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Because You Saw PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, We May Now Get BLAIR WITCH 3!!
Merrick here...
The Star spoke with BLAIR WITCH PROJECT co-director/co-writer Eduardo Sanchez, who revealed that work is now underway on a third BLAIR WITCH film. Seems the success of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY has helped to revitalize the 'found video" genre.
They'd pick up from where the original left off, pretending Blair Witch 2 never happened. The duo recently went on a drive through their original Blair Witch haunts, about a half hour from Sánchez's Maryland home, looking for inspiration.
They've worked up a treatment for a new story, which would involve original cast members Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, albeit in smaller roles.
"We're at the step where we're about to pitch to Lionsgate, which owns the movie rights now. It's pretty much up to them. They can completely squash it or greenlight it."
...says THIS ARTICLE at The Star.
I seem to recall, a long long time ago, hearing that a third film would actually be a flashback/origin story chronicling the tale of the Blair Witch. Anyone else recall that? Seems like they're going to different direction now.
Before it hit theaters, I saw the first film in a dark house surrounded by big trees in spooky woods on a windy, moonless night. Scared the piss out of me. I haven't seen it since then...wonder if it holds up?
They've worked up a treatment for a new story, which would involve original cast members Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, albeit in smaller roles.
"We're at the step where we're about to pitch to Lionsgate, which owns the movie rights now. It's pretty much up to them. They can completely squash it or greenlight it."
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Do we need ANOTHER sequal?
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That was just an abomination. I still enjoy BW1 mostly for the way it was shot and executed. Doubtful that a 3rd will recapture that original feeling, and these origin stories are getting old. Part of the charm of BW1 was never seeing the Witch or really learning of her origins.
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holds up pretty well, wasn't bad. But now of course Hollywood being Hollywood has to do a pointless money-grabbing sequel.
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If I would have known it would lead to Blair Witch 3, I would never have seen Paranormal Activity - though it getting Blair Witch 3 green lit makes it far scarier than its original ending.
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...I'd be up for BW 3. I like the first one, it was certaily better than that pos Paranormal Activity.
"Did you see that door open!?" Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Demons! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo! -
make that instead
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in fact - it wasn't good when it came out. Just a novelty - like people who twitter
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Like an above poster said. Keep the mystery. The fact that we still don't know what the fuck that thing makes it that much scarier.
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the real Blair Witch was on Facts of Life. Ba dum bump.
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You know you want it.
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Nov 02, 2009 10:30:32 AM CST
LOL HARRY LIKED THE SECOND ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
He gave it a positive review....I'll never forget that. Anyway I thought the ending of the first one was freaky after seeing it again but the movie was fuckin boring and the second one was the big mommas house 2 of horror movies, so please dear god, no more.
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You know you want it.
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I'd love to see a spin-off more than a sequel at this point. Like, a supernatural serial killer movie about Rustin Parr or something.
Unless they're keeping the mockumentary idea and come up with something like "The found footage where Heather and the guys were killed turns out to be a hoax by the film students, but then something happens for real" or something.
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Nov 02, 2009 10:31:27 AM CST
LOL HARRY LIKED THE SECOND ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
He gave it a positive review....I'll never forget that. Anyway I thought the ending of the first one was freaky after seeing it again but the movie was fuckin boring and the second one was the big mommas house 2 of horror movies, so please dear god, no more.
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You know you want it.
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Before 2 came out. After 1, there were rumors of 2 being a sequel and 3 being a prequel. Then 2 bombed and 3 went away.
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I thought it was scary the first time I saw it an looking back now I have no idea where my mind was at the time. I remember I was like eighteen and on a date.
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Unless it's a Blair Witch/Saw crossover... Yeah, that would be righteous suckage.
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I mean it's not scary but it is effective
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They had on the second one? Looks like that director is more a documentarian guy then feature film. I didn't mind the second one. But I don't remember it at all, so it probably sucked. I think I remember all the characters were annoying.
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You know you want it?
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Lost track of the damn thing. But do kids nowadays even know wtf a Blair Witch project was? I can't believe it, but it has been TEN years...
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Nov 02, 2009 10:42:30 AM CST
It's only the shock factor of the first one that doesn't hold up
by mr. nice gaius
Everything else is still well done. I don't know about you guys but THE BLAIR WITCH kinda freaked me out the first time I saw it. The majority of the film is interesting as it ratchets up the tension towards the inevitable downward spiral of doom. But it's those last 10 minutes or so that really seal the deal. Once they go into that house and the girl starts screaming her ass off (one of the best screamers I've ever heard), it starts to become genuinely frightening. And of course, she turns that corner...and the guy is in the corner... YIKES!
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So much honesty about how the studio fucked with the final product. Truly worth listening to if you want to hear an honest tale on why the movie turned out so bad all from the director himself who admits the movie sucks but he did try his best until the studio asked for more gore and blood.
