear

2009-07-10 07:17:11 PM

Yeah, I got a headache after watching it. Too much shaky cam going on.

dead_dangler

2009-07-10 07:17:12 PM

PeopleSuck: Don't spoil the ending! I haven't seen it yet!

The planet they crash landed on was actually Earth.

rhiannon

2009-07-10 07:17:20 PM

Funbags: At the time, it was a refreshingly unique way to tell a story, and its fictional premise of being the discovered footage of the final days of 3 real, missing people was very compelling, very voyeuristic.

So sort of like the first season of Big Brother, but without the poor video and before it got all "Hollywood". Yeah I can see that.

Arthur Prefect

2009-07-10 07:17:24 PM

deadsanta

2009-07-10 07:17:58 PM

At the Angelika in Manhattan. I was in the back row of that shoebox theater, so when the "scary parts" happened and terrified the front half of the audience, I was back there going "What?!? What just happened? Why is he in the corner like that?!?", and so forth.

dead_dangler

2009-07-10 07:18:11 PM

Too-Tall: I was laughing my ass off at all the idiots paying money to see this crap.

Whoa. You're nobody's fool.

Clorox Man

2009-07-10 07:18:37 PM

Watched the movie. Enjoyed it.

//didn't get motion sickness like a little girl

DeadMouseTails

2009-07-10 07:18:42 PM

The movie itself didn't scare me. It seemed just 'meh'. It was the two weeks of nightmares after that did me in. Like everyone else said, if you have a wicked imagination, that movie will scare the fark out of you, eventually.

feanturi

2009-07-10 07:18:54 PM

ScottHimself: Can someone explain why seeing your friend in a corner and then dropping the camera (or dying whatever the case may be) is not the most anti-climactic ending ever?

Yeah I had to back it up and watch that part again, because I was sure I had missed something. I apparently hadn't, so was left a bit cold. On the other hand, a friend of mine reported: "I was freaked when you could see buddy there just standing in the corner. Standing in the corner like his mind has been broken and he's reverted to being 6 years old acting up in class and being made to stand in the corner, wow man it was so creepy!" I didn't really experience it that way. I did enjoy the movie overall though, but I've only bothered to watch it once.

miqel

2009-07-10 07:19:21 PM

I was in Montgomery, Alabama going through AF Officer Training for July, August, and September. Finally, our last week, we were allowed to go "downtown". We wanted to go to a movie and sit in the AC.

I let one of my flight-mates convince me to see this waste of celluloid. To this day, I get angry thinking about wasting my one bit of freedom. I still feel like smacking those sniveling snot-nosed emo-lectuals.

Ant

2009-07-10 07:19:39 PM

shawn82

2009-07-10 07:19:57 PM

Cthulhu Theory: sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

Did you see strangers? That one made my spine tingle.

While not a horror movie, or even particularly disturbing, watch Primer.

Then immediately watch it again.

primermovie.com

Soup4Bonnie

2009-07-10 07:20:11 PM

I get the oddest looks when I tell people I have never seen this movie or when I tell them that I think Blazing Saddles is juvenile and dumb.

Cthulhu Theory

2009-07-10 07:20:32 PM

Richard Roma: Best horror movie I've ever seen. By a mile.

/yes, I've seen The Ring
//and Halloween
///haven't seen The Exorcist, though

Saw Exorcist about 7 years ago... aside from the disturbing image of a possessed 10 yr old girl trying to get off with a metal cross, it was boring as hell.

/too much hype on how scary it was
//learned a lesson a long time ago to have low expectations of a movie and now am seldom disappointed

Uzzah

2009-07-10 07:20:32 PM

logieal: I call Shenanigans! Your cordless phone with the metal antenna couldn't have reached that far. And cell phones hadn't been invented yet.

And I call you an idiot. Let's put it this way -- I've been divorced from my ex-wife for 12 years as of next week. She was cheating on me. Know how I found out? Her cellphone bill. (And we weren't even early adopters...)

/ www.fanpop.com

"Ha ha! You were cuckolded!"

Broktun

2009-07-10 07:21:25 PM

zez:

The Ring was pretty damn creepy

I saw the ring for the first time:
alone. . .

on HBO. . .

in a hotel room. . .

in Houston. . .

I was scared shiatless!! Christ I was peeking out from under the blankets at the end, and I was 35!!!

Broktun | Hates torture porn.

damnitjohnny

2009-07-10 07:21:52 PM

Working at a therapeutic wilderness camp in East Texas counseling troubled 13 year old girls. Nothing scares me after that.

RicoNotSoSuave

2009-07-10 07:22:23 PM

I saw it with a girlfriend. She was nice enough to wake me up for the last five minutes.

EmployeeOfTheMinute

2009-07-10 07:23:39 PM

Forget where I was, but I liked the movie

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 07:24:13 PM

shawn82: While not a horror movie, or even particularly disturbing, watch Primer.

Then immediately watch it again.

I just saw this last week, this is an excellent film. I think the guy did it for like $7,000. It was awesome.

Too bad he hasn't made anything else, but I understand he's working on something.

Darth Invictus

2009-07-10 07:25:01 PM

I watched on VHS at a Halloween party. It pretty much sucked ass.

farkMcFark

2009-07-10 07:25:37 PM

Sucks for the people who actually bought into the hype. I saw it before all the hysteria and didn't even know what the movie was about. I throughly enjoyed the movie. And yes, it scared the crap out of me.

Queen Dalek

2009-07-10 07:25:39 PM

Blair Witch??

More like Blair Biatch...

srhp29

2009-07-10 07:25:42 PM

Subby hated it so much they decided to start a discussion about it 10 years later. Seems a bit ironic.

Gamecock2001

2009-07-10 07:26:12 PM

Arthur Prefect: Roook: Joe_diGriz: I couldn't get scared by the movie, because I was too busy trying not to get sick from the "hand-cam" technique.

I've never had problems with motion sickness in films. Do FPS video games also affect you? Or do you get motion sickness in cars? I'm just curious if they are connected.

I haven't read through all the posts, but I saw that you did get a reply. Just chiming in to say that I get motion sick from tv and movies as well. I'm fine on planes, trains, boats, and rollercoasters, but in cars it's *extremely* easy for me to get sick depending on what way I'm watching things go by. And on tv, it's the same thing. I quit watching those stupid designer home shows because of the "creative" angles and zooming they were using - it was literally making me feel sick.
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What Roook: Joe_diGriz BS Arthur Prefect may look like on a rollercoaster.

Oznog

2009-07-10 07:26:21 PM

At first, I thought it was "real" in that college kids had freaked out in the woods and disappeared. Or that someone had pretended to, and left the footage along with a rumor about nonexistent kids who disappeared.

Kinda disappointed that the whole thing was staged.

But hey... you gotta admire them for making a film, little more than a home movie, which went worldwide on less than shoestring budget. That was GENIUS, maybe on the part of the marketing, but genius did happen.

It does stand as the seminal work of the "reality" feel of directing. You can probably credit (or blame) ShakyCam on them.

Cthulhu Theory

2009-07-10 07:26:23 PM

ScottHimself: Cthulhu Theory: sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

Did you see strangers? That one made my spine tingle.

Seriously?

I was so pissed I considered bringing it back to Blockbuster and telling them it wouldn't read (for a refund).

I saw it in the theatre opening night, first row dead center. I knew what was going to happen, but aside fromt he slow start the movie kept me on the edge of my seat.

Maybe the beginning ruined it for you? But if watching someone get a knife slowly pressed into their stomach still doesn't freak you out then I can see the problem with it.

/biggest problem with horrors is the predictability and the lack of compelling presentation

Shrugging Atlas

2009-07-10 07:26:34 PM

The only part of the movie I really enjoyed is when she's asking for the map and the one guy says something akin to "I kicked that farking thing into the creek, it was useless." I died laughing while thinking, "That's exactly what I'd have done."

johnmac2017

2009-07-10 07:27:08 PM

The Scooby Doo Project. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMsA6_Qh_jw

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 07:27:22 PM

Ant:

Are you one of those people who needs to have jokes explained to you?

Are you one of those people who doesn't read a post before quoting it?

I never saw the movie. I only saw the ending (last 5 minutes) on youtube right before I made that post, and even then I saw it with no sound.

I assumed it had some kind of relevance to the Blair Witch storyline. Seeing as it hasn't been explained yet I'll just continue assuming it was anti-climactic.

louiedog

2009-07-10 07:28:54 PM

farkMcFark: Sucks for the people who actually bought into the hype. I saw it before all the hysteria and didn't even know what the movie was about. I throughly enjoyed the movie. And yes, it scared the crap out of me.

I also saw it before the wide release and when the hype machine set in. I thought it was awful. I was bored to tears and not scared.

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 07:29:15 PM

ScottHimself: I never saw the movie. I only saw the ending (last 5 minutes) on youtube right before I made that post, and even then I saw it with no sound.

This has got to be the most retarded way ever to form an opinion about a film.

mtpagan

2009-07-10 07:29:17 PM

I've still never seen this movie and from everything I've heard about it, I'm planning to keep it that way too.

Tony Baloney

2009-07-10 07:29:40 PM

Soup4Bonnie: I get the oddest looks when I tell people I have never seen this movie or when I tell them that I think Blazing Saddles is juvenile and dumb.

Blazing Saddles is juvenile and dumb; that's the whole point. I remember it was hilarious around about high school and cringeworthy thereafter. Fortunately, it saves some face in that it's still one of the most quotable movies ever.

\They said you was hung!
\\And they was right!

ctsamurai

2009-07-10 07:30:25 PM

Watching any movie at a party (if this is any party worth being at) is going to suck. No one is paying attention, people should be pretty well drunk. Its usually just a distraction/reason to riff (or find out who sucks at riffing).

I still have no inclination to see this film. Though I think its kind of sad and funny that the people involved generally haven't gone on to do much else. But that's part of the problem with horror movies, if you 'break out' in a horror movie, you're probably going to be pigeonholed as a horror writer/director/actor (i.e. Eli Roth - ZING!) If you're ok with that, you can make a living, but trying to 'branch out' can prove to be almost impossible.

pziko

2009-07-10 07:31:17 PM

I saw it at the Angelica in NYC way before the hype started, within a day or too of it opening. My gf just wanted to see a movie that night and we were walking down Houston. I realised it was a 'fake' within minutes but absolutely loved it, scary as any other movie I've ever seen. I think the backlash against the hype is what ruined it for many people. I still think it's excellent. It can't be denied that it was massively influential.

feanturi

2009-07-10 07:32:01 PM

shawn82:While not a horror movie, or even particularly disturbing, watch Primer.

Then immediately watch it again.

ZOMG this! I was thinking about it when I saw this article, showing what you can do on almost no budget. Primer is awesome. You have to watch it a minimum of twice, preferably in the same sitting, so make sure you've got time.

/go do it right now!

DansLaLuna

2009-07-10 07:32:32 PM

My mom had just passed away in May so I was still a little numb. I went with my brother who didn't get it. I watched most of the movie through my fingers, scared the crap outta me. I don't know why all the hate.

rhiannon

2009-07-10 07:32:33 PM

Gamecock2001: Arthur Prefect: Roook: Joe_diGriz: I couldn't get scared by the movie, because I was too busy trying not to get sick from the "hand-cam" technique.

I've never had problems with motion sickness in films. Do FPS video games also affect you? Or do you get motion sickness in cars? I'm just curious if they are connected.

I haven't read through all the posts, but I saw that you did get a reply. Just chiming in to say that I get motion sick from tv and movies as well. I'm fine on planes, trains, boats, and rollercoasters, but in cars it's *extremely* easy for me to get sick depending on what way I'm watching things go by. And on tv, it's the same thing. I quit watching those stupid designer home shows because of the "creative" angles and zooming they were using - it was literally making me feel sick.

What Roook: Joe_diGriz BS Arthur Prefect may look like on a rollercoaster.

I can't stop laughing at that picture. Guaranteed that chick is 10X more horrified than anything Blair With could have produced.

medius

2009-07-10 07:33:02 PM

pottie

2009-07-10 07:33:25 PM

I was lying up in a hotel near Disneyland and I LOVED THE MOVIE!

Cthulhu Theory

2009-07-10 07:33:25 PM

Blowmonkey: ScottHimself: I never saw the movie. I only saw the ending (last 5 minutes) on youtube right before I made that post, and even then I saw it with no sound.

This has got to be the most retarded way ever to form an opinion about a film.

You might consider it original? I mean he didn't even try to catch the beginning or middle 5 minutes. Imagine if all movies were reviewed on the last 5 minutes it might save the world a lot of heartache.

/Sphere anyone?
//lets just think about not finding it!

Arthur Prefect

2009-07-10 07:34:08 PM

Gamecock2001: Arthur Prefect: Roook: Joe_diGriz: I couldn't get scared by the movie, because I was too busy trying not to get sick from the "hand-cam" technique.

I've never had problems with motion sickness in films. Do FPS video games also affect you? Or do you get motion sickness in cars? I'm just curious if they are connected.

I haven't read through all the posts, but I saw that you did get a reply. Just chiming in to say that I get motion sick from tv and movies as well. I'm fine on planes, trains, boats, and rollercoasters, but in cars it's *extremely* easy for me to get sick depending on what way I'm watching things go by. And on tv, it's the same thing. I quit watching those stupid designer home shows because of the "creative" angles and zooming they were using - it was literally making me feel sick.

What Roook: Joe_diGriz BS Arthur Prefect may look like on a rollercoaster.

Too bad I actually said that I don't get motion sick on a roller coaster. :P

Although, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who gets sick from the tv. I thought I was just f*cking weird.

Brainwash

2009-07-10 07:34:45 PM

Richard Roma: Best horror movie I've ever seen. By a mile.

/yes, I've seen The Ring
//and Halloween
///haven't seen The Exorcist, though

Gotta see The Exorcist and Alien before judging other horror films. They are the gold standard.

ciberido

2009-07-10 07:35:20 PM

ScottHimself: I will not be watching this movie, but am curious why the last scene was so 'good'. I just watched it without sound (at work) and obviously didn't understand what was going on.

Because, as in almost every other good movie ever made, the rest of the film builds up to the ending. You can't just watch the ending and expect to get it. And now, knowing the ending, you can't watch the whole movie from start to finish and hope to really get it, either. It can no longer come as a surprise. There can no longer be the suspense you might have had.

In other words, I can explain to you why you don't understand, but I can't make you understand.

So, I'm afraid you're just out of luck.

/I have often wished there were a machine that could make you forget a movie you saw, so that you could literally see it again for the first time.

farkMcFark

2009-07-10 07:35:30 PM

louiedog: I also saw it before the wide release and when the hype machine set in. I thought it was awful. I was bored to tears and not scared.

Well, I did know it was a small budgeted indie film so my expectations were considerably low.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 07:36:44 PM

Cthulhu Theory:
I saw it in the theatre opening night, first row dead center. I knew what was going to happen, but aside fromt he slow start the movie kept me on the edge of my seat.

Maybe the beginning ruined it for you? But if watching someone get a knife slowly pressed into their stomach still doesn't freak you out then I can see the problem with it.

/biggest problem with horrors is the predictability and the lack of compelling presentation

I just didn't buy it. I know that sounds overly critical, but horror is actually my favorite genre (despite VERY rarely being frightened by them), including cheeseball horrors. It just seemed a bit ridiculous, and the entire time I kept wondering why the male costar didn't man up.

I only saw it once, and stuck to my opinion, so it's more than possible I didn't fully appreciate it.

dead_dangler

2009-07-10 07:37:21 PM

I was one of the stars of that movie, about to embark on a magnificent and long lasting film career.

/where am I now? is the question!

Ant

2009-07-10 07:37:38 PM

feanturi: Yeah I had to back it up and watch that part again, because I was sure I had missed something. I apparently hadn't, so was left a bit cold.

But you did miss something. The crazy guy who killed all those kids, and said that the witch made him do it used to stand them in the corner before he disemboweled them.

/something like that

Harry Freakstorm

2009-07-10 07:37:43 PM

I got tossed from the theater for yelling "For cripes sake! Just follow the freaking creek, morans." The scene where they kept coming back to the same place obviously ticked me off a bit.

