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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 0:05:34 GMT
Hey everyone,
This September, it's coming! The Blair Witch Project sequel. The second one. What do we think? Was The Blair Witch better left alone?
For me, I'm just not sure. The original film was something - an innovative idea paired with a group of talented actors (Heather Donahue should be in more things) - that it's something hard to replicate, particularly with a sense of legacy. From the performances in the trailer, it really doesn't seem as if we'll be getting, with some more cinematic performances and more visual horror. It's fun, but I honestly think the best sequel would have been a novel in the form of a 'mock journal' with a new character or some such, hinting at the fates of Josh and Heather, but leaving the mystique of the original film intact. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 0:14:28 GMT
If it's bad, we'll move on. Just like Halloween - the glut of awful sequels doesn't taint the first which remains a masterpiece of suspense. If it's good...well, that's its own reward. So...no downside really if this film isn't great. Let's be honest, it's going to be a hit. It's got such a small budget that like the Paranormal Activity films it just can't lose money if it gets a wide release.
I was a big fan of the first film in 1999. I saw it in a packed cinema and there was plenty of genuine screaming and crying out at the right parts. On home video, it doesn't work quite as well but I'm glad I got the communal experience. There was a series of novels and tie-ins at the time that expanded the mythos, all about the witch herself and the goings on since her death. I remember them being quite good, though I was a teenager at the time so may not have been as critically minded as I would be re-reading.
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Post by omega on Aug 22, 2016 0:29:33 GMT
I haven't seen it, but the impact today would most certainly be considerably lessened due to the overuse of found footage films (and that's just the Paranormal Activity franchise alone) as well as how desensitised viewers are compared to when it was released.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 2:30:01 GMT
I haven't seen it, but the impact today would most certainly be considerably lessened due to the overuse of found footage films (and that's just the Paranormal Activity franchise alone) as well as how desensitised viewers are compared to when it was released.
I'd recommend seeing the original. The three main actors involved are VERY good and we're left uninformed of the shape of the film's narrative, with the filmamkers leaving them to improvise with their characters and the situations they were presented with. There is an ugly rawness to the movie, which succeeding films in the subgenre haven't really captured. It's also a different beast from many of it's successors, with the main focus of the horror coming from watching it's characters dealing with their situation and each other and it's just as nailbiting and gutwrenching as it was on it's release.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Aug 22, 2016 13:16:07 GMT
I thought that this was a remake, not a third film lol. So i'm more intrigued by it now.
I loved the first one, would love to see the original directors cut of Book of Shadows
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