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[Turin]

Neat!

I wish they had gone with unconventional looking actors like the original though. The fact that the trio weren't Hollywood pretty was a major contributor to making it feel real.

They could have at least gotten a gotten a bearded guy with a pony tail.

 

[Violence Jack]

Fuck. I knew I should've taken up that offer for a ticket to this at SDCC tonight by someone on here. Seeing that as the title without knowing anything beforehand would've blown me away like the Silent Hills reveal.

 

[Blablurn]

I just love when companies can still pulll off something like this

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Should I still answer general questions here?

 

[HStallion]

I'd love a reviewer to be like,"It was the most moderately scary movie of the year."

 

[brandonh83]

Should I still answer general questions here?

I think that's alright as long as it's not revealing major story details.

I just think it's crazy that this is supposedly good and actually scary.

 

[wenis]

So everyone just dies in the end right. Unless this is the start of the new "Blair Witch Universe".

 

[Monocle]

Hype off the charts, I can't believe it.

They said the same shit about The VVitch

Well, The Witch is an actual masterpiece, so...

 

[HStallion]

So everyone just dies in the end right. Unless this is the start of the new "Blair Witch Universe".

Just you wait till the cross over with Anti Christ. Clitillating!

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

So everyone just dies in the end right. Unless this is the start of the new "Blair Witch Universe".

Without spoilering oe of the questions in the QA session, this one guy asked as his first question "so did any supernatural shit ever happen on set?".

 

[DirtyManos]

I actually really, really like You're Next and The Guest, so I'll definitely keep this on the radar.

Trailer was just okay tho.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Damn you wuvcraft why you gotta bring the hype? Gotta wait two months for this thing now!

 

[zeemumu]

Wuvcraft delivers. Now i have to bail out until Fall

 

[wenis]

Without spoilering oe of the questions in the QA session, this one guy asked as his first question "so did any supernatural shit ever happen on set?".

lmao

 

[Badlucktroll]

This is Blair Witch 3 baby. I love the line in the trailer where he says "we found it!"

Spoiler

This is the old rustin parr house from blair witch 1

 

[SargerusBR]

Confirmed then. DAY FUCKING ONE

 

[Turin]

It is cool to see a quality resurgence of witch movies. They're more interesting imo.

 

[aussiedude08]

looks good and sounds good going by the stuff posted on twitter.

 

[Monocle]

It is cool to see a quality resurgence of witch movies. They're more interesting imo.

For sure.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Okay, I'm moving full on to the other thread.

Will spoiler tag all relevant spoiler answers to questions.

 

[Violence Jack]

So did the old Blair Witch sequel (book of shadows) get completely kicked out like it never happened?

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Wingard two pretty good movies in a row.
This however was shit trailer.

 

[triplestation]

I'm a massive fan of The Blair Witch Project, fascinated by found footage as a cinematic medium, and absolutely nothing about this looks convincing or interesting to me.

Nice clean oh so conveniently neatly framed found footage starring immaculate beautiful and nicely presented young people. Another Cloverfield, aka turd.

Will wait and see but meh. It's probably a generational thing, particularly with the tech (makes sense that this footage would look much nicer than late 90s handycams), but that trailer failed at conveying any sense of rawness and legitimacy to the premise and found footage theme to me. What I love about BWP is the chaotic mess of a film that it is. It's so amateurish and low budget and nasty. It had the benefit of being a product of its time and the successfully manipulative marketing leading up to the release, which I recognise cannot be replicated, but yeah.

For now, pass.

On point.

 

[outunderthestars]

Looking forward to this.

 

[FoxnHurley]

I'm a massive fan of The Blair Witch Project, fascinated by found footage as a cinematic medium, and absolutely nothing about this looks convincing or interesting to me.

Nice clean oh so conveniently neatly framed found footage starring immaculate beautiful and nicely presented young people. Another Cloverfield, aka turd.

Will wait and see but meh. It's probably a generational thing, particularly with the tech (makes sense that this footage would look much nicer than late 90s handycams), but that trailer failed at conveying any sense of rawness and legitimacy to the premise and found footage theme to me. What I love about BWP is the chaotic mess of a film that it is. It's so amateurish and low budget and nasty. It had the benefit of being a product of its time and the successfully manipulative marketing leading up to the release, which I recognise cannot be replicated, but yeah.

For now, pass.

