Blair Witch Project

[Macca19]

Originally posted by hourn
allirhgt, that was pretty crap, but can someone explain that ending to me?????

They go into the house expecting to find their buddy. Once the Blair Witch takes his teeth and tongue out, she can take over his voice. So really it was just the Blair Witch down there enticing the two students to go down there. So the dude hears a voice and runs down there...he says noone and gets whacked by the Witch.
One of the samller things that gets the mind running is the fact that when it then crosses to the girls camera, the camera is going down the stairs very smoothly - the smoothest part of the movie pretty much...so one of the possibilities is that the Witch had hold of the girl as they were going down the stairs - hence why she is screaming so much. Also...her screaming comes from the dudes camera - not hers.
But the reason he was standing in the corner is explained near the start of the movie. Rustin Parr or whoever it was used to make one kid stand in the corner while he murdered the other...then he would kill the other kid from behind.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

BWP didn't do much for me. I was definitely barracking for the witch. The characters were such prats that I didn't feel any empathy for them. I am a horror fan but prefer the classics. Hammer Horrors are fantastic: Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee always put in great performances. It's a real shame that the British horror genre has died as the Poms were very good at producing excellent horror films. Look no further than the Wicker Man-a horror film with no monsters/slashers/zombies etc. Still my favourite all time film.

I'm also a big fan of 70s US horror: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead (alright it's early 80s). The only recent horror film I've enjoyed is Sleepy Hollow, which looked great at the cinema (does lose a bit on video though). I've heard there are some recent Japanese horror films which are worth checking out.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Utter rubbish up until the last 20 minutes. How anyone could be dim-witted enough to believe that this ham acting was in any way real is beyond me. When I saw this at the cinema, people were actually laughing at what was allegedly one of the more dramatic bits (Heather(?) in the tent with the torch, apologising). And that's assuming you could control your stomach, such was the annoyance of the "realistic" camerawork The psychological impact of the film was utterly nonexistent.

It was only the last twenty minutes or so (one of the boys goes missing, and there on...) that the film had any credibility at all.

 

[GoEagles]

Saw it for the first time last night - got more scared when the cat jumped on my lap. Fairly cheesy movie - not really in the horror genre, but in the teen-cult urban legends field. The only interesting bits were in the last 30 minutes.

I'm suprised there hasn't been a sequal to this

 

[CarterS]

Originally posted by GoEagles

I'm suprised there hasn't been a sequal to this

That's how bad the sequel was - no-one's knows it even exists.

 

[meg]

I know this sounds stupid, but I watched it last night and was actually really freaked out! I'm the hugest wimp ever, can't stand scary movies! I get sucked in really easily, and I was majorly scared last night!

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by GoEagles

I'm suprised there hasn't been a sequal to this

There is!!

Blair Witch 2: Book Of Shadows

Was in the cinemas for only a very short time, and was on Fox last month.

Not bad...not good either. Its more your traditional type of movie. Not really scary. Is wierd tho. You finish watching it and you just think 'well that was wierd'.

Basic plot is that this dude starts up a Blair Witch Hunt to cash in on the movie hoopla. A group of 5 end up staying at Rustin Parrs house that night. They run into another Blair Witch Hunt group with the same idea but they tell them to bugger off.
They 'go to sleep' but they didnt sleep and ended up being taken over from the witch. They wake up and find thier cameras and tapes stolen, the dudes work and papers ruined and they ahve strange marks on their body and start to have some wierd visions.
Its hard to explain without watching it, but they find the videos (which were setup that night to tape everything that happens that night) and find parts are missing in the videos. They play the tape backwards and they find out what really happened that night.
The ending is trippy and is difficult to explain. Basically...one of the group gets hanged...she starts to provoke everyone (they think she is possesed by the Witch) and puts a roped around her neck and starts to entice everyone to push her off the level of the house they were on (they were upstairs)....one guy ends up pushing her off and they think its all over. One of the dudes tapes the whole incident. But when the cops watch the tapes it shows that it is in fact the rest of the group that is possesed and the girl that was hanged was the normal one. So they go to jail.

Trippy movie and i didnt explain it very well. Its not all that good tho.