Soon after, I made a pact ith everyone I know: If we're in the woods and one of us disappears, no one goes looking for you. You got et by a bear. You got beamed up by aliens. You never really existed. I will follow the creek to a road, the road to a town, the town to a bar and I will have one beer for you and ten for me.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 07:38:26 PM

Blowmonkey:

This has got to be the most retarded way ever to form an opinion about a film.

I agree. Which is why I was asking for someone to fill in the blanks on what made it a masterpiece (the ending seems to be almost universally appreciated).

Am I seriously explaining this again? Just tell me why he was in the corner!

King Wicker

2009-07-10 07:39:35 PM

sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

Off the top of my head, I honestly can't think of one movie in the last 20 years that was billed as a horror movie that I've found truly scary. I just don't find witches, vampires, monsters, ghosts, and comic book violence all that frightening anymore.

I'm not trying to say I'm better than everyone else; I just don't get it. Every time I see my brother-in-law, he's got whatever the hot new torture porn movie is and he always thinks it's going to blow my mind, but those movies are almost comical to me. I get the sense that even my bro-in-law isn't actually "scared" by them as such, just excited by them.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

I hate gore dependent horror movies and jump scares so without further ado.... Movies I Actually Thought Were Scary!:
1. The Descent
2. Funny Games (More of a tension thing.)
3. Suspiria (if you can get through the awful first 10 minutes)
4. Showgirls.

Barry McCackiner

2009-07-10 07:39:43 PM

I hadn't heard about the movie and my friend had a bootleg copy on his computer like a week or two before it came out. He told me it was recovered footage and basically set me up to think it was real. I made it about 2/3 through the movie before I started wondering about its validity. Still scared me though, excellent on the first time view. Haven't seen it since.

weezbo

2009-07-10 07:40:05 PM

To me, the storytelling genius of the movie is that most of it isn't scary at all. It's cheesy and it's loser people running around in the woods and it got my cynical side going and scoffing and took me completely out of horror movie mode.

Then the last bit hit like a sucker punch and my spine grabbed hold of my scrotum and tried to retreat backwards through the seat.

Rodent of unusual size

2009-07-10 07:40:53 PM

Worst movie I ever saw. I remember all the biatching about losing the map and I was like. Your in the woods in Maryland just walk straight. How big can it be?

Former Lee Warmer

2009-07-10 07:41:17 PM

Saw it opening weekend. I thought it was terrible. I don't even care that you didn't get to see the witch, I just didn't like any aspect of the movie. The Sci-Fi special was great, and I thought the movie sounded great.

I have never been so disappointed in a movie (well, except for The Underground Comedy Movie. FARK YOU, VINCE).

I have never seen so many people trying to get their money back at the end, either. Nearly 3/4 of the theater was in line afterward, angry and not getting a dime back since they sat through the whole movie.

I always wondered why the ONLY steady shots in the movie were:

1. Out the window of the car as they were driving to the forest
2. When the girl was running down the stairs at the end

Those two shots should have been a hell of a lot shakier than the rest of the movie.

The Scooby-Doo parodies on the Cartoon Network were hilarious, though.

elgrancerdo

2009-07-10 07:41:17 PM

I saw it with my wife, puked my guts through the middle of the film, and saw the last 5 minutes, and everybody walked out in silence. I have never puked while watching a film before, and I had a dry stomach. I can safely say that the viewing was surreal, because before the film started, as we were waiting in line to get in, everyone talked as to how fake they thought the film was going to be, since we were watching it about a week after opening night. It was freaky to see so many people obviously scared but not wanting to admit it.

I bet some of you are here posting that the film is crap. If you were there 10 years ago, you would have been one of those quiet and afraid. You suck. Man up! Admit that it took you by surprise, even though it was stupid. I can also say that it will take a while for me to be caught off guard like that again. Truly an original film, but not something I would buy to view over and over. Glad to have been there to see it on the cinema. Don't think other crew and director will get away with this crap for years to come.

Veritas

2009-07-10 07:42:09 PM

Blair Witch was a work of genius, I reckon
*ducks rotten fruit*

Seriously, it was shot on a budget of nothing, not a drop of blood is spilled and if you allow your self to get totally drawn into it, it creates a real sense of dread.

And in terms of film innovation: the three kids in the lead roles didn't have a script. They only had a vague idea of what the film was about. Each morning they were given a set of instructions (where to walk to, what sort of scenes would be shot etc) and enough food to last the next 24 hours. That was it. At night the film crew would scream, shake their tent, do all sorts of unspeakable things the cast weren't expecting - most of that fear on their faces is completely genuine.

They were literally shuffling from one spot to the next, under-nourished and suffering real sleep deprivation with absolutely no idea what was going to happen to them the next time it got dark.

And, personally, I think that shows through. And that's what I think makes it work. But FOR it to work you have to be willing to surrender to it and let yourself just get carried along over the slow bits. It's about wearing away that sanity and ratchting up the tension very very gradually. And I guess that's not everyone's cup of tea.

But hell, what do I know? I thought Capote was rubbish :P

/film critic
//getting a kick etc etc

kevinfra

2009-07-10 07:42:09 PM

I saw it well after I knew it wasn't 'real.' But I thought it was very well done. Basically it was able to rachet up an incredible ammount of tension, without much happening. Its one thing to have buliding crushed by CGI monsters. But IMO, it takes some real talent to make a pile of stones or a bundle of sticks creepy.

godiluvbeer

2009-07-10 07:42:28 PM

Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

y'know...I knew it was fake going in to it, but I got so caught up in the film, I forgot after a while. So yeah, subby, I enjoyed the movie.

Chachi Dragonheart

2009-07-10 07:42:35 PM

I suffered motion sickness from that film. So bad, in fact, that I was dizzy leaving the theater and subsequently got into a car crash, sending the driver of the other car to the hospital. Thanks for reminding me of that, Fark. Good day to you.

Ant

2009-07-10 07:43:13 PM

ciberido: /I have often wished there were a machine that could make you forget a movie you saw, so that you could literally see it again for the first time.

I need one of those. Could you make it work on albums too? I wanna hear Sgt Peppers and Dark Side of the Moon for the first time again.

boonfarker

2009-07-10 07:44:11 PM

Linger: Saw a bootleg copy before it hit the theaters which being a boot gave it extra creepiness.

Agreed. Same way I saw it, and had the same effect. Fuzzy 3rd generation VHS copy, almost like it was unearthed somewhere. Saw it later in the theater and definitely did not have the same impact.

Snakeophelia

2009-07-10 07:44:48 PM

I still remember it as the only movie where I've ever changed seats halfway through because the morons behind me who delighted in scaring themselves and screaming at full volume would not. Shut. UP.

My date for that movie was the last guy I've ever dated who was a serious commitment-phobe. I can understanding wanting sex but no commitment, but half the time he wasn't even sure if he wanted sex. I'm wondering at this point if he was actually straight.

stuffy

2009-07-10 07:45:08 PM

Laughing at my sisters who really believed the crap.

Straelbora

2009-07-10 07:45:18 PM

Thinking, "Great- there will be fewer idiots out camping for the rest of the summer and probably into the fall."

RocketRay

2009-07-10 07:45:49 PM

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 07:46:10 PM

ScottHimself: Am I seriously explaining this again? Just tell me why he was in the corner!

It was from a story related earlier in the film that the killer would make the children stand facing in the corner because he didn't like to be watched when he was killing the others.

Thus when Mike is seen facing the corner, the implication is that the killer is real and is about to kill Heather, the one whose camera shows him standing there.

More or less, it's been awhile since I've seen it.

Dr. Frisbee

2009-07-10 07:46:21 PM

I was in San Diego. I got dragged to this movie, and thought it was the most boring movie I had ever seen in the theaters.

fanbladesaresharp

2009-07-10 07:46:45 PM

I was living in Seattle and took some friends on the Underground tour and told them "dead people pee here".

ausjc

2009-07-10 07:47:21 PM

I saw this at the Aussie premier with 2 of my closest mates. Mate on the left who is the coolest, but biggest nerd on the planet. Mate on the right was my party buddy. Mate on the left had to leave the theater because of the cam. Mate on the right was tripping balls the entire time, and could hardly even watch the screen. All in all, yeah I got the best scare than I had in a while. I then had to deal with mate on the right calling me at 2am, coming down. He was relaying to me about bits in the movie that scared him... To bad they weren't in the film. The sheer horror in his gasp when I mentioned, "Um, dude, there was no scene with the chick looking through the magnifying glass" was priceless. Being the good mate that I am, I talked him through it, without laughing.

Ant

2009-07-10 07:47:32 PM

Many of you seem to suffer from an unwillingness to just let yourself be scared.

I don't believe in witches or ghosts or evil spirits, but I love the movies, and I go into them in the right frame of mind.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 07:48:56 PM

Ant:
But you did miss something. The crazy guy who killed all those kids, and said that the witch made him do it used to stand them in the corner before he disemboweled them.

/something like that

So the climax of the film is the grim realization of what is about to occur to the protagonists and the killer, whether manifested or not, is right out of camera shot. I get it now.

Was that so hard? Did you really need to be so snappy?

Cthulhu Theory

2009-07-10 07:49:32 PM

ScottHimself: Cthulhu Theory:
I saw it in the theatre opening night, first row dead center. I knew what was going to happen, but aside fromt he slow start the movie kept me on the edge of my seat.

Maybe the beginning ruined it for you? But if watching someone get a knife slowly pressed into their stomach still doesn't freak you out then I can see the problem with it.

/biggest problem with horrors is the predictability and the lack of compelling presentation

I just didn't buy it. I know that sounds overly critical, but horror is actually my favorite genre (despite VERY rarely being frightened by them), including cheeseball horrors. It just seemed a bit ridiculous, and the entire time I kept wondering why the male costar didn't man up.

I only saw it once, and stuck to my opinion, so it's more than possible I didn't fully appreciate it.

I got ya, I had the same problem with 6th sense and everyone ranted about how great it was and such a twist. The twist was painfully obvious to me through the whole movie. Granted it's not the same genre but, like you, I just didn't buy into the story.

Also, in the guys defense he was gone when the crazy things started happening and he did blow his friends face off...

/can't think of a fav horror flick

farkingnotworking

2009-07-10 07:49:41 PM

Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

Yeah, that film freaked me out. It's not that I thought it was a real documentary. It was just a good, old fashioned ghost story where subtle suggestion and slow build up were much more effective than boring cgi special effects. The frequent close ups and the hand held camera gave the whole thing a sort of flashlight-under-the-chin story told by the camp fire feel. I loved it.

ban_sidhe

2009-07-10 07:50:49 PM

Saw it on opening night with my husband and some friends and had a blast. (One of the guys with us kept having to leave to throw up, so it probably wasn't as much of a blast for him.) It was the monsoon season in Tucson, so there was all kinds of thunder and lightning to add to the atmosphere.

I loved the movie, but then no one I knew ever thought it was real so we were spared the disappointment angle. Didn't realize that people hate it. It must be one of those things you are obliged to hate when you're vastly cooler than everyone else.

tudorgurl

2009-07-10 07:51:15 PM

Rodent of unusual size: Worst movie I ever saw. I remember all the biatching about losing the map and I was like. Your in the woods in Maryland just walk straight. How big can it be?

I can assume you've never been to Burketsville...

/that movie scared this shiat out of me
//the last five minutes STILL makes me all tingly
///I loved every minute of it.

pjbreeze

2009-07-10 07:52:28 PM

Never saw it, never will.

ceredonia

2009-07-10 07:52:54 PM

Thought it sucked, but I saw "Last Broadcast" which was the original BWP, and it was actually good.

Gamecock2001

2009-07-10 07:53:05 PM

Arthur Prefect:
Too bad I actually said that I don't get motion sick on a roller coaster. :P

I know, but it makes for good fodder :P.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 07:53:24 PM

Blowmonkey:
It was from a story related earlier in the film that the killer would make the children stand facing in the corner because he didn't like to be watched when he was killing the others.

Thus when Mike is seen facing the corner, the implication is that the killer is real and is about to kill Heather, the one whose camera shows him standing there.

More or less, it's been awhile since I've seen it.

Thanks, I can definitely appreciate that.

King Wicker

2009-07-10 07:53:56 PM

ScottHimself: Ant:
But you did miss something. The crazy guy who killed all those kids, and said that the witch made him do it used to stand them in the corner before he disemboweled them.

/something like that

So the climax of the film is the grim realization of what is about to occur to the protagonists and the killer, whether manifested or not, is right out of camera shot. I get it now.

Was that so hard? Did you really need to be so snappy?

For the record, I'm siding with you on that one. It was a simple question about the mythology of the movie.

/Shrug.

RadicalMiddle

2009-07-10 07:54:36 PM

Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

I couldn't be scared by it, I was spending too much time thinking about what dumb asses those kids were.

Hey where you are lost in the woods, DON"T WALK AWAY FROM THE CREEK! Follow it downstream! That's where people will be found.

Stupid stupid kids, no wonder they died. Cloverfield did it better too.

weezbo

2009-07-10 07:56:50 PM

Blowmonkey: ScottHimself: Am I seriously explaining this again? Just tell me why he was in the corner!

It was from a story related earlier in the film that the killer would make the children stand facing in the corner because he didn't like to be watched when he was killing the others.

Thus when Mike is seen facing the corner, the implication is that the killer is real and is about to kill Heather, the one whose camera shows him standing there.

More or less, it's been awhile since I've seen it.

The implication being that whatever it is is so horrifying that it, in complete silence (the way the movie is at that point, the only microphone was attached to Mike's camera so you hear Heather screaming from far away and getting closer while you see things from her POV, but you hear nothing but her), was able to intimidate a big man so much in just a few seconds that he stood quietly in the corner the way the thing wanted him to.

FrancoFile

2009-07-10 07:57:06 PM

I was living in Virginia, just across the border from Maryland. I worked with people who grew up in neighborhoods or went to schools with the word 'Blair' in them.

It's Maryland, a very small and densely populated state, you dipshiats. If you're lost and threw away your motherfarking map, just follow a stream downhill and you'll hit civilization in less than 2 hours!!!!

Dr. Poison

2009-07-10 07:57:08 PM

Blair Witch wasn't nearly as funny as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, except for the part where the one kid said he threw the map in the river just to be an asshole. That was a pretty funny joke to play on his friends! I'll bet they were surprised at his audacity!

The guy peeing in the corner at the end was just typical toilet humor.

DieselChick

2009-07-10 07:57:12 PM

Saw a midnight showing on opening night, add me to the list of people who had the crap scared out of them by this movie -- my best friend spent the next three nights at my house as neither one of us wanted to sleep alone. It wasn't terrifying per se, just left us both with a creepy sense of uneasiness we couldn't shake.

CygnusDarius

2009-07-10 07:57:26 PM

Well, the movie's concept was good, but the hype that went after the film wasn't.

/That and the shaky cam

LoneDust

2009-07-10 07:58:28 PM

Which reminds me, it's been 10 years since American Pie...

/wants his youth back
//sore back

Gamecock2001

2009-07-10 07:59:27 PM

Harry Freakstorm: I got tossed from the theater for yelling "For cripes sake! Just follow the freaking creek, morans." The scene where they kept coming back to the same place obviously ticked me off a bit.

Soon after, I made a pact ith everyone I know: If we're in the woods and one of us disappears, no one goes looking for you. You got et by a bear. You got beamed up by aliens. You never really existed. I will follow the creek to a road, the road to a town, the town to a bar and I will have one beer for you and ten for me.

This

/former rock climber
//dealt a lot with high/lit/smashed climbers that got lost in the woods

farkingnotworking

2009-07-10 08:00:54 PM

kevinfra: it takes some real talent to make a pile of stones or a bundle of sticks creepy.

This. Also, I remember that on the day after I saw it, any simple object around me, for a millisecond before rational thought kicked in, could seem to be a foreboding sign. If I saw an old stone, just for a moment it was a marker of some evil force. The world of inauspicious objects was infused with sinister energy. That film thoroughly infected my relation to the world for a day or two. It was awesome.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 08:01:10 PM

Cthulhu Theory:
I got ya, I had the same problem with 6th sense and everyone ranted about how great it was and such a twist. The twist was painfully obvious to me through the whole movie. Granted it's not the same genre but, like you, I just didn't buy into the story.