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Now, that is a witch I'd like to see. Naked.
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Nov 02, 2009 10:44:54 AM CST
Cannibal Holocaust was hacked by the Blair Witch folks
by professor_monster
And Holocaust is wayyy freakier.
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Nov 02, 2009 10:45:10 AM CST
Go here and tell me this doesn't freak you the fuck out!!!
by --- emperor ---
I didn't like any of the blair witch movies; they weren't scary.
Why? The premise was great. It was a genuinely interesting, creepy and intriguing story. But that was fucked up by watching a bunch of immature brats wander around the forest for 8 years...BORING...
GUYS: check this creepy as fuck website out:
www.ellykedward.com
Now I would LOVE to see a movie about the original blair witch...Go to that site and tell me you're not freaked out...I dare you to go there at 2 in the morning with the lights switched off!!!! -
another fantastic movie.
What they should have done was divide the structure of Boggy Creek and assign the first act to Blair Witch 1 - which they did
then the second act - where the town and sheriff, some national guard and rangers called in to find the kids who went missing - this could have still been done like a doc. Then the third act the Blair Witch could have fought Jason and Freddy -
Not as scary or freaky as THIS: http://tinyurl.com/2s4u
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I like this game!
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http://tinyurl.com/yjdv6zc
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Haha typical! Haven't had a chance to see Paranormal yet. And the first Blair Witch was decent. The second was WTF? I'm betting this will indeed be a return to the style of the first, but honestly these sorts of things only work well for one movie! Blair Witch, Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity. All unique stories. Having a sequel is retardation. The way Blair Witch 2approached it is a better concept but it was shit. Sort of like having a proper Cloverfield movie sounds good on paper, but you've then got to pull it off right. Having another found tape is just... I dunno... Hay Look guiz! LOL! or whatever... Dumb idea. Do something new! Find a new witch/monster/vampire/ghost/haunted house/alien, whatever... It works better when it's fresh.
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Yes, it is indeed scary how fucked up some human beings become...
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the actors had already come out and said that it was all fictional. I felt cheated. and pissed off and for that reason, I hated the movie. well actually I thought Heather was annoying bitch. they all went mad. no mystery. Actually, one of them was derranged or went derranged.
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the actors had already come out and said that it was all fictional. I felt cheated. and pissed off and for that reason, I hated the movie. well actually I thought Heather was annoying bitch. they all went mad. no mystery. Actually, one of them was derranged or went derranged.
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Not a bad idea. I always wanted to see the parents go into the woods and cross paths with the witch.....
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Nov 02, 2009 10:58:27 AM CST
www.ellykedward.com = creepiest shit on the internet
by --- emperor ---
I do not dare enter that site with the lights, TV etc switched off in the morning. It's just evil.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! (deep breath) HA HA HA HA HA HA!
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Too bad they called it "Blair Witch 2." It's really not much of a sequel at-fucking-ALL. Should've just been "Book of Shadows." At any rate, it holds up better today than the original does.
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Nobody in TBW went mad. Josh was possessed by the blair witch and killed the other two. That's why when Heather comes down the stairs at the end, Mike is just standing in the corner facing the wall when Josh hits her over the head. That's how Rustin Parr would kill his victims, it's all in the documentary on the DVD where they interview the townsfolk.
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Their only hope is to summon the mystic Spirit of Tootie!
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Man Bites Dog. Now THAT is a great movie. Came out YEARS before BW by the way.As for the first BW film, it is ok. I couldn't help but giggle throughout at the fake arguing, etc. My ex actually thought it really happened, which apparently a lot of people did. She was surprised when I made her listen to the commentary and she discovered the actors spent much of the shooting in hotels, etc.Anyway, I thought the movie just started to gather steam and actually become compelling in teh last 20 minutes before it abruptly ended.
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You're as awful on Aint It Cool as you were over at Rotten Tomatoes. Wonder how long it will be before you get chased out of here, too.
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because you gave us Blair Witch 2, a movie so fucking retarded, the marketing people set the title "Book of Shadows" before line one had been written in the script... You people fucking suck, and we're not watching your piece of shit movie.
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She played such a perfect stereotypical 90's college film school chick in BWP. Then she was in Taken (the Spielberg miniseries, not the later Liam Neeson hostage flick) then, nothing.
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He actually DIDN'T give us Blair Witch 2. Eduardo and his cohort had nothing to do with that movie.
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eh, I guess you're right.
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Jesus, man. Let it go. She's your ex, yet you continue to bring her up on every movie site you visit.
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The serial killa thrilla that ain't vanilla! It's a groovy "found video" thing. Not as good as some found video that I found hidden in my dad's closet, yeah!
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Not a patch on the first film, obv, but still worth a watch. Count me in for BW3!
