LOL I burst out laughing at this -- thank you for the funny!
And me, I'm not going to any movie I can't see. I missed about 85 percent of what was happening in the trailer because of crappy lighting and those stupid quick cuts.
It doesn't look like they're billing this as non-fiction, actual footage, or anything like that. It's just a movie told from that perspective. Totally fiction. Having said that, it looks damn good though. :)
And don't expect any real proof to appear on the news unless a ghost kidnaps the president or something. It's still a subject of ridicule in the mainstream media. Ghost Hunters has caught some damn fine evidence. One of my favorites was the guy who got knocked over by the duffel bag he was carrying after it suddenly shot up and hit him in the face.
See, I love watching Ghost Hunters. I'd totally see this movie, but I'd go in knowing that it's just a movie, with all the effects and post production and set-effects that implies. Will I let myself get drawn into the movie? Oh, probably - I find that deliciously fun. And then I'll giggle like a schoolgirl, afterwards.
I'm actually hoping this movie does well. People don't make straight up horror movies any more. They make movies that show people getting slaughtered; and the recent crop of claptrap, like the SAW series, aren't helping matters.
For all of its problems The Blair Witch Project was a horror movie in the old school vein. That's what I love about it so much, it really was an attempt to show that you could do a movie like that and have it be successful.
Let's hope that Paranormal Activity will be an even bigger success so that the studios learn that people will go to see this kind of movie.
Exactly. I proudly own The Blair Witch Project and The Changeling with George C. Scott, as well as some of the old Corman American International films. Even The Raven, which is pretty much a comedy, has a few moments that'll grab your ass and shake you (e.g., when Vincent Price's father rears up out of his coffin and, in a perfect zombie voice, says, "BEWARE").
Personally I'd like to track down some of the old Hammer movies like Curse of the Werewolf, which to my mind is one of the best werewolf movies ever made.
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Date: 2009-09-27 02:29 pm (UTC)Oh the horror, the cat got in the flour pot.
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Date: 2009-09-27 03:47 pm (UTC)And me, I'm not going to any movie I can't see. I missed about 85 percent of what was happening in the trailer because of crappy lighting and those stupid quick cuts.
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Date: 2009-09-27 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-27 06:27 pm (UTC)Yeah, all the ghosts were hiding in Al Copone's vault, but Heraldo was not looking for them at the time.
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:09 am (UTC)And don't expect any real proof to appear on the news unless a ghost kidnaps the president or something. It's still a subject of ridicule in the mainstream media. Ghost Hunters has caught some damn fine evidence. One of my favorites was the guy who got knocked over by the duffel bag he was carrying after it suddenly shot up and hit him in the face.
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Date: 2009-09-27 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-28 07:42 pm (UTC)I would love to see the movie though. Reminds me of an older film called "The Entity." Anyone else recall it?
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Date: 2009-09-27 08:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-28 03:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-28 04:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-28 01:56 pm (UTC)For all of its problems The Blair Witch Project was a horror movie in the old school vein. That's what I love about it so much, it really was an attempt to show that you could do a movie like that and have it be successful.
Let's hope that Paranormal Activity will be an even bigger success so that the studios learn that people will go to see this kind of movie.
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Date: 2009-09-29 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-29 05:01 pm (UTC)Personally I'd like to track down some of the old Hammer movies like Curse of the Werewolf, which to my mind is one of the best werewolf movies ever made.