So I just watched this tonight on SC-Fi Channel.....What a load of bollocks !!


Can someone please explain the point of this film to me????

Am I so thick I can not see the point????

Am I supposed to be frightened????

This was about as scary as watching Playhouse Disney.....


How can this be classed as one of the most frightening scary movies of all time, To be honest I kept checking the Channel to make sure I was not watching Derek and Yvette on Most Haunted.....

the point was when first released, it was touted as "real" and then later they found out it wasn't "real". But when it was first released nobody knew that exactly. And it was very low low budget.

Still scared the bejesus out of me. quite disturbing. my brother even called me telling me about the movie and how scary it was. I told him it wasn't real. He had no idea. I suppose if you know it's not going in...it sorta takes away from the horrow of it all and all you think is that it's someone aon a shoestring budget with a bad shakey cam.

but it's not. I guess certain movies only hold up at the time of release.

right. What superspaceboy said.

What made the film so successful was it's low budget marketing campain as well.

At the film festival where it premired there were posters and fliers put up all over campus stating that these film canisters were found in the woods during the investigation of missing film students.

There was also a great website giving great details of the students, when the went missing and the history of "the blair witch".

There was an article that an "artisan" aquired this footage from the police and put it into production.

The viewer was brought to believe that this was actual footage of the missing people and that this was proof of the "supernatural".

Once it hit theaters nation wide, it didn't take long to find out that it was fiction.

What makes this film briliant is it's modern twist on those "camp-fire ghost stories" and good old fasion story telling.

a blatant ripoff of several films..most recently:


SYNOPSIS



A trio of people with a cable access TV show venture into the wilds of New Jersey to make a documentary about a search for the legendary Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of them returns--and he quickly becomes a suspect in the murder of the other. Only when the footage they shot is found is the horrifying truth revealed. A controversy regarding the similarities between this film and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT emerged upon the release of the latter in the summer of 1999. THE LAST BROADCAST was actually made first.

oh and TBWP sucked ass. that was the last time i was ever at the movies and people actually BOOED a movie.

I actually like this movie. Some people thought that it was the actual footage. I didn't. I thought it was a dramatization of true events. It still scared me.


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It's a good movie, but the hype over it killed it. It's really just a modest movie, and the terror in it is more subtle.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

it was different compared to some of the other movies ... but it was the wicked cool logo that was all the rave

i'm not usually bothered by a scary movie after i have left the theatre
but i hated being in a dark bedroom - it scared the pants off of me
also it was very groundbreaking in style at the time

i have it on vhs but haven't watched it because i don't want to ruin the memory of when i first watched it

I remember seeing this movie when it was released. I really tried being scared, but it didn't work!! I wasnt even freaked out!!

Later on, my cousin and I took the family video cam and renenacted it taking the piss though as usual!! Fun timez. Apparently i was convincingly scared

It gave me the creeps

Haven't seen it. My favorite horror film has to be Ringu (original japanese version of the Ring).

Nice to see so many different opinions on it and I am glad not to be alone on not liking it.

I presume this is where Most Haunted sort of got its ideas of using a 'close' camera etc ??Most Haunted sucks too.....Dereks been possessed more times than a South American Drug Lords properties

I have always liked Horror movies but I find 99% of the time they end up boring me !!! Like the Exorcist.....I can see it being frightening in its early days, but it aint all that !!!

Anyone got a good Horror movie to suggest ?????

purpledisc said:

you sayin' some sticks and stones do NOT frighten you?

oh bugger, you're tough... you probably also eat your cornflakes without milk

Maybe it was the hype but I didn't think it was as good as had been made out.

However...

without spoiling it, the last ten minutes were ten of the scariest minutes I have ever spent in a cinema. And since I don't like the dark anyway, I was cacking myself for weeks.