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I cant believe the public got duped into seeing that fuckin amateur piece of shit. There is not ONE single scary moment in that entrie movie
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Bitch, please...
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The answer is no. No we don't.
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Saw a sidebar article in Entertainment Weekly. She's out of acting for good, it seems. And there was one small photo of her taken recently; looking pretty cute these days. Good to see her without snot bubbles.
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Or at least, I remember it too, Merrick. Kind of too bad it never happened. That would've been infinitely more interesting that #2. I wouldn't mind seeing another one on the same level of the original, though. And I suspect it would be A LOT easier/more cost-effective to fund than the prequel.
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Nov 02, 2009 11:25:22 AM CST
Sorry amateurs, studio "Found footage" films are far better
by shiftyeyeddog2
Blair Witch, Paranormal.... all boring as shit. Cloverfield, Quarantine, etc, all have much better stories, production values, and FAR better scares. All these wannabe amateur filmmakers need to die already.
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Harry's review was quoted in the ads for Blair Witch 2, which is how I first came to this site.
I actually like BW2, and have watched it several times. It is very apparent where the studio intervened, the scenes in the asylum, for example, clearly don't belong in the movie. But the whole concept of some kids getting messed up, not remembering what they did and then finding out they apparently did some terrible things, well...I can totally relate to it. I think most of the actors were good, too.
As much as I loved Blair Witch, I think the sequel was doomed to fail because most people who saw Blair Witch did not like it. Because it was such a phenomenon, even people like my mom went, and then complained about it. No way was the sequel going to succeed. Then the director took such a different approach that he alienated the crowd who loved the original, leaving basically no audience for the sequel. But if you were to re-watch it now, years later, you may find yourself pleasantly surprised. -
It didn't do it for me so I probably won't be watching the movie now.
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I want to see how they got the film after what happened to the kids. Get a bunch of cops and have one survive with the nonofficial report via cop camera which is more disturbing then the original blair witch. Make Blair Witch video we saw on the first one, the official report and that is why it got released through Freedom of Information Act. Then, we find out the other tape after a reporter does more digging.
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After all, I'm a talkbacker on aintitcool, so obviously, my personality blows. But I did take a date to see this movie, in the theater. And she soooooo wanted to see it, very excited, couldn't wait. And my incessant cackling at the badness of it all certainly didn't help.
Not being a diehard fan of the first one either (like many of you, I thought, great premise, not-that-scary execution), I remember thinking what a kick in the dick Book of Secrets was to people who WERE fans if the original (BTW, where the frick was the book?). It was almost like the producers were ranking on the people who did like the technique and execution of the first, whilst simultaneously providing an inferior sequel that gave fans of the first nothing that they enjoyed from the first. So you're pissing off your base to attract a new audience that's not going to be interested anyway. Good idea.
And as a personal aside, I find the absolute laziest technique for any horror movie is to end by saying "Hey, all that crazy crap you saw? None of that really happened! We just blew your mind, right?" No, not really, you just copped out. It's like a storyteller writes himself into a corner, can't end the story, so he says "f*** it, it was all in somebody's head/a dream/a crazy person's fantasy." It's what you do when you're a bad storyteller. It's what BW2 did. -
In the 3 or so weeks PA has been making a _killing_. I bet every writer/hack in the industry is scrambling to coattail on PA's success. Hell, the Fourth Kind totally had a "shot on handycam" vibe that felt like a ripoff (even though the subject matter is totally different).
BW2 was just sort of forgettable (felt like a SyFy Saturday Night movie), and probably gets extra negative marks just because it's a non-sequel sequel to something that was pretty unique. The goth chick was pretty hot :)
We saw Paranormal Activity on Sat and it was really fun. I agree that it's hard to dismiss the amazingly low budget as a "wow" factor, but it was pretty creepy and effective.
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I'm sure they're still living high on the hog with all the millions they made off the first one.
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Do we really need another one? I remember being so excited about seein the first one thinking i was going to get the living shit scared out of me. I'd seen and read reviews where people said they had been sick, screamed and were literally shaking when they came out of the cinema. What i saw was a bag o shite. Pure and simple. Boring, slow, far too much pointless screaming and a load of shit dolls in trees. Jesus, just because a low budget film is a success, it doesn't mean we need more of the same.
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Because I actually saw Blair Witch before it was released, on a screener video at home. Had never heard of it at all, and was super creeped out. I have not been scared by a movie since then.
So the kind-of-disrespectful attitude BW2 shows toward the fans of the original, yeah, it was a turn-off...I didn't like it at the time...but now I do. But I have to overlook the terrible "extra" bits. OTOH, I like the giallo-feel of the stabbings in the flashbacks, so if that was studio interference..it was good.
Finally, all of it never happened? Like I said, I just watched it on Saturday, and it seemed like it did all happen. And it had the same impossibleness..how did videos end up buried, etc, etc. I did quite enjoy BW2, but you are right, no Book of Shadows. -
As scary as THE EXORCIST, which was pretty fucking scary. I still piss myself when I hear Tubular Bells...