Also, in the guys defense he was gone when the crazy things started happening and he did blow his friends face off...

/can't think of a fav horror flick

Drag Me to Hell was fantastic if you've ever seen and enjoyed any of the Evil Dead trilogy (mostly for references). It's PG-13 and easily competes with any horror released in the past 10 years.

Strangers would have been better minus the gun. I think that was the kicker for me. The protagonists can't have a gun and still be terrified into immobility by a couple people in masks making some noise.

EddieMoscone

2009-07-10 08:01:44 PM

I saw it with my wife, then girlfriend, on halloween, in a drive-in. It was awesome.

sigdiamond2000

2009-07-10 08:01:51 PM

King Wicker: I hate gore dependent horror movies and jump scares so without further ado.... Movies I Actually Thought Were Scary!:
1. The Descent
2. Funny Games (More of a tension thing.)
3. Suspiria (if you can get through the awful first 10 minutes)
4. Showgirls.

Great f*cking movie. That was back when they used to know how to make good horror movies.

serpent_sky

2009-07-10 08:03:22 PM

I have never understood why people thought that movie was scary. It was okay enough... I watched it hoping for something to actually happen, and left the theatre saying, "hmm. Okay?"

My roommate at the time (hi, if you're reading this) was scared by it, and I spent the night scratching at the door when he was sleeping, because it was making him even more scared. I'm kind of amusing like that.

The only movie in recent years that at all bothered me was a French movie called "Martyrs." It was so violent and screwed up that when my fiancee came home when I was about 3/4 through with it, I was almost embarrassed he "caught" me watching something that disturbed.

ilikechocolatemilk

2009-07-10 08:05:33 PM

Blair Witch remains one of the few movies to genuinely scare the living hell out of me. I love the mockumentaries for one, but this movie scored because of what it didn't show. If you have absolutely no imagination then yeah, it's gonna suck for you. But once your mind starts to fill in the blanks and then adds to what else is going on, it makes it that much better.

/watch it in a pitch black room

medius

2009-07-10 08:06:34 PM

EddieMoscone: I saw it with my wife, then girlfriend

so you liked it enough to go twice?

serpent_sky

2009-07-10 08:07:11 PM

ScottHimself: Strangers would have been better minus the gun. I think that was the kicker for me. The protagonists can't have a gun and still be terrified into immobility by a couple people in masks making some noise.

Haha... I hadn't thought of that.

I really hated that movie, and my band has a song called "The Strangers" that I wrote as a drunken "protest" song to explain to our bassist just how annoyed I was by the movie we'd just watched. They all call it "pixie's favorite movie" just to get me going.

I might have liked it better if they'd not shown the masks in the commercial, because that was the only slightly interesting part of the whole thing, and it had no effect in the actual movie because you already knew what they looked like.

"Quarantine" suffered the same issue, since they blew the ending in the commercial, for reasons I still can't understand. [Also, if you have any interest in that movie, get the original, [Rec.], because it's all-around better and Dexter's sister won't be breathing too heavy and annoying you through the whole thing.

OgreMagi

2009-07-10 08:07:25 PM

When I finally saw it, I laughed my ass off at its lameness.

If you are a guy and this movie scared you, turn in your penis.

Rodent of unusual size

2009-07-10 08:08:06 PM

tudorgurl
Rodent of unusual size: Worst movie I ever saw. I remember all the biatching about losing the map and I was like. Your in the woods in Maryland just walk straight. How big can it be?

I can assume you've never been to Burketsville...

/that movie scared this shiat out of me
//the last five minutes STILL makes me all tingly
///I loved every minute of it.

Nope never been there but the state is only
Width: 101 miles (145 km)
Length: 249 miles (400 km)
So you should be able to walk out of the woods in a couple hours.
All the kids did was walk around swearing and biatching.
I couldn't wait for the witch to end the movie. But that's me

FrankenPC

2009-07-10 08:08:12 PM

Gee...I was marveling at the out of the box movie making this was. Keep in mind, I consider Transformers to be a steaming load of c**p.. So If you think Transformers was awesome...please do not respond to this. If you think indy filming is the bomb, please comment.

farkingnotworking

2009-07-10 08:08:25 PM

I think the groups of people who like BWP versus those who hate BWP roughly correlate to those people who, say, prefer text based adventure games versus those who like graphics based adventure games. There are some people who really want language and the imagination to do most of the work, and there are those who really need the plot and all the gore presented completely and visually.

medius

2009-07-10 08:08:36 PM

ilikechocolatemilk: Blair Witch remains one of the few movies to genuinely scare the living hell out of me. I love the mockumentaries for one, but this movie scored because of what it didn't show. If you have absolutely no imagination then yeah, it's gonna suck for you. But once your mind starts to fill in the blanks and then adds to what else is going on, it makes it that much better.

/watch it in a pitch black room

or just skip the movie and sit in a pitch black room

you can still use your imagination but you won't have to deal with the suck

/when did it become cool to like blair witch?

eggrolls

2009-07-10 08:08:51 PM

You said 'crap' twice.

Nightmaretony

2009-07-10 08:09:19 PM

Was in the theatre watching the best horror movie of the decade.

Still is beyond creepy.

medius

2009-07-10 08:11:17 PM

produced by the duke and the king

benjaminajacobs

2009-07-10 08:11:44 PM

I was working at the movie theater at the time so I saw it for free.

I think a key element to someone enjoying BWP was if they read the website and backstory etc. I knew it wasn't real, but it's a movie... movies generally aren't real so it didn't detract from the experience for me. Delving into the backstory and the website prior to seeing the movie made it more than a simple horror movie. It made it an experience... something you could only really appreciate during that one moment in your life.

The fact that you remember what you were doing 10 yrs ago is a testament to that fact. Most movies I have seen, I couldn't tell you what theater I was sitting in, what other movies were playing, the fact that the audience was completely silent afterwards, or other details.

fillg

2009-07-10 08:12:40 PM

Treygreen13: I remember watching The Bare Wench Project. That was more enjoyable.

Never saw The Blair Witch Project so I can't say which was better but I definitely enjoyed The Bare Wench Project.

Hooray Boobies!

shawn82

2009-07-10 08:13:13 PM

farkingnotworking: I think the groups of people who like BWP versus those who hate BWP roughly correlate to those people who, say, prefer text based adventure games versus those who like graphics based adventure games. There are some people who really want language and the imagination to do most of the work, and there are those who really need the plot and all the gore presented completely and visually.

tripalot.com

Could be both :)

saddlesablazin

2009-07-10 08:13:23 PM

I had just graduated from College and went to see it at the River Oaks Independent theater in Houston. I love that theater. It's a historical landmark and they often show movies like Evil Dead and Enter the Dragon.

Anywho, I actually liked the movie. It was different. It left a lot to the imagination and I have a wild one.

Rychan

2009-07-10 08:14:52 PM

For what it's worth, I thought it was a great movie. It was very simple, but it scared me and it got me to suspend disbelief better than most horror movies.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 08:15:55 PM

serpent_sky:
I might have liked it better if they'd not shown the masks in the commercial, because that was the only slightly interesting part of the whole thing, and it had no effect in the actual movie because you already knew what they looked like.

"Quarantine" suffered the same issue, since they blew the ending in the commercial, for reasons I still can't understand. [Also, if you have any interest in that movie, get the original, [Rec.], because it's all-around better and Dexter's sister won't be breathing too heavy and annoying you through the whole thing.

Where can I find [Rec.] and Primer aside from torrents/the internet?

Do movie rental chains carry them, or are they complete unknowns?

Quarantine was bittersweet for me. The lead couldn't act to save her life, but the storyline was actually intriguing, especially at the end with the cult reference to explain the entire situation. Not particulary scary, but at the same time I can see why it was a fantastic vision.

RadicalMiddle

2009-07-10 08:16:02 PM

ScottHimself: Cthulhu Theory:

/can't think of a fav horror flick

Drag Me to Hell was fantastic if you've ever seen and enjoyed any of the Evil Dead trilogy (mostly for references). It's PG-13 and easily competes with any horror released in the past 10 years.

I agree with Drag Me to Hell. It bombed in the box office due to terrible marketing. My guess is that it will gain a large cult audience once it goes to home video.

I bet you you would agree that the main character was like a female Ash.I hope Sam Raimi will continue making horror films, he is a master at it.

Quick note, he has been discussing a remake of Evil Dead, perhaps the musical.

Check this out! NSFW language (new window)

rkane1

2009-07-10 08:17:45 PM

I went to see this with a couple of friends.

We all enjoyed it except for one friend who thought it was dull and pointless.

An hour later, back at my house, said friend had a little freakout at the blackness behind my patio doors and she had to get up and draw the curtains.

benjaminajacobs

2009-07-10 08:18:41 PM

BTW, if you liked BWP you need to see [REC] (not Quarantine the american remake)

Shaky cam with fast zombies FTW.

Rezinball

2009-07-10 08:19:46 PM

I took a girl on a first date to go see that movie. She puked her guts out about half way through because she got motion sickness. And, apparently she wasn't the first one to puke in the theatre that day. The clean up crew was all over it. I was a dick and I couldn't stop laughing at her. The relationship didn't last long.

Hickory-smoked

2009-07-10 08:20:05 PM

zez: The Ring was pretty damn creepy

This.

Like BWP, it mostly comes down to having one or two chillingly-delivered moments...

/"Why did you do that? You weren't supposed to help her."

Xenomech

2009-07-10 08:20:50 PM

Ncoded: Better movie...

/MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW

JIIIIIIISH!!!

uPTheme

2009-07-10 08:21:33 PM

I was 10, and probably wandering around the woods, looking for abandoned buildings and stuff. Haven't seen the movie, I think it would shatter my childhood. That being said, I really want to watch it now.

IonBeam2

2009-07-10 08:21:40 PM

My mom said she liked it, but women don't know shiat about movies.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 08:21:53 PM

RadicalMiddle:

I bet you you would agree that the main character was like a female Ash.I hope Sam Raimi will continue making horror films, he is a master at it.

Exactly. Raimi's characters are never really terrified throughout the movie, they always have moments in which they defy the evil as it confronts them. It keeps it interesting because you actually root for them rather than just sitting back and watching them die over the course of 2 hours as is the case in most horrors.

I also loved how they had some Evil Dead 2 moments without losing sight of the developing suspense (anvil, etc.).

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 08:24:05 PM

ScottHimself: Where can I find [Rec.] and Primer aside from torrents/the internet?

Do movie rental chains carry them, or are they complete unknowns?

I just got Primer last week from Netflix.

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 08:24:05 PM

Hickory-smoked:
/"Why did you do that? You weren't supposed to help her."

Exactly. That was my favorite scene.

When you get goosebumps during a horror movie you know the film drove you to the grim understanding of its plot as intended, and you've really appreciated it.

farkingnotworking

2009-07-10 08:25:27 PM

shawn82: Could be both :)

Well, it was a fun theory while it lasted. Which was about seven posts.

Tophersky

2009-07-10 08:28:42 PM

I got wrapped up in the hype, months before it came out. Not saying it was real, but psyched for a potentially great horror movie. When it finally came out, I absolutely loved it! Haven't been that scared since the original Salems Lot.

you_idiot

2009-07-10 08:31:32 PM

What was the return on investment on that puke-fest? Made for 30 grand, earned 300 mill or some retarded thing like that?

serpent_sky

2009-07-10 08:31:57 PM

ScottHimself:

Where can I find [Rec.] and Primer aside from torrents/the internet?

Do movie rental chains carry them, or are they complete unknowns?

Quarantine was bittersweet for me. The lead couldn't act to save her life, but the storyline was actually intriguing, especially at the end with the cult reference to explain the entire situation. Not particulary scary, but at the same time I can see why it was a fantastic vision.

My friend bought [Rec.] at Chiller Theatre, which is a horror con in New Jersey. I wish I had the dealer's name, as I know he had a Web site.... We just stock up in April and October when we go to the con. You could try searching for dealers in NJ-NY-PA, as that's where most of the Chiller dealers come from.

The American version is almost shot-for-shot. There's some slight extra visuals of the creature-people, and the Spanish actress isn't annoying -- and these two things put the original over the top. Oddly, seeing the American one does not ruin the original for people, as anyone who has seen both just appreciates the Spanish one for being a better movie.

It's definitely an interesting story, but it heavily relies on good acting. Oddly, I now notice, watching "Dexter" over with my fiancee so he is up to speed for season 3 on DVD, that the chick who plays his sister is actually kind of awful on that show as well...

shadow9

2009-07-10 08:31:59 PM

watching it for free because i worked at a crappy no-joke, over hyped piece of crap theater...

Nick Nostril

2009-07-10 08:34:06 PM

Like "ET", I've never seen this movie.

/that is all

Harry_Seldon

2009-07-10 08:34:09 PM

you_idiot: What was the return on investment on that puke-fest? Made for 30 grand, earned 300 mill or some retarded thing like that?

That's what I thinking. However the actual cost with post/prints/advertising was closer to $25 million. I wonder if anyone will see net profits?

SharkTrager

2009-07-10 08:34:34 PM

ciocia

2009-07-10 08:34:41 PM

What I remember most about this is that a library patron came in and wanted a "true story" book about it. When I told her it was a fiction story, she argued hell for leather with me, was *sure* it was a real story.

Also, when I did see it, the kids in it were so whiny and annoying, I was rooting for them to die.

MorePeasPlease

2009-07-10 08:35:21 PM

Lenny_da_Hog

2009-07-10 08:36:45 PM

FlashHarry: i was on tour, playing a show in youngstown, oh.

Wow, times were tough, eh? Doing better now?

/went to school in Y-Town. Go.... penguins?

Gooble741

2009-07-10 08:37:21 PM

I was 11 years old when I watched it on VHS as soon as it was released on video in a dark room with a friend and my sister and it scared me a little, but nothing too bad. It was average on the scare factor, though some scenes gave me major creeps, like when they are running through the woods at night after their tent gets screwed with. I'm sure it would have been much better in theaters (especially after reading all these comments) but it was rated R... It inspired me to explore abandoned buildings in the dark, though (which may or may not be a good thing).

Now, The Ring, on the other hand... Saw it in the movie theater. Nightmares for at least 2 months. Couldn't sleep with my closet door open. It could have been from the fact that I instinctively closed my eyes right when they showed the infamous "dead girl in the closet", and my imagination did most of the work for me based on the split second that I did see her. I didn't watch the movie again for a couple of years and I still can't watch that scene without flinching. No movie has scared me that badly since, besides Ju-On.

/there's another movie in that "japanese-horror genre that also freaked me out bad, I just can't think of it

Albert Lake

2009-07-10 08:41:09 PM

Successful headline troll is quite successful! Good job!

ScottHimself

2009-07-10 08:43:18 PM

Gooble741:
Now, The Ring, on the other hand... Saw it in the movie theater. Nightmares for at least 2 months. Couldn't sleep with my closet door open. It could have been from the fact that I instinctively closed my eyes right when they showed the infamous "dead girl in the closet", and my imagination did most of the work for me based on the split second that I did see her. I didn't watch the movie again for a couple of years and I still can't watch that scene without flinching. No movie has scared me that badly since, besides Ju-On.

/there's another movie in that "japanese-horror genre that also freaked me out bad, I just can't think of it

I did the same thing as a child with Pet Sematary. I closed my eyes when the mother's sister appeared in the flashback (the one that was dying) and only caught a glimpse of her, but it was enough to convince me that she was the most horrifying instance in a movie ever.

I've heard good things about Shutter, and if you're into 'that's-so-depraved-it-could-be-considered-horrifying' movies Audition is pretty good.

whizbangthedirtfarmer

2009-07-10 08:43:45 PM

I still get freaked out at times from Trilogy of Terror and that Zuni doll running its spear under the bathroom door.

That said, I watched the Blair Witch Project in an old, crappy theatre that was about to be shut down. The ambiance helped along the effect, but both The Ring and The Grudge had a greater affect on me...and I know this because being left along in a dark house by myself a few weeks after watching each movie gave me the willies.

Brother Head

2009-07-10 08:46:14 PM

Me thinks that Subby was on one those fooled by the marketing campaign for Blair Witch.

