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LillyBoPeep -> RE: Bad movies (11/12/2011 12:13:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: NocturnalStalker
Not really. The Blair Witch Project is actually a very solid horror film. The problem is that it is a cerebral sort of horror that people either 'get' or they don't. I love horror films such as BWP and have totally taken a liking to Paranormal Activity because of how simplistic but how the atmosphere sucks you in and makes every 'tame' movement (such as a tree branch randomly falling, or the door slowly closing by itself) feel like something bad is about to happen, but you don't know when.
see, i agree here. i've seen all the PA movies, and i really enjoyed them as an experience. no, there aren't blatant serial killers or CG demons or something like that, but the movies set up atmosphere like few other things do. atmosphere is really lacking in a lot of other modern horror movies. they figure they can just rely on blood and carnage or things like that, and it's not so much a manipulation of your emotions, but just "look at this horrible image" which is easy to do. it's like ambushing people with images of aborted fetuses to get them to scream. =p well duh, they're going to, because that image is disgusting. but meddling with someone's feelings in such a way where you can blow on the back of their neck and they shoot through the ceiling -- that's far more complex.
i did like the first Saw movie, though, because it had this kind of atmosphere. it was a lot more psychological. i wish that they'd just stuck to that, and left it alone, and never made any of the GAWD-AWFUL SEQUELS.
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