Found footage sucks because you already know how it's going to end. Everyone dies and the camera falls on the floor. That's every found footage movie basically. The only one I ever enjoyed was Digging Up the Marrow but maybe that would be considered a mockumentary I'm not sure.
Ftfy.
It reminds me of horror fiction where the story is a first-person account being written down and the narrator keeps writing until they're cut off by whatever doom.
That's ridiculous, that's like saying slashers are horrible because you already know there's going to be either only one survivor who kills the baddy (but not really) or SuBvErSioN and the bad guy wins and no one's left alive (pretty much only applies to sequels)
I find myself watching 2010 a lot more.
The best found footage movies, and they're rare, are the ones where it has a wrap around of the footage actually being found and watched to find out why everyone died. Yes, we know everyone is going to die but the interesting part is finding out how. There are some out there that are more then just a teen running in an old dark house with a camcorder/gopro. The only reason the Blair Witch did as well as it did was the advertisement campaign that built it up. It was fun to watch in theaters with people and have a good time, but I could never get in to it again after that.
It is a masterpiece. But I can't watch it the same way without Eli Roth having an unhealthy obsession over it
I'm weird about Blair Witch Project. I HATED this flick first time I saw it. Then years afterward, completely removed of all levels of over-hype, I then really appreciated it. I think it's one of the best horror flicks of that time. Obviously not for everyone of course.
I wasn't around as I was too young to know about the movie or its marketing, yet the closest I can think of was the one Scooby Doo bumper on CN where it parodied the movie itself
See I'm the opposite. I had a lot more fun in the theater with other horror fans having a good time watching the movie. I remember it being dead quiet most of the time as people watched it then the end happened and we all screamed. Good times, but I could never get that same feeling after. I don't think it's a bad movie, but it's just not as good as the first time I saw it and got to discover it. Any of the sequels are trash. They should just stop.
Maybe it's time for a revisit? Worst thing that happened to Blair Witch is that it was too popular. Best thing that happened is that introduced god knows how many people to Cannibal Holocaust.
That might be the problem. I had seen Cannibal Holocaust before Blair Witch. I just kind of belly flopped in to the pool after running past the safe stuff.
I missed this post. The first 3 movies are where it's at. Part 2 is a lot of fun but has a lacking body count (grand total of on screen kills made by the family is only 2) but has tons of iconic lines and became a fan favorite over the years. Part 3 is more divisive and there's several different versions (Cut to shit R version that has ZERO gore, Unrated that restores some of the gore totalling about a minute but it is appreciated, then the workprint version which has more character-driven scenes, more scenes of the family, and a blink and you miss it shot of Leatherface chainsawing a woman in the cunt) to try to make this run on sentence somewhat short, you have to watch either the workprint or a fan-edit that combines the unrated cut with the workprint. The workprint has a different and much bleaker ending as well.
It had a great marketing campaign, the movies are just shit all and all, and these movies are just another shitty product of the late-00s/early-10s
This was my exact same experience.