While not the GREATEST MOVIE EVER, it was a fairly decent movie (for what it was)... unless you're one of those that thought it was real and then realized what a dope you were, then I could see the Subby's POV.

natas6.0

2009-07-10 08:46:14 PM

My frau and I saw this patronizing glob of snot with the lights out, on halloween, sitting 4 feet from my big screen.

I'll never get that 86 minutes of my life back.

ZeroPly

2009-07-10 08:47:24 PM

When it came out, I realized immediately that this was a movie that ten years out, pretentious douchebags would be claiming to hate. They would probably even be jogging the memories of everyone else who had completely forgotten about this movie, just to make sure new generations knew that they hated it. Obviously I had to be part of the in-crowd so I saw it opening night.

It was horrible and had no plot. Did I mention the shaky handheld cam?

Leishu

2009-07-10 08:48:16 PM

I... was in High School, filming a parody of it for English class titled "The Huck Finn Project." Good times.

browntimmy

2009-07-10 08:48:19 PM

Find anyone with zero film experience and a $200 camcorder, tell them to go into the woods and act really scared, and he'll produce something just as good as Blair Witch Project. In other words, it's a piss poor movie.

Forecaster18

2009-07-10 08:50:22 PM

ilikechocolatemilk: Blair Witch remains one of the few movies to genuinely scare the living hell out of me. I love the mockumentaries for one, but this movie scored because of what it didn't show. If you have absolutely no imagination then yeah, it's gonna suck for you. But once your mind starts to fill in the blanks and then adds to what else is going on, it makes it that much better.

/watch it in a pitch black room

This. Top ten favorite for me. The last 5 minutes of that film may be some of the best horror cinema has ever offered.

FastJeff

2009-07-10 08:52:58 PM

Just finished loading up all my stuff from the place I was staying in Vancouver. Me and my lil bro went to watch it then hit the road to come back home. Moved back down there the next fall.

Seen it twice in theater, I still think it's one of the creepier shows I've watched. Right up there with The Grudge and The Ring. Oh hell, I still can't watch The Exorcist, traumatized when I was a kid by some "funny" older siblings who found it great entertainment to scare the crap out of me after seeing it.

medius

2009-07-10 08:53:22 PM

ciocia: Also, when I did see it, the kids in it were so whiny and annoying, I was rooting for them to die.

why is google failing me on the denis leary rant re: blair witch?

SofaKingFresh

2009-07-10 08:53:24 PM

browntimmy: Find anyone with zero film experience and a $200 camcorder, tell them to go into the woods and act really scared, and he'll produce something just as good as Blair Witch Project. In other words, it's a piss poor movie.

Still better than anything M Knight Shamalamadingdong has ever done.

wjllope

2009-07-10 08:53:42 PM

Funbags: And despite what the weak-stomached, dim-witted detractors in this thread say, the last 8 minutes are as close to true terror as a cinematic experience can get.

thanks for responding...
that's pretty much the impression i got from the comments.

i have a decent setup at home, and i don't get "sea sick", and i consider myself a horror movie fan, so i guess i'll watch it at some point....

this thread (re: the comments about the very end of the movie) is the first time that i got the impression that it was interesting at all.

thanks again

medius

2009-07-10 08:55:02 PM

wjllope: this thread (re: the comments about the very end of the movie) is the first time that i got the impression that it was interesting at all.

FF>>

ifarkthereforiam

2009-07-10 08:55:35 PM

I was here is Colorado. I didn't watch that waste of time until it had been out on DVD for a while. The protagonists were a bunch of dipshiats and I was hoping for a grisly end for all of those twits. The only thing scary about that movie was the idea that there are people that stupid in real life.

Gooble741

2009-07-10 08:56:21 PM

ScottHimself:
I did the same thing as a child with Pet Sematary. I closed my eyes when the mother's sister appeared in the flashback (the one that was dying) and only caught a glimpse of her, but it was enough to convince me that she was the most horrifying instance in a movie ever.

Oh man, me too. That was definitely not the sort of movie I should have watched at 8 years old.

I grew up watching horror movies, so I'm a little desensitized to the average slasher flick or psychological thriller, but for some reason "Tales from the Hood" had a weird effect on me since I wasn't supposed to be watching it (I was hiding behind the couch while my mom and older brother watched it, maybe it was just the stories about creepy ghettos that my mom was always telling around that time). I remember watching Silence of the Lambs, and my mom covered my eyes when Buffalo Bill did his little dance, so I thought he was doing something really messed up, when really he was just tucking in his weiner. The weird song that plays during that scene only added onto my fear.

I've seen Audition. Didn't really do anything for me until the very end, though I did watch it while in the beginning throes of my sex-crazed teen years so it had a pretty huge impact on me. The one I'm thinking of is more of a "ghost story" type of movie. It's not "The Eye" either, I have that on DVD and it's pretty mediocre.

/probably just the japanese version of The Ring, now that I think of it, for some reason downloading movies and watching them on a computer alone in the dark ups the creepiness, could just be the shorter distance between your face and the screen
//Gummo also creeped me out for some reason, on a different level

uatuba

2009-07-10 08:57:06 PM

Umm...the movie was fictional, dude.

SofaKingFresh

2009-07-10 08:58:10 PM

wjllope: Funbags: And despite what the weak-stomached, dim-witted detractors in this thread say, the last 8 minutes are as close to true terror as a cinematic experience can get.

thanks for responding...
that's pretty much the impression i got from the comments.

i have a decent setup at home, and i don't get "sea sick", and i consider myself a horror movie fan, so i guess i'll watch it at some point....

this thread (re: the comments about the very end of the movie) is the first time that i got the impression that it was interesting at all.

thanks again

Yeah..don't let the hater influence keep you from enjoying a movie. Blair Witch is a good movie unless you're looking to hate it.

unclefenders

2009-07-10 08:58:36 PM

Having just watched the ending of blair witch project for the first time , I am surprised to see how much the entire look and final shot seems to be ripped off a movie called MAN BITES DOG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-cpw-xLF8o&feature=PlayList&p=B58B57239F55C5C9& i ndex=19

Kittypie070

2009-07-10 09:01:39 PM

Where was I?

I was *gakking* a hairball??

uatuba

2009-07-10 09:04:04 PM

AzDownboy: Experiencing the future joy of people answering their cell phones during a movie.

RING RING RING
"Hey! What's up girl!"

It was more annoying because the sound quality of the film was... less than ideal

I bet they were black.

Miett

2009-07-10 09:05:22 PM

I was trying to see Run Lola Run with some friends, and the theater was totally packed because of Blair Witch Project. Some asshat Blair Witch goer yelled something about a bomb, and the police herded us all out into the pouring rain. We went to a nearby park and hung out under the play equipment, smokin' and tellin' ghost stories.

IronButterfly

2009-07-10 09:05:28 PM

Ten years, huh?
What has the author/producer of BWP done in the past ten years? For that matter, what happened to the actors in that movie? They seem to have disappeared just as mysteriously as the characters they played!

/just sayin'

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 09:05:45 PM

unclefenders: MAN BITES DOG

This is another awesome movie. Yeah they are pretty similar (the final shots), but I didn't even think of the blair witch when seeing this (saw it years later), I guess cause they're nothing alike, other than the documentary style their shot in.

medius

2009-07-10 09:06:52 PM

IronButterfly: what happened to the actors in that movie? They seem to have disappeared just as mysteriously as the characters they played!

/just sayin'

because it was real!

pureobscure

2009-07-10 09:08:03 PM

That was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. I think people need to go camping to realize how freaky it would be to hear noises at night when you're so isolated in the middle of nowhere.

bubbaprog

2009-07-10 09:08:07 PM

If you weren't on a college campus for this movie, you missed pretty much everything it had to offer.

Before it was released, when it was this thing people whispered about that was advertised on photocopied faxes and shown in big lecture halls, it was insanely freaky and terrifying.

Miett

2009-07-10 09:08:32 PM

PS. If you want a lovely, creepy film, watch Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone.

Benalto

2009-07-10 09:08:48 PM

Rodent of unusual size: tudorgurl
Rodent of unusual size: Worst movie I ever saw. I remember all the biatching about losing the map and I was like. Your in the woods in Maryland just walk straight. How big can it be?

I can assume you've never been to Burketsville...

/that movie scared this shiat out of me
//the last five minutes STILL makes me all tingly
///I loved every minute of it.

Nope never been there but the state is only
Width: 101 miles (145 km)
Length: 249 miles (400 km)
So you should be able to walk out of the woods in a couple hours.
All the kids did was walk around swearing and biatching.
I couldn't wait for the witch to end the movie. But that's me

I think part of the point was they weren't lost, but being "hidden". (geekout: For instance, the house they went to at the end wasn't "supposed" to be there per secondary sources - in 'their time' it was just a burnt out foundation and that's it)
BWP was really neat, I thought. It was really clever, some great marketing, and the web presence really sold it, I thought. I don't think I could sit through it once a week for the rest of my life, but once in awhile it comes on and I watch it. The last shot was fantastic. Reading the article this is linked to, Artisan made them shoot more obvious and gory endings. Thank god they didn't go with any of those.
BW2 just shat on everything, unfortunately. Wish they'd gone with the idea of the first movie all over again but with the Witch's point of view.

Sherjo311

2009-07-10 09:08:58 PM

i went to see it opening night, after doing very limited research on it, and assumed it was very real, recovered footage. also, having grown up in cape cod, i was pretty familiar with the truly evil aspect of witches in the 1800's, and the people accusing them of the craft. so i was pretty stoked...

went to the theatre, and starting pissing myself after the first sight of the stick figures, strewn about the entire campsite. i preceded to become more and more scared, right to the core of me. my girlfriend wasn't squeezing my hand, i was suffocating hers.

left the theatre and had minimal convorsation with her, i was still entirely too spooked to talk. and naturally, i got lost on the 45 minute trip home, finding parts of mississippi i hadn't known existed. it didn't help that my girlfriend, who wasn't as scared by it as i was, was yelling at me "TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE JOSH!!!"

i still love this movie, and i can still watch it. it was excellently marketed and produced. i don't get upset with the shaky hand cam approach, and i guess that's why i was so impressed with cloverfield as well.

/10 years, wow...i was 17 when this movie came out?

bob_ross

2009-07-10 09:15:35 PM

IN THE WOODS

mynameismark

2009-07-10 09:15:37 PM

the last bit of the movie in the house was terrifying, i thought.

ZeroCorpse

2009-07-10 09:16:06 PM

Harry Freakstorm: I got tossed from the theater for yelling "For cripes sake! Just follow the freaking creek, morans." The scene where they kept coming back to the same place obviously ticked me off a bit.

You totally missed all the indications that they weren't in their original time period, huh? They could have followed the creek, and they'd still be lost, because they weren't where they thought they were in time, and the landscape was different.

One indicator was that authorities searched the forest- using helicopters, spotlights, flashlights, and dogs- and the trio never heard, saw, or had any indication that there were search parties there with them. They never saw or heard the helicopters, cops, or dogs. There was never even a plane overhead, or the sound of the highway, or litter from modern hikers.

They were not in their original time. They were in the past. By the time the tapes were found, they were long-dead... many decades, at least. There's good reason to believe they were jumping through time, from the 1990s to the late 1700s (Elly Kedward's time) to the 1940s (Rustin Parr's time), where they were finally murdered by the possessed Parr in his cellar.

"Follow the creek" does not work if you're being moved through space and time without knowing it's happening. If it were just about getting lost in the forest in 1999, then they'd have hit the back roads, highway, or seen a helicopter searching for them in that same patch of woods.

Springy23

2009-07-10 09:18:06 PM

I was in fourth grade and my last name was "Blair"

/I shiat you not.
//Got teased all year for it
///Still give the movie two thumbs up. Still makes me feel creepy.

ZeroCorpse

2009-07-10 09:20:23 PM

pureobscure: That was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. I think people need to go camping to realize how freaky it would be to hear noises at night when you're so isolated in the middle of nowhere.

Yes. That's another element. I think a lot of city people have no idea how intimidating it is to be lost in the woods-- Especially when you've followed what you believe to be the right path-- while being hounded by someone with very bad intentions.

bingethinker

2009-07-10 09:20:52 PM

Just in case this hasn't been said yet.

Where was I?

I was on top of Subby's mom in an alleyway.

unclefenders

2009-07-10 09:23:29 PM

I just thought it was interesting how both are black and white documentaries.. In old run down building, shaky camera work.. One group killed by demon? the other a rival gang.. both movies the camera is dropped, landing off level yet still filming, as the last person is killed, Although I liked how the guy running away is killed in camera shot in Man Bites Dog a little better..

The NUT in MBD is one scary guy the way they film him casually killing and disposing of bodies..chilling...

ifarkthereforiam

2009-07-10 09:23:50 PM

brap: Gee whiz, I love the occasional loquacious outburst as much as the next guy but that load of flotsam doesn't deserve that level or oratory.

- Keats Ode To A Greasin' Turd

I am going to have to find a way to work that into a conversation.

Bungalo

2009-07-10 09:30:57 PM

Made my mother believe it was a real documentary. She spoiled the whole movie by freaking out big time. Yeah, she's a bit naive.

maxthepolarbear

2009-07-10 09:30:57 PM

I have to add myself to the list of people in this thread that don't find any horror movies scary. My reasoning is that the events are totally detached from you, and the only way to find them scary is to project yourself into the people onscreen. The movies I do find scary are ones that pertain to my own life, which these days consists almost exclusively of global warming documentaries.

ta2mama

2009-07-10 09:32:07 PM

I can't believe there are 366 posts on this thread and only ONE reference to the awesome Cartoon Network's The Scooby Doo Project.

Old enough to know better

2009-07-10 09:32:35 PM

Squidgilum: elchip: It's hip to hate it, but at the time it was widely loved.

I've never seen it. (I rarely go to horror films.) But "hip hate" is one of my pet peeves. The way people pile on when it looks like public sentiment is turning.

THIS. Just try starting a Lord of the Rings movie thread to see this effect in action.

I still suspect a lot of the hate began with the lack of a big big scary CGI monster popping up at the end. Move drones have kinda come to expect it.

Lord Snoopy's G.P.E.H.

2009-07-10 09:34:05 PM

The Alan Parsons Project was scarier.

dbaggins

2009-07-10 09:37:05 PM

ta2mama: I can't believe there are 366 posts on this thread and only ONE reference to the awesome Cartoon Network's The Scooby Doo Project.

there was. ctrl-F

Begoggle

2009-07-10 09:37:18 PM

It was an entertaining movie at the time.
Not scary, no.
Had to endure stupid people who thought it was real.

RubberBabyBuggyBumpers

2009-07-10 09:38:33 PM

uatuba: Umm...the movie was fictional, dude.

Umm... the whole "umm..." thing is really douchey.

FastJeff

2009-07-10 09:39:30 PM

If you really want to fark up your movie watching experience, watch one with someone who has no imagination at all. I watched this one with dad one time and he complained through the entire thing.

This was coming from a guy who didn't really mind watching old westerns and accepted that it was supposed to be nighttime because of the soundtrack. Even though you can see daytime shadows everywhere. And the sky is blatantly still blue.

Still, he brought all us kids to watch The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly at a drive in WAY back when and that's been my favourite movie since forever. But his appreciation of horror movies leaves a lot to be desired.

I still get a lot of crap for telling people that Grudge and Ring freak me out though, it's met with resounding "but it's so dumb!" comments. I don't care, to me scary is scary and who the fark cares what you think?

I know, once in a while little bits of The Mothman Prophecies will creep into my head. I'll be brushing my teeth and I won't be able to look at the drain or I'll make damn sure not to look in the mirror when I'm leaving the washroom. That call from the guy who's found in his backyard affected me.

God damn, having an imagination is fun.

prjindigo

2009-07-10 09:47:26 PM

Soup4Bonnie: I get the oddest looks when I tell people I have never seen this movie or when I tell them that I think Blazing Saddles is juvenile and dumb.

Blazing Saddles WAS juvenile and dumb. You, sir, have missed the point like a greenpeace protester handing out bleached pamphlets while wearing a fur coat.