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This mockumentary'll make you a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus! Just like me.
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Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill. Especially those unseen witch motherfuckers.
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I saw the trailer thought it would be scary, saw the fliq and I thought wow that was boring AND confusing. To this day idk who killed them, the child killer's ghost or the witch.....who cares the novelty has worn off anyway.
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...on this. The original Blair Witch holds up pretty well. Admittedly I'm a fan of this kind of movie, and it is pretty clear people either hate or love the style. But I've watched it in the past year and enjoyed it. Even the guy from Burn Notice can't save the second one.
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What a dopey-ass piece of shit. I'll never ever understand anybody who was remotely engaged by it.
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...I orginally saw Blair Witch on a pirate video tape, somewhere between oh fifth and tenth generation, and it was a lot scarier that way.
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...you ever hung out with people telling ghost stories? Playing with a Ouija board or holding a seance? Ever spent the night in a graveyard? If you've done any of those things and enjoyed them, think about the mind set you put yourself in and ask yourself if you went into Blair Witch the same way. If you haven't then maybe Blair Witch wasn't the right film for you.
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on DVD in the house on ym own with all the lights switched off. Excellent piece of filmmaking, with brilliant use of sound, all that eerie creaking of twigs and the voices of the children.
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It's pure unadulterated shit. Pretending it never happened is a good idea. Making another sequel? Bad idea.
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this was bound to happen,the first one was really good! there going more for a direct sequel to forget Blair witch 2 ever existed. because that one sucked!!
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some kind of moratorium on 4th Kind reviews? there's been a bunch of screeners and no reviews here. hmmmm..... i saw it back to back with PA and was going to submit it. BUt if AICN is cozying up to Hollywood again, I'm not going to bother. Oh yeah, as long as BW 3 can have the snot girl go all bad youtube CGI demon at the end that would rock. WORST ENDING EVER!!!
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LOL. I didn't even know...or CARE.
So I hope part 3 dies a horrible death.
Paranormal Activity was nothing more than an effective marketing campaign that worked on the weak minds of the masses. Like Pavlov's dog they paid to see that retarded movie in droves. Thanks to them we get more crap?
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Unless of course they A) are pissed it wasn't another shakycam movie and B) never actually saw it.
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are going to be the next Saw franchise. Look forward to seeing Paranormal sequels every Halloween for the next 6 years.
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Not terrible actors who did fuck all to convince me they were regular people being caught on camera. There was nothing convincing about it. I appreciate a good ghost story. I don't appreciate someone deliberately shaking a camera for 90 minutes while pointed at some of the worst actors portraying 'characters' that would have to be some of the stupidest, most unsympathetic and annoying people of all time.
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Do you jhate those movies because they don't have enough shitty CGI monsters in them, or do they not have enough ex-OC/new 90210/GOSSIP GIRL actors in them for you?
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A few words or less what did you think of the 4th Kind? I noticed the absence of an actual review too.
I read about the original ending (with the police), and it sounds like the new theatrical ending is better (though admittedly the execution is a touch silly).
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Nov 02, 2009 12:41:11 PM CST
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 3: WHERED THE MAP GO
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
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Nov 02, 2009 12:43:00 PM CST
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 4: SERIOUSLY WHERES THE MAP?
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
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This was another film that possibly influenced BW. It came out a year before and has many similarities.
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The final metamorphic form of all out-of-work actors. Yeah, I saw that photo on the web somewhere. She's a blonde now and hence, looking cuter than she ever did (sorry brunettes, but you always knew deep down it was only too true).
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The first Blair Witch isn't an utter piece of shit or anything, but its only good for one viewing, before you realize that basically nothing interesting happens onscreen.
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The original Blair Witch sucked. Book of Shadows is a rae sequel that blows it's own original film away.
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4th Kind freaked me out. It's a hoax, but a very good one. It ends in, what I thought, was an satisfying ambiguous way, not silly like BW or FUCKING stupid like PA, but like a real documentary. It's essentially a movie in a movie. From what I've been able to gather on-line, (besides the fact that the setting looks NOTHING like Nome) it's a viral hoax perpetrated by the studio. But what I can't figure out, is that the studio doesn't seem to be promoting this viral thing.
The disturbing part is the "video" footage where, i assume, patients are played by nobodies who look like real patients. When they start freaking out under hypnosis, holy fuck is it creepy. Something else that's wierd, is that I know it's a haox, but, as of last week when i saw it, I can't seem to find the names of actors on IMBD or anywhere else.
The woman who plays the "real" Dr., the digitized face woman in the preview, has one fucking scary face and is utterly convincing as someone who's been through the psychological wringer. It's funny because Milla Janovich plays the "fake" Dr. Like a real movie where they cast someone hot as someone plain. Will Patton is a little over acty as the "sheriff". But the supporting cast is pretty solid.
