Toronto. And I was very startled.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

the movie was pretty good,

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

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.

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?!?!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I kicked the map into the creek!

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

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!

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...

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?

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.
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mommy?

I should see this movie one of these days.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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*/they're infected by a super communicable strain of rabies

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

Agreed.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Wait; that wasn't real? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

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!


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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...

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

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.

I'm one of those who thinks "subby" is a moron

Blair Witch was a great movie....suck it

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...

First time I saw it was on video late at night in a cabin in the woods. Freaked me the fark out.

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.

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.

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
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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.

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.

I was living in Virginia. Went to see it with my ex.

I don't know which was scarier now that I look back.