Where was I on when Blair Witch was released? Getting laid twice a day and fixing crappy car advertisements while laughing my ass off that someone finally proved you could keep stupid people in suspense. These same people were used to elect a president last year, numborons.

wjllope

2009-07-10 09:49:32 PM

maxthepolarbear: I have to add myself to the list of people in this thread that don't find any horror movies scary.

it's a fine line. of course everyone knows they're all fabricated, but one has to decide a priori if one wants to play along.. it's that "willing suspension of disbelief" thing....

but i've learned that quite often it's not a conscious decision unfortunately...

some movies make it *really* hard to suspend disbelief... some are close enough that in the right circumstances (the mood you were in the night you saw it, and/or the place you saw it, and/or with whom, etc etc) then disbelief is easily suspended and the movie works. but that depends a lot (i think) on all those day-to-day factors....

i've re-watched movies that i saw years earlier (which i thought at the time were e.g. boring) and after re-watching them i realized that a great deal of my previous opinion had nothing to do with the movie itself, but other factors local to me at that time and place....

that's pretty much why i don't worry so much about critics or reviews etc....
it takes two to tango - the movie and me.

cheers

Rootbzzr

2009-07-10 09:54:04 PM

1. Put snakes on plane

2009-07-10 09:57:59 PM

ZeroCorpse: You totally missed all the indications that they weren't in their original time period, huh? They could have followed the creek, and they'd still be lost, because they weren't where they thought they were in time, and the landscape was different.

One indicator was that authorities searched the forest- using helicopters, spotlights, flashlights, and dogs- and the trio never heard, saw, or had any indication that there were search parties there with them. They never saw or heard the helicopters, cops, or dogs. There was never even a plane overhead, or the sound of the highway, or litter from modern hikers.

They were not in their original time. They were in the past. By the time the tapes were found, they were long-dead... many decades, at least. There's good reason to believe they were jumping through time, from the 1990s to the late 1700s (Elly Kedward's time) to the 1940s (Rustin Parr's time), where they were finally murdered by the possessed Parr in his cellar.

"Follow the creek" does not work if you're being moved through space and time without knowing it's happening. If it were just about getting lost in the forest in 1999, then they'd have hit the back roads, highway, or seen a helicopter searching for them in that same patch of woods.

Must have hurt pulling all of that out of your ass.

Forecaster18

2009-07-10 09:59:03 PM

Lord Snoopy's G.P.E.H.: The Alan Parsons Project was scarier.

carbonfibber.files.wordpress.com

/Agrees.
//I'm sure Operation Bananarama was terrifying.

Nickers

2009-07-10 10:02:33 PM

I was 12 or 13 depending on the time of year when it was released, so starting middle school thereabouts.

/I feel old now.
//At Anime Evolution in June, there was a 10 year anniversary commemoration panel of the show Cybersix. That didn't help either.

jimpoz

2009-07-10 10:03:37 PM

pureobscure: That was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. I think people need to go camping to realize how freaky it would be to hear noises at night when you're so isolated in the middle of nowhere.

If you thought the movie was boring and that nothing was happening, it's because you watched it passively, just sitting back waiting to be entertained. You can do that with big budget horror movies because the big scary monster is right in front of you.

But to get the full effect of this movie you had to watch it actively, and imagine yourself in their situation, listening to whatever was going bump in the night. You had to imagine that this is "real life" and that the slightest rusting of you don't know what in the middle of the forest in the middle of the night is enough to put most people on edge. If you don't imagine yourself there with them, going through what they're going through, then the movie won't work.

A few months later I took a drive from NJ to DC, and took the scenic route, stopping in, among other places, Burkittsville. It's a tiny town, with one main street perhaps 300 yards long. It's at the edge of a big state forest or state park, and if they were going to play up the haunted factor I'm surprised they didn't mention the fact that the epicenter of the bloodiest day in U.S. history was right around the corner (the Antietam battlefield). I tried to take a picture of the "Welcome to Burkittsville" sign but it was soon enough after the movie that people were stealing the sign and the townspeople gave up replacing it. I did stop in the cemetery and the only headstone I saw that I remembered seeing in the movie belonged to the Arnold family.

www.jimpoz.com

LittleSmitty

2009-07-10 10:08:13 PM

That was the only movie I've ever walked out of. What an utter POS

wjllope

2009-07-10 10:10:10 PM

jimpoz: But to get the full effect of this movie you had to watch it actively,

I think that's probably a better way of saying what I was trying to to say a few posts ago....

neat picture...

neomatt

2009-07-10 10:13:50 PM

I almost walked out of that movie.
/meh. I'm lazy...

KAVORKA

2009-07-10 10:20:17 PM

One of two movies I walked out of. farking unwatchable crap. The girl was unbelievably annoying and it was obviously fake.

Japancakes

2009-07-10 10:23:12 PM

ScottHimself:
Where can I find [Rec.]

On (official, not bootleg) region 1 video next Tuesday.

glaeken

2009-07-10 10:23:46 PM

Not a bad movie, but like most hits, its worst legacy was the legion of imitations it spawned.

Of these, the best is THE HUNT. Really creepy once it gets going.

Radworld4

2009-07-10 10:25:21 PM

I was in the theater thinking that Heather Donahue had nice boobies and if I got her a little drunk I bet I could bang her.

FigPucker

2009-07-10 10:25:49 PM

Starting what I thought was going to be the beginning of my lifelong career.

/Too bad I got laid off 9 years and 9 months before I made it to 10 years.
//Very, very bitter.

Dont Call Me Shirley

2009-07-10 10:26:01 PM

the movie lost me when the local yokal was fishing upstream with a spoon lure

Xenomech

2009-07-10 10:26:50 PM

/Someone had to do it.

tacklethebear

2009-07-10 10:27:11 PM

I was still in elementary school when it came out...always thought it was older than that, huh.

/still hasn't seen it.
//doesn't really care.

FigPucker

2009-07-10 10:28:35 PM

FigPucker: Starting what I thought was going to be the beginning of my lifelong career.

/Too bad I got laid off 9 years and 9 months before I made it to 10 years.
//Very, very bitter.

*ugg*

I meant to imply that I got laid off 3 months shy of 10 years.

/eyes half empty beer suspiciously

naku

2009-07-10 10:28:48 PM

Interestingly enough, I watched this movie just yesterday for the first time.

I don't understand how anyone could think it was scary at all. It was a great idea but 99% of the film was the characters chit chatting and bickering about getting lost. Since I was watching it on my computer I made a mental note of the timeline bar thing whenever something creepy or scary happened and...there wasn't much. They found some rocks, they found some more rocks, some hanging sticks, a bit of action in the night, and the house at the end. The end! And it wasn't even like they were discussing unusual or strange things the rest of the time to build up suspense, either.

Julietta_Vendetta

2009-07-10 10:29:42 PM

Had to sleep with the lights on for a couple of days after that one. Haven't been scared by a movie like that before or since, so I'd say it was pretty good. Those that thought it sucked apparently have no imagination. :P

steadyfwd

2009-07-10 10:31:57 PM

pureobscure: That was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. I think people need to go camping to realize how freaky it would be to hear noises at night when you're so isolated in the middle of nowhere.

hell yeah. even though it was a production, and she knew it, she was still freaked out and exhibited true alarm during the manufactured situations...just went with it type of thing. genius, really.

HereNorThere

2009-07-10 10:34:52 PM

KAVORKA: One of two movies I walked out of. farking unwatchable crap. The girl was unbelievably annoying and it was obviously fake.

I remember applauding when the witch finally made her shut the hell up.

geniusiknowit

2009-07-10 10:35:12 PM

I was in high school, fingerbanging maladjusted college girls in the back of my Falcon.

Oznog

2009-07-10 10:36:16 PM

Awhile back they said they were going to tear down the condemned house used in BWP.

Some people to save it, and tried to get it listed as a historic building. The commission said no, being in a movie did not alone make it historic and it didn't really have anything else remarkable about it.

adamgeld

2009-07-10 10:37:12 PM

My brother rented it to watch with his friends. Everyone thought it was a pretty dumb movie.

Purdue_Pete

2009-07-10 10:38:30 PM

1999 was a pretty good time whether you like Blair Witch or not. I seem to remember that I saw Blair Witch a few weeks after The Matrix and was thinking... movies are awesome. :)

Yes, it was over-hyped - but if you just connect with the characters, forget it's fake and let yourself imagine it's happening - the last few minutes scared the crap out of you.

duhliterate

2009-07-10 10:38:41 PM

Indie theater, San Luis Obispo. Theater worker had a tray of mints on the way out.

I took two.

Last 5 minutes actually frightened me.

/should've started the movie from there.

Japancakes

2009-07-10 10:41:43 PM

Well, it appears to be one of the most polarizing movies (horror or no) that I've ever read about. One day I just might have to sit down and view it.

Was "otherwise engaged" during its theatrical run.

[rec.] terrified me.

Japancakes

2009-07-10 10:42:23 PM

As did "End of the Line" [2006]

Rev.Veggie.Spam

2009-07-10 10:42:29 PM

ceredonia: Thought it sucked, but I saw "Last Broadcast" which was the original BWP, and it was actually good.

Came here to mention The Last Broadcast too. I met the filmmakers once and talked with them. Good guys.

Liquado

2009-07-10 10:42:40 PM

Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

THIS.

/hate scary movies
//this gave me nightmares

spamdog

2009-07-10 10:44:54 PM

Xenomech: /Someone had to do it.

Well done!

boourns75

2009-07-10 10:45:09 PM

Toronto. And I was very startled.

rooftopvoter

2009-07-10 10:47:01 PM

I saw it opening night in manhattan it was standing room only. We all got worked up because the night before they had a viral episode on cable making it seem legitam I was pissed

jonnyh

2009-07-10 10:47:35 PM

My girlfriend was out of the country during the big hype thing. We went the day she got back, and the only thing that she knew was what I told her - "this sick documentary you have to see". That, the movie theater paraphernalia, and a vague belief in the supernatural was enough to convince her that it was FOR REAL.

She was crying hysterically by the end. I had an amazing time watching her be scared out of her wits.

I told her the truth afterwards, and she became furious while I laughed my ass off. She still maintains that anyone that knew the truth missed out on the best horror movie experience of all time.

We're still together :) She's the best thing ever.

Barakku

2009-07-10 10:48:35 PM

I tried to watch the last scene on youtube...I STILL had to skip ahead through the boring bullshiat (out of 5 minutes) and the ending...seemed pretty typical. I guess the set-up might make it seem real, but I can never really appreciate these things.
It'd be good if it were a 3 minute ghost story in the woods, I guess.

/The crappy hand-cam action just begs me to hate it, though, so I'm pretty biased.

logophile

2009-07-10 10:49:19 PM

i caught the buzz on the film about a week before it aired. I was working in a lab as an undergrad and played it off to the grad students that the film really was a lost footage.

Their fear was delicous, but ended up realizing it was fiction by the end.

Anyway, that night i went into the lab to run some rats, and meantime picked up some sticks during a smoke break and fashioned one of those stick men, hung it up by near invisible surgical thread at eye level exactly where one's head would be when turning on the lights in the inner lab room.

he he.

the next day i came in and was like "hey, where's that thing i made?" and the one grad student that opened the door was like "argh!! you b*tch that scared the crap out of me" it was in a zillion peices in the trash can.

ah. good times. good times.

Jormungandr

2009-07-10 10:49:59 PM

maxthepolarbear: I have to add myself to the list of people in this thread that don't find any horror movies scary. My reasoning is that the events are totally detached from you, and the only way to find them scary is to project yourself into the people onscreen. The movies I do find scary are ones that pertain to my own life, which these days consists almost exclusively of global warming documentaries.

I agree, though I still like horror movies, except when watching them with the wife. She will get really mad and yell obscenities at the screen when a character does something stupid that will obviously get them killed.

/She doesn't do that in the theater...
//yet

Japancakes

2009-07-10 10:54:49 PM

Rev.Veggie.Spam: ceredonia: Thought it sucked, but I saw "Last Broadcast" which was the original BWP, and it was actually good.

Came here to mention The Last Broadcast too. I met the filmmakers once and talked with them. Good guys.

Along the same lines, "My Little Eye" wholly upended my equilibrium (and I'm as hard to "creep out" as anyone any horror filmmaker could ever dread meeting.)

/love macabre flicks/books/media/artwork though. Few succeed at unnerving me but the thrill when one does: electric.

Acclivus

2009-07-10 10:55:43 PM

the single worst, most boring movie EVER!!!! including, if not especially the last 5 minutes.

missed it in theater, bought the VHS, wasted my $$$

2nd worst movie of all time? Incredible Mr Ripley with Matt Damon, stooooooooopid.

thrgd456

2009-07-10 10:56:29 PM

the movie was pretty good,

didn't that movie kick off the reality tv craze?

beanx

2009-07-10 10:56:59 PM

I think I was 28. I think I was smokin hawt. I think I was single and had no children. Now I have two kids, and angry husband and I hate myself.

I miss that biatch, blair witch.

beanx

2009-07-10 10:57:47 PM

Egg. I mean Ann: I was working in a book store in the west village in nyc. A bunch of coworkers went to see it when it premiered at the Angelica. They all fell for the marketing campaign that had swept through & thought it was a real documentary.

shoket, issat yew?!?!

TheBigJerk

2009-07-10 10:58:33 PM

Never saw it.

I saw it's sequel (Cloverfield, don't pretend they aren't the same farking series) and one thing really stuck in my mind:

"This would be so much better if it weren't in Guerilla video format and had real filming with decent quality."

It's big trick or "innovation" was its weakest point, and that's so deliciously tragic.

tuna fingers

2009-07-10 11:00:53 PM

shawn82: Cthulhu Theory: sigdiamond2000: Not to be a dick, but I find myself completely baffled by what most people find scary in movies.

The last movie that truly freaked me the f*ck out and scared the sh*t out of me was "Inland Empire", and that's certainly not what most people would consider a "horror" movie.

/Never seen "Blair Witch"...which I guess technically makes this a threadjack.

Did you see strangers? That one made my spine tingle.

While not a horror movie, or even particularly disturbing, watch Primer.

Then immediately watch it again.

Win. But you failed to tell them to watch it again.

sniderman

2009-07-10 11:00:58 PM

Saw it opening night, midnight show, at the local drive-in. Had parked right on the edge of the lot next to the nearby woods. Kept stealing glances at the trees. Best "creeped myself the fark out" evening I ever had.

Oznog

2009-07-10 11:01:17 PM

Geez, can't a guy take a piss in the corner without you getting all "screamy"?

Now I can't even finish. I'm all tightened up.

Gangway Fathead

2009-07-10 11:04:05 PM

When I went to see BWP, I saw for the first time the trailer for Being John Malcovich - the version with the song "Brazil" playing underneath.

It was so beautiful I applauded. I've never applauded a trailer before.

I thought BWP was okay.

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 11:07:39 PM

Rev.Veggie.Spam: The Last Broadcast

I liked this film right up until the end, it just seemed kind of stupid then. I wanted to like it too.

docilej

2009-07-10 11:10:22 PM

I kicked the map into the creek!

Mugato

2009-07-10 11:11:31 PM

Yeah, brilliant horror movie. Run around through the forest with a camcorder yelling "fark, we're lost!" for an hour.

tuna fingers

2009-07-10 11:11:32 PM

beanx: I think I was 28. I think I was smokin hawt. I think I was single and had no children. Now I have two kids, and angry husband and I hate myself.

I miss that biatch, blair witch.

How YOU doin!

queenb4biatch

2009-07-10 11:13:32 PM

benjaminajacobs: BTW, if you liked BWP you need to see [REC] (not Quarantine the american remake)

Shaky cam with fast zombies FTW.

goddamnitall - I hate fast zombies...

Nimnom

2009-07-10 11:15:40 PM

So, what happened in the "end", anyway? Did it turn out to be that one guy killing everyone?

This was the last movie that ever scared me. Mind you, I was very young at the time. Can anyone recommend a similar movie?

logophile

2009-07-10 11:17:27 PM

beanx: I think I was 28. I think I was smokin hawt. I think I was single and had no children. Now I have two kids, and angry husband and I hate myself.
----

mommy?

angva

2009-07-10 11:19:18 PM

I should see this movie one of these days.