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by GoEagles
I'm suprised there hasn't been a sequal to this

Heres a review of Blair Witch 2: Book Of Shadows

""Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 isn’t so much a sequel, rather a slick remake of the original for all the people who didn’t like the first one. The premise is quite fun as it actually treats the first movie as just that, a movie, and plays up on the huge phenomenon that surrounded it. We are first shown a montage of news footage about the beleaguered residents of Burkittsville and how some of the townsfolk are cashing in on the sudden onset of tourists and film fans. They also discuss the continuing debate over the ‘reality’ of the story behind the film and so on. It is through this introduction that we meet Jeff Patterson, one of the five new characters we're introduced to. As well as selling Blair Witch souvenirs, Jeff has started up a tour company, taking people around the sites made famous in the original movie. We are given the idea that Jeff is not the most stable character and while quite the entrepreneur, he also harbours dark secrets about his past.

"To find out about Jeff’s past and the background of the other characters, the movie again delves into the whole phenomena revolving around The Blair Witch Project, and therefore relies heavily on the assumption that the moviegoers will also have previously visited the official Blair Witch web site and have read the synopsis provided for each of the main characters, as well as the story behind the movie. This cuts a huge amount of set up time for the filmmakers allowing them to basically jump right into the action.

"Jeff takes his first group out to camp overnight at the ruins of the house where Heather’s film for the first ‘movie’ was supposed to have been found. This group consists of Kim, a Goth and huge fan of the movie; Erica, a Wiccan, who want to commune with the spirit of the Blair Witch; and Stephen and Tristen, a couple who are writing a book about the hype that has been generated around the movie and the legend. From this point on, we step into the familiar schlock-horror genre a lá Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. I won’t bother breaking down the whole movie, suffice it to say, that things go from bad to worse for the group as they become connected to a grizzly murder of five other campers in the area found disembowelled on ‘Coffin Rock, ‘ and realize that they may have brought ‘something’ back with them from the camp site that continues to ‘haunt’ them, and like the first film, there is no happy ending.

"Now, while I enjoyed the film for what it was: A slightly campy scare-fest with some dark humour thrown in, it wasn’t THE Blair Witch. The Blair Witch Project scared me. I knew it was just a movie, but it played so well on my already over-active imagination, that the whole thing filled me with dread. I have never wanted a movie just to end and not just because it was a lousy flick and I wanted my money back. That movie made me uncomfortable and left me very freaked out. Book of Shadows is not a scary movie. Yes, it has moments that make you jump, and images that give you the creeps, but that is really it. This movie is not an experiment in filmmaking; it relies on tried and true formulas and takes no risks. Rather it uses and manipulates the hype built around the first to guarantee a good take at the box office."

 

[M29]

Originally posted by Macca19
That was the whole point of the movie. It obviously went way over your head

Did you read my next sentence?

Originally posted by M29

And if you get sucked into thinking 4 or 5 unemployed art students running around a forest pretending to be scared is believable then honestly you should get your head checked.

A seriously ****ful movie. Yes there was a sequel, and it went Straight to ****ing video as a new release. In vic it did anyway.

 

[Docker_Brat]

I actually didn't think it was as bad as people said. Certainly works well on the small screen and I can see how people would have felt motion sick watching it at the cinema.

 

[hourn]

Originally idea executed poorly.

AS someone already said, i too am more of a fan of the 70's horror movies - and definetaly not 90's horror such as scream and i know what you did last summer. Those two movies are 13 and 14 year old scary movies.

 

[BomberGal]

'Apparently' it's real, but I don't know about the credibility of that.

Wouldn't bother me, it's the biggest crock of **** (bar The Matrix!) I've ever watched. Crap ending.

 

[coxon]

Originally posted by BomberGal
'Apparently' it's real, but I don't know about the credibility of that.

as someone mentioned earlier in the thread...
its as real as bangbus...

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by M29


Did you read my next sentence?



Yes i did, and i dont see the relevance. Its a movie. 99% of movies are fake. Still doesnt explain why you reckon they should of had a tripod

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by hourn
AS someone already said, i too am more of a fan of the 70's horror movies

The Shining....now thats a scary movie!!!

