Modest Proposal 2009-07-10 06:47:45 PM
Pocket Ninja: I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Sort of a meta-elitism here, with a dash of empathy in the end. Pocket's forumla is showing its age.

Yeah, well I still adore it. !@#$ off.

Biggest piece of crap I ever saw. Bunch of Americans scared of noises in the forest.

Actually, come to think of it, maybe it was scarier than I thought. By and large, all the wildlife is dead in US forests, so any noises you hear could easily be those guys from the Deliverance movie... Hmmmmmm. Might just have to watch it again and listen for pig squeals.... :)

Vash's Apprentice:
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
/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\//\/\/\//\\//\/\/\/Freakyslashies!


Never got into Freakylinks. Did get to know them through Art of the Heist. Altered rocked. The world premier at Cinespace was a ton of fun. You may want to join the Haxan forums on general principles to keep things going. they may not blow up the world like they did with BWP, but they still have some good things going on there....

Radworld4 2009-07-10 10:25:21 PM
I was in the theater thinking that Heather Donahue had nice boobies and if I got her a little drunk I bet I could bang her.

Stay away, dude. When you see her in Taken you'll agree she is frighteningly, ruthlessly psycho.

I don't get it, subby. If it's 10 years since The Blair Witch Project, then why do you care where I was when Transformers 2 hit theaters?

weezbo [TotalFark] 2009-07-10 07:56:50 PM
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.

Holy shiat. By the end of the movie I'd completely forgotten about that facing-the-corner story. So I've spent the last ten years thinking the film makers just couldn't figure out how to end the damn thing and came up with some inane, "mysterious" ending to cover up their creative impasse.

Well, glad you guys cleared that up for me. Thanks for making me shiat my pants 10 years late.

I went to see it opening night then I went to the Danger Bob farewell concert at the Bottleneck in Lawerence. God those were the good old days.

Pocket Ninja: I was in the theater, watching it and enjoying it, and thinking to myself that it would not be long before proclaiming hatred for it evolved into the next bit of shorthand by which intellectual titans struggling to be heard by an unworthy audience could demonstrate to a world of lemmings the vast extent of their uber-cool and simmering angst over the simplicity of the sheeple-filled society in which they are forced to dwell.

Although, I will say that the movie does not stand up well to repeat viewings.

Get with the times. It's totally uber-cool again. But now it's ironic.

It's funny that no one has READ THE ARTICLE.
The filmakers say something relevant to this thread.

SANCHEZ: Well, Blair Witch started competing with Hollywood movies. Once you start competing with Hollywood movies, you have to deliver the formula that audiences are expecting, especially in a horror movie. You've got to have a certain kind of scare, a certain kind of reveal at the end. People like things to be tied up at the end of the movie. There are a lot of people who probably shouldn't have seen Blair Witch. It just wasn't their movie. It's like El Mariachi or Clerks making $140 million. It was an indie movie that blew up. We went from the underdogs to the guys that were beating the studios, so all of a sudden we entered another league that our film probably wasn't ready for.

MYRICK: The film, kind of by design, was meant to be seen on a smaller screen. It's a home movie, and when you see something like that on a 30-foot screen, it almost takes away from the experience. Some people were expecting this big Hollywood thing, and they had to reprogram their minds to see something that was completely different.

I actually didn't see the movie until it came out on video and the ending defiantly sent chills up my spine. Kind of a "What the F did I just see?" moment. Even after rewinding and watching that final scene a few times I was still freaked out.

Fast forward a few years to when I was living with my girlfriend (now wife). We were cleaning out the garage one day and she found the copy I had bought. She asked what it was about and right then I realized had a golden opportunity to scare the crap out of her. I built up all the tension with the whole recovered documentary angle, missing kids, unsolved bla bla bla. I decided we should go watch it at her parents house that night because they had never heard of it either. Watching all three of them watch the movie and having no idea that it was fake was truly awesome.

That is what made the movie work and why the marketing was so important. You had to believe that what you were seeing had actually happened.

Mute Witness is the last good horror film I've seen. Turns farcical towards the end though.

djklambake: 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.

WIN!!

aammaazzoonn: weezbo [TotalFark] 2009-07-10 07:56:50 PM
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.

Holy shiat. By the end of the movie I'd completely forgotten about that facing-the-corner story. So I've spent the last ten years thinking the film makers just couldn't figure out how to end the damn thing and came up with some inane, "mysterious" ending to cover up their creative impasse.

Well, glad you guys cleared that up for me. Thanks for making me shiat my pants 10 years late.