Eustacia Vye

2009-07-10 11:20:00 PM

I saw it once on VHS about a year after it came out and I just couldn't figure out what happened at the end or why so many said the ending was so terrifying. Thanks to this thread I now know what I missed. The part when they were hearing odd noises outside their tent was scarier to me at the time.

Oznog

2009-07-10 11:20:38 PM

Nimnom: So, what happened in the "end", anyway? Did it turn out to be that one guy killing everyone?

That's just the thing, nobody knows. Some people say he's dead- hung from the rafters- or about to turn around and show something truly horrible.

The best horror directors know that what your imagination will fill in is worse than anything they could put on film.

kyoryu

2009-07-10 11:20:41 PM

Egg. I mean Ann:
Psychological thrillers/mind fark movies are scarier than jumpy slasher flicks. I like slasher flicks. They make me jump. But the really scary stuff is less literal for me, so I get what you mean. Any scariness to Blair Witch depends on your imagination, not gore or violence. Which is pretty farking scary.

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud." Stephen King

That being said, yeah, it doesn't stand repeat viewings well.

Japancakes

2009-07-10 11:28:17 PM

queenb4biatch: benjaminajacobs: BTW, if you liked BWP you need to see [REC] (not Quarantine the american remake)

Shaky cam with fast zombies FTW.

goddamnitall - I hate fast zombies...

*psst* They're not zombies.

Minor Spoiler:

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*/they're infected by a super communicable strain of rabies

vabeard

2009-07-10 11:28:23 PM

ceredonia: Thought it sucked, but I saw "Last Broadcast" which was the original BWP, and it was actually good.

Agreed.

Dalar

2009-07-10 11:32:16 PM

I, like subby, was out back smoking a cig and drinking beer while complaining about long welfare lines, while some punk kids spent a whole lot of time, energy, and money in making a product that made them tons of money.

Losers.

Zombalupagus

2009-07-10 11:37:58 PM

The Blair Witch Project was many things at once:

FAIL: So the budget of what you saw in the theaters was probably $500,000 to $750,000.

Umm... really? For that?

WIN!: And then we let them do their own thing. We'd supply them with fresh tapes and batteries, and we would give them food. As they neared the end of the shoot, we started depriving them of food.

Genius.

I for one would love to see big-time Hollywood actors directed like this sometime. Kind of like Tropic Thunder for real!

/also mad props to RocketRay for introducing me to Blair Circus!

qwertypoo

2009-07-10 11:38:47 PM

I was with my GF, the second time we'd gone out. I was fighting her off half the time so I could watch the damn movie. Horny biatch.

Blowmonkey

2009-07-10 11:40:07 PM

Zombalupagus: I for one would love to see big-time Hollywood actors directed like this sometime. Kind of like Tropic Thunder for real!

It's already on TV, called I'm a Celebrity get me out of here, I think it's right after Ow, My Balls.

Pinner

2009-07-10 11:40:11 PM

fark you, subby. You were scared. Just won't admit it. You spooned your mom upstairs every night for a week with your thumb in your mouth.
/assbite

Pave_the_Planet

2009-07-10 11:42:29 PM

I was going into the 8th grade. I watched it alone in the basement and thought it was stupid. I have thought that about almost every horror movie since.

coffee fiend

2009-07-10 11:42:48 PM

Wait; that wasn't real? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Japancakes

2009-07-10 11:43:47 PM

qwertypoo: I was with my GF, the second time we'd gone out. I was fighting her off half the time so I could watch the damn movie. Horny biatch.

QUEEREST*. KVETCH. EVAR!

_{*pre-1968 definition}

Nightmaretony

2009-07-10 11:45:51 PM

Rev.Veggie.Spam: ceredonia: Thought it sucked, but I saw "Last Broadcast" which was the original BWP, and it was actually good.

Came here to mention The Last Broadcast too. I met the filmmakers once and talked with them. Good guys.

Loved both movies, would take them over high budget POSes any day.

Wasn't the same movie at all. Had talked to steph, good guy. Got his second movie, Ghosts of Edendale which I do recommend. Me prefers hanging out with the Haxan bunch, and they have been prolific. Altered scared the crap out of me. Taut and exciting, best damn alien movie take I ever seen. Can't wait to see their 7th Moon horror movie.

Still waiting for Sinjin Smyth to come out. More taut action...

macross87

2009-07-10 11:48:20 PM

Killing is wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for killing. Like badwrong, or badong. Yes. Killing is badong. From now on, I will stand for the opposite of killing. Gnodab

Oh wait.. wrong movie.

/THATS A LOT OF NUTS!
//And partied with the desert creatures!
///weuweuweuwe

KingBrad

2009-07-10 11:53:42 PM

I went to see this opening weekend, walked into the theater to vomit on the walls, floor, and all over the trash can... had to walk through the smell to get to the seats.

Nice theater.

Gestankfaust

2009-07-10 11:53:52 PM

I'm one of those who thinks "subby" is a moron

Blair Witch was a great movie....suck it

FlashHarry

2009-07-10 11:55:32 PM

Lenny_da_Hog: FlashHarry: i was on tour, playing a show in youngstown, oh.

Wow, times were tough, eh? Doing better now?

/went to school in Y-Town. Go.... penguins?

yeah... that was a pretty sad looking place in 1999. but a good show. and i met a very nice lady there...

Assimilate This

2009-07-10 11:57:19 PM

First time I saw it was on video late at night in a cabin in the woods. Freaked me the fark out.

Blink

2009-07-10 11:57:43 PM

That movie taught me that the average person is scared shiatless of trees. I spent my youth exploring woodlands -- I just can't, no matter what, find the wilderness "scary".

It made me feel bad for people and their sheltered lives. But then again, I find most strip malls creepy, so maybe I should give them some slack.

simian04

2009-07-10 11:58:51 PM

I was enjoying it in the theatre. Apparently, subby was at home punching himself in the balls out of sheer frustration that nothing is as good as he wants it to be. Poor subby.

Vash's Apprentice

2009-07-11 12:02:41 AM

Nightmaretony: Rev.Veggie.Spam: ceredonia: Thought it sucked, but I saw "Last Broadcast" which was the original BWP, and it was actually good.

Came here to mention The Last Broadcast too. I met the filmmakers once and talked with them. Good guys.

Loved both movies, would take them over high budget POSes any day.

Wasn't the same movie at all. Had talked to steph, good guy. Got his second movie, Ghosts of Edendale which I do recommend. Me prefers hanging out with the Haxan bunch, and they have been prolific. Altered scared the crap out of me. Taut and exciting, best damn alien movie take I ever seen. Can't wait to see their 7th Moon horror movie.

Still waiting for Sinjin Smyth to come out. More taut action...

I'm just waiting for the Freakylinks DVD set
/Yeah, I'm one of "those" people
//also, Seventh Moon looks good
///makes note to add Altered to Netflix queue
/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\//\/\/\//\\//\/\/\/Freakyslashies!

PC LOAD LETTER

2009-07-11 12:11:40 AM

Things you take with you to go into the woods to camp: Knife, Gun if you have one, GPS, backup compass, maps, first aid kit, and if you really want to make sure you can get out in a farking hurry: a sat phone.

ChimpZealot

2009-07-11 12:12:02 AM

ITT: people who go to movies in order to be disappointed. My philosophy when it comes to watching movies is that if you're not trying to enjoy it and immerse yourself, you might as well just be jerking off a hobo.

Jonesy Boogieman

2009-07-11 12:16:44 AM

I was living in Virginia. Went to see it with my ex.

I don't know which was scarier now that I look back.

aammaazzoonn

2009-07-11 12:17:29 AM

Dariodevil 2009-07-10 06:32:30 PM
I threw it in the river.

THAT was the scariest moment in the whole movie - the knowledge that you're going to die because some retard couldn't bring himself to value something he was too dumb to understand. Anybody not scared by Blair Witch has never been trapped with a group of people who can't cooperatively communicate for shiat ... or probably is one of those people. For similar reasons, Cube is the only movie that scares me more than Blair Witch. And the more you learn about the backbiting among the previous president's administration, the more frightening both of those movies will become.

aammaazzoonn

2009-07-11 12:19:18 AM

Modest Proposal 2009-07-10 06:47:45 PM
Pocket Ninja: I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Sort of a meta-elitism here, with a dash of empathy in the end. Pocket's forumla is showing its age.

Yeah, well I still adore it. !@#$ off.

Robin_G

2009-07-11 12:23:39 AM

Biggest piece of crap I ever saw. Bunch of Americans scared of noises in the forest.

Actually, come to think of it, maybe it was scarier than I thought. By and large, all the wildlife is dead in US forests, so any noises you hear could easily be those guys from the Deliverance movie... Hmmmmmm. Might just have to watch it again and listen for pig squeals.... :)

Nightmaretony

2009-07-11 12:26:28 AM

Vash's Apprentice:
I'm just waiting for the Freakylinks DVD set
/Yeah, I'm one of "those" people
//also, Seventh Moon looks good
///makes note to add Altered to Netflix queue
/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\//\/\/\//\\//\/\/\/Freakyslashies!

Never got into Freakylinks. Did get to know them through Art of the Heist. Altered rocked. The world premier at Cinespace was a ton of fun. You may want to join the Haxan forums on general principles to keep things going. they may not blow up the world like they did with BWP, but they still have some good things going on there....

aammaazzoonn

2009-07-11 12:26:47 AM

Radworld4 2009-07-10 10:25:21 PM
I was in the theater thinking that Heather Donahue had nice boobies and if I got her a little drunk I bet I could bang her.

Stay away, dude. When you see her in Taken you'll agree she is frighteningly, ruthlessly psycho.

HeartBurnKid

2009-07-11 12:30:28 AM

I don't get it, subby. If it's 10 years since The Blair Witch Project, then why do you care where I was when Transformers 2 hit theaters?

aammaazzoonn

2009-07-11 12:32:55 AM

weezbo [TotalFark] 2009-07-10 07:56:50 PM
Blowmonkey: ScottHimself: Am I seriously explaining this again? Just tell me why he was in the corner!

It was from a story related earlier in the film that the killer would make the children stand facing in the corner because he didn't like to be watched when he was killing the others.

Thus when Mike is seen facing the corner, the implication is that the killer is real and is about to kill Heather, the one whose camera shows him standing there.

Holy shiat. By the end of the movie I'd completely forgotten about that facing-the-corner story. So I've spent the last ten years thinking the film makers just couldn't figure out how to end the damn thing and came up with some inane, "mysterious" ending to cover up their creative impasse.

Well, glad you guys cleared that up for me. Thanks for making me shiat my pants 10 years late.

Jakevol2

2009-07-11 12:36:24 AM

I went to see it opening night then I went to the Danger Bob farewell concert at the Bottleneck in Lawerence. God those were the good old days.

trancemission

2009-07-11 12:41:47 AM

Pocket Ninja: I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Get with the times. It's totally uber-cool again. But now it's ironic.

Benalto

2009-07-11 12:46:57 AM

It's funny that no one has READ THE ARTICLE.
The filmakers say something relevant to this thread.

SANCHEZ: Well, Blair Witch started competing with Hollywood movies. Once you start competing with Hollywood movies, you have to deliver the formula that audiences are expecting, especially in a horror movie. You've got to have a certain kind of scare, a certain kind of reveal at the end. People like things to be tied up at the end of the movie. There are a lot of people who probably shouldn't have seen Blair Witch. It just wasn't their movie. It's like El Mariachi or Clerks making $140 million. It was an indie movie that blew up. We went from the underdogs to the guys that were beating the studios, so all of a sudden we entered another league that our film probably wasn't ready for.

MYRICK: The film, kind of by design, was meant to be seen on a smaller screen. It's a home movie, and when you see something like that on a 30-foot screen, it almost takes away from the experience. Some people were expecting this big Hollywood thing, and they had to reprogram their minds to see something that was completely different.

mtmitch

2009-07-11 12:49:19 AM

I actually didn't see the movie until it came out on video and the ending defiantly sent chills up my spine. Kind of a "What the F did I just see?" moment. Even after rewinding and watching that final scene a few times I was still freaked out.

Fast forward a few years to when I was living with my girlfriend (now wife). We were cleaning out the garage one day and she found the copy I had bought. She asked what it was about and right then I realized had a golden opportunity to scare the crap out of her. I built up all the tension with the whole recovered documentary angle, missing kids, unsolved bla bla bla. I decided we should go watch it at her parents house that night because they had never heard of it either. Watching all three of them watch the movie and having no idea that it was fake was truly awesome.

That is what made the movie work and why the marketing was so important. You had to believe that what you were seeing had actually happened.

zefal

2009-07-11 12:53:11 AM

Mute Witness is the last good horror film I've seen. Turns farcical towards the end though.

Jesterian

2009-07-11 12:56:18 AM

Jonesy Boogieman

2009-07-11 12:58:10 AM

aammaazzoonn: weezbo [TotalFark] 2009-07-10 07:56:50 PM
Blowmonkey: ScottHimself: Am I seriously explaining this again? Just tell me why he was in the corner!

It was from a story related earlier in the film that the killer would make the children stand facing in the corner because he didn't like to be watched when he was killing the others.

Thus when Mike is seen facing the corner, the implication is that the killer is real and is about to kill Heather, the one whose camera shows him standing there.

Holy shiat. By the end of the movie I'd completely forgotten about that facing-the-corner story. So I've spent the last ten years thinking the film makers just couldn't figure out how to end the damn thing and came up with some inane, "mysterious" ending to cover up their creative impasse.

Well, glad you guys cleared that up for me. Thanks for making me shiat my pants 10 years late.

LOL Yeah, that was definitely the scariest scene! Seeing that picture posted by Oznog gave me chills again.

Japancakes

2009-07-11 01:00:55 AM

zefal: Mute Witness is the last good horror film I've seen. Turns farcical towards the end though.

Hah. I purchased that film this past Monday (three dollar DVD bin at a discount store) and viewed it yesterday. It went places I wasn't expecting it to go (always a compliment from me to filmmakers). The buildup was better than the denouement but all in all I found it to be 3 bucks and 100 minutes well spent.

The nudity was tasty too.

Fano

2009-07-11 01:16:46 AM

I liked it at the time. It's a shaggy dog story, to be sure, but I remember when I took my date back that night, out in rural WV, it sure seemed dark and scary outside. Got to hold her extra tight.

EbolaNYC

2009-07-11 01:20:48 AM

Never saw it.

Gigglecream

2009-07-11 01:20:54 AM

I'm better than you all because I wasn't scared when I saw this movie.

/totally e-messaged my friends on my iMac about it.
//Please pay attention to me.

mtmitch

2009-07-11 01:23:00 AM

Oznog: Geez, can't a guy take a piss in the corner without you getting all "screamy"?

Now I can't even finish. I'm all tightened up.

That's the shot that freaked me out the most. You only see it for a second or two and the first time I saw it I wasn't sure if he was floating or hanging.

None the less, that shot is what made the hair on the back of neck stand up.

krazydiamond

2009-07-11 01:28:16 AM

I was working at a summer camp. I've gotta say, I was pretty freaked the fark out walking back through the woods at midnight.

Sugarmoobs

2009-07-11 01:36:10 AM

I never got around to seeing this and before I got the chance, so many people talking about it made me never bothering to see it. Maybe I should.

limboslam

2009-07-11 01:40:51 AM

Oznog

2009-07-11 02:18:33 AM

Oznog: Geez, can't a guy take a piss in the corner without you getting all "screamy"?

Now I can't even finish. I'm all tightened up.

mtmitch:That's the shot that freaked me out the most. You only see it for a second or two and the first time I saw it I wasn't sure if he was floating or hanging.

None the less, that shot is what made the hair on the back of neck stand up.

Well, even for those who got NO reaction out of this, you gotta respect the filmmakers for being able to get this kind of reaction out of SOME people when all there is is a guy in a corner. THAT'S art.

There are people who "don't get" BWP, some who found it "neat", and others who were genuinely terrified.

Me, I downloaded it, so my expectations were not extremely high, therefore no disappointment factor associated with overhype. I thought it was pretty "neat".

someonelse

2009-07-11 02:20:48 AM

ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film. ...[Drag Me To Hell pic]...
if Drag Me To Hell were a good horror film and not a bloated bit of crap, which it is.

