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A Look At The Status Of A BLAIR WITCH Sequel/Prequel Thingee
Hey folks... Harry here. Personally... I think all of this is a BAD IDEA. I was one of the strongest supporters of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Hyped the living hell out of it, but frankly... I don't want to see a sequel. I don't need anymore shaky camera stuff. Hoarse voices squeeching at one another as their world falls apart. No. I had heard one idea for a prequel that I liked. The concept was to film the old original ghost story behind all of this so called 'Blair Witch' stuff. Set waaaay the hell back in time. Now for me... this means making a real honest to goodness movie in the traditional filmmaking 'Hitchcock' manner of things, as opposed to the 'you-are-there-to-the-extreme' manner they shot the first one. It would be atmospheric, it'd be scary as hell and it would.... IN NO WAY.... resemble the first film. I have ZERO interest in a sequel. And only minor interest in a prequel. Personally... I sort of feel like... "Hey... let's move forward." I really don't think that Blair Witch has significant legs... Of course... that's just my opinion...
Hey Harry -
"Long time listener, first-time caller" here with some interesting news on
the "Blair Witch" front. It seems that Artisan entertainment is going to try
to take a stab at preserving the integrity of the franchise by hiring someone
to be gatekeeper of the mythology of the projected series. Theoretically,
this person would have a veto-like consulting power that could keep the
franchise from becoming a cheesy cliché of itself. My source, an industry
insider close to the project, reports that the primary contender for this
role is Ben Rock, the writer of Sci-Fi Network Blair Witch documentary,
"Curse of the Blair Witch." He also served as the original film's production
designer. Whoever they hire would pen a Blair Witch book aimed at defining
the history of the legend. His primary duty would be to expand on what is
currently known of the Blair Witch and maintain continuity in the storylines
of any sequels. He would also be a special consultant on any spin-offs such
as video games, other books, action figures (no kidding - it's under
consideration), pot-holders, lunchboxes, condoms (heh-heh, just kidding on
that one) etc...hopefully, making sure the franchise maintains its integrity,
doesn't suck, and makes Artisan lots-o-money with the ability to churn out a
prequel after next October's sequel. That's right, Artisan would like to try
to get this thing churned out by next Halloween. Word has it that ideas
proposed so far have been next to unreadable. Sanchez and Myrick are trying
to distance themselves enough from a sequel where they can take credit if it
is a success, and disown it if it is a flop. However, they are obviously
committed to doing their part in maintaining Blair's integrity, as are
Producers Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, and co-producer Michael Monello. Artisan
owns the franchise, so they are the ones who will ultimately take the rap if
it fails. Which leads me to my next revelation....
As reported on page 8 of the Monday, November 22 Hollywood Reporter, Artisan
hired four writers to bang out potential sequel scripts, of which Artisan
would choose the best. On the same day, Indiewire.com regurgitated an
erroneous report from ReporterTV.com. that Sanchez and Myrick were planning
to write the sequel. My source tells me that Bill Block, President of
Artisan Entertainment, confirmed the Hollywood Reporter story. My source
also tells me that the scripts and pitches
seen and heard so far have fallen far short of acceptable if the franchise
wishes to remain intact. As it stands, Artisan would like to produce a
prequel after next October's sequel, assuming they haven't already killed off
the franchise.
There you have it - as a "Blair Witch" fan, I'm personally happy that the
powers-that-be are trying to keep the myth alive...although the potential
suck-factor appears to be high!
Call me -
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I have no interest in anything further regarding the Blair Witch. The original was the ol' proverbial lightning in a bottle, and I think duplicating it would result in stuff along the lines of JAWS 2, FRIDAY THE 13TH 2, FREDDY'S REVENGE..... these things rarely go well.
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I was sick of the Blair Witch before I even saw the bitch, or at least heard. The time has passed for the Witch, so try something original again. We already know everything we need to know and more from the site, so what could be intruging enough to lure everybody back.
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That's the understatement of the year! This is perfectly ri-goddamn-diculous.
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Everyone will know they are doing it for money...so no one will care when it comes out, seriously art by commitee sucks the life out of everything...like our dislike Blair... what made it a hit was it's fresh approach to film making...well I really don't care what they do 'cause I aint watching...or am I...( well, not the movie...but maybe I'm still watching...you know...)
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o'donnell is going to be the main lead. sonnfield is going to direct it, and kate wislet mom from titanic is going to be the blair witch...on another note, i wish that the blair witch had something to do with "the facts of life." now we only have to see what toodie is up to.
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Here's how they should do it: take a million monkeys and put them in a room with a million typewriters. Wait about a month. Begin production. Or else hire Joe Eszterhas.
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I enjoyed the movie, but it was a once in a lifetime thing. The Blair Witch story itself could work, but like Harry says they have to totally distance themselves with the documentry angle.
But we all know it will probally turn out to be something that's show on TNT within a year.