LOL Yeah, that was definitely the scariest scene! Seeing that picture posted by Oznog gave me chills again.

zefal: Mute Witness is the last good horror film I've seen. Turns farcical towards the end though.

Hah. I purchased that film this past Monday (three dollar DVD bin at a discount store) and viewed it yesterday. It went places I wasn't expecting it to go (always a compliment from me to filmmakers). The buildup was better than the denouement but all in all I found it to be 3 bucks and 100 minutes well spent.

The nudity was tasty too.

I liked it at the time. It's a shaggy dog story, to be sure, but I remember when I took my date back that night, out in rural WV, it sure seemed dark and scary outside. Got to hold her extra tight.

Never saw it.

I'm better than you all because I wasn't scared when I saw this movie.

/totally e-messaged my friends on my iMac about it.
//Please pay attention to me.

Oznog: 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.

That's the shot that freaked me out the most. You only see it for a second or two and the first time I saw it I wasn't sure if he was floating or hanging.

None the less, that shot is what made the hair on the back of neck stand up.

I was working at a summer camp. I've gotta say, I was pretty freaked the fark out walking back through the woods at midnight.

I never got around to seeing this and before I got the chance, so many people talking about it made me never bothering to see it. Maybe I should.

Oznog: 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.

mtmitch:That's the shot that freaked me out the most. You only see it for a second or two and the first time I saw it I wasn't sure if he was floating or hanging.

None the less, that shot is what made the hair on the back of neck stand up.

Well, even for those who got NO reaction out of this, you gotta respect the filmmakers for being able to get this kind of reaction out of SOME people when all there is is a guy in a corner. THAT'S art.

There are people who "don't get" BWP, some who found it "neat", and others who were genuinely terrified.

Me, I downloaded it, so my expectations were not extremely high, therefore no disappointment factor associated with overhype. I thought it was pretty "neat".

ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film. ...[Drag Me To Hell pic]...
if Drag Me To Hell were a good horror film and not a bloated bit of crap, which it is.

I liked Blair Witch Project. I wonder about the underlying health of people who claim to have gotten severe headaches or violently ill from watching it. If that actually happened to anyone, I'd suggest seeing a neurologist, because that isn't normal.

Nickelodeon theater in Santa Cruz. You know the one.

/Why do I remember this?

Broktun: zez:

The Ring was pretty damn creepy

I saw the ring for the first time:
alone. . .


on HBO. . .


in a hotel room. . .


in Houston. . .



I was scared shiatless!! Christ I was peeking out from under the blankets at the end, and I was 35!!!

Broktun | Hates torture porn.

What did you think of The Passion of the Christ?
I found it interesting that it meets all of the criteria of torture porn, which is normally completely incompatible with most church-goers.

wow - and I thought I was pissed off at my neighbor, but you people think Blair Witch is importatn

All I gotta say is even if you think this movie is crap, you bet your ass you wish you thought to do it first, since it cost about $20 to make, and raked in like a hundred zillion times that.

Those drawings of the Blair witch: heebies
The last shot: jeebies

Now I'm freaked out. My punkass dogs are no help.

Japancakes: 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!


*pre-1968 definition

Hey, I was really looking forward to seeing it, and 2 cinema tickets were a lot of money on an apprentice wage.

bmr68: I went opening night.My smoking hot girlfriend that was out of my league thought it was real.


/nuff said



IT'S LIKE SHE'S farkING FIVE!!!

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



Agreed.


That was the brilliance of the first Alien. You never really saw what the creature looked like for the majority of the movie.

Avoiding it, and ten years later I still am, I haven't seen any more than the trailer.

Apparently this is one of those "love it or hate it" movies. Personally, I enjoyed it. I thought it was creative and entertaining. It was then a new concept in film making, and I found it genuinely creepy.

I think a guy further up in this thread had it right, you had to 'actively' watch this movie. If you were just siting back waiting for Freddy to morph into a snake and splatter blood all over the lens, you were going to be disappointed.

It was a great film, IMO, because it was so different than the usual formulaic crap that spews out of Hollywood.

Apparently Subby's appreciation of "horror" ends at a busty chick getting hacked up by a guy in a hockey mask.

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.

Second post nails what I thought of it now that I'm chiming in 486 posts later without truly RTFT.

Yeah, this flick was scary, and I really enjoyed it.

As a Farker, I don't enjoy anything except for stuff that I think the rest of you have never heard of.

TheBigJerk: 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.

This might be more to your liking...

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.


