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???

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.

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.

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.

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.

What a Blair witch might look like.

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

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.

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.

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.

WxGuy1: That is all.

/ Pretty freaky

Yes. Yes, it was.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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!

You said "crap" twice...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

What scary might look like:

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

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

The planet they crash landed on was actually Earth.

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.

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.

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.

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

Whoa. You're nobody's fool.

Watched the movie. Enjoyed it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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...)

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"Ha ha! You were cuckolded!"