And as to WHY? It cost 40,000 and has made $150 mil? That's roughly a 3,750,000% rate of return. Not even the Clinton's can make that much money, that fast. -
Well, I'm going to shake things up and declare that I *might* be interested in a BW sequel...or rather, as Harry proposed, a prequel. The original story of Ely Kedward and the nefarious goings-on in 18th century Maryland...done as a historical horror movie...though come to think of it, the result may end up looking like SLEEPY HOLLOW. But hey, that's not such a bad thing. It's really too bad about the original BWP--if it had been a minor success or a cult hit, it would probably be considered a classic, but now everyone only remembers it as an overhyped non-crowd-pleaser. It was an experiment that was too successful for its' own good. Still, it accomplished the important goal of causing the makers of such films as WWW to faint in terror and embarrassment in a way that all our Talkback barbs never could.
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I know the idea seems iffy and everyone is going to rip the blair witch a new asshole or whatever but hey, it seems as though these guys are really working hard to bringing us something cool (HOPEFULLY)
I myself am excited at the prospects of a "GOOD n Scary" sequel. It seems as though the talkbacks are getting way negative about every project lately. Hey the whole Spiderman fiasco was well deserved. Instead of being negative we should all contribute our ideas on what would be scary as hell for the next sequel, prequel etc... You never know who is reading this shit. Me personally, I would open the movie with Heather laying there, blood all over her face and she wakes up and gets chased throughout the night by Blair Witch/Evil Dead entity in the dark, trying to survive while finding Mike, who is still alive. I would like to see it more like the last ten minutes of "Silence of the Lambs" while Jodie was in the basment type of thing!
hey this is my opinion, I am sure everyone will rip me a new asshole but hey if they do it right, and it looks creepy, everyone will come! P.s If Blair Witch was so bad, why did it make so much money?
because it scared the shit out of alot of people, hey some people absolutely hated it, while some slept with the lights on.
Diffrent Strokes for Diffrent Folks I guess. I wanna know how you guys would make it scary (Seriously)
Oh by the way, wanna here Scary? For Sundance there is going to be a documentary on "TAMMY FAYE'
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It's an obvious and sensible trepidation to be weary over the prospect of a Blair Witch sequel, but doesn't anyone remember the Evil Dead 2? I may have found the first one scarier, but ED2 is regarded by many as being much better than the first one. A franchise like the Blair Witch project could benefit from a higher budget and better production values than the original. As long as special effects are not overused, as in 'The Haunting,' good FX and better writing could add alot to a sequel, if done with finesse.
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I enjoyed the hell out of Blair Witch Project by letting myself get caught up in the reality of it. But...it was an experimental film that succeeded largely because it played out a gimmick (uncompromising first-person hand-held camera)so very well. I've heard that the Sci-Fi channel documentary was pretty good, so I'd like to catch that at some point, but beyond that...I don't think you can repeat the success. I do know one thing - if they make any sequel or prequel, they should avoid the hook of the handheld camera. Harry's right, it needs to be a straight-on, normal film. I enjoyed the various backstories and legends in Blair Witch. There's just a chance that there might still be potential in it. I remain a little dubious though...
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Yeah, then it would be cool! Norton as the witch!!!
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If the sequel isn't direct to video, then the PREQUEL definetly will be. Of course, if you've seen the direct-to-video horror market...most of them are just god awful.
If you want to check out a parody of the Blair Witch Project that has been produced by Burning Broadway Productions, check out...
http://www.burningbroadway.com
and click on films.
Later
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I wouldn't say Harry has "abandoned" BWP. He still stands by the first film. He is just taking the news of the sequel with warrented apprehension. Personally, I think it is one of the worst ideas Hollywood has come up with, right up there with the proposed sequel to The Sixth Sense. Hollywood big-wigs can't seem to realize that these films were money makers because they were original and fun.
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I'm sorry but only two films have ever put the chills into me and neither one was Blair Bitch. Candyman(most underrated horror movie ever) and Aliens. Yeah I saw Aliens when I was five but even now as a grown up it still sometimes freaks me out. The action in that movie was so intense and the aliens were so nasty looking that nothing in Blair Bitch even comes close. I dare anyone to look into a mirror after seeing Candyman and say his name 5 times. I know this is going to piss off alot of the people in this site who worship Blair Bitch but Candyman felt more real than Blair Bitch. The legend of Candyman is much more original and detailed than legend of the Blair Cunt. Clive Barker's concept of the Candyman's folklore and our resulting fear causing him to be real was genius. A real urban legend. In Blair Cunt you never even see this bitch(I know that's supposed to be "scary" but whatever). The end of the movie, when PMS girl and fat shit go into that abandoned house CARRYING THOSE Video Cameras was SO FAKE. Your life is on the line and instead of keeping both your hands free to defend yourself you carry a fucking camera????? Give me a fucking break. The only people I know who thought that was scary think the WWF is real.