I never cared about nor believed in Alien Abductions. This film sure didn't change my mind, but it was a pretty chilling experience. Eveything about the "aliens" is presented under hypnosis or on the Dr.'s tape player.
Scarwise, the closest film I can compare it to is Session 9. I'm kinda glad that the studio isn't hyping this up like PA. This is a horror/scifi for adults.
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BW2 was a steaming piece of shit, yes - but as I recall it was 100% studio movie, with the original's creators having nothing to do with it. I also remember being stoked about the proposed BW3 being a period film set in the 1800s, about the origin of the Blair Witch. That concept had a hell of a lot of awesome potential. This *new* BW3 concept... it sounds stupid.
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Catvutt...fair enough. It wasn't for you. My guess is the biggest inspiration for Blair Witch was the British special Ghost Watch. It's been mentioned here before, and of course was a bit notorious in England. Starts slow and goes a little over the top at the end but in between there are a lot of good scares.
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the original was the advertising frenzy that took place before the film came out. With this film, like many others since, the final product just couldn't live up to the expectation. I haven't seen the film in a while so i can't comment on how it has held up, but i just remember at the time being bored out of my skull. It's the only film i've ever started to nod off watching.
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People flocking to see a homemade, fairly original, bare-bones horror movie means we get another sequel. A sequel to another homemade, even more original, bare-bones horror movie.
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Find Ghostwatch made by the BBC. It was shown on Halloween years ago and was banned from being shown again for years. I haven't watched it in a long time but i remember when the original broadcast went out (as a child) being scared out of my mind and not being able to sleep for about 2 days. Thing was people thought it was real at the time.
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Sanchez's Seventh Moon fucking sucked. He's a one-tricker. Trust me.
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nuff said
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Wow, yeah, now I'm really intrigued. Love me some Milla too , even clothed :) Plus the wife has a girl crush on her, so it's a win-win. I don't think I realized the movie-in-a-movie bit, but in general details have been pretty sketchy.
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BW1 was way overhyped, shaky-cam horseshit that was too stupid to be scary. BW2 was so fucking retarded it was not worth sitting through for free. PA so totally destroyed the BW movies it wasn't funny.
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Yeah. I think cuz they're advertising here, the "neutral" AICN isn't posting reviews.
If you want to see how bad PA is see it back to back with 4th Kind. PA is a hokey, middle America favoring dopefest. How anyone could sympathize with those two morons is beyond me. And that "psychic" bwahaha. SO bad. And that ending was like an ad for the Uninvited sequel..
Oh, and when you set a burglar alarm, you can't just go down the stairs without disarming it...totally blew it for me. It could have been better, darker if the two genuinely didn't know what was going on and he wasn't a douche. Who the fuck goes out and buys a super hi def $7,000 camera to record some doors opening... -
Daniel Myrick & Ed Sanchez said they were interested in doing a prequel set in the 1700's. Would be far more interesting. Also, there was a trilogy of Blair Withc PC games each one a prequel, one about th eWitch, one about the serial killer and another but someting else. The guys obviously think think making the same movie again has more of a chance of getting made after Paranormal raked it in.
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Nov 02, 2009 2:38:35 PM CST
if the three actors are "dead" doesn't it have to be a prequel?
by oisin5199
Unless, it's a further layer of meta and the actors play themselves as actors who were in Blair Witch 10 years ago. Can't believe it's been 10 years since Blair Witch. I can't remember being as uncomfortable and scared in a theatre as I was when I saw the first. The 2nd one was definitely a piece of shit with some interesting ideas. It's the director's commentary that really solidified my hate of BW2. Joe Berlinger was pissed that the first filmmakers had made a movie that blurred the lines between documentary and fiction, being he was a documentary filmmaker - and on Paradise Lost, on the West Memphis 3 (he should have known better). So basically, he wanted to make a sequel that shit all over the original. And he used half ass research on Wicca to do it.
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Does anyone remember the cool as BW videogame that came out after the movie. It was really cool.
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Is that thing with Parky? or was that one with the family. and nobody has ever talked about since, cause the family were all bullshitting and needed the money. if it is that one with parky. load of crap that was. bbc later admitted it was all a stunt.
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and that post blair witch film. cant remember the name. this site talked it up quite a bit. before you this site went well. we all know what has happened to this site. no discussion there....
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They can definitely do a lot more with the concept. I thought the first one was awesome, and the sequel was okay. I look forward to a third one.
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I'd like to see them keep the "reality" of BW1 intact, i.e., not address it as a movie (and creating that extra layer as you pointed out). That gets too cute and it's easy to go from movie-in-a-movie to just parody. I'm with you, I can't believe BW is 10 years old. I'm wondering if the actors can even get away with shooting more material that takes place on/before the original BW timeline (I'm assuming the idea of a chronological sequel, with some flashback material ... maybe?). Hell, so much time has passed they could be in the movie as new characters.