Why? Because a bundle of sticks "magically" appeared outside their tent? Or perhaps the final scene with the kids peeing in the corners of a dark room?

There was nothing scary about that movie, aside from the atrocious camera work.

That movie was so awful. The only good part was when that one kid admitted to throwing the map into the creek. That was loltastic.

Personally, I thought it was a complete waste. There's nothing scary about a shakycam fake snot dripping documentary in which NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.

At least the sequel showed some tits.

And what's so great about the ending? I didn't see any witches, or anything else that made sense.

Hender:
That final scene, even ten years later, still gives me the willies.

The scene where he's taking a leak on the wall?

/ I jest, preferred "The Blair Thumb" as you can see

I enjoyed it. I cry your pardon if you didn't.

I grew up making regular stays at my uncle's house in WVA that pre-dated the Civil War, and generations of kids and adults (me included) have seen some pretty freaky stuff there, so I'm already predisposed to being freaked out by ghost stories. When the end of TBWP hit I absolutely *freaked*. I was hyperventilating for a good five minutes and it took me almost that long to realize that I had pulled my knees up under my chin and was essentially in the fetal position in my seat... and I already knew it wasn't real! I've gone back and watched the movie ten or twelve times in the past ten years, but I have *never* watched the last scene again. Mostly because I know I'll never have that feeling of absolute fear again, but partially because I'm afraid that I will.

I feel bad for people who can't/don't let themselves get that immersed in something. Not in an "I'm superior to you!" way, just in a "I don't understand you" way. I feel like they're missing out.

Followup story: I was working at a video store when TBWP came out, and I did my best to keep the mythology going. I kept the book behind the counter, stuck up a couple of "Missing" posters, never would admit to knowing the truth, etc. The store bordered on a fairly rural area with lots of hunters and country boys, and we were in VA within an easy drive of MD. One day this guy came in, slapped down his rental copy of TBWP, and said "Have you seen this shiat?" I said "Yeah! Isn't that crazy?" He replied "Crazy? It's BULLSHIAT! I've been calling Maryland for two days and they say the whole thing is a hoax! I have friends up there and we're going to go figure this thing out." He left the store, and I watched him get into a pickup truck with two other guys and a gun rack that would have supplied the beach forces at Normandy.

I never saw him again.

I'd like to think it's because he realized what was up and got embarrassed, but...

Atomic Spunk: 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.

wow dude-- how's your kid now? After all that Pepsi caffeine -- must be borderline AHDD.

It wasn't so much scary as disturbing, and a little nauseating (from the stupid hand-held camera trick). The disturbing part came from not realizing there were three people so stupid as to not know if you are lost in the woods and you find a stream, you follow it downstream instead of randomly crossing it.

Also carry some form of emergency gear, tell people where you're going, maps, food, etc.

Oh, right, the last 10 minutes of the movie were good, the rest of it sucked.

ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film.


Are those staples in her forehead?

Blair Witch was terrible. The whole problem with movies is none of them are real so how could you possibly be scared of them? Unless the lead actor is a Wayans brother.

still haven't seen it and don't intend too...

If I'm waste my time watching a bunch of teens breathing heavy in the woods...then it better be porn.

Evil_ferret: ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film.


Are those staples in her forehead?

Blair Witch was terrible. The whole problem with movies is none of them are real so how could you possibly be scared of them? Unless the lead actor is a Wayans brother.

Oh God, don't mention Drag Me to Hell and Blair Witch. Both suffer from the same problem: they take a good half hour story and drag it out (pun?) to a horrible ninety minutes. Not to mention using a Wall of Sound as horror.

If anything, both of these movies should bring back the Horror Anthology Movie. But as separate movies, this is why horror films suck today: no pacing at farking all. Saw is more skillfully made, and that says something.

Where were you when this overhyped POS website crawled it's way out of an AA meeting?

Evil_ferret: ScottHimself: What a Blair Witch might look like in a good horror film.


Are those staples in her forehead?

Blair Witch was terrible. The whole problem with movies is none of them are real so how could you possibly be scared of them? Unless the lead actor is a Wayans brother.

This

is currently my favorite monster. Her name's Alexa(aka Little Sister) and she is extremely adept at using those claws of hers. And after she kills, she eats. Don't be fooled, she is no more human than a wolf is.

Saw it while it was in the theaters. Liked it a lot.

My kids were 6, 11, 14 & 16. We had a nice summer, blissfully unaware that my mother would have a stroke the next year, and it would change my life forever. I would love to have one more day with her.
...sorry to be a downer but you asked. i never did see the movie nor do I want to now.