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.

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."

Ncoded: Better movie...

/MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW MALLOW



JIIIIIIISH!!!

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.

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

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.).

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.

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.

shawn82: Could be both :)

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

/that is all

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?

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, for one, can get motion sick from a FPS or one of those video rides at an amusement park. My doctor says it's because my eyes are not quite perfectly lined-up, even though it's not off enough to notice.

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.

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?

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

Successful headline troll is quite successful! Good job!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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>>

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.

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

Umm...the movie was fictional, dude.

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.

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

Where was I?

I was *gakking* a hairball??

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.

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.

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'

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.

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!

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 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.

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

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.

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?