I second that. I remember when the original came out, and people who I knew literally thought that it was actual found footage of campers who had gone missing in the woods of Maryland. Utterly terrifying. The internet didn't have Google yet, so all one could find was articles about people actually going missing in the woods. Genius marketing because you really couldn't tell if the movie's incident actually took place or not. The producers and director captured lightning in a bottle, if you will, and unfortunately no other movie will be able to replicate its viral marketing and mysteriousness as the 'Blair Witch' did. One is now able to easily debunk the validity of "based of true events" by googling the film's title.

Glad that the franchise is getting another installment, but will it have the shock factor that the original film had? From what I've seen from the trailer, it seems that it's relying on jump scares rather than the unnerving tension of paranoia that the original portrayed so well. Perhaps that's just the direction marketing chose to use for the trailer.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Man, I dunno what I want out of another Blair Witch movie, but it isn't this.

 

[outunderthestars]

I second that. I remember when the original came out, and people who I knew literally thought that it was actual found footage of campers who had gone missing in the woods of Maryland. Utterly terrifying. The internet didn't have Google yet, so all one could find was articles about people actually going missing in the woods. Genius marketing because you really couldn't tell if the movie's incident actually took place or not. The producers and director captured lightning in a bottle, if you will, and unfortunately no other movie will be able to replicate its viral marketing and mysteriousness as the 'Blair Witch' did. One is now able to easily debunk the validity of "based of true events" by googling the film's title.

Glad that the franchise is getting another installment, but will it have the shock factor that the original film had? From what I've seen from the trailer, it seems that it's relying on jump scares rather than the unnerving tension of paranoia that the original portrayed so well. Perhaps that's just the direction marketing chose to use for the trailer.

A few mo that before release I remember seeing the film, without credits shown at Clemson University. They had put up missing person posters on campus and everything. It was intense.

 

[Cheap]

I'm a massive fan of The Blair Witch Project, fascinated by found footage as a cinematic medium, and absolutely nothing about this looks convincing or interesting to me.

Nice clean oh so conveniently neatly framed found footage starring immaculate beautiful and nicely presented young people. Another Cloverfield, aka turd.

Will wait and see but meh. It's probably a generational thing, particularly with the tech (makes sense that this footage would look much nicer than late 90s handycams), but that trailer failed at conveying any sense of rawness and legitimacy to the premise and found footage theme to me. What I love about BWP is the chaotic mess of a film that it is. It's so amateurish and low budget and nasty. It had the benefit of being a product of its time and the successfully manipulative marketing leading up to the release, which I recognise cannot be replicated, but yeah.

For now, pass.

I agree with all of this.

I'll probably see this movie, but not in theaters. If they actually show the witch I'll be pretty annoyed.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

All you haters will become beliebers.

 

[EatChildren]

All you haters will become beliebers.

People also told me Cloverfield was good and they were wrong.

Still, I'll hit up the movies and see it when/if it comes to STRAYA.

 

[Daffy Duck]

The original is my favourite horror film, I remember seeing it in the cinema and you know the background noise of popcorn/sweets rustling you normally get during the film, there was none of that, it was silence for the entire duration, you could've heard a pin drop it was that quiet.

The build up for that film was insane, all the unknown actors, the weird marketing website, fantastic.

I'll certainly be watching this, I doubt it will be as good as the original film, but I like the idea of what they are doing.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

I just love when companies can still pulll off something like this

When they were casting it, people would actually say to them "this is just a Blair Witch rip-off".

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

People also told me Cloverfield was good and they were wrong.

No they weren't.

Totally off the cuff, perhaps drunk, opinion: Cloverfield is the third best found-footage film, behind Blair Witch and [REC]

 

[EatChildren]

No they weren't.

Totally off the cuff, perhaps drunk, opinion: Cloverfield is the third best found-footage film, behind Blair Witch and [REC]

Cloverfield is everything I hate about bad found footage films and the antithesis to the quality and authenticity of Blair Witch Project and [REC]*. Also I'm drinking too so we're going to have to fight about this. It's the only way.

*and even that has issues BWP doesn't

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

All you haters will become beliebers.

Scary is obviously so subjective but what horror films did you find truly scary say in the past ten years? Tryna get an idea of your "scary". The Witch to me was atmospheric horror but not very terrifying. The original Blair Witch still managed to spook me on a rewatch within the past year. So if it manages to touch on a similar level of spooks as the original I'm sold. Skeptical with that oh so clean footage in the trailer though.

 

[Daffy Duck]

No they weren't.

Totally off the cuff, perhaps drunk, opinion: Cloverfield is the third best found-footage film, behind Blair Witch and [REC]

This guy knows.