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Dec 03, 1999 7:30:49 PM CST
I loved BWP, and no, I don't think wrestling is real...
by loki trickster
jeez, that sounded too much like I'm in AA or something...no, I am not embarrassed to say that I liked BWP...in fact, I was actually scared by it. The thing about BWP is that it was for people with overactive imaginations...who were scared of the dark as a child. In my opinion, BWP was definitely the most inovative movie of the year...of course, it doesn't completely hold up when you think "Why didn't they drop the cameras?"...but when I was watching it for the first time, I didn't think that once. With a little imagination and a slight bit of suspension of disbelief, BWP can be a horrifying movie. The opening night crowd that I saw the movie with was almost uniformly scared out of their mind...great date movie. I saw it and the Sixth Sense within a week of each other, and I honestly was scared to turn out the light some nights...but I want both of them left as they are. I will not watch BWP2, or the Seventh Sense, and I hope both ideas crash and burn before they get a chance to take off. -Loki
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Dec 03, 1999 7:36:17 PM CST
The Blair Witch herself is the most interesting concept...
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...to come out of the movie. I must say I was disappointed with the movie all in all. It took FOREVER to get going into the good stuff, and by that time I was ready to puke cause of the camera. It's sad because I have a strong stomache for blood, puke and other icky schtuff, but make me watch a bouncy camera for an hour and I'm ready to regurgitate my popcorn on the floor. I would not go see a sequel, and I think they don't need to do a prequel. They could just make a movie about the Blair Witch a la Sleepy Hollow tones
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"In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found. Five years later even MORE footage was found."
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and I'm really happy to see someone bring up Candyman. I don't know how many times I've been trying to say that word five times in front of a mirror. But I couldn't get past the fourth time. It's completely stupid but when you get those feelings from seeing a movie, then it has given you some sort of scars for life. And as our good friend David Fincher (direct "BWP2" - get real!!!) said in a recent interview; A good movie is a movie that scars you for life. His favourite movie is "Jaws" because he has been afraid of swimming in the ocean ever since he saw it. Now that's a scar!
As for Blair Bitch, o sorry Blair Witch. I haven't seen in at the cinema but saw it on DVD. I found nothing in that movie to be scary. A scary movie is suppose to really get under your skin and that was something "BWP" didn't do. At least not for me. And now a message for all of you who wants a good horror movie. Get you hands on a copy of Nicolas Roeg's 1973 masterpiece "Don't Look Now" with Donald Sutherland. That's a movie you won't be able to forget right away and for some reason I have had this strange fear of midgets since I saw it! Wonder why? -
This movie was more hip than scary. To me, Blair Witch and Scream and Urban Legend aren't all that different. Yes Blair Witch was innovative but it still could've been much better. How about showing us some blood in that footage. Show us people getting hacked up on videa tape. Fuck this arrsy off the camera bullshit. It doesn't scare me or my 8 year old cousin. As for the comparisons to Scream look at it this way, the movie features young characters(early 20's) getting chased around by some maniac. Main character is a girl. Blair Witch was filmed in the fall of '97, right on the heels of the hit movies Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Blair Witch is nothing more than a hyped up really low budget version of Scream and I Know What You Did.
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Scream and Blair Witch both have girls as their lead, getting chased by a maniac (though in BWP, it can be argued that the force chasing them is purely supernatural) and THOSE are your reasons the movies are alike? Watch them both again and you'll see you're dead wrong. This has to be said...a massive amount of blood and guts does NOT make a movie scary. Case in point, IKWYDLS and its sequel, especially its sequel. And don't get me started on Urban "I'm so not scary and you can figure out the killer by watching the trailer, so we wasted a great concept" Legend. The reason those "arssy" moments are scarier than any amount of blood and guts is because if you let yourself get into it, stuff like that messes with your mind. Let's just say the torture of not knowing and the images conjured up in the mind are far scarier and lasting than anything they could have put on screen. You don't need anything more *spoiler* than that bloody tooth in the middle for it to be scary. (though they could have upped the creepiness factor earlier in the movie, I say)People who let themselves get scared and get into the psychological aspects of a movie or book have more fun than those who wait for a guy with a big knife to hack a cheerleader who spills a lot of blood.
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I thought I was watching a porno movie. Only the smart people like All Thumbs can be scared by video of rocks and trees. Us simpletons need blood and gore in movies like Psycho and Sixth Sense to be scared.
