http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:08:17 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/17/124831.php#comment-11337 hmmm. i understand where your coming from, but it mystifies me that you found it so frightening even though you knew it was fake. i can understand people who thought it was a real documentary - and i think in the early stages there were a lot - being freaked out by it. but the minute you know its all a riff - and i don't think its that hard to figure out, the acting's pretty bad - it just turns into watching people yell at eachother in the middle of the woods. i certainly understand someone who really studies horror films appreciating a film that relied on subtlety and creep factor rather than bloodletting, but that certainly didn't make it a good movie. ]]> 11337@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:08:17 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/17/124831.php#comment-11333 Ben, as I said, I think I saw it under just the right circumstances (ie without two-three months of advance hype, simply having it on good authority that it was scary, on a bootlegged VHS tape late at night with one other person in a quiet house, in a version that lacked a certain stupid late addition) to enjoy it to the fullest extent. I certainly understood the negative reaction from people who saw it in the theatre. While I'd imagine that, like Mark, I'd still have found it frightening--I wrote my senior thesis on horror films, and this movie had a lot of what i wrote about going for it--I can't blame people for not enjoying it the same way I did. I just thought I'd explain how and why I thought it was so scary. ]]> 11333@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:31:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/17/124831.php#comment-11332 not nuts. i saw this and was very very creeped out on the drive home (through some wooded areas). just the short walk from the car to the house was more excitement than i needed. ]]> 11332@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:26:11 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/17/124831.php#comment-11331 are you nuts? that was the most boring, repetitive, agressively unscary movie i ever saw in my life. a waste of a decent nine dollars i could have spent on a pizza. i was in paris the year it came out, walking down the champs elysee and i saw a line five blocks long of psychotic french film nuts waiting to get in to see that flick for the nineteenth time. nuff said. ]]> 11331@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:18:54 EDT