Is this the most boring horror film of all time?

Is this the most boring horror film of all time?

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if you're 12 yes

No, that'd be Lake Mungo. Blair Witch is a rollercoaster ride next to Lake Mungo. here, let me save anyone that hasn't seen it 90 minutes of your life:
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The babadook

>Blair Witch is a rollercoaster ride
lol no it's not. it's consistently boring as shit.
>talking to some old people
>oh looks some rocks
>oh shit some crackling sounds
>oh look weird things hanging from trees
>oh no the map disappeared
Even calling it a horror film is a stretch.

Looking back at The Blair Witch Project 18 years after its release and calling it boring pretty much explains and validates its appeal. It ushered in a new subgenre that has utterly dominated horror for the past decade. They're releasing a sequel in a week that I'm sure will be an amped-up, high-octane Hollywood shitquel that will no doubt be more your speed, you fucking moron.

I like how you deliberately chose to ignore the entirety of the sentence to serve your purpose. You must be great to argue with.

You realize that the movie not showing you what's in the dark was the reason why it was so good? If it was filled with jumpscares it would be another run of the mill horror movie. Characters were realistic and their descent to madness was beliveable.

Well..................

>pretending to enjoy found footage movies

>Characters were realistic and their descent to madness was beliveable.
What a load of bull. They constantly overreacted and it was annoying as hell. Acting was shit too.

Would you not overreact if you got lost in the fucking woods?

The actors were good, since 90% of the movie was improvised. Also, they were lost for 3 days in an unknown enviorment and they heard some rumors about some witch, while they heard wierd shit during the night. It was beliveable.

Blair Witch Project is quintessential horrorkino, and only unimaginative plebs disagree.

This.

Lake Mungo is the most boring horror movie ever made.

This. Throwing the map away is ridiculous, but you would freak out. You're like that poster who asked why they didn't burn the forest down. It's a great horror movie that you don't seem to appreciate.

Mike hating it is so expected

"BUT, IT'S A FEW FILM STUDENTS GET LOST WITH A LOT OF SHOTS AIMED AT THE DARK. IT'S BORING"

Mike got BTFO'd

Yeah, and I'm the Queen of England

Second part of my post was addressed to

You're an idiot, dude.

Most of dialogue was unscripted, and the actors were also lost innawoods for real, they were being told where to go through GPS. They were also given less food and provisions as the shooting went on, and were deprived of sleep by the producers harassing them at night.

Their reactions are about genuine as it gets.

It was great in its time, before the Internet was widespread, partially because everybody didn't talk about it so quickly, and because there was no online hype and "making of" shit.

I rewatched it yesterday with someone who had never seen it before.

I loved it even more than I did when I first watched it. It's creepy as shit. All of the night scenes are great, especially the second one where they hear children laughing and the tent starts getting rustled to all hell. I'm still very curious what exactly Heather saw when she yelled "What the fuck is that?" Did she see a person, some children, or something else entirely? I imagine she must have looked back at the tent to see what was rustling it.

My friend seemed to be on the edge of her seat for most of it, but afterward she claimed she hated the movie. She seemed especially disappointed by the ending. I think she expected to see a monster or something.

Reposting, as always, my opinion. 1/2

[The Blair Witch Project] explores the utterly inhuman, that which is completely removed from our possibility of knowing through its not-residing in our world - and it manages to capture it on film!

To be clearer: the Witch is something horrifying because it exists on its own terms, removed from humanity and its categories (which is, at least for me, the true source of horror - and philosophy, as every critical thought begins with amazement/wonder [thaumazein]. you could say that the history of philosophy is the history of humanity's horror); we understand it insofar as it, as entity (and even this is debatable), makes things happen that we can understand, but we merely get to see and interpret these outward, inconsequential signs instead of the Thing-In-Itself. Example: the stick figures. In the movie the protagonists think they represent some kind of boundary, a way to manifest the Witcch's presence on the territory, and in doing so they unconsciously superimpose their own wills and ideas on the things - the reason why THEY'd put them up would be to make their presence felt, but the only thing we "know" for certain is that these stick figures exist. They may be something that merely happens due to the Witch's presence, like we unknowignly have an effect on the air composition of a room we are into.