 

[jerry113]

How can this be anything other than a retread of the first? The VHS feel of the first makes it feel scarier than this crisp HD camera.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

Cloverfield is everything I hate about bad found footage films and the antithesis to the quality and authenticity of Blair Witch Project and [REC]*. Also I'm drinking too so we're going to have to fight about this. It's the only way.

*and even that has issues BWP doesn't

Fiiiiiiiiiiight meeeeeeee. Meet me somewhere.

I'm curious what you issues you have with [REC] though. What makes it work so well, in my opinion, is that it almost immediately confines the players to a single location which plays right into the kind of claustrophobia a first person perspective like found-footage excels. Almost every found-footage films eventually confines its character, including the Blair Witch which ultimately shrinks the open forest to an inescapable trap, but [REC] does it right away and is brutally effective because of it.

This guy knows.

Are you ready for the tag team, EatChildren? I don't think you are.

 

[EatChildren]

Fiiiiiiiiiiight meeeeeeee. Meet me somewhere.

I'm curious what you issues you have with [REC] though. What makes it work so well, in my opinion, is that it almost immediately confines the players to a single location which plays right into the kind of claustrophobia a first person perspective like found-footage excels. Almost every found-footage films eventually confines its character, including the Blair Witch which ultimately shrinks the open forest to an inescapable trap, but [REC] does it right away and is brutally effective because of it.

Honestly it's more preference. I think BWP just a better job overall with its gritty, amateurish footage which is something I adore that even [REC] slips up on every now and then. But it's still excellent and on the right wavelength.

Are you ready for the tag team, EatChildren? I don't think you are.

okay i need someone else who understand and appreciates what a colossal turd cloverfield is

 

[OmegaSmash]

What about Apollo 18?

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Yeah Cloverfield wasn't great, but [rec] spooked me legit.

 

[Comfort Jones]

I feel like that trailer gave away a shit ton. Like, wish I had stopped it way sooner.

Edit-Especially the bit

Spoiler

where the girl dies when the other girl snaps the twig figure. How the fuck you gonna give that away? Seriously bullshit.

 

[julrik]

I feel like that trailer gave away a shit ton. Like, wish I had stopped it way sooner.

Thanks for the heads up. Not watching it.

 

[DeathyBoy]

It had goddamn better lol.

Looking forward to this one!

Blasphemy.

Blair Witch was a nothing film where the audience filled in the gaps. Stunningly overrated. BW2, on the other hand, is absurd and incoherent but entertaining.

 

[Lapidus' Beard]

I feel like that trailer gave away a shit ton. Like, wish I had stopped it way sooner.

Edit-Especially the bit

Spoiler

where the girl dies when the other girl snaps the twig figure. How the fuck you gonna give that away? Seriously bullshit.

Yup, it's your typical let's-show-half-of-the-movie trailer. And way too bombastic for my taste.

 

[Fhtagn]

You're Next & The Guest are two of my favorite recent horror-related films of the last half decade. And while VHS 1 & 2 were inconsistent, their segments delivered the scares at least.

The original Blair Witch Project was the best possible Cannibal Holocaust rip off. (Kept the strict found footage structure of the second half, ditched everything else.) I haven't seen it since ~2000 but I loved it then and I bet it holds up.

So, I am going to try to avoid trailers for this one (but I do see a lot of films in the cinema so it can be impossible to avoid.) Day one for sure.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Yup, it's your typical let's-show-half-of-the-movie trailer. And way too bombastic for my taste.

I really wish studios would let more filmmakers cut previews, do something unique with the format other than the gajillionth bombastic fare. Hitchcock used to do it up. I realize these ad agencies would be out of business but for the rare potentially great film it'd be nice to see a more old school approach of less is more. Harder to convey for certain genres admittedly, but for horror you absolutely need to reign it in unless it's schlocky gore porn or campy stuff.

 

[Krev]

I really wish studios would let more filmmakers cut previews, do something unique with the format other than the gajillionth bombastic fare. Hitchcock used to do it up. I realize these ad agencies would be out of business but for the rare potentially great film it'd be nice to see a more old school approach of less is more. Harder to convey for certain genres admittedly, but for horror you absolutely need to reign it in unless it's schlocky gore porn or campy stuff.

Paul Thomas Anderson cuts very effective trailers for his films.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Paul Thomas Anderson cuts very effective trailers for his films.

Yup, TWBB trailer was what went through my mind as I was typing that lol.

 

[Forsythia]

We were all sitting down in our seats, staring at the poster projected on a movie screen.

Then there was a glitch.

And suddenly the name of the movie was something else.

Damn, that sounds amazing! The Blair Witch Project is one of my favourite horror films ever, so I'm looking forward to this!