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have the actors from the first movie play relatives of the kids that were never found. Or maybe, the Witch DIDN'T kill off the kids and the kids are still out there?
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It spooked me a little bit. But my fondest memory is right at the end, right when the camera drops, some college kid jumped up and screamed (trying to scare his friends). And then, for the one and only time in my life, I watched someone get there ass kicked in a movie theater. When the cops get called to your movie experience...its gold.
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You know that movie that ripped off Blair Witch? Well that made a lot of money so now another Blair with is coming... Ugh.
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Nov 02, 2009 3:01:48 PM CST
The Blair Witch kids aren't dead. They're in the Black Lodge.
by mr. nice gaius
And we'll see them again in 25 years."Wow, BOB! Wow!"
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I fall in with the lump of masses who paid to see Paranormal Activity(albeit, I went to the theatre to see Halloween 2, only to find that it had already run out its release). I enjoyed it to a degree... found it well handled for a small budget project and the building to the ending was nice. But I'm just not really spooked by that type of thing(not a tough guy act; there are plenty of things that scare me, but paranormal spooks just aren't one of them). But I'm happy that a small film like that found such success, and furthermore toppled the extremely stale Saw franchise. And for what its worth, I did get around to seeing Halloween 2, and... *gasp*, I liked it quite a bit.
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I've never seen the first or second movie. Someday when I'm bored... maybe I'll dig the first up and see what all the fuss was about.
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go check out the stan helsing trailer....
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but we dont want to keep seeing the results..please fuck off with this shit. We want to see art, not interesting fingers paintings over and over.
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God, It must be nice to have rich friends.
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Tis is a shit idea to begin with. People still need to get it out of their fucking heads that because a movie makes money, that it's good or use it as a template for 100 knock offs. That's the perfect breeding ground for hacks, not filmmakers.
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I think some filmmakers need to get it into their heads that just because they made their movie for 10 dollars doesn't mean it should make a million.
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Blair Witch scared the pants off of me. Saw it on VHS some time after its release. I had no idea there was a marketing gimmick that said it was real. I just thought it was one scary fucking movie. Anyway, most people didn't find it scary at all and are very vocal about this, probably out of envy. But I'd like to see a careful dissection of that movie that attempts to understand why it was so effective to certain people. Understand that formula for horror and we could reapply it. Unfortunately, the conversation never rises above "it was awesome" or "it was shit" so it's useless.
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People were eager for it to suck, much like Avatar now. As horror movies go it was better than any of the scream movies, which I admit isn't saying much, but it had a nice twist at the end that reminded me of a twilight zone episode, so it's not a total fail.
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THe Blair Witch Project was a moment in time, the web site and TV specials, the way the trailers were, the way it was presented in 16 mm home movie format and the idea that it was "real" all lead to it's success. Once the 4th wall was knocked down and it was known that it wasn't "real" it lost a lot of it's effect. It was different and one of the first of it's kind but it had no repeat viewing capcity at all. The 3 leads were unlikeable idiots that on a second time through were so grating you couldn't watch it.
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I hope this happens!
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the "documentary" about the "real" Blair Witch. Complete with the fake 1970s interview with a Wiccan guy. And the fake folklorist and anthropologist. I'd like to think that this kind of thing influenced Supernatural quite a bit. As far as the prequel goes, if they do a 1700s thing, it would be cool to have the original actors back as ancestors or something, so the aging won't matter.
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Nov 02, 2009 5:16:58 PM CST
Recently watched it for the first time since 6th grade..
by billypilgrimisunstuck
...on Halloween. When I first saw it, I had no idea what it was. My cousin took me out to go see it at a special sneak peek in Orange County. I went in going into it, as a lot of people did, thinking it was real. To this day, 10 years later, it remains the single most traumatizing experience of my young life. The movie was fucked up enough, what pushed it over the edge was when i got home, my brother was waiting for me standing in the fucking corner. I cried and didn't sleep that night (by the way, it was my birthday that night). Anyway, like I said, I watched it again recently, with a group of people who have not seen it (and have seen Paranormal activity). To me, it doesn't stand up to what it seems people want today out of most entertainment (fast paced, jump into your face scary). It was defnitely a FUN movie, but I wasn't that scared (maybe cause I knew what was going to happen? or cause I'm older? Whatever). The mood and atmosphere is definitely tense, but I can't believe I was so scared. With that said, I would love another installment. I do like the mythology. The first one did a very good job at creating dread and suspense without ever showing the antagonist. Let's just pretend the second one never came out.
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People REALLY need to stop saying Blair Witch ripped of Cannabal Holocaust. They are NOTHING alike.