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And this is coming from the person who wrote the X-men poem...look BWP is a love it or hate it film...You hate it and I thought it was pretty good...This whole idea is Bad...It will make money it's opening weekend then die a horrible horrble death,,,,,,
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I agree with Harry that a prequel is perhaps a good idea, given that there's no shaking camera and it is in fact a "real" movie, prompting the story behind the house, Blair Witch, etc. But there is absolutely no way to concoct a sequel that is in any way decent or acceptable. EVERYBODY FROM THE FIRST MOVIE IS DEAD! Okay, granted, that's inferred (yet also implied), but there's really no other way to look at it. There was no "happy" ending. What's left to make a sequel of? A trio of cops go searching for the missing campers, take along a video camera for evidence purposes, and get lost? The friends\parents\what-not of the campers go looking for them? Any pitch you come up with sounds inane. People are going to realize this. The only reason BWP did so good to begin with was because the Internet sparked interest in people wondering exactly how a movie filmed entirely on hand-held cameras would pull off a scare-factor. I didn't hate BWP, but I didn't love it to death. I'm one of those few people that thought it was just okay. When a sequel comes around, everyone who hated BWP is going to groan, and everyone who loved it is going to be split up between the die-hard "I masturbate over the BWP posters in my room", the ones who are curious to see if it will be anything like the first, and those that, regardless of their love for the first, will realize a second film will ruin everything. In any case, a sequel will not even do half of what BWP did. And you can quote me on that.
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The Blair Witch Project only worked because it was a technical trick. It SEEMED real to many, although to me it grew tedious after about the first forty minutes. But even IF you enjoyed it...the thing that made it great was a technical trick (the phoney, hand-held documentary style). The story of the actual Blair Witch was a convuluted mish-mash of the supernatural crossed with psycho-killer nonsense. Does anyone want to see a movie about THAT? I don't. When you actually think about just what the movie REVEALED about The Witch, it's all kind of lame and silly. So if they do the documentary angle again it'll be old; if they tell the story conventionally it WON'T be the Blair Witch Project. In any case, I just hope they come up with a story that function with a bit more logic.
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Dec 03, 1999 9:09:48 PM CST
"...he'll appear behind you in the mirror, breathing down your n
by powerslave
"Candyman" was a very effective horror film, because it was low-key and understated. That made it more creepy. As for a 'Blair Witch' sequel/prequel, is anyone really surprised? At least now, maybe they can afford some real actors, a script, and a couple of tripods. It'll be based on another true story; that's why Spinal Tap has been approached to do the music. Has anyone noticed that with all the "newly discovered footage," they can sell this thing over and over and over again? Pretty slick.
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Lack of options. I've always thought implied scariness was scarier than in your face action. Not knowing is always worse. Scary movies get under my skin until you see the killer. I've waited a long time for someone to give me a movie where you never see the killer during the chase scenes, where you can get an idea b/c of the surround sound, but never know for sure. It's kind of like--& it sounds horrible, but sort of true if you think about it-- if someones kid is missing, waiting for the answer is worse than knowing your kid is dead, because once it happens you can start to heal or whatever. You hear about parents on soldiers in WW2 whose dog tags were never found, still half expect their kids to come home because they never had a chance to heal. Now I know it's 2 totally different things, but listen: the last scene in the house was the perfect ending because your mind can't rationalize it. That scene played over & over in my head after seeing it because my imagination took over. I kept imagining all these different things happening. The movie as a whole was above average (definitely not perfect) but the ending is my last impression of the movie & it stuck with me for days afterward. If I had seen what happened, I would have just moved on to the next movie. (ok, that doesnt really have much to do with my lost kid comparison, but I tried)...
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I never explained what I meant by "Lack of options." All I meant was that the Blair Witch Project wasn't that great, but it's the only movie that I've seen in my short life that really played on the unknown.
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Trying to rip off merchandise from this is even worse than a potential sequel. To me, it just seems like they're trying to squeeze every last drop of cash from this cow before it starves to death from embarassment. I don't really see how they're planning to make any money off of this.....Can anyone picture the kindergarten kids hoppin of the school bus clutching their Blair Witch Lunch Boxes, donning the latest Blair Witch t-shirt and Blair Witch Backpack. Then for the older crowd, get the Blair Witch realtime FMV game, using footage from the movie (anyone remember those Sega CD games like Ground Zero, TX?). I just don't see any of this finding a consumer market. Who's gonna buy Blair Witch action figures? Isn't the damned movie rated R? Kinda reminds me of when those Starship Trooper toys came out, the little kiddies wanted their parents to take them to see the film......there's a reason its rated R! Oh well, they have the potential to make some action figures, I can see it now...Terror Wailing Heather! Press a button and you get to hear that annoying scream!
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Every post I ever read by you has been an attack on someone else. Is there anyone you don't hate? I'm gonna be a nice guy and just suppose its your time of the month and that your not always like this. A poll on reel.com had Blair Bitch as the no.3 scariest movie of all time. Personally, I don't think it even belongs in the top 50. The movie depends entirely on whether you know or not if its a real. As for this whole questions unanswered thing that Blair Witch fans thought was so spectacular might I suggest renting Halloween? The end when the shrink looks on the ground and sees Michael Myers isn't lying there dead anymore was kickass. Granted the series went into self-parody with sequels I still dig that ending much more than the one in Blair Bitch.
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Ah, I didn't really get that sense of hostility that you did from reading any of FlmVr's posts...I think there's just something wrong with you. Your feelings are best expressed through song methinks.
