el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
always liked the film. great stuff.
Did you enjoy the Blair Witch Project?
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Reno
The In Kraut
I really don't care, especially considering the music never actually appeared in the film. Cash-in merchandise is not part of the canon of a film for me.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
That's always annoyed me too. I can't remember exactly, but I think they had to change their plans on the fly so they told him to say that he'd thrown it in the river.
Don't know if it related, but originally it was Mike who was supposed to disappear, but Josh the actor had tickets to a game or something so they wrote him out instead
Don't know if it related, but originally it was Mike who was supposed to disappear, but Josh the actor had tickets to a game or something so they wrote him out instead
Reno
The In Kraut
Unfortunately the film never really got scary for me and wasn't left wanting more, I still left wanting anything that was just a bit scary. The Paranormal Activity films, which are also found footage horror films and descendants if Blair Witch, also mostly work on suggestion, but they do work better for me. And sometimes monsters can work and the scariest thing in any found footage horror film for me is the skeletal possessed girl in REC.
Thing for me is, that breaks the fourth wall. It was such an elaborately constructed multi-platform film - the website, the book etc. - and was designed as such to make it seem more real, more legitimate. Same as when authors sometimes put in false documentation (e quotes from what are supposed to be real life reports ) to make it seem more real and more believable.
However, when the whole world-view / universe falls apart due to what is, very clearly, things that could not possibly be in there, it breaks down the believability of the film, and makes me - at least - very acutely aware that it is evidently an artifical construct. Being a music geek, I find this all the time with films set in the eighties, and I hear tracks that came out three years after the film was set.
Whats the point of an elaborately constructed lie, a fabrication of authenticity, when it is so patently false and undone by such a stupid oversight?
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I actually read the accompanying book first, which presented itself as the case notes of a detective 'investigating' the disappearance. Read it while on the Norfolk Broads, spending lots of nights tied up in the middle of nowhere next to dark, dark woods... 
jakethesnake
In bed for Britain
I thought the whole film was a bit meh, but the map throwing away thing was, i thought, realistic. People lost in woods behave irrationally and there are (according to Bill Bryson) quite a few documented cases of lost hikers doing just this.
xslavearcx
time for a nu-metal revival?
Unless the witch had a jamming device!
Or none of them had credit...
xslavearcx
time for a nu-metal revival?
what films do hipster beard cunts claim we should watch instead?
TruXta
tired
You tell me mate. Probably some Bulgarian body-horror from 1947.
xslavearcx
time for a nu-metal revival?
if i ever have the misfortune of ending up at a party full of them, that happened to me two years ago, ill be sure to ask them and post on here ...
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
I wasted time I'll never get back watching that film, although to be fair I can't say it's a bad film . Basically I didn't enjoy it.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I'm having a scary time bordering on PTSD visualizing you bent over, trying to look up your own arse in a mirror... Sort of a Hair/Itch Project....
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I missed the hype for it and watched it in a virtually deserted cafe in the Malaysian jungle
Afterwards I walked back to my hut through the dark jungle . Not an experience I want to repeat
Afterwards I walked back to my hut through the dark jungle . Not an experience I want to repeat
braindancer
not for long
I'm not one to get creeped out easily by horror films but when the BWP came out I saw it the cinema at a late show after munching some hash cakes and I was absolutely shitting it....
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Is anyone going to confess to getting motion sickness and hurling?
Reno
The In Kraut
Is anyone going to confess to getting motion sickness and hurling?
I always find it hard to believe that people have such tender constitutions and weak stomachs, but then I don't like sitting too close to the screen, so I've never had problems with that.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Didn't do too much for me, like. Wasn't scared. Although after me and The First Mrs. S☼I watched it and she was in the bathroom I turned our bedroom light off and stood in the corner with my head against the wall. She went fucking bananas at me for that
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
why is he stood in the corner? is the other one being tortured?
it's a brilliant film. it really is. a true original.
it's a brilliant film. it really is. a true original.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
The abducted children were made to stand like that by the killer dude. Implication being that the spirit or whatever had taken him over.
In reality they directors had jumped him in the dark and told him to stand in the corner
It's weird (and slightly embarrassing) how much I remember from that commentary! Probably only listened to it once, maybe twice, and I'm notorious for forgetting details and the like. The human brain, eh?
yeah that was great to me that bit. it is exactly how people act in psychosis. like you are not quite sure if they're messing around or really crazy.
Reno
The In Kraut
It was the first film that was heavily promoted via a website and the website was far more scary than the film.
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?"
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