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?

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

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.

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

Was that the movie filmed by Michael J. Fox?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I was busy vomiting at The Phantom Menace.

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.

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

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

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

/"A lot of people look pissed"

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

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...

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

10 years? Goddamn thanks, now I feel old.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Getting laid...

BY A WITCH

wait. maybe it was the other...

POOP THREAD!

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

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?

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

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.

Haven't seen it. No desire to.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For a lot of folks it is connected. The motion sickness is a result of your eyes and the balance sensors in your ears not "matching". Your eyes say you are moving but your mind doesn't sense movement, therefore dizziness and nausea. And yes, I had the same problem with the movie and with FPS games (I've taken Dramamine to play Zelda before).

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?

Return of the living dead had fast zombies, so did the Dawn of The Dead remake.

djklambake: The drinking was more memorable.

Then yer doing it wrong, lightweight!

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

That is all.

/ Pretty freaky

Never watched it.

I loved BWP, including all the hype preceding it