Of course most of you nerds can't think for yourself, so you just repeat what every other know-it-all basement dweller says when they think they are being original. -
And that's the point! Blair Witch isn't scary because of what happens, it's scary because of what MIGHT happen. It's all about tension and fear of the unknown. After all, isn't the basis of all fear the idea of the unknown? It's the same reason the original Halloween is so effective. Mike Meyers killing people isn't scary. It's the tension that he MIGHT kill you, the unknown, that is scary. This is a fucking first grade analysis of horror, yet today's audition doesn't get it and the majority of film makers do not get it. They want to show you the scary thing, put it under a spoitlight, and make it known - thus eliminating any fear you would have of it. Ridiculous.
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Fuck this.... we get a GOOD, solid, scary as hell and original horror (if you want to call it that) film, and then because we supported its quality low-budget ass we're stuck with more Hollywood sequel shit.
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Neither are aliens. So, stop saying this shit like "PA is real". It's not. It never could be.
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Which *was* fucking brilliant, btw, was much more akin to what they originally intended the theatrical film to be. The "found footage" was just going to be a part of the movie, with the faux documentary stuff setting it up. I think the intention was to make something like an updated version of an episode of "In Search Of" or of those Sun "documentaries" from the '70s about Bigfoot and Noah's Ark and the Bermuda Triangle. But yeah the interviews and the doctored up Civil War era photos and the supposedly archival footage from "Curse of the Blair Witch" was fucking brilliant. Great filmmaking and the only reason I still have The BLair Witch Project DVD.
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Well after wasting my time and money with Paranormal Activity AND Blair Witch im in no rush to see this new pice of trash.
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or bucket
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Nov 02, 2009 8:28:10 PM CST
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is one of the worst films ever made...
by badwaldo s revenge
...but since it's a small budget film, at least it's typical video trash that should never have been released in theatres. Screaming idiots throwing F-bombs about running from the "invisible witch" and failing to follow a river due to pea brain. Totally hackneyed piece of shit that didn't even scare me (saw it on VHS), just a dumb and pointless flick. P.T. Barnum was right, sucker is born every minute. Hack Hollywood filmmaking is the norm and Michael Bay leads the flock.
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I saw the "documentary" first and it totally freaked me out.
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THAT'S what makes Blair Witch so special. It's not the movie itself. It's the marketing campaign they weaved before the movie was released. That marketing campaign is the really big influence behind the marketing for The Dark Knight, and the marketing for Cloverfield, and the whole fucking concept for LOST.
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I just wanted to write "fuck" again.
My previous two posts really needed more uses of "fuck" and "fuckin'" in them... -
I always heard from my friends how the first movie was so scary ... (and that it was *ahem* real). When I finally went to see it, I liked it, but realized that a lot of people running out of the theater wasn't because of horror, but because of motion sickness from the shaky-cam work. I dug the psychological aspect of it, and the wearing away of the group dynamic, and even the way-abrupt way it ended.
Blair Witch 2 I never had a problem with, and it had some real interesting conventions and such. I actually liked how it acknowledged that the first film was a film and not real (although in the movie it was "based on real legends"), and it wound up being a study on the nature of evil, and what did they bring back with them from the woods and all that.
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I knew it HAD to play better on DVD, so I bought it, and I really enjoyed it. The commentary was hilarious.
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I revisit it every Halloween, and it's so well-made and so visceral and real. I HATED and I mean HATED the movie PARANORMAL ACTIVITY because we know -nothing- about the antagonist or what/who it is. We learn -nothing-. So how can you be afraid of ... nothing?
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...Blair Witch 2 (outside of the smokin' hot Kim Producer) was awful. Yeah - I know it's cool to shit on Blair Witch. But it's scary and tense, and the lack of answers makes it that much more creepy.
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Oh... my... god. That link is just... Anyway, I smell Sacha Baron Cohen's next movie right there.
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100% right. This movie was viral marketing before it really existed. This was a myth on the internet before you even knew it was a movie. Great campaign that most movies can only wish for these days.
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That was a excellent comedy!
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A movie like this needs to come out of nowhere.
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It was an alien movie the director (I believe) of The Blair Witch Project did recently. It stocks up there in my list as one of the better alien films ever made, being it a revenge on aliens from victims of abduction and murder, simple and effective premise. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it.
As for this story, as long as they get the old cast back- or even some better fresh talent and stay the hell away from two, I might consider checking it out. A lot of doors have opened up in the horror genre since the release of the first, I could see it working even better in present time (decent Fx, fucked up situations, etc.) -
A solid B-horror flick, excepting the rubber alien. Sanchez is genuinely talented. I haven't seen The Objective or Seventh Moon, but I hear good things. I think the BWP stigma really hurt them, especially since the film does not live up to its hype. Hype destroys a lot of otherwise good films, including BWP and PA - they were IMO solid, effective little movies, but nothing could live up to what the studios unreasonably promised.
