The Blair Witch Project
 

Scared the shit out of me and my pops when we went to see it in its underground days.

had a nice website too.

It doesn't really get all that interesting til the end for me.
And the sequels were kinda disappointing.

The ending scene was delightfully morbid but the rest of it was pretty boring.

This movie fooled a lot of people...unfortunately, I never got the chance to be "had" by it. I only saw it after I knew it was completely fake.

that's pretty random there man. movie was alright.

It only freaked me out when I was a kid and I hadn't even seen it. It's actually pretty funny (well I think it is). I carved the little symbol in the ground in this trail, and ended up scaring the shit out of myself every time I'd see it, thinking there were ghosts around. I'd have to go down the trail all the time and I'd just run by the thing.

That all find of passed and was forgotten about and I actually saw the movie for the first time. Pretty disappointing.

i thought it was a pretty awesome concept but then i saw it, a dullfest.

i think that movie was the reason i decided to study marketing in college.

Yeah, very well marketed. The movie wasn't bad, but it's a contextual film.

The end was kinda confusing. Anyone care to clear up exactly what went on there? I know about the whole stand in the corner blah blah but it's still fairly vague to me.

Spoiler: I'm pretty sure they all die.

I loved it.
I had to suspend my brain for a little while so I could get caught up in the facade of actuality that movie tried to keep up.

I didn't really think there was anything good about it. Even the "this is a documentary!!!" concept was similiar to stuff like Cannibal Holocaust. I thougth it was lame then, and it's really lame now. So many people saw it the day it came out and were all disappointed. It could have been good, and in fact, I think it was a BRILLIANT film simply from a marketing standpoint -- but the actors and the, uh, "plot" was terrible.

"duh, I kicked dat map we didn't need dat map."

The fact that it grossed something like $260.000 worldwide and only cost around $50.000 to make,
makes it the most successful independent movie ever. I enjoyed the boredom you all speak of.

If you like boring movies that are still awesome, watch Eli, Eli, Lema, Sabachtani?

Nothing? Speak for yourself Mr.
What I'm trying to say is that if it hadn't been filmed in that way, it wouldn't have had the effect it did.
You also have to take into consideration that the film doesn't stand alone.
The website, film, and book are all intertwined.

Nothing? Eh? I said "watch Eli Eli Lema Sabachtani?"

Also, a film should stand on its own. I always heard this shit about Donnie Darko -- "YEAH IT'S A DECENT FILM BUT YOU REALLY HAVE TO READ THE WEBSITE AND STUFF TO LIKE IT." Sure, a website and a book and a documentary and whatever else can enhance your likings of a film -- but it shouldn't be something that's required in order to enjoy something... a good film should stand on its own.

It would help if you actually wrote it down in your previous post.
Haven't seen it, but I did watch A Cruel Picture you mentioned in the other thread. Not bad at all.
I'm not interested in discussing DD.

I did write it down.

In fact, I will copy the post and paste it (can you really not see that purple text?):
If you like boring movies that are still awesome, watch Eli, Eli, Lema, Sabachtani?

Smartass.

How am I smartass?

I copy and pasted the EXACT message again, the one you said was blank. It's just purple text! It shows up perfectly on my screen... hmm.

I'm just confused.

Must be going blind...
I'll be sure to look into it.
If you like weird films and haven't seen Thundercrack!, do so.


"Oh Charlie, people come and go, but cucumbers must stay."

Ohhh, netflixing it now.

Oh fuck it's not on dvd.

haha nevermind..

http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/th...ck-p-2422.html

Sounds amazing!

That's what I thought too.

that reminds me, I saw a movie that was made in the 80's with an identical ending to blair witch...

Can't remember the title at all, it's on the tip of my tongue but yeah...

I'm not saying the makers of blair witch ripped it off, though. And even if they did, it's an interesting ending.

Yes it is.
http://www.thundercrackthefilm.com/

The ending was so shit.

ohhh

nope still not available

click on "buy dvd" and see what happens.

And it's most certainly on DVD, given that my sister has it.

your sister has an actual non-bootleg copy of THUNDERCRACK?

I really want to find dennis hopper's the last movie somewhere.. bootleg or not.. not paying $30 for a vhs i'm afraid.

ohh thx

Oh Thundercrack lol. I thought you guys were still talking about Blair Witch.

no, obviously you can probably get that on dvd for a penny. actually, i bet people will pay you to take it off their hands.

I love the first BWP. Definitely one of my fave horror films of the past ten years. I sometimes wonder if, not being American, I wasn't so open to finding the characters as irritating as I've heard quite a few US viewers mention.

I never watched it thinking it was real (I can't honestly see how anybody could, even before it was 'outed'). Even so, it did genuinely scare me in certain scenes (the tent sequence, for example).

Whatever people think of it, it's certainly a lot better than anything else coming out of the US in the name of horror at the moment.

The sequels were dreadful though.

derailed666, try "Them" , it's nice.

Sorry to hijack this thread a little, I just wanted to ask if anyone tests how scary a horror movie is for them by watching it by themselves in the middle of the night. This is one those movies that I've tested this way, and it still didn't do it till the end scene.

I usually watch most horror movies (not the "pop-corn horror" like modern crappy remakes with boobs and asses allover) by myself with comfy headphones.

when i was 12 it scared me