Did you think 'Blair Witch Project' was scary?

[JerseyBoy]

Just came across the VHS tape I got from blockbuster for $4.99 (overpaid) and recalled my one time watching it..

It had such a great build up which turned into an overkill buildup which turned into a crummy ending...

not to mention the people saying Fuck every other word

It really could have been good too...

oh well, maybe the exorcist will be on HBO again soon...

 

[Prince Romeo]

I haven't see a good thriller / horror flick in a while. The BW project never intrigued me and I still haven't seen it.

 

[glamorilla]

I didn't really care for it...although the sequal "Book of shadows" is one of my favorite horror movies.

Fucking Witch.

 

[loveyamon]

Just came across the VHS tape I got from blockbuster for $4.99 (overpaid) and recalled my one time watching it..

It had such a great build up which turned into an overkill buildup which turned into a crummy ending...

not to mention the people saying Fuck every other word

It really could have been good too...

oh well, maybe the exorcist will be on HBO again soon...

I walked out of that movie forty minutes into and demanded my money back , and got it. That movie was a farce.

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

Movie Gallery, $3.99...I found the movie to be scary, but only because I fast-forwarded through most of it, and skipped to the climax. It would have been an awesome episode of twilight song, but it just went on too long as a movie.

 

[JerseyBoy]

Re: Re: Did you think 'Blair Witch Project' was scary?

I walked out of that movie forty minutes into and demanded my money back , and got it. That movie was a farce.

It's funny how many people 'supposedly' liked it...of course it could have been the sponsored media talking

Witches are always freaky...but since we never saw any I was bummed

 

[CarolineOh]

It made me afraid of spending too much time around whiny teenagers.

 

[april-wine]

Nope not scary....What ever happened to really scary horror flicks.....

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I worked on me, and I'm surprised it didn't work on Jersey boy, because "Blair Witch" is all about East Coast legends ala the Jersey Devil. I grew up hearing all those stories about devils and witches in the woods, most of the stories going back to the Colonial Days. Washington Irving used to write Blair Witch type stories about the Catskills (like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow). These types of Puritan tasting stories of wickedness in the woods are part of the North East culture, and Blair Witch played right into that, so, yeah, I loved it, and I found parts of it scary.

Conversely I am never scared by CGI monsters, pretty boy brooding L.A. vampires or crappy slasher flicks. The stories that come from our collective unconscious and local cultural archetypes are best.

 

[loveyamon]

Re: Re: Re: Did you think 'Blair Witch Project' was scary?

It's funny how many people 'supposedly' liked it...of course it could have been the sponsored media talking

Witches are always freaky...but since we never saw any I was bummed

As far as a movie goes and the hype in promoting it I can't remeber anything so bad getting such raves. That's why I demanded my money back , I felt I was very misled.

 

[huskie]

I heard the "Ring" movie was pretty scary?? anyone seen that one and care to give me a review?

 

[JerseyBoy]

Conversely I am never scared by CGI monsters, pretty boy brooding L.A. vampires or crappy slasher flicks. The stories that come from our collective unconscious and local cultural archetypes are best.

oh there were parts the spooked me, especially when they found the witch signs in the trees and the whole pile of rocks things. I used to go camping in woods like that so I felt it even more. It's hard to say what would have made it more complete...Im not saying a witch popping out would have done it by a long shot.
They should have cut out some (a lot) of the circularity of it and gave a better climax. The whole boy in the corner story from the beginning tie-together wasnt strong enough in my mind.

and forgive me but i LOVED the Lost Boys...i dont know why, but i did

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

I heard the "Ring" movie was pretty scary?? anyone seen that one and care to give me a review?

I don't know...it was VERY scary on the big screen, but at home it isn't nearly as effective. Still a good flick, with an interesting idea, and the DVD has an extra little mini-movie that really clarifies the whole thing.

 

[Angel]

I worked on me, and I'm surprised it didn't work on Jersey boy, because "Blair Witch" is all about East Coast legends ala the Jersey Devil. I grew up hearing all those stories about devils and witches in the woods, most of the stories going back to the Colonial Days. Washington Irving used to write Blair Witch type stories about the Catskills (like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow). These types of Puritan tasting stories of wickedness in the woods are part of the North East culture, and Blair Witch played right into that, so, yeah, I loved it, and I found parts of it scary.

Conversely I am never scared by CGI monsters, pretty boy brooding L.A. vampires or crappy slasher flicks. The stories that come from our collective unconscious and local cultural archetypes are best.

I agree except with the being scared part . I grew up with it all too.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

And let's not forget that this film was made for about a buck fifty, by kids, was improvised, and the whole thing rested on a detailed and inventive legend created via the Internet which played a very important part in the film's mythos. You can't just rent the film and say "Why did anyone like this?" without looking at all that.

 

[Guest]

its a damn shame what most consider "scary" these days.
In my day we had Lucio Fulci, Dario Argente and George Romero. BWP was the most overrated so called "horror" ever made.
I want to burn every copy of it and tell the director to stop directing for the sake of cinematography

 

[Cleopatra]

One of the only parts I found disturbing was when the strange things would just appear in the campsite - but then again, I've gone camping in those woods.

When I read the website, before I knew it was all hype, it creeped me out. And after seeing it, the end creeped me out a bit too, but that was just more disturbing than scary.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

"Scary" is a weird yardstick. I found "The China Syndrome" scarier than any slasher film or monster movie I've ever seen (save "Aliens" or the first time I saw "The Thing" in 1972 on TV during "Creature Features".) Blair Witch wasn't "Freddy Kruger scary", it played on certain collective fears.

I'll tell you why so many people responded to Blair Witch -- because it played like the first time you heard that camp fire story about the escaped killer with the hook.

 

[Angel]

Children of The Corn wigged me out as a kid. I giggled my way through Jason and Freddy, but I was afraid to walk through the house at night after watching Children of the Corn.

A few months ago I finally watched it again and it wasn't at all scary. Damnit.

 

[breakwall]

It is a shame that so many people missed the point of the BWP. But it is symptomatic of a much larger problem in culture today.

It was a movie designed to make you scare yourself, but if you don't have a refined imagination or an ability to think outside the box (see: people who thought the Matrix was cool because of the effects) then you probably weren't creeped out.

The general public feels cheated when they arent pandered to. When a movie challenges them to think and confront personal human fears, they storm out and demand their money back.

What's scary? Sudden corpses, bleeding walls and screaming? How utterly formulaic.

But since Spiderman made so much money off visual effects and 90 minutes of Kirsten Dunst shrieking in a wet shirt....I guess thats what the public wants.

 

[buggawugga]

all blair witch project did for me was give me killer motion sickness from the amateur home video quality of its production. two thumbs down and a puddle of blaaaah!

 

[glamorilla]

Movie Gallery, $3.99...I found the movie to be scary, but only because I fast-forwarded through most of it, and skipped to the climax. It would have been an awesome episode of twilight song, but it just went on too long as a movie.

exactly.

i love the stories of the blair witch.

the first movie should have had a little more.

 

[JazzManJim]

...90 minutes of Kirsten Dunst shrieking in a wet shirt....I guess thats what the public wants.

God Yes.

Yes it is...

 

[brokenbrainwave]

Never saw it. But the wife does a great re-enactment of Linda Blair at least two days a month....

 

[Guest]

What's scary? Sudden corpses, bleeding walls and screaming? How utterly formulaic.

lol, like a lame campfire story ISNT formulaic?
All I ask is an original story, believable acting and the villian(s) win.
Is that too much to fuckin' ask?