I dont see how people find The Exorcist scary. Watched it in the movies when it was re-released and thought it was bloody pathetic. Disgusting yes. Scary - burnt toast is scarier than that movie.

 

[hourn]

Originally posted by Macca19


The Shining....now thats a scary movie!!!

I dont see how people find The Exorcist scary. Watched it in the movies when it was re-released and thought it was bloody pathetic. Disgusting yes. Scary - burnt toast is scarier than that movie.

ahhhhhhhhh the shining - there is one major movie that i still havent seen

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by M29
Did you read my next sentence?

What did the next sentence have to do with the original?

All I can see is that bagged the idea of handheld, as though you thought it wasn't worth the bother, and that all film should be shot with a static, steady camera.

Originally posted by M29
A seriously ****ful movie.[/B]

Opinions vary. As long as you don't then decide that Scream, Did last summer, Pet Semetary, Pumpkinhead, Shining, TCM, Faculty, Final Destination, etc etc were good films, and then expect to have your opinion taken seriously.

Originally posted by M29
Yes there was a sequel, and it went Straight to ****ing video as a new release. In vic it did anyway. [/B]

I looked at the cover, it seemed as though it was a stock horror more in the vein of those I bagged above. Therefore I didn't bother to rent it. Now that many are bagging it, AND bagging BWP at the same time, maybe it is, after all, worth a shot.

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by BomberGal
'Apparently' it's real, but I don't know about the credibility of that.

It's not real, though apparently there WERE myths about a Blair Witch. Its as real as 'Signs' is ... uh-huh, there are inexplicable signs, sure ... but the movie is a fabrication.

Originally posted by BomberGal
Wouldn't bother me, it's the biggest crock of **** (bar The Matrix!) I've ever watched. Crap ending. [/B]

I thought the Matrix had some decent ideas, and some pretty good delivery. Not quite deserving the pedestal it has, but pretty good all the same. If Matrix didn't quite get there for you, try 'Pi'.

 

[coxon]

Originally posted by hourn




ahhhhhhhhh the shining - there is one major movie that i still havent seen

yes, thats a good scary movie ~~
make sure u get the original of course...

there was a made for tv, 2video remake which sucked @ss

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by Macca19


The Shining....now thats a scary movie!!!

I dont see how people find The Exorcist scary. Watched it in the movies when it was re-released and thought it was bloody pathetic. Disgusting yes. Scary - burnt toast is scarier than that movie.

Didn't like the Shining. Did like Exorcist, but agreed its more repelling than scary.

We might be working with different definitions of scary, though. Some movies scare you at the time, some when you try to sleep later. Others years down the track when something triggers a retained memory from the flick.

Someone did say earlier that BWP isn't really a horror, and that's probably true. I wouldn't say horror=scary, although plenty are.

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by hourn
ahhhhhhhhh the shining - there is one major movie that i still havent seen

If I wasn't to accept that your tastes might be different from mine, I might suggest you don't bother. But as opinions vary, and its very popular, go for it! There's plenty worse, eg Faculty, Anatomie, Alchemist, The Evil.

I do recommend folks see 'The Keep'. Another one that people either love or hate. I love it, but I've had the advantage of reading the book as well.

 

[M29]

Originally posted by Macca19

Originally posted by M29
Still doesnt explain why you reckon they should of had a tripod

Unemployed students trying to make the film 'arty'. Woeful acting poor script, the worst horror film to date.

The only thing they did which I give them credit for was using the internet to overhype this siliconised valium.

 

[M29]

Originally posted by hourn




ahhhhhhhhh the shining - there is one major movie that i still havent seen

Here's Johnny!

 

[Watto]

Those people went missing because of soem murderer, simple. If you believe in this blair witch crap, you'll believe all this santa and easter bunny stuff as well.

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by M29


Unemployed students trying to make the film 'arty'. Woeful acting poor script, the worst horror film to date.

I hate seeing art hijack entertainment, was forced to watch a Greenaway movie the other day which did little more than put me to sleep, despite all the naked sheila images.

But surely the 'arty' aspect of BWP, being the first-person, handheld 'part of the story' camera business, is actually a practical application of novelty, wouldn't you admit?