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i watched the blair witch project last nite & it scared me half to death! So much so that i barely had any sleep! I wouldn't mind, but i've seen it b4!!! Any films provoke the same reaction with anyone else? I find the exorcist quite disturbing aswell!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

the Video Dead terrified me. All my TV zombie blood nightmares come true.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

the blair witch project doesn't scare me, as I am always left wondering why at the end of the film is the guy standing in the corner taking a piss? And there is also some technical issue I noticed about the camera work.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Well i thgt that the first time i watched it. The key to it is at the start of the film when people are relaying the legend. One guy says that the blair witch makes one person stand in the corner whilst killing the other so that he/she doesnt have eyes on him/her whilst killing someone. So really, when the girl saw the guy standing in the corner, she should have known that her time was up!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i had a big fite w.my friend ken abt blair witch: we saw it together and came out the cinema and he said "meh only an idiot wd be scared of that", meanwhile i wz trying to stop my heart going into palpitations

a friend of ken's described it as "90 minutes of twigs", which i admit is k-funny, but i still think it is a genuinely scary movie

panic = pan-ic fear = fear of the great god pan = the fear that comes on you in the lonely woodZoRs surrounded by twigs

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it is partly due to the fact that u never see the thing that is scaring u, which means ur mind turns it into the one thing that u r scared of!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

it's Ally!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the Blair Witch project was really good, but it actually gave me motion sickness when I saw it in the theatre. I didn't want to leave because I liked the movie, but the whole time I felt really nauseous and kept putting ice on my eyelids. When I finally left the theatre after the movie was over, I had to sit in my car for about 30 minutes before I was well enough to drive home.

A great scary movie in theatres now is THE RING. I saw it Friday night and totally loved it. It scared the hell out of me. The chick from Muholland Drive (sp?) is great. So, go see it.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 21 October 2002 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

ha the original of the ring = the only film i have ever walked out of (though i've come close with other films cos they were rub - btw have we done a thread on this??). about 30mins in i realised that i was so scared that i wasn't enjoying myself, and furthermore had to go back on my own to an empty house at the end of it. so i left and went to the pub instead.

having said that i am v esay to scare eg i was wimpering on the sofa in front of the others, much to my flatmate's amusement/disgust.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i still think it is a genuinely scary movie

I'll have to agree -- tearing it apart on the basis of logic and what the three people 'should' have done (which is the biggest complaint I've always heard about it) can only happen if you do the same for every other scary movie person ever, which could take a while. ;-) I thought it was a good translation of the classic Poe-via-Lovecraft derived gambit of the 'narrator' describing his final moments, only with cameras rather than scribbled "It's coming...I hear it outside the DOOR!" notes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I watched BWP again last night, and actually found it creepier the second time round. I turned off the lights, and at one point knocked the remote control off my chair - scared the living shit out of me. And then, during an ad break, I went for a piss and came back in the living room to find that my flatmate had returned quietly (didn't hear his key in the door etc.) - again, sheer heart attack time.

But yeah, apart from all that, BWP def one of the grate SCREAM movies - except for maybe the final third of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I can't think of another horror flick where there's so much LOUD crying/shrieking/wailing. The use of sound is spot-on throughout - that childlike giggling outside the tent, CREEPY!

Other movies that have scared me: Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho (both of which seem like v. black comedies on repeat viewing), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Suspiria, the Shining, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome...

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

the bit in TCM that totally creeps me out is the first killing, where he just steps out into the corridor and wacks him and drags him inside: the killed guy kind wriggles and twitches

haha the shining: i am afraid of HAM do you see?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I taped this and i'll watch it with the lights off. if i don't post tomorrow then it means i've had a heart attack.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought the BWP was very scarey, to the point where after watching it i couldnt go to the loo ( which was downthe other end of a very big spooky house ).
also found 'funny games' scarey, but in a different way. that got me terrified about opening the front door for a week.
scream etc i think are just 'jump' scarey. it doesnt last once the credits roll and they dont actually scare me anyway now that i think of it.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

what, they remade Ring? GO SEE THE ORIGINAL

(toby you puss)

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

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