I liked Blair Witch Project. I wonder about the underlying health of people who claim to have gotten severe headaches or violently ill from watching it. If that actually happened to anyone, I'd suggest seeing a neurologist, because that isn't normal.

KipperM

2009-07-11 02:21:05 AM

Nickelodeon theater in Santa Cruz. You know the one.

/Why do I remember this?

Oznog

2009-07-11 02:25:36 AM

Broktun: zez:

The Ring was pretty damn creepy

I saw the ring for the first time:
alone. . .

on HBO. . .

in a hotel room. . .

in Houston. . .

I was scared shiatless!! Christ I was peeking out from under the blankets at the end, and I was 35!!!

Broktun | Hates torture porn.

What did you think of The Passion of the Christ?
I found it interesting that it meets all of the criteria of torture porn, which is normally completely incompatible with most church-goers.

mud_shark

2009-07-11 02:26:26 AM

wow - and I thought I was pissed off at my neighbor, but you people think Blair Witch is importatn

Freiheit666

2009-07-11 02:39:41 AM

All I gotta say is even if you think this movie is crap, you bet your ass you wish you thought to do it first, since it cost about $20 to make, and raked in like a hundred zillion times that.

girl6

2009-07-11 02:40:37 AM

Those drawings of the Blair witch: heebies
The last shot: jeebies

Now I'm freaked out. My punkass dogs are no help.

qwertypoo

2009-07-11 02:51:50 AM

Japancakes: qwertypoo: I was with my GF, the second time we'd gone out. I was fighting her off half the time so I could watch the damn movie. Horny biatch.

QUEEREST*. KVETCH. EVAR!

*pre-1968 definition

Hey, I was really looking forward to seeing it, and 2 cinema tickets were a lot of money on an apprentice wage.

Oznog

2009-07-11 02:59:03 AM

bmr68: I went opening night.My smoking hot girlfriend that was out of my league thought it was real.

/nuff said

www.familyguyquotes.com

IT'S LIKE SHE'S farkING FIVE!!!

Tsar_Bomba1

2009-07-11 03:32:51 AM

ilikechocolatemilk: Blair Witch remains one of the few movies to genuinely scare the living hell out of me. I love the mockumentaries for one, but this movie scored because of what it didn't show. If you have absolutely no imagination then yeah, it's gonna suck for you. But once your mind starts to fill in the blanks and then adds to what else is going on, it makes it that much better.

/watch it in a pitch black room

Agreed.

That was the brilliance of the first Alien. You never really saw what the creature looked like for the majority of the movie.

jbernie

2009-07-11 03:33:07 AM

Avoiding it, and ten years later I still am, I haven't seen any more than the trailer.

JustTheTip

2009-07-11 03:35:31 AM

Apparently this is one of those "love it or hate it" movies. Personally, I enjoyed it. I thought it was creative and entertaining. It was then a new concept in film making, and I found it genuinely creepy.

I think a guy further up in this thread had it right, you had to 'actively' watch this movie. If you were just siting back waiting for Freddy to morph into a snake and splatter blood all over the lens, you were going to be disappointed.

It was a great film, IMO, because it was so different than the usual formulaic crap that spews out of Hollywood.

Apparently Subby's appreciation of "horror" ends at a busty chick getting hacked up by a guy in a hockey mask.

SoxSweepAgain

2009-07-11 03:50:00 AM

Trivia Jockey: I know a lot of people hold subby's opinion, but as a guy who doesn't much care for scary movies (because most aren't scary), when I saw this in the theater it scared the crap out of me.

Second post nails what I thought of it now that I'm chiming in 486 posts later without truly RTFT.

Yeah, this flick was scary, and I really enjoyed it.

John Stamos

2009-07-11 03:58:30 AM

As a Farker, I don't enjoy anything except for stuff that I think the rest of you have never heard of.

Forecaster18

2009-07-11 04:29:39 AM

TheBigJerk: Never saw it.

I saw it's sequel (Cloverfield, don't pretend they aren't the same farking series) and one thing really stuck in my mind:

"This would be so much better if it weren't in Guerilla video format and had real filming with decent quality."

It's big trick or "innovation" was its weakest point, and that's so deliciously tragic.

This might be more to your liking...

media.giantbomb.com

cYn21

2009-07-11 04:44:22 AM

Trivia Jockey: I know a lot of people hold subby's opinion, but as a guy who doesn't much care for scary movies (because most aren't scary), when I saw this in the theater it scared the crap out of me.

Why? Because a bundle of sticks "magically" appeared outside their tent? Or perhaps the final scene with the kids peeing in the corners of a dark room?

There was nothing scary about that movie, aside from the atrocious camera work.

That movie was so awful. The only good part was when that one kid admitted to throwing the map into the creek. That was loltastic.

FredGarvin

2009-07-11 04:53:15 AM

Personally, I thought it was a complete waste. There's nothing scary about a shakycam fake snot dripping documentary in which NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.

At least the sequel showed some tits.

And what's so great about the ending? I didn't see any witches, or anything else that made sense.

just_a_typical_guy

2009-07-11 04:57:11 AM

Hender:
That final scene, even ten years later, still gives me the willies.

The scene where he's taking a leak on the wall?

/ I jest, preferred "The Blair Thumb" as you can see

Cheops

2009-07-11 06:36:31 AM

I enjoyed it. I cry your pardon if you didn't.

The Dread Pirate Robertson

2009-07-11 07:13:52 AM

I grew up making regular stays at my uncle's house in WVA that pre-dated the Civil War, and generations of kids and adults (me included) have seen some pretty freaky stuff there, so I'm already predisposed to being freaked out by ghost stories. When the end of TBWP hit I absolutely *freaked*. I was hyperventilating for a good five minutes and it took me almost that long to realize that I had pulled my knees up under my chin and was essentially in the fetal position in my seat... and I already knew it wasn't real! I've gone back and watched the movie ten or twelve times in the past ten years, but I have *never* watched the last scene again. Mostly because I know I'll never have that feeling of absolute fear again, but partially because I'm afraid that I will.

I feel bad for people who can't/don't let themselves get that immersed in something. Not in an "I'm superior to you!" way, just in a "I don't understand you" way. I feel like they're missing out.

Followup story: I was working at a video store when TBWP came out, and I did my best to keep the mythology going. I kept the book behind the counter, stuck up a couple of "Missing" posters, never would admit to knowing the truth, etc. The store bordered on a fairly rural area with lots of hunters and country boys, and we were in VA within an easy drive of MD. One day this guy came in, slapped down his rental copy of TBWP, and said "Have you seen this shiat?" I said "Yeah! Isn't that crazy?" He replied "Crazy? It's BULLSHIAT! I've been calling Maryland for two days and they say the whole thing is a hoax! I have friends up there and we're going to go figure this thing out." He left the store, and I watched him get into a pickup truck with two other guys and a gun rack that would have supplied the beach forces at Normandy.

I never saw him again.

I'd like to think it's because he realized what was up and got embarrassed, but...

horrified

2009-07-11 07:33:16 AM

Atomic Spunk: Saw it in the theater with my wife who was pregnant at the time. The camera movements gave her motion sickness big time, but she was able to hold it together for the whole film. As soon as it was over, she went to the restroom and puked out a toiletful of popcorn and Pepsi.

wow dude-- how's your kid now? After all that Pepsi caffeine -- must be borderline AHDD.
themoderatevoice.com

Bendal

2009-07-11 08:22:08 AM

It wasn't so much scary as disturbing, and a little nauseating (from the stupid hand-held camera trick). The disturbing part came from not realizing there were three people so stupid as to not know if you are lost in the woods and you find a stream, you follow it downstream instead of randomly crossing it.

Also carry some form of emergency gear, tell people where you're going, maps, food, etc.

Oh, right, the last 10 minutes of the movie were good, the rest of it sucked.

Evil_ferret

2009-07-11 08:42:31 AM

ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film.

Are those staples in her forehead?

Blair Witch was terrible. The whole problem with movies is none of them are real so how could you possibly be scared of them? Unless the lead actor is a Wayans brother.

rogue49

2009-07-11 09:10:12 AM

still haven't seen it and don't intend too...

If I'm waste my time watching a bunch of teens breathing heavy in the woods...then it better be porn.

Guntram Shatterhand

2009-07-11 09:15:58 AM

Evil_ferret: ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film.

Are those staples in her forehead?

Blair Witch was terrible. The whole problem with movies is none of them are real so how could you possibly be scared of them? Unless the lead actor is a Wayans brother.

Oh God, don't mention Drag Me to Hell and Blair Witch. Both suffer from the same problem: they take a good half hour story and drag it out (pun?) to a horrible ninety minutes. Not to mention using a Wall of Sound as horror.

If anything, both of these movies should bring back the Horror Anthology Movie. But as separate movies, this is why horror films suck today: no pacing at farking all. Saw is more skillfully made, and that says something.

Unkel Jethro

2009-07-11 09:21:21 AM

Where were you when this overhyped POS website crawled it's way out of an AA meeting?

Vash's Apprentice

2009-07-11 09:23:20 AM

is currently my favorite monster. Her name's Alexa(aka Little Sister) and she is extremely adept at using those claws of hers. And after she kills, she eats. Don't be fooled, she is no more human than a wolf is.

kab

2009-07-11 09:24:28 AM

Saw it while it was in the theaters. Liked it a lot.

emmasews

2009-07-11 09:32:36 AM

My kids were 6, 11, 14 & 16. We had a nice summer, blissfully unaware that my mother would have a stroke the next year, and it would change my life forever. I would love to have one more day with her.
...sorry to be a downer but you asked. i never did see the movie nor do I want to now.

theironchef

2009-07-11 09:41:12 AM

Hey Blair Witch! Cannibal Holocaust called.

It wants to know why people think your film is so original and groundbreaking....

bullwinkl

2009-07-11 09:54:18 AM

I liked the movie in the theater...I don't know anybody who thought it was real though. PN was right though, it doesn't hold up at all. And when it comes to scary, nothing comes close to the nightmares I had after watching Peewee's Big Adventure. Large Marge might be the scariest thing ever put on celluloid.

someonelse

2009-07-11 10:06:45 AM

theironchef: Hey Blair Witch! Cannibal Holocaust called.

It wants to know why people think your film is so original and groundbreaking....

Actually it called to apologize for being thinly veiled animal snuff porn.

solyhhit

2009-07-11 10:17:45 AM

Rev.K: For those of us with imaginations, The Blair Witch Project was a f*cking terrifying movie.

/scared f*cking sh*tless

It took me 5 years to watch it.

I still have a chill.

Guntram Shatterhand

2009-07-11 10:24:07 AM

theironchef: Hey Blair Witch! Cannibal Holocaust called.

It wants to know why people think your film is so original and groundbreaking....

Bravo!fark, at this point Sleepaway Camp is a better horror film than Blair Witch. That, and the ending is still farking horrifying on a few levels when I think about it.

/shudder

soaky55

2009-07-11 10:59:49 AM

I never saw it

Blowmonkey

2009-07-11 11:15:42 AM

Guntram Shatterhand: Sleepaway Camp

Chicks with dicks..do not want

St.Alfonzo

2009-07-11 11:35:53 AM

bullwinkl: ...when it comes to scary, nothing comes close to the nightmares I had after watching Peewee's Big Adventure. Large Marge might be the scariest thing ever put on celluloid.

Damn straight! Of course, I didn't help that I was stoned to the bejesus belt at the time.

Aithein

2009-07-11 11:50:58 AM

I wish it was real so that they could have all died a horrible screaming death.

Very few movies have ever pissed me off for being as bad as they were, but that one did. There is some creepy imagery but no follow through and the characters were completely unsympathetic. It did not deserve the hype it got by any means.

What was it Chris Rock said about it at the MTV movie awards that year? " A movie that was made for $10,000? Somebody's walking around out there with $9,980 in their pockets!

Utter garbage.

Heroic Poser

2009-07-11 12:05:01 PM

Subby is a cying-movie-snob.

STFU.

slikkonikko

2009-07-11 12:22:01 PM

Saw it in the theater with my family. I was 17. Only movie to make me cover my eyes since I was six.
Interesting to note that at the time I believed in ghosts and shiat like that. That definitely upped the scare factor. Now I'm an active skeptic/atheist. If I saw the movie today for the first time it probably wouldn't have the same affect on me. And while I'm happy with my intellectual stance, a part of me misses the fact that I can't enjoy movies like that anymore.

Jgsublime

2009-07-11 01:21:39 PM

I was stoned... I miss weed.

biggestdog420

2009-07-11 01:22:06 PM

I paid to see that movie, and the second I saw it was being done in a telephone pole tree farm I knew it was a fake. But nonetheless a pretty cool movie.

ectomaster

2009-07-11 01:41:14 PM

Saw it. Loved it. I hate slasher flicks cause they're all the same. Even your "horror" movies are starting to just got he way of slasher movies, whether it's ghosts, vamps or whatever. Same plot form, same everything. To me, not worth my time or money. I watched one of those "i know what what" movies and i called each killing...it was pathetic.

Though BWP doesn't stad-up for repeated viewings, it brings back me back to a time when right after seeing this movie, I had to walk my dog....in the woods....by the tennis court and the lights to just turn off as the timer ran out.

Someone else said it, the key to this movie was how big your imagination was.

/Believe more in ghosts than some homicidal maniac in a shatner mask
//or hockey mask
///or leather mask
////etc.

Acid_Casualty

2009-07-11 01:52:04 PM

It's a mix between Ozzy and Milton Berle in drag.

I think I just shiat my pants.

thenewflesh

2009-07-11 01:53:14 PM

Hmmm... I thought the ending was blatantly obvious if you'd actually been paying attention through the whole movie...

****major spoiler*****

One of the interviewees near the beginning of the movie talks about a local serial killer named Rustin Parr. He kidnapped local children and killed them in pairs, forcing one kid to stand facing the corner of a room while he murdered another kid. When he was caught, he pled insanity, claiming that the spirit of the Blair Witch had demanded them as sacrifices.

So, the final moments have the two remaining characters discover Parr's house. They see some creepy shiat (including handprints of his victims all over the walls), then get separated. When Heather gets to the basement, Mike is stood facing the corner, then she's attacked from behind. The implication is that either Parr is alive and has escaped from the asylum, or its the ghost of the Blair Witch continuing his work and taking sacrifices for herself.

If you read the book that came out with the movie, it's even more messed up. The book goes into the fictional mythology and suggests that the campers were displaced in time (Parr's house had supposedly burned to the ground by the time of the movie). It takes a bit more swallowing, but explains why they couldn't find their way out of the woods and why no rescuers couldn't find anything but their footage.

****end spoiler****

If you want good "found footage" movies, try the following:

Cannibal Holocaust (it's possible on some copies to watch without the real-life animal brutality)
[REC] (just been officially released in the US on DVD, the upcoming sequel looks excellent)
Slashers (not quite the same format, but I loved it...)
My Little Eye
Cloverfield (hey, I liked it!)

Also seconded from recommendations in the thread (people who hate thinking during movies need not apply):

Primer
Pi
Cube
Ringu (original Japanese version of The Ring)
The Devil's Backbone
Man Bites Dog
Event Horizon
The Thing

vdantev

2009-07-11 02:07:18 PM

Not scary, but very very creepy. I was fine until the children noises started outside the tent and the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

coffee fiend

2009-07-11 02:35:39 PM

Jonesy Boogieman: I was living in Virginia. Went to see it with my ex.

I don't know which was scarier now that I look back.

As a resident of Virginia for almost 50 years, I'd say it's probably the former. Unless your ex is Glenn Close...

/stays out of the woods
//checking my stovetop for boiling bunnies

Jesterian

2009-07-11 03:23:38 PM

horrified: Atomic Spunk: Saw it in the theater with my wife who was pregnant at the time. The camera movements gave her motion sickness big time, but she was able to hold it together for the whole film. As soon as it was over, she went to the restroom and puked out a toiletful of popcorn and Pepsi.

wow dude-- how's your kid now? After all that Pepsi caffeine -- must be borderline AHDD.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

clambam

2009-07-11 03:32:11 PM

I took my 16-year-old nephew on a camping trip in the White Mountains the year that movie came out. He brought along his laptop and spent most of his time playing a video game (a far cry from my youth when my dad kept telling me "Take your head out of the comic book and look at the scenery!" -- instead I found myself saying "Take your head out of the laptop and look at the scenery!"). He had a pirated copy of the movie on his computer and we ended up watching it one night in a tent in the middle of the woods. Not that scary, but any postage stamp-sized grainy MPEG tends not to be.

