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Posted by DanielW2 (Member # 5861) on :

Bloody hell. I'm now in a room with another person and the lights on, and I keep wanting to look behind me.

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

You wanna know the scariest part?

::low quiet voice::

They made a sequel...

Posted by slacker (Member # 2559) on :

That's too scary to comprehend (that they would try to make another movie). ::shudders::

I couldn't have deal with that in real life. I would have left them behind a long time before then and found my way back.

Posted by DanielW2 (Member # 5861) on :

I think it's worse than most horror films because they never saw anybody doing it. With stuff with monsters, you can look around, be like, oh there's obviously not a monster there, and carry on. With this, you look around, nothing there, then a couple moments later you have to look around again to make sure a pile of rocks hasn't appeared [Angst]

Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :

The first one was an experimental film that I think worked. I had just moved to a new apartment a few days before the night I saw it, and was alone. Talk about seeing shadows and hearing creaks!

The second was a dip in the cash cow that defeated the purpose of the first one, although I have never seen it and know of no one who has. From what I have heard, the cash cow was a runt.

Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :

I watched the sequel. [Wall Bash]

It's bad. Bad as...Highlander II bad. [Wall Bash]

Bad as...Scooby Doo bad [Wall Bash]

It's awful. It shouldn't be released, not even straight to video. Here in Brazil it tanked. Worldwide, I really don't know (for the sake of humanity, hope it tanked everywhere).

Posted by Maethoriell (Member # 3805) on :

I never saw the first but I saw the sequel. It was weird.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Brian (from Famil Guy) explaining the movie to a blind person (acting as the seeing eye dog).

quote:
Nothings happening, nothings happening. Something about a map. I don't know I wasn't paying attention. Nothings happening, it's over. A lot of people in the audience look pissed.

Hobbes

Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :

What Family Guy episode was that, Andy?

*must know*

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

I'm pretty sure it was The Thin White Line where Brian gets addicted to crack as a police dog.

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

I actually like the sequel. It wasn't the first movie, but if it had been it would have been like inventing a cliche.

The scary idea in the first movie was: "not knowing what was out there."

The scary idea in the second movie was much more subtle. The characters are gradually learning that they are the perpetrators. That's pretty scary, to not even be sure what you may or may not have done. (oops, did I give it away?)

I agree that some of it was unnecessarily hokey, like the kids walking across the road, and seeing the ghosts and so forth. It would have been better just to learn what had happened from the video. The beauty of the first movie was that it didn't rely on complex moviemaking. This one was a lot harder to get across.

I'd also like to know the (supposed) actual history of the "Blair witch." I heard the third movie was supposed to be a prequel that clears some of that up, so if it comes out, I'd like to see it.

[ November 03, 2003, 07:15 PM: Message edited by: Glenn Arnold ]