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That's right-it sucked donkey nuts! The story was stupid, and the whole thing looked bad- especially bad when viewed on the big screen. The filmmakers ripped off "The Last Broadcast" (which really wasn't any better) in order to make the first film. It's no wonder Artisan is looking to other people to come up with the story for the sequel. But, no matter how many people take a stab at it, the film will suck. The first was praised because it was so different from typical "Hollywood" product. If the sequel were to be the same as the first, it would be torn to shreads because it wouldn't have the same feeling of originality. If the sequel is a "real" movie, it will be attacked for being another big-budget project. It's a no-win situation. But, I can't fault Artisan for going ahead. It's all they have-unless, of course, they want to make "Ringmaster Part 2".
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I have to disagree with all of you. I know I might as well say "hey everybody throw shit at me" when I disagree but the fact is, it's a really interesting story. The story takes place when Elly Kedward first flees her country and arives in America. She is an outcast in her community and stories and suspicions are spread about her until after trying to help some children she is accused of witchcraft because the children have pin pricks or cuts on their hands. The community lashes out and chain Elly to a tree in the woods during a severely cold winter and left for dead. Her body is never found but one year later several children and her accusers start disappearing. Now this may be another witch trial movie but there is so much back story that is truely intriguing and with a good director and script, this could be a great film. It will be nothing like Blair Witch Project in style and will fill in so much information. Check out the Blair Witch comic book and see what is so cool about this story.
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After posting my last mesaage I read all of your postings and you guys are clueless. Read my posting above to find out what the movie is going to be about. You guys are so short sited and unimaginative sometimes.
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What needs to be made is "The Bicentennial Man Project." In December of 1999, three film critics vanished in Hollywood while trying to figure out how a piece of crap like "BM" ever got made....
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. . .And I really don't want to, because I loved the first movie. It scared the life out of me, as no other movie has ever been able to do (especially not that Scream/I Know What You Did/Urban Legends crap). But, as others have mentioned, there really is no sustainable premise for a sequel, and as for a prequel. . .well, it'd have to be damn good. What the hell, Toy Story 2 was better then the origional (IMOHO) so they might be able to pull it off. Might. But with all the merchandising they're planning it looks to me like they're just gonna milk this thing strictly for the money, and that always leads to crap. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'm not.
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Dude, I have an awesome idea for a Blair Witch sequel, but I am keeping it under my hat. I just watched Mallrats and it is freakin' hilarious. Jason Lee is awesome.
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I knew that movie was fake from the scenes where they do the interviews witht the local townsfolk. For example, when they're interviewing the 2 fishermen, they're not looking at the camera but are just carrying on with their business fishing. Anyone who has ever watched the news or seen a documentary(about 2% of the people who thought this was a classic horror film) knows that people are never interviewed like that. They'll show you the guys fishing, the narrator's voice will tell you their names and what they do and then the scene will go to an interview of the two men sitting down on a rock or chair somewhere. Then they'll talk about the witch. Blair Witch has none of that. The two guys are just carrying on with their business not even noticing the camera. This is a classic?
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There are two ways to go with a sequel, the realistic or the supernatural. In the "realistic" approach we would be a study of hysteria and mob mentality. Think "Hunchback". After the release of the documentary, the curious, frightened, and outraged citizens discuss their theories on TV, online, and at the water cooler. Something happened in Burketsville, and we really should find out. A massive, stampeding search through the woods begins. Skeptics and psychics, sorcerers and priests, freaks and norms gather in the sleepy Maryland town and hunt down the witch. That version would of course be called "The Blaire Witch-hunt". Not my favorite idea, but if it ends with the witch revealing her purpose and then smiting down everyone, it could work. The other way to make this movie is to go full penetration. The original movie succeeded by poking holes in the perception of reality. We've all heard and told ghost stories, hopefully most of us can admit to experiencing that wonderful moment where, just for a second, we allow ourselves to believe that the impossible might be and is ready to pounce on you from behind. At its best, that is what TBWP did. But a second movie has to work from a different angle. I'm not asking to shine the revealing maglight of reason into the face of the uncertain terror, but rather to use the distorting night-light that casts long shadows. There are three well developed characters, a mystery that seems to bend back time, and a witch who has no clear motivation but seemingly immense power. This is the real story. That's enough for now...
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Umm, Golgo? Y'know, everyone knew Blair Witch wasn't real...because it was A MOVIE. So you found one scene that doesn't jibe with what you know of TV interviews and documentaries? Did you forget that the main characters are supposed to be *inexperienced* filmmakers? That they're supposed to be just a couple of dumb-ass RTF majors with an idea? Look, there *are* contrivances in Blair Witch to make it work as a film, but not many of them. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call the movie a classic, but it sure as hell was more innovative than any horror movies I've seen in years. The naysayers, for the most part, are folks who need visceral bloodletting in horror movies, who have no imaginations to let the film toy with. And folks who get motion sickness.