I saw it when it first came out and was scared out of my mind at the last 10 minutes. Of course, it was the spectacle of everything that made the film what it was. The genius marketing campaign (though, I knew it wasn't 'real' before I went in), that I waited in line for an hour to get tickets to a later performance, that the theatre was packed for all shows, when it got to the ending scenes the entire audience was squirming in their seats. And barely able to watch. Had I seen it even 2 weeks later, I'd probably have been let down. Had I waited for video, I'd have hated it. But seeing it at the right time in the right place, I found it to be absolutely brilliant.

I still haven't seen this ...

onenitealone said:

it's definately a different kinda movie

Dude.....thats for girls, I do bran flakes with no milk !!!!!

The blair witch project is pure genius. It scared me so much, I believed in the environment and people. In middle school and high school, I would always go out in the woods with my friends to make clubhouses, find magazine porn, and investigate rumors of a satanic cult.... we did run into an abandoned farmhouse with a cut off goat head on a stump, and a burned out campfire. But once inside one of the structures, I found a Clive Barker short story compilation, and I knew it was just stupid stoner kids. Clive Barker sucks!

Blair Witch is so good because:

1. Documentary style sticks with the rule of found footage. Last Broadcast sucked in comparison and was contrived in a typical twist/narrative. Real life does not play out like a narrative!

2. Performances were realistic

3. The abstract parallelism in the ending and the witch/murder stories, the complete unknown is closing in without any human purpose, yet we can at least make sense of that last shot and instantly know that she is about to be murdered. This movie had the guts to break from old school story logic and include the types of elements that rang true (felt just like when you spook yourself out and think something freaky is happening in real life) to me.

INCREDIBLE.

I saw it at a free sneak preview at a local arthouse theatre before it was distributed to bigger movie theatres. Me and my friends were laughing at the idea of a "witch" movie and making fun of the little goth "witch" girls that were in line. Then we got scared shitless. It was relentless and so refined yet dramatic.

coolcat said:

I actually saw that first. The scene where the girl is coming out of the t.v. is much scarier in the Japanese version. It's more claustrophobic. Creepy as hell.


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The last shot of the kid facing the wall...was just the culmination of one of the scariest movies I had ever scene. I was about 9 when I saw Psycho for the first time, and when they showed Norman's skeletal mother, I put my coat over my head and hid...that was scary.
Blair Witch was far scarier to me, not because of what I saw on the screen, but what I didn't see. The noises, etc.
A brilliant film, imho

PurpleRein said:

That last part scared the hell out of me. The part that really just left me creeped out was when the children were putting there hands on the tent. Oh lawd!!!


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

My summary of the Blair Witch Project:

1. walk around woods
2. walk around woods
3. cuss
4. walk around woods
5. find 3 rocks
6. walk around woods
7. find some sticks
8. run in woods
9. find bloody shirt, one person missing
10. run in woods
11. run in old farmhouse
12. run up steps
13. run down steps
14. get hit on head
15. the end.

People were throwing up in the theaters when this film was out on the big screen due to motion sickness from the jittery, shaky camerawork.

As for my opinion on BWP, I have to agree with the others who said they were disappointed by it because it didn't live up to all the hype. That was my experience, as well. Also I'm no prude and the F word hardly causes me to faint and clutch at my pearls, but this movie used it so much it just got irritating and silly.

I also agree with those who said the ending was the scariest part of the movie.

Anybody seen the film Session 9?

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Me too! I much prefer seeing the original first in general.

I agree. That scene is sooo much better...

More claustrophobic as you said... Also, there was too much special effects in the US version... it felt much more real and scary in the japanese version... Also Sadako's walk from the well to the TV was amazingly creepy... I think they did some backwards footage or something... One second Samarra was at the well... next second she was already at the TV... It was way too fast... also the cutting away to the car driving really annoyed me.

They just butchered that scene in the US version.

meltwithu said:

sounds about right

coolcat said:

I just recently watched PULSE. It was surreal. I was at the movies watching something else and I saw previews for it. A week after I was at the movies again and I saw almost the same exact previews and it turned out that it was PULSE, the American version. So I rented the Japanese version first. To make a short story long.....it was really bad. I kind of hope they Hollywood-ize it a little in the American version so at least I can make fun of it.


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