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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Blair Witch: Don't go into The Woods
 
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toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

Kin posted:

And that's why it doesn't work in a found footage film because the core premise of that type of film is its ability to suspend disbelief.
I really, really want to see this film because I loved the original, but really don't want to see it because the trailers made it really obvious this film has a ton of unambiguously supernatural stuff it in, and with a couple of exceptions stuff like that tends to snap me out of a movie. Plus with the comments in here it sounds kinda cliched, derivative and lazy, which is a shame, because...

Jst0rm posted:

hehehe... Give it a bit more time guys. All will be revealed.
Is this film a run of the mill jump-scare horror or does it actually do something new with the genre?

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toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

MisterBibs posted:

Yeah there is. Stuff happens in the first film that cannot be explained by an entirely unsupported hillbilly theory. Unless you're of the opinion that a bunch of people can build a house in the woods that a search party can't find, make compasses not work, or build piles of rocks outside campsites without waking people up (which even the filmmakers couldn't do, tacos tacos).

E: Not to mention the advertising special they did. The tapes were found in a location that was impossible to have been disturbed for centuries.
That's still not unambiguously supernatural though, just unexplainable. I'm just disappointed you see the 'witch' etc in this because I tend to lose interest in horror films once visual supernatural stuff happens, because it's rarely ever scary and almost always dumb lookin. Plus I just find the mystery of things to be way spookier. To be fair though despite it being one of my fave films I kinda lose interest in Alien after the chest-burster scene for this reason. All personal taste though.

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toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

flashy_mcflash posted:

Bit of a spoiler here if you haven't seen it, but Barrett says what you see isn't exactly what you think.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/191494/simon-barrett-teases-massive-blair-witch-shocker/
LOL he's literally pulling a No Mans Sky. 'no no no this movie totally isnt paper thin, it's really deep and interesting! I can't tell you why cos it would ruin it but trust me guys!'

I'm frustrated because I really want to see this film as I'll probably like bits of it but by buying a ticket I'm saying 'please keep making this garbage' and I don't want to do that.

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