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that made a shit load of money, we may get another something cheap that'll possibly make a shit load of money!! Who saw 'Book of Shadows' anyway? I think I might've been painting a wall or taking a leak and missed that one.
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Some teens are smoking pot in the woods and find an old VHS copy of "The Facts of Life". They watch it and shortly after "Blair" from "Facts" start offing them. Give the camera to Michael J.Fox for extra shaky action and let the fun continue.."This is heavy Doc."
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like Santa Clause,aliens and FOX News...sweet Zombie Jesus!
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in England good chap!
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thing. It was out long before Survivor, or Big Brother, or Rock of Love. It started all that.
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Nov 03, 2009 12:23:00 AM CST
As sequels go I'm more excited about Sin City 2 rolling next yea
by freebeer
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...is the absolute, unyielding polarity of opinion on this movie. I mean the exact same arguments are made over and over every time this movie is discussed. BW haters have no idea why people liked this movie, and BW fans think the haters are morons. I think horror is very much like comedy. Different people are scared by different things, and if you're not scared by something, people who are seem ridiculous. Personally - the last shot of BW is still the most terrifying image of any horror flick I've seen since the 70s, but I couldn't in a million years convey why to someone who doesn't share my "sense of horror."
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that is all
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because it came off as TOTALLY FUCKING REAL. The cumulative effect of all that screaming and whining at each other was a reality that ALMOST paid off in the final shot. I say almost, because I still think there's a huge swath of the movie that just kind of bores me to tears... like someone else said, it really gets moving until the last 15 minutes or so. I saw Altered as well and read Sanchez's blog and it was kind of heartbreaking the shit he dealt with and then realizing it wouldn't get him back up to BW level and the effect of that hype, ten years later. That said, I thought it was a great concept but a kind of bad, B-movie execution at times where it didn't have to be. I think he's definitely a competent director and good with actors, it's just the alien itself and certain things about the movie lacked a weight and a vision that could have really put him over the top... actually, what was missing seemed to be the atmosphere of the best of the blair witch stuff. I also actually can't believe the BWP mythos hasn't been milked like every other franchise. There's a ton there to use, and I think it shows the lack of imagination on the part of the studios... you literally have about four different threads in Blair Witch that could make mini-franchises either in movies or television. Also, does anyone remember, the guys who made Blair Witch were on the cover of TIME MAGAZINE?! I remember seeing that and thinking... shit, THAT is cool.
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Oh they milked the BW mythos to death man. Don't you remember? Comic books, three PC games, crappy sequel that didn't really have anything to do with the original...
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please make it another found footage deal and for the love of God don't SHOW the Blair Witch or any bullshit like that
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Kubrick brand, released in Japan. I guess they were not a big thing because I imagine you would be supposed to loose them, ne?
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Nov 03, 2009 5:18:08 AM CST
Maybe we can get an actual fucking WITCH in this one?
by zombieheathledger
not an off-camera one or a possessed person one but an actual fucking scary witch?
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Can you come up with ONE movie about a scary witch?
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20/25 minutes of it was good, interesting pseudo documentary making with clever, effectively creepy/scary moments. One hour plus of it was really annoying characters walking through the woods b*tching and whining at each other. If you're going to go back to the blueprint and make another one ... please try and make the characters less annoying, or at least give them something to do so that we don't notice how annoying they are quite so much. Maybe more research, more back story. More reveals. Make the characters more engaged.
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This news did not make up for it. Is this the best that hollywood can come up with these days? Self-plagiarizing itself is getting really old. At least James Cameron plagiarizes good properties he thinks no one has heard of or remembers. His contempt for the intelligence of his fans is most annoying, but to be fair there is a kind of integrity to a man who steals from the best. Blair Witch III: The Beginnings (this time you will be really truly scared)? Not so much.
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I startled myself!
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I meant in a good way! That's funny, I actually didn't know about the PC games. I did know about the Curse of the Blair Witch, the sequel, etc. But I think they could have gotten some QUALITY entertainment out of the BW and probably made a lot more money off of it and extended it's life well beyond whatever year the sequel came out. But I guess that's like saying we could have gotten better Star Wars prequels. Speaking of which, 1999 was a pretty batshit insane year for cinema, huh? Star Wars, Kubrick, Blair Witch, Fight Club, Malkovich, Three Kings... not that it was all good, but we definitely had a lot to look forward to.
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Yeah I remember playing one of the PC games, and it was a very atmospheric Silent Hill type horror game that dealt with some of the backstory and mythology they created. It wasn't bad, but I never finished it or got very far.
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If I'd known I wouldn't have watch Paranormal.
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Good premise. So So movie.
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...And then remake every subsequent hollywood movie ever made chronologically
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porno style.
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was it any good? anybody know?
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