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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

Never saw it, never will.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!!!

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.

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.

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

/That and the shaky cam

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

/wants his youth back
//sore back

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

EddieMoscone: I saw it with my wife, then girlfriend

so you liked it enough to go twice?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

You said 'crap' twice.

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

Still is beyond creepy.

produced by the duke and the king

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.

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!

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.



Could be both :)

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

Shaky cam with fast zombies FTW.