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sanchez and myrick really come off as two shams. i mean, they werent' even there for the filming of the first movie and now they're basking in the success of it. personally i think their sucess was a fluke. the film was original and i honestly had a good time with it but until they direct a traditionally shot film sucessfully they won't have any credibility in my book (of course my book ain't worth sh..). And another thing that the above report really pissed me off about was this: they're hiring this dude to be the guardian of the blair witch legend. There is no fargin blair witch legend. it was made up. i don't know about any of you guys but the idea of preserving and guarding a legend that isn't even really a legend seems a little ridiculous. legends are legends becuase they're rooted in an uncertain past. legends are passed down generation to generation and slowly work their way into a culture... legends aren't generated by movies. but then again, who am i to say what a legend should or shouldn't be. It just doesn't FEEL right. for what it's worth.
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A BLAIR WITCH sequel should most definitely be set one hundred years in the future, and should be about the genetically-engineered clones of Mike, Josh, and Heather who are being put through the Blair Witch paces once again to entertain a visiting dignitary of the President of the United Nations of America. The big gimmick this time is that they have anti-grav video cameras that hover around, and the film quality is really, really good.
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...Pharcyde....I'm seriosly the nicest person....sorry If my post are coming off hostile to you...the only time they are hostile is when I am flaming someone for flaming someone...vicious circle I guess...anyways sorry for the misunderstanding....Niiice thx for the words....
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Coop. The story you outlined might well be interesting, but it doesn't seem scary in the least. Also on your post about other people being short-sighted and unimaginative. Tell us what you're talking about instead of just sitting high and mighty on that cloud of yours only to come down and intermingle with the lowly Talkbackers when you get the whimsy.
Golgo - you win the Super Sleuths Award for the night, with your fantastic insight and ability, you were able to deduce that the Blair Witch Project was a fake. Congratulations! Then I read your arguments. HUH? All the reasons you gave were reasons why the Blair Witch Project would be a bad documentary. You missed the point of the whole damn movie! First of all, its supposed to be amateur (these are film students rememmber). Your logic is so completely off base! You're saying if 20/20 went out and did a documentary on the Blair Witch, and they used proper and professional documentary techniques, the Blair Witch would be real?? That's what your post says! The only thing that tipped you off to the "fakeness" of the Blair Witch Project were poor interviewing styles, which had nothing to do with what happened later on...wow, good deductive reasoning there! -
Niiiice thx for putting a smile on my face b4 i went to bed....You know what surprises me is the many people who still believe BWP is real footage...Think about it...if this was real footage would the family really allow their loved one's last hours really be shown to millions....anyways night.....
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"It is the year 3063. U.S. colonizing ships settle into orbit around the giant ball of gaseous waste known as Blome IV. A query probe is ejected into the murky depths below, but the signal is lost. Puzzled, Captain Eyeblo Gotes sends in a retreival party to recover the missing probe. As their shuttle touches ground on the foreign and alien soil of this barren and seared landscape, the members of the search party take a moment to regard this lifeless wasteland of the dregs of the universe. They set up base camp begin the search for the missing probe when one of them is found to be missing. The wind whipping past their ears sounds faintly like screams, there is a tinge of blood in the atmosphere." ... This is the beginning of Blair Witch 2, the Secret Society. The footage we see is the footage taken by the search party and sent back to earth via sattelite. Basically, we find out that the original Blair Witch was actually an ALIEN ESSENCE oringally from Blome VI, so the humans have just arrived at the home planet of the Blair Witch! It is eventually found out that the government knew of this all along and wanted to explore the possibilities of exploiting the Blair Witch aliens as a sort of biological weapon. Somehow, the humans manage to survive and begin the trek back to earth. Little do they know that one of them has been impregnated with a BLAIR WITCH EMBRYO, which paves the way to the THIRD movie, in which the Blair Witches propagate and take over earth: BLAIR WITCH 3 - THE LIVING HELL, synopsis to follow very shortly.
