Saturday, April 26, 2008

The Blair Witch Project

I love this movie, really love this movie, but man does it have vicious detractors. "It was stupid! It was boring! I could make this movie! I got motion sick! It wasn't scary!" and so on and so forth. I was mildly surprised to see the AVclub review it in their New Cult Cannon series, and I was really surprised--and a little ecstatic to see it defended AND see a large chunk of the commenters embrace it for the classic it is. Heck, the response got me so revved up I went out and rented it tonight. They spoke as if deeply effected by the film, genuinely frightened. (I was too, had the lights on when I went to bed).

I never understood the "it wasn't scary" reaction. If the Blair Witch doesn't scare these people, what does???

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