new Blair Witch Project sequel

[James Y]

Jill, Jim have you seen It Follows? I'm not sure I'd call it scary either, but it came closer than anything else ever has.

It's a really odd concept for a horror movie and manages to build an anxiety throughout the film. I remember feeling quite uncomfortable while watching it. Good movie.

Yes, I have, and it's a good one. Very good concept and atmosphere, IMO. Interestingly, when I went to see it in the multiplex, there were only a few other people there to see it, and those few others had all walked out within the first half hour or so. I guess there weren't enough big stars, fast pacing, 'jump scares' or CGI effects for them.

Here's a few other horror films that I feel have a very good atmosphere of dread (although YMMV):

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971).

The Witch (2015).

Pulse (AKA Kairo, original Japanese version, 2001). Kairo has great atmospherics during maybe the first 45 minutes or so, but IMO the movie ends up feeling a bit too long and drawn out.

Carnival of Souls (1962). First saw this as a kid, and IMO, for such a low-budget B&W movie, it was ahead of its time.

There are others, but that's just off the top of my head. Oh, and I forgot to mention in my first post in this thread that there is one more 'found footage' horror film I thought was pretty decent (again, YMMV):

Noroi the Curse (Japan, 2005).

Jim

 

[Gaston444]

His emphatic praise convinced me to go see it rather than Sixth Sense which was our original intention.

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The Sixth Sense has to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen that got such universal praise... Even the awful Tim Burton Batman did not get this much gushing praise...

So there is a big reveal at the end, which I could see coming from about ninety minutes out... Big deal.

There is nothing going on in it, and the director went on to direct a lot of other movies, some fairly original in atmosphere but always illogical in character behaviour, and often repetitive, that became steadily more disappointing... "Fragile internal logic" is the best term I remember being used to sum up his stories... Characters getting worked up over things they couldn't possibly know about or believe, unless the director told them so...

There have been several copycats of "Blair Witch", and one of them, whose title I forgot, was actually almost as good: It involved a video image being slowly cleaned with a computer by one character, working on this on the side of the action throughout, as she explained the work involved, and the reveal of the image at the end was the big surprise... It was quite haunting...

Gaston

 

[not2sharp]

I saw a preview of a new Blair Witch movie, apparently the main characters brother is trying to obtain information about what happened to the original characters twenty years ago. ....

Let's just hope they skip the shaky cam this time around. I am hoping they made enough off of the first movie to at least rent a decent tripod.

n2s

 

[Bob W]

Let's just hope they skip the shaky cam this time around. I am hoping they made enough off of the first movie to at least rent a decent tripod.

n2s

The shaky camera wasn't as bad the jerk kids who were so horribly annoying and obnoxious.

 

[Bob W]

The Sixth Sense has to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen that got such universal praise... Even the awful Tim Burton Batman did not get this much gushing praise...

So there is a big reveal at the end, which I could see coming from about ninety minutes out... Big deal.

There is nothing going on in it, and the director went on to direct a lot of other movies, some fairly original in atmosphere but always illogical in character behaviour, and often repetitive, that became steadily more disappointing... "Fragile internal logic" is the best term I remember being used to sum up his stories... Characters getting worked up over things they couldn't possibly know about or believe, unless the director told them so...

Gaston

I really liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. The Village was ok.
Signs was horrible. Bad script, illogical premise, dumb story, contrived plot gimmicks...

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I really liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. The Village was ok.
Signs was horrible. Bad script, illogical premise, dumb story, contrived plot gimmicks...

I thought the Sixth Sense was a great movie, might have had something to do with really liking the kids mother. Anyway, Unbreakable was a great concept with two of the best actors out there, Bruce and Samuel (actually, Bruce just stares like an axe murderer and Sam yells and curses a lot, but I am still entertained). I didn't think that they did a good job in it. Signs scared the heck out of me when I got out of the theater, but when I bought the DVD, nah, I gave the DVD away.

I never saw the one with the wood nymph in the water, or the trees that kill everyone. The Village was another interesting concept, but it just wasn't that great. I saw Signs and Village in the theater, and was disappointed that I spent my money in the theater than on a dvd at home.

My cousin just had a birthday, and he and his fiancée want to see the new Suicide Squad. I heard it was horrible, I haven't seen a movie in the theater since Deadpool. I really wanted to see Capt America and Xmen, but passed. It's just too much $.

 

[stabman]

The Village was another interesting concept, but it just wasn't that great.

The Village sucked too.
Got it on DVD; my wife and I both hated it.
We told her sister that it was the best movie though, and tricked her into watching it...she was pissed off at us for months.

 

[T.K.C.]

I saw this movie while it was still in the theater. While standing in line at the box office I talked to another guy who said he was seeing it for the 11th time.

He went on and on about how great it was and how it was the best horror movie he'd ever seen.

His emphatic praise convinced me to go see it rather than Sixth Sense which was our original intention.

His image is still seared into my brain and I WILL smash his nose in with my shoe if I ever see him again. Moron. Not kick him mind you, I'll remove my footwear and bludgeon his nose flat with it.

I LOVE that response of yours!!

 

[James Y]

I really liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. The Village was ok.
Signs was horrible. Bad script, illogical premise, dumb story, contrived plot gimmicks...

TBH, I don't like ANY of director M. Night Shyamalan's (sp?) films. M. Night almost always seems to mute the personalities of the characters the lead actors play. Probably so that when M. Night's inevitable appearances in his own films come along, his lack of acting ability won't stick out as badly. He tries to 'pull a Hitchcock' but without the subtlety. IMO, M. Night's films have always been too self-conscious and self-indulgent. They try too hard to be clever, and it feels forced.

I did end up seeing Devil, and though it was produced by M. Night Shyamalan, he didn't direct it. Which is probably why I thought it was the best movie he was involved in (that I've seen).

Jim

 

[boy&hisdogs]

I didn't see the original until just recently. I made sure to be home alone and stay up super late to watch it. For someone with a level head and decent outdoor experience, it was pretty painful watching those obnoxious kids act like fools for the first half of the movie. But, once the spooky got rolling, then I enjoyed it.

Normally I hate "found footage" movies but this one didn't bother me that much. I read that the crew/actors actually did get a bit lost during filming, some of the on-screen panic was real!

I doubt I'll be seeing this new one any time soon though, I've grown to despise all the "20 years later" sequels being made these days.

...Signs was horrible. Bad script, illogical premise, dumb story, contrived plot gimmicks...

I agree 100%, except I was a kid when Signs came out, and this scene will be forever burned into my mind as one of the creepiest things I've ever seen on film, ever. Just thinking about it still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.