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Your post made me laugh (and I don't mean I'm laughing at you) I thought it was genuinely humorous. My point was that everyone seemed to jumping to the conclusion that a sequel would be more of the same which obviously would be a bad idea. If you don't see how the Elly Kedward story could be scary try this: One year after the trial of Elly, a child disappears and in her room many of her things are covered in some kind of slime. Everyone in the small town searches for the child and all they find for days are strange sounds and bizarre events that put a chill into the locals. One night there is a horrible scream and a few of the townsfolk come running. What they find is a woman mutilated in her home. Her skin is cut open and peeled back revealing that she is filled with strange sticks and her entrails and eyes are cooking in a pot over the fire. Strange ritualistic marks are carved into her skin and all this happened somehow within seconds of her scream with no sign of entry or exit in the home besides the door that was kicked in by those that discovered her. The next day the locals bury the woman and on their return find a strange pile of stones outside one families door. That night after the family eats, the daughter goes to bed placing a candle in the window as she says her prayers. As she prays, she glances up at the window seeing a woman with hair like twigs in the window glaring back at her. The child screams and runs downstairs to her mother and father telling what she has seen. The parents try to reassure the child that what they saw was the tree by the window and to prove it the father goes outside around the house and finds no one. The child goes back to bed and blows out the candle as the mother and father kiss her goodnight on the forehead. There is a chill in the air so the father goes out to get some firewood. After a few minutes the child hears something outside and says "Mother, I heard something this time" the mother says "your father is getting firewood dear, go back to bed". A storm is nearing and the child looks out the window to see her father chopping wood out the window lit by the occasional flash of lightning. She sees her strong father forcefully chopping into a log with a large axe with each flash of lightning. after several seconds of total darkness the lightning flashes again but no one is there. She looks around and doesn't see him anywhere but knowing he hasn't entered the house again. As the storm grows closer the lightning gets brighter and the whole area lights up showing her father hanging by his arms in a tree covered in blood. She screams and runs out of the room starting down the stairs but suddenly stops to see blood everywhere and the body of her mother laying on the floor nude and covered in blood with her arms and legs in the shape of an X. The camera slowly moves around to see the horror on the face of the child as a dark figure slowly glides up behind her almost appearing to float. The figure's hands move down almost touching the shoulders of the little girl and the scene fades to black. Well that's all for now kiddies, have a good night.
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Rather than a sequel, they should do a remake! It was such a great premise wasted on a shitty execution. Get a real director, to direct an actual script, with some real actors. DePalma!
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Hey Darth how about this.
Have Gus Van Sant direct a shot for shot remake starring Keanu Reeves as Josh, Jeneane Garofalo as Heather and Michael J. Fox as Mike. -
As long as it has a new ending, with Ron Jeremy as the Blair Witch!!!
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If they actually go through with this, I will kill myself online.
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The Blair Witch Project was the worst movie I have seen all year, (excluding Double Jeopardy). It was such a media hyped piece of trash! This cash in is just further proof that Hollywood isn't about Art, or anything artistic. It's just sad that original scripts stay in development limbo while pieces of trash like this go into development because they have a built in audience. This is the Psycho remake all over again.
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Seems like it would work well. Still, I personally have to lean my affections towards my already proposed BLAIR WITCH 2 - THE SECRET SOCIETY. It even has a trilogy set up!
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Has anyone noticed how this film was marketed and executed exactly like a porno?
Sure we got the nice glossy cover with its professional photography work, but checking out the movie itself we discover that it's a little less attractive.
And like most pornos, it's only good the first time around. The second time isn't as great.
Pornos rarely have substance. It's only candy.
The running time was even the same.
And then we have the dedicated porno junky that'll tell us the camera work was this way on purpose and this and that and this and that...
Using porno strategies on avid moving going audience is clever, seductive, as long as they can stimulate us with face value alone. -
This is verbatim from my site and I had this up two days ago. KJB http;//www.backstage-pass.com
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I loved BWP. I also am a fan of slasher horror movies. All in all they are HORRIBLE movies, but fun to watch. I think the best way I've heard it put was by a Blockbuster co-worker. As he told a customer "It's not a horror movie." The Blair Witch Project is all suspense and imagination. People who rely too much on the normal horror movie style of guts and blood across the screen were going to hate it, I knew that. I also knew what this movie really was. It played with your mind. Months after I saw it I slept outside at a camp for the first time in years. As I slept with my back to the trees, animals knocked nuts out of them which gave the sound of someone walking through leaves. My mind flashed back to BWP and the things in it. I had let myself be drawn into the movie when I saw it, and now it stuck in my head, which is where the fear comes in from that movie.
As for the talk of a sequel? HELL NO!! I have to agree with Harry. A prequel could work, if they do it as a straight forward movie. -
Marty McFly and Doc get the Delorean up and running again, so that Marty can go back and save Heather, Michael, and Josh so that the original movie will never get made. And then they all realize by preventing the first movie from being made, the movie you are watching shouldnt even exist, and then they all disapper in a sudden poof of logic and the screen goes black.
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I just hope, if they do a sequel/prequel, they have that lead actress naked (cuz, let's face it, in a REAL movie she woulda been shown washing up in the stream or doing it with the camera guy).
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I think they should center the sequel around Col. Kilgore's (Robert Duvall's) attempts to fire bomb the woods in order to exact final revenge upon the hairy, floating, arts-and-crafts twig bundling, tent-vandalizing, disreputable house-keeper of a DEMON that dwells within the woods. Let's see some satanic force withstand napalm (a haunted parking lot just isn't too frightening). Or else just MAYBE they could get Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis to investigate the woods with proton packs.
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I can't believe that people are employed to maintain the credibility of the series/franchise/whatever.
How much power do these people have? If the powers thatr be decide they're gonna make a prequel/sequel because the original made a shedful of cash, they're gonna make one no matter what.
Personally, I think leave it alone. It was a damn fine film that broke a lot of moulds. History has shown that trying to follow up a film like this doesnt work (Exorcist II, anyone?) -
I just heard...Jesse Spencer may be in line for the role of the BW! more to come...
