Quoted from tomson I agree that Blair Witch was different, it just didn't work too well on me "scare wise". The Ring however was a totally different matter.

The Blair Witch Project was intended to be very realistic, which it was.  The three characters were very realistic and none of them bigger than life.  The jerky camera shots were that of a person walking through the woods with a camera.  The fact that we never saw what was out there allowed my to think the worse and face our own worse fears in that situation.

I know too many people who sang praise abouyt this movie, only to change their mind completely after other people criticized it.


Phil

I rented a video, called 'Boo,' a few weeks back.  It was about a bunch of teens who spend Halloween in an abandonned insane asylum.  The story was a bad as it sounds and the acting was worse than most porn movies.  I was impressed with the directing, however.  While it was an American movie, it had a lot of Japanese horror influences.

If you want to see all the story/writing mistakes you should avoid, rent this movie.  Kudos to the director.  He was the only reason I finished watching it.


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe The Blair Witch Project was intended to be very realistic, which it was.  The three characters were very realistic and none of them bigger than life.  The jerky camera shots were that of a person walking through the woods with a camera.  The fact that we never saw what was out there allowed my to think the worse and face our own worse fears in that situation. I know too many people who sang praise abouyt this movie, only to change their mind completely after other people criticized it. Phil

thats because it wasnt "trendy" anymore.. and everyone just sort of followed the leader of the band wagon...

god forbid people make up their own minds what what they like and dont like instead of other people having to decide for them.

Quoted from tomson I know it was intended to be realistic, including the jerky camera movements. I agree with the part that we never saw "it" added to the scare factor. One reason I think Contact was great, they never showed us any silly aliens, but let us use our  imagination instead (not to scare, but make us wonder). I probably had just heard and read too much about BW before I saw it.

i found Contact to be a bit of a letdown at the end...

after all that.... she meets her father??    i dont know about that.


dogglebe how much can you expect from a movie titled "Boo"

Quoted from Herodreamer79 i found Contact to be a bit of a letdown at the end... after all that.... she meets her father??    i dont know about that.

That was not her father, they used the likeness of him because she wasn't ready for the real "aliens". They thought she would feel more comfortable if she saw her dad. Did you notice Pensacola? That wasn't real either..  

what i meant was all this build up and then we see her "father"... you cant help but want more.

It may not have been climactic, but it was realistic.  The aliens set everything up for Jodie Foster's character so she wouldn't be overwhelmed.


Phil

Blair Witch: The funniest part of this whole Blair Witch deal was when I heard dome DJ's talking about it on the radio. Someone was saying they liked it and the other DJ was saying "But it was fake!" My first thought was "It's a movie; what did you expect?" I think too many people put too much stock in "this really happened" kind of like the affair surrounding The Amityville Horror. Saying it's real makes it scarier, but as soon as the truth comes out, everyone gets disenchanted.

I liked Blair Witch. I thought the whole concept was really clever and I thought it was really, really scary because it FELT real. It's a level of realism that no other movie really has. As long as you can suspend your disbelief for the film, it works really well. If you go in thinking this is a slasher and it's fake, you'll be just that disappointed.

yeah, i loved the whole mythology they built around it as well...
and the actors... for no names... did an incredible job with what they had to work with... from what i hear was not a lot... they had some script but a lot of it was improvised as well.

Quoted from George Willson I liked Blair Witch. I thought the whole concept was really clever and I thought it was really, really scary because it FELT real. It's a level of realism that no other movie really has. As long as you can suspend your disbelief for the film, it works really well. If you go in thinking this is a slasher and it's fake, you'll be just that disappointed.

As a writer I really appreciated this film because of the simplicity of the story and how there were no special effects used (unless you count someone hitting the side of a tent).


Phil

Quoted from Herodreamer79 yeah, i loved the whole mythology they built around it as well...

Hear that kids? Backstory, backstory, backstory. Such is a big part of what made this film work. Stuff happened before the film did and they build on it. The very last scene in the film was a throwback to the information they gathered at the beginning.

Totally agree, Phil.

Wow what chatter boxes I have found   Makes me so happy.

I hated Blair Witch because of the shaky camera movement.  It made me so sick I couldn't even finish it.  I have no idea what actually took place in the movement because I was too busy trying to soothe my migraine and ease the level of nauseousness I was experiencing.

I haven't seen The Ring yet, want to.

Oh and another one.  Silent Hill, I just saw the commercial for that one.

I enjoyed the Ring, but preferred Blair Witch Project.  I think taking the shaking camera movement away would take away some of the realism.

I'm looking forward to Silent Hill.  Playing SH2 is probably the scariest thing I've ever done.


Phil

Quoted from tomson Since I seem to be the only "stick in the mud" about Blair Witch, am I also the only one that thought The Ring was creepier?

The Ring was a very creepy movie. And I'm one of the crowd who feel the American Ring was better than the Japanese Ringu. While Blair Witch might have realism on its side, The Ring is a better film in overall watchability than Blair Witch as well. Ring is superior to Ringu because it integrates an actual curse from the video that progress over the seven days, driving the cursed one mad. In Ringu, you watch the video and nothing happens over the next seven days until you die. Kind of anti-climactic in my opinion.

And you're entitled to be a sitck in the mud if you want to. Everyone has their own opinion on everything.

Does anyone like teen-trendy-horror?