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: post by xmikex at 2006-08-17 09:44:09
vomitthesoul said:
xmikex said:
Blair Witch Project was a good movie. I stand behind that.


How can u like that crap? Nothing fucking happens!!!


obviously something happens. the movie starts in the suburbs and ends up with everyone dead in an abandoned house in the woods.

Personally, I thought it was a really interesting and subversive movie. For the most part I don't like horror movies. They're formulaic, predictable, too dependent on special effects, and rely on cheap tricks to get reactions from people. The whole thing is shot in the dark waiting for something to jump out and scare you, the movies always have the same progression that builds up to some CGI monster revealing itself in the end (which by that time isn't frightening at all). Seriously, when was the last time you were actually frightened by the appearance of a monster, or murderer or whatever in a horror movie.

Blair Witch was the first neo-realist horror movie. Natural lighting, no special effects, no soundtrack, no cheap tricks. The result (I thought) was something genuinely interesting, entertaining, and subversive. Look at the scenes when they're hearing noises in the woods... the majority of what's scary in those scenes isn't what's visual, it's auditory. Instead of overloading you with visuals it gives you something to feel, something to let your imagination play with a little, and the visuals merely compliment it. It was things like that that made me enjoy the movie.
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