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I see only two possible films as follow ups. One is of course, the pre-quel. Either the 1800's origin of the legend or the 1930's serial killer would work well. Throw in the fact that the film was found in a 200 year old house foundation and you have the additional possibility of seeing the "real" fate of the trio!!
As for a sequel, anyone remember how the mother of one of the kids hired a PI and began her own investigation? What about a new search party going into the woods with guns, infra-red cameras, and a bunch of tech. In the end they would all get killed to like the search party that went looking for the little girl in 190? -
Been logging onto AICN for a while now from overseas, and I love it but i do have one major gripe and it concerns a woman by the name of the blair witch. This film would probably have been a goodish arthouse movie which a few people would have gone to see and probably enjoyed and that would have been that. However thanks to you stupid Yank bastards we're definitely gonna have to sit through the same bullshit at least once if not twice!!!!! The film wasn't even original which everyone uses in its defence (Cannibal holocaust and that jersey devil movie). So next time your hormones and your fucking hype machines go into action, try and stop yourselves from creaming in our pants before you've seen the fucking lame duck, and save us poor bastards across the ocean from all your fucking hype, which almost fucked up that sacrosanct of things, The Phantom Menace this year. Just stick to shooting kids in schools and saying it has got nothing to do with your gun laws, if you stupid bastards spent half the time you did masturbating each other over the Blair shit, on changing your fucking insane gun laws and getting someone to find out what's going on inside Charlton Heston's warped little mind (the guy may have been one of the greatest actors ever and played Moses etc. but he does not speak the word of god-at least not a god that isn't doing crack)then your country wouldn't be such a fucked up place. You keep hyping them and we'll keep knocking them down!!
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Maybe they should remake BWP using a stillcam!
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I liked the original BWP as well. I thought it was a very original and iventive concept and was executed perfectly. I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel if it looks like the integrity has been maintained. But I wanted to adjust one small issue, this whole,"why didn't they drop the camera?" thing. Did it ever occur to anybody that they were in the middle of the pitch black woods? The cameras were the only source of light they had. Not only that, but what if they had survived but ditched the cameras? When they got out and told their stories no one would believe them...of course then they'd have to go back to the woods to retrieve the cameras and prove that they aren't crazy. Dang! There's a sequel right there! Why didn't they just drop the freakin' cameras?!?
Seriously (and I may be covering ground that's long since been covered on this site but I never got a chance to post when the movie was fresh so I'm doing it now) I've also read where someone was upset that we never see the Blair Witch, well quite frankly I don't want to see it. That's part of the mystique. To quote Mr. Verbal Kent(Kint?) from The Usual Suspects,"the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Just like we never see the bright thingee in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction but it's been the subject of debate for years. Was there really a Blair Witch? Or was it a very cruel prank by some sick locals? That's one of the problems that a possible sequel faces, if they reveal whatever it was that killed the trio then they'd definitely kill whatever magic the BWP had. I don't envy their position...no wait a minute, yes I do. -
End of discussion.
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...Martha Stewart, of course! Notice how the twigs shaped like the Blair Witch "symbol" were so elegantly crafted, and hung in an eye-catching way? Also, the writing and bloody handprints on the walls, and even the lighting and ambience of the house in general was so tasteful...I could've sworn I heard a voice say "That's a Good Thing" numerous times in the film...
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Havn't seen the movie yet, seeing it tomorrow but it seems that a whole lot of people are being so critical of the movie that I suspect they are being so, not entirely due to them disliking the movie. There is one theory, that people were actually scared and were too afraid to admit so, and thus proclaimed that the movie was shit.
There is another theory which I am more convinced by however, and that is that sometimes... people just need to feel different, need to stand out from the crowd. They go against the tide in regards to how the others feel just to draw attention to themselves. This is always blatantly apparent when you read the reviews of some propaganderish piece of crap (cough*courier_mail*cough).
I am in no way denying people of their right of opinion, but when people to go into a movie with a speculatively closed mind, I think that their opinion is of little worth, ie. anyone that uses the word arrsy to describe the camera shooting (they can't even spell arsey right). Any of you who have seen The Elephant Man will realise that there was huge suspense until the Elephant Man's face was revealed, and after that the movie had to rely on its dramatic aspects. Getting pissed off at a movie because it uses suspense shows that you really do have the IQ of a Chicken McNugget.
So tomorrow I will see the BWP for myself, I don't whether I will like it but even if I hate it I will still be satisfied because I went in to the cinema with an open and imaginative mind.
PS. That thing in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction was the Big Black Crime Boss's (I can;t remeber his real name) soul. In the beginning you see that he has a wound on the back of his neck and in Ancient Egyptian (I think) mythology, it is stated that the human soul can be extracted by drilling a hole in the back of the neck, that was in an X-Men episode as well, when they tried to defeat Colossus. So if it was in the X-Men, it must be right!
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