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I just saw "The Blair Witch Project" and I can think only one thing....scary my ass! The first hour and a half was nothing but the cast walking through the woods and cussing up a storm. Then the "horror" began. I must say, after all the hype I've heard surrounding this movie, I was thoroughly disappointed.
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A few people told me it was terrifying, so I didn't want to go see. I have an EXTREMELY overactive imagination. But apparently according to you, and a few others, It's not even scary. I might go see it, after all.
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Well, maybe it was due to the fact that I had seen so many interviews and news pieces on the film that I didn't feel a hightened sense of realism and wasnt frightened.
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I found it to be a truly fascinating film, and one of the more original films of the horror / scary genre that has come to the screen for quite a long time.
The key to this film, like any good scary movie is your imagination. Steven King once said that the monster is more scary in the closet whereas once you bring it out, well there goes the whole idea that you have built in your mind.
To compare this movie to the recent The Haunting, TBWP wins hands down in both the movie making and the scary department. The thing about most recent horror flicks of late is that they have gone one of two directions in general.
Either the overblown CGI of The Haunting which was supposed to be scary (I guess for any lack of real fright, the house moving around was supposed to put me on the edge of my seat) or the way of the Scream movies; the bump in the dark, investigate, run into a friend you weren't expecting around the corner, get scared for a second, but you aren't really scared you've mearly been jolted, find the real killer, get decapitated. Oooo, that is scary.
For my money, TBWP ranks among the best horror films like say The Exorcist.
But, then again, each to his or her own I guess.
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Well, it sounds like it's a good thing I decided not to see "The Blair Witch Project" last week since I was able to see any movie I wanted thanks to a bet I won. Looks like I'll go see "The Thomas Crown Affair" this weekend.
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I sense a pattern. Coming soon to a theater near you: The Steve Martin Incident, The Will Smith Fading Fame Vehicle, and The Bruce Willis Enigma.
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What scares people is subjective like everything else. "The Blair Witch Project" scared the hell out of my friends and me when we saw it yesterday and Michael, Freddy, Jason and chest busters don't make us bat an eye. It was the fear of what you *don't* see and the creeping dread that got to us. Predict brisk sales of cell phones to hikers.
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