Don't know if I made myself clear, but the whole movie is about this issue - it's a First Contact movie more than it is a conventional horror, it's the process of encountering the Unknown (and unknowable) and reacting to it. It's a study on the limits of humanity and the vastness of Being. This alone makes it one of the best movies ever made this century.

2/2
All of the above would make it a great story, the reason why it's a great film is that the concept of the unknown is captured by the "ontological conditions" of the medium itself: movies are, in their essence, the portrayal of the image, of "what is there to see" (an extremist like Vertov or Benning could say, maybe: of pure movement); there is nothing outside of what is recorded, and what is recorded is the truth of the film. Mimesis, realism, attinence to a story - all of these are afterthoughts, accretions of meaning one could attach, tumorally, to the essence of the film. The Blair Witch Projects captures the image and plays it back, no more, no less. We don't see the Witch, because the Witch isn't there to see - or isn't there to see for humanity and its tools. We see everything else, and by finding the glaring obviousness of what is lacking from the apparent completeness of Being we are presented as reality, we cannot but feel terrified and inconsequential.

>expecting me to read all of this shit
>>>/reddit/

She'd seen the Blair Witch, but they didn't aim the camera at her like they were supposed to, so we didn't get to see her.

No, we expected you to be a retard, and that we certanly got.

Should have put your dick in her mouth to shut her up. The ending is the best part i remember about the movie, if you follow the story of the witch it hits you just how creepy it is.

>I'm still very curious what exactly Heather saw when she yelled "What the fuck is that?"

It was one of the producers running alongside them with a stocking on his head and sweatpants over his shoulders like this

What? The ending is pretty much the best you could have hoped for.

It was too predictable.

Yeah but see the problem with everything is the found footage aspect is fucking horrible.

It's an excuse to make a movie for 18 bucks and convince idiots like you that "this is art this is unique this is creative." It's a fucking miserable film to watch.

I hope you don't actually believe this. It's LITERALLY one of the worst endings of all time.

>"this is art this is unique this is creative."

lol no dude it's just a neat concept

Is any of that true and legal?

From IMDb:
>When Heather screams "What the **** is that?!" she is seeing one of the movie crew standing on a hill dressed in white with a ski-mask on. Josh was holding the camera as ran behind her and didn't manage to catch the image on film.

What? This movies entire strength is being a found footage movie.

Not going to lie.

It's the one of the very few times I've felt this but Jay absolutely and objectively blew Mike the fuck out on this one.

The only other time I can think of is Mike saying Carpenter movies should have orchestral scores.

Found footage is 100% garbage

She'd seen something. I'm not entirely convinced that this was the work of the Blair Witch. It may not be anything supernatural at all.

The only thing in the movie that borders on the supernatural is the idea that they walked in one direction for an entire day and ended up in the same spot. There are logical reasons why that could have happened anyway.
>They're retarded.
>Magnetic minerals in the soil fucking with their compass.
>They can't think straight because they're all losing their minds.

It could have just been violent rednecks, satanists, etc.

That's pretty cool to know.

99%, BWP is the only good one ever

No, it truly was the Blair Witch. The actors were suposed to aim the camera towards it, but they didn't, because they didn't know they were suposed to.

I thought the acting was good and realistic but it wasn't very interesting or compelling when it was basically them going "FUCK" over and over again for 30 minutes.

What about Rec?

You are so full of shit. Witches don't wear ski masks. Not now, not ever.

If that's the case, then I'm glad they didn't.

Don't lash at me, lash at directors.

Yeah, they weren't interesting characters, but they were belivable.

Agreed, the movie worked better without showing her.

The Scooby Doo Project was better

Rec is enjoyable but BWP is the only one that actually feels like authentic found footage. Blows my fucking mind honestly that so many people ran with the concept but didn't give a fuck about making it feel real

Any BWP fans here also enjoy Willow Creek? It's pretty similar which is why I can understand the criticism but that 20-minute tent scene terrified me.

Heather was mildly interesting.

She was a typical stubborn liberal whore who keeps fucking the group over and getting called out on it until her character arc ends in the scene where she's apologizing to the camera for everything.