Felix_T_Cat

2009-07-11 04:13:53 PM

Has anyone mentioned the Bare Wench Project. Pretty girls, but to annoying to watch.

There's a restaurant here in Buffalo, NY that has an enormous one person bathroom. When I use the urinal I feel like I'm in the basement sceen from the movie.

Shadowknight

2009-07-11 05:14:11 PM

I was actually a manager of a movie theater at the time. Loved the movie, thought it was one of the better horror films ever made. Not only did people believe it was real, but even those that didn't typically liked it because it made you use your imagination rather than "jump out and scare you" cop out scares that most horror films resort to.

I think that's the difference between those who hated it and those who liked it: Imagination. People that hated it typically just wanted to see the "witch" at the end. They didn't want to have to think or try to figure out what this thing might actually be. They just wanted to see a big scary monster at the end. The people that enjoy reading and more intellectual entertainment typically liked it.

This, of course, excludes those that just disliked the shaky-cam effects because it made them sick. We would usually have at least one person a day puke in the theater. Always fun to send an usher in to clean it up.

Another fun fact: I bought the "Newsweek" about the movie that had the three kids on the cover, posing and mugging for the picture. I kept it behind the garbage can, and would pull it out every time I would hear people walking out from the film say "You know that was real, right?" Just to watch their response. Most people just went "Huh, wow, they did a good job." A few of them got pissed off, though. Like they were really worried about those kids, and were pissed off that they were manipulated in such a way and now they hated the movie.

For me, it was a sign of a good film that could convince you that this crap was real.

Cerebral Ballsy

2009-07-11 06:04:11 PM

Because I had no TV, I didn't hear much hype. I did hear that there was a little hype that the story was true, but it was word of mouth, and all my friends are pretty smart, so there was no one who believed it.

I watched the film. I thought it was amazing for a low monologue-ish story. There's a lot of natural suspension of disbelief because nothing was overdone.. you had to use your imagination.

Later, I was rather confused that some people thought the story was real. Since I'm anti-hype, I was really in disbelief that there were people out there who couldn't wrap their brains around the idea that it was just a movie. Of course, this was all before the 9-11 conspiracy theorists. Since that particular phenomenon, I am acutely aware of how many stupid people there are out there.

Cerebral Ballsy

2009-07-11 06:04:51 PM

that should read "Low budget monologue-ish"

Cerebral Ballsy

2009-07-11 06:09:11 PM

thenewflesh: Also seconded from recommendations in the thread (people who hate thinking during movies need not apply):

Primer
Pi
Cube
Ringu (original Japanese version of The Ring)
The Devil's Backbone
Man Bites Dog
Event Horizon
The Thing

Wow. I have seen everything but Man bites dog. I just recommended The Devil's Backbone to someone last night, lol. That's one of my absolute favs. Event Horizon seemed a little over the top but gave me the serious creeps anyway.

I'm hearing good stuff about Drag Me To Hell.. and thinking I might want to catch it in the theater.. do you know anything about it?

JonnyBGoode

2009-07-11 06:12:29 PM

Oznog: Oznog: Geez, can't a guy take a piss in the corner without you getting all "screamy"?

Now I can't even finish. I'm all tightened up.

mtmitch:That's the shot that freaked me out the most. You only see it for a second or two and the first time I saw it I wasn't sure if he was floating or hanging.

None the less, that shot is what made the hair on the back of neck stand up.

Well, even for those who got NO reaction out of this, you gotta respect the filmmakers for being able to get this kind of reaction out of SOME people when all there is is a guy in a corner. THAT'S art.

There are people who "don't get" BWP, some who found it "neat", and others who were genuinely terrified.

Me, I downloaded it, so my expectations were not extremely high, therefore no disappointment factor associated with overhype. I thought it was pretty "neat".

That was the shot that made me mad. It was the stupid campfire "boo".

Cerebral Ballsy

2009-07-11 07:21:24 PM

On movies:

By the way, I just watched Lucky (2002) again, that's a good one. Adaptation (2002) was another thinking movie, very good. Not as much horror, more intrigue. Barton Fink (1991) was very good, saw that a couple months ago for the first time.

I just saw David Byrne's True Stories (1986).. and it was very very odd. Some underlying messages about people and society, and it will either have you falling asleep from boredom or watching simply because the film is so.. odd. In any case, pay close attention to the dialogue and narration, and you'll be imparted with Byrne's take on life.

Zombie Hitler

2009-07-11 07:34:09 PM

dead_dangler: What a Blair witch might look like.

Leaving this thread forever before the Fact of Life Halloween special images start showing up.

Godzilla

2009-07-11 07:53:49 PM

Cerebral Ballsy: I just saw David Byrne's True Stories (1986).. and it was very very odd. Some underlying messages about people and society, and it will either have you falling asleep from boredom or watching simply because the film is so.. odd. In any case, pay close attention to the dialogue and narration, and you'll be imparted with Byrne's take on life.

I love that movie!

It's probably one of my top ten favorites.

When I first saw it at a friend's house in the early to mid 90's, I was astounded that someone saw the world the same way I did. And it was the big suit guy from the Talking Heads! Of course, he's much, much more than that, but that's all I knew him for before I saw the movie.

Jonesy Boogieman

2009-07-11 08:11:13 PM

coffee fiend: Jonesy Boogieman: I was living in Virginia. Went to see it with my ex.

I don't know which was scarier now that I look back.

As a resident of Virginia for almost 50 years, I'd say it's probably the former. Unless your ex is Glenn Close...

/stays out of the woods
//checking my stovetop for boiling bunnies

Ha! That was an unintentional joke on my part, but pretty accurate actually. Thanks for pointing it out. I meant "which was scarier, my ex or the movie?" LoL

But speaking of staying out of the woods, man, being an Albertan boy transplanted to living near a couple of swamps East-South East of Petersburg, damn:

1. The first time I saw a Black Widow spider it was on my foot, AFTER I put my foot in a shoe, sockless, felt a tickle and kicked the shoe off so fast I nearly put myself on my ass. Didn't get bit though, I think I killed it first. I didn't wait to see.

2. The first time I saw a Brown Recluse, or Fiddleback Spider (^) was after a short drought temporarily dried our well up. I moved a plate out of the sink and that farking thing charged at me from the drain, pissed off that I disturbed it. I can still recall the scratching sounds it's legs made on the deep aluminum sides of the sink before I drowned and crushed it.

3. The swamps flooded after a hurricane passed up the coast. I can't believe how many snakes appeared in the yard (I lived on an acreage) and on the road as a result.

But, some of the good things:

1. Beautiful countryside. Though the humidity and heat suck.

2. Grits, Biscuits, and other "southern" style food. You're hard pressed to find anything comparable to them in Alberta.

3. Awesome history. The colonies, the battlefields... It was fascinating.

Benalto

2009-07-11 08:38:47 PM

Jonesy Boogieman:

2. Grits, Biscuits, and other "southern" style food. You're hard pressed to find anything comparable to them in Alberta.

I am from Alberta too. What is the matter with pancakes at Albert's?

Jonesy Boogieman

2009-07-11 08:45:10 PM

Benalto: Jonesy Boogieman:

2. Grits, Biscuits, and other "southern" style food. You're hard pressed to find anything comparable to them in Alberta.

I am from Alberta too. What is the matter with pancakes at Albert's?

"Comparable to them". :) "Grits" at Denny's is terrible. The biscuit at Tim Horton's is decent, but not as good as they are down there. I guess I should have emphasized I meant direct comparisons.

Jonesy Boogieman

2009-07-11 09:01:38 PM

Benalto: Jonesy Boogieman:

2. Grits, Biscuits, and other "southern" style food. You're hard pressed to find anything comparable to them in Alberta.

I am from Alberta too. What is the matter with pancakes at Albert's?

"Comparable to them". :) "Grits" at Denny's is terrible. The biscuit at Tim Horton's is decent, but not as good as they are down there. ~~I guess~~ I should have emphasized I meant direct comparisons.

(Correction made)

I was raised in Alberta. And after living in a couple of other places, and traveling a bit, I love being home the most.

Bit'O'Gristle

2009-07-11 11:24:28 PM

Sitting at home while my wife and daughter went to see it. I told them it looked stupid, but they went anyway.

Hosebeatings

2009-07-12 12:00:53 AM

cYn21: Why? Because a bundle of sticks "magically" appeared outside their tent? Or perhaps the final scene with the kids peeing in the corners of a dark room?

There was nothing scary about that movie, aside from the atrocious camera work.

That movie was so awful. The only good part was when that one kid admitted to throwing the map into the creek. That was loltastic.

THIS. I hated this movie. It wasn't scary, it was a movie about a bunch of easily-scared whiny douchebags who deserved what they got. It bored me to tears.

At least the craptacular sequel had tits in it.

/cue the "ZOMG U JUST DONT GET IT" and "U MUST NOT HAEV AN IMAGINATION!!11!!" douches.

tsferg

2009-07-12 12:21:43 AM

This was the only mvie that has ever scared me. I think you are required to have some sort of imagination to watch this movie....

John Buck 41

2009-07-12 12:48:38 AM

djklambake: I sat in a packed "ultra screen" theater in Milwaukee, WI, fed up with the whole POS movie, and at the very end when the dude was standing in the corner, I yelled "HE'S TAKING A LEAK" and half the theater laughed - the other half was very upset that I ruined the only scare in the whole damn movie. I proceeded to drink the rest of the night away. The drinking was more memorable.

Too bad the half that was upset didn't beat you to within an inch of your life.

And what's with you people claiming 'motion sickness'? You must puke every time you're in a car that hits a bump.

Vash's Apprentice

2009-07-12 01:18:44 AM

thenewflesh: Hmmm... I thought the ending was blatantly obvious if you'd actually been paying attention through the whole movie...

****major spoiler*****

One of the interviewees near the beginning of the movie talks about a local serial killer named Rustin Parr. He kidnapped local children and killed them in pairs, forcing one kid to stand facing the corner of a room while he murdered another kid. When he was caught, he pled insanity, claiming that the spirit of the Blair Witch had demanded them as sacrifices.

So, the final moments have the two remaining characters discover Parr's house. They see some creepy shiat (including handprints of his victims all over the walls), then get separated. When Heather gets to the basement, Mike is stood facing the corner, then she's attacked from behind. The implication is that either Parr is alive and has escaped from the asylum, or its the ghost of the Blair Witch continuing his work and taking sacrifices for herself.

If you read the book that came out with the movie, it's even more messed up. The book goes into the fictional mythology and suggests that the campers were displaced in time (Parr's house had supposedly burned to the ground by the time of the movie). It takes a bit more swallowing, but explains why they couldn't find their way out of the woods and why no rescuers couldn't find anything but their footage.

****end spoiler****

If you want good "found footage" movies, try the following:

Cannibal Holocaust (it's possible on some copies to watch without the real-life animal brutality)
[REC] (just been officially released in the US on DVD, the upcoming sequel looks excellent)
Slashers (not quite the same format, but I loved it...)
My Little Eye
Cloverfield (hey, I liked it!)

Also seconded from recommendations in the thread (people who hate thinking during movies need not apply):

Primer
Pi
Cube
Ringu (original Japanese version of The Ring)
The Devil's Backbone
Man Bites Dog
Event Horizon
The Thing

One more to add:
images.movie.xunlei.com

/Last great John Carpenter flick, IMHO

Baumer

2009-07-12 01:39:07 AM

I was living in the middle of nowhere in one of the few undeveloped parts of Florida. We had wild boar and chickens that would walk through the dead leaves at night. FYI, when chickens walk through dead leaves at 2am it sounds like someone sneaking around your house.

/movie was "okay"

platedlizard

2009-07-12 01:59:00 AM

My sister went to see it and thought it was okay. I avoided it based on the fact that I get motion-sick at the drop of a hat.

NoDitchDigging

2009-07-12 02:25:35 AM

I was home from college and hooked up with a bunch of old friends from high school and they wanted to go see a movie about some witch in the forest. I'd never heard of the movie or seen any of the ads for it. And of course we went to the late show that let out at like 1AM. The camera work didn't make me puke or anything but I still drove home all freaked out. Plus there were some noises in the distance that sounded just like the ones in the movie. Didn't sleep too well.

Found the DVD back at school for dirt cheap but to this day I have never watched it and I'm not sure why. I think it's the only DVD I own that I've never watched.

Kid Mojo

2009-07-12 04:01:45 AM

wow no way I'm reading all this now, tag for later

Japancakes

2009-07-12 09:44:56 AM

RE: "Mute Witness":

As loathe as I am to ascribe any action to a man who has been lacking a heartbeat for half of my extant life, I strongly suspect that if I'd had the chance to view this film in the presence of one A. Hitchcock I'd have borne witness to him granting the film an appreciative grin or two.

Japancakes

2009-07-12 09:59:39 AM

Cerebral Ballsy:
I'm hearing good stuff about Drag Me To Hell.. and thinking I might want to catch it in the theater.. do you know anything about it?

Well, it was the first film in years that elicited any end-credit applause from the audience with which I'd viewed it (let alone the rapturous, sustained applause that this film received from the packed second-run theater audience of which I was a member).

In behind the scenes/inside baseball terminology: this movie PLAYED.
It deserved far,far better than it got theatrically; although I've no doubt this will be a home-vid/cable fave for YEARS.
As much as this sounds like faint praise, it's not (well, maybe 1%): DMTH IS the best major studio horror release I've seen this decade (and I've damned near viewed them all (rarely in a theater, though).

Rustem

2009-07-12 09:54:42 PM

I enjoyed it, don't know why other people have such EXTREME opinions on it.

ZeroCorpse

2009-07-12 11:55:06 PM

It does help if you watch the accompanying films/shows, like "Sticks & Stones", and the "news" programs they made to go with it.

I can't believe so many people simply don't get that the trio was transported in space and time, and weren't simply Lost in the woods", but being herded to Rustin Parr's house in the 1940s.

At the very least you'd think people would catch that the house didn't exist in 1994, as it had been burned to the ground in the 40s. The beginning of the movie made an effort to get this point across to the audience by flatly stating it as a fact.

the_coach5040

2009-07-13 11:50:44 AM

thenewflesh

2009-07-13 01:38:33 PM

Cerebral Ballsy: I'm hearing good stuff about Drag Me To Hell.. and thinking I might want to catch it in the theater.. do you know anything about it?

Not seen it yet, but Sam Raimi + horror + not "The Gift" = win... If you haven't seen the Evil Dead trilogy, check those out as well but most genre fans seem to agree that Drag Me To Hell is worth the admission.

Vash's Apprentice: One more to add:

/Last great John Carpenter flick, IMHO

Oh yes indeed! Any movie that opens with Sam Neill being dragged kicking and screaming into an asylum is OK with me. I'm a Carpenter fanboy, though... I just wish he'd make another movie soon so that Ghosts Of Mars doesn't go down in history as his last theatrical release!

lincoln65

2009-07-14 02:57:48 AM

Tony Baloney: I always thought the trailer for Event Horizon was infinitely more creepy than the actual movie -- its editors should have gotten an award, since it compelled me to go more strongly than any ad I've ever seen before or since. The imagery of the movie itself was certainly disturbing, but to this day nothing's creeped me out more than John Carpenter's The Thing. Sure the FX are dated and even cheesy in places by today's standards, but nothing I've ever seen compares to it in terms of sheer HOLY FARK WHAT THE FARK WAS THAT DID YOU SEE THAT FARKIN SHIAT???

Oh man Event Horizon. That movie used to scare the crap out of me, at least for the first two thirds. For this reason, I had a hell of a time watching Sunshine and that one episode of Firefly where they find that crazy guy on the ship that the reavers hit. Lesson here is: Don't board an abandoned ship. Man, just don't do it.

Blair Witch I found less scary. I didn't watch it in theaters, but saw it on VHS (!) a year or two later with some friends. I liked that it was such a cliffhanger ending, but so much of that movie was about getting there that we got bored, made popcorn, told jokes, and completely ruined the creepy factor.

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