We all know a person like that in real life but we rarely get to see them actually BTFO to the point where they can no longer deny how stupid and insufferable they've been.

>it's an excuse to make a movie for 18 bucks and convince idiots like you that "this is art this is unique this is creative."

It's a technique to instill immersion by removing the special effects and trappings of hollywood the eyes expects to see, in favor of grounding the images it presents in organic reality.

It also happens to be inexpensive.

>liberal
Based on what evidence?

>shaky camcorder spinning enough to make you dizzy
>kids yelling fuck over and over
>people act like this is good

I fucking hate you guys I really do

Based on her general behavior. They never talk politics, but she acts like a liberal.

Wouldn't call her a whore, I'd use a fucking retard instead. Also, you forgot to add that she was your run of the mill pretentious film student.

You didn't get it or you didn't like it for what it was. The movie succeded in what it was going for and it was far from being trash. It's one of the mediums best.

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>It's one of the mediums best.
That's not saying much since they're all utter shit.

New one is a masterpiece

Blair Witch Project is a flick since it never shows the witch and cheaps out with a bad ending meant to leave you wondering if the Witch ever existed
The new BWP will be kino since it shows the Witch and let's you know supernatural nonsense be going on

THIS

what the fuck do you want dude? its found footage, you expect them to go off on eloquent monologues and have structured expositional dialogue? You got shit taste man

People who have zero imagination will hate this movie. People who have an imagination and know how to project themselves into a fictional situation like these characters were in are probably going to shit in their pants watching this film.

they use like 3 BD quotes in the trailer and they're buddies with the director, its bullshit

>you didn't get it
Believe me dude I got it. The movie ate donkey nuts.

That's not The VVitch.

>fuck shit holy shit what the fuck fucking shit fuck
This movie is pure kino

>Evil Dead 1
>The Shining
>Halloween
>The Exorcist
>The Grudge (Nipon one)

Are all far from being shit.

What did you think about the movie was so bad you didn't like it?

What are some other spooky movies about witches? Besides The Witch of course.

NO SHIT?

yeah you got nothing

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>fuck shit rock piles shit holy shit what the fuck noises fucking shit fuck trees ahhh
pure kino

I think found footage movies are horrible and completely remove my desire to watch. I don't want to watch a movie that looks like something 3 teenagers could make in the woods behind their house and then pretend that it is good.

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>>Evil Dead 1
>>The Shining
>>Halloween
>>The Exorcist
>>The Grudge (Nipon one)
Those aren't found footage you mongoloid

both

You sound like a butthurt film school fag

Saw the new Blair Witch kino. It's even better than the first.

Nope

Do you see the witch in it?

So, what you're trying to say is that a film's quality is dependent on it's production value, right?

I don't pretend I like it, I really do like it, but it seems like this one isn't for you.

Characters were belivable, direction was good and the movie implemented horror elements really well. By not showing you the witch or something else horrors usually tend to have, you're left questioning what's there to be afraid of? What's there to threaten them? Is it the witch, a serial killer or a demon? What the fuck were those sounds in the night? This is seen during those shots where camera stares at the dark, those moments were truly frightening for me.

I was talking about horror in general, not found footage movies.

It's your generic horror movie filled with jumpscares, don't bother.

>It's your generic horror movie filled with jumpscares
lying faggot

Thats bullshit. Sci fi channel ran a kayfabe special on the blair witch. It was one of the earliest attempts at viral marketing.

You see her 3 times in 3 differnet "forms"
Yes, reddit.

I'm not the one who's memeing here, user. And we both know it.

You get like 3 quick glimpses of it. it's just a generic skinny white lady

Yeah no

Since you are 13 and only just now saw it, I can understand why you think it was boring sure.

>skinny white lady
Most terrifying thing on earth desu

>filled with jumpscares
Confirmed for not seeing it.

>You see her 3 times in 3 differnet "forms"
>You get like 3 quick glimpses of it. it's just a generic skinny white lady
SWEET

I don't get this meme, I saw it back in 99 when I was 20 and thought it was boring and then watched it again in 2012 and thought it was boring.

thats just some bullshit design they came up with to sell toys

I didn't, but one user did and he went in full detail about the movie. It's terrible.

>It's terrible.
nah it's not