From the creators of the Blair Witch Project: Altered
12-31-06 | 04:52 PM
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I have to add another vote for Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Two.
The first film did nothing for me at all, but two friends who saw the second one raved and raved about it until I felt forced to sit down and watch the DVD with them. Few films have so successfully screwed with perceived reality as Book of Shadows did. It is so good that it almost defies analysis.
It seems the natural successor to the mind storms of Dialobique and the Kubrick version of The Shining. I know a lot of people hate it, but it was a genuine life-alterer for me.
On a side note it was sad to read that the makers of the original Blair Witch fell quickly on hard times. I would have thought that such a big hit would have earned them bog studio deals, but it seems that the perception was that the hype made that film rather than any of its inherent qualities. I hope they do better with Altered.
The first film did nothing for me at all, but two friends who saw the second one raved and raved about it until I felt forced to sit down and watch the DVD with them. Few films have so successfully screwed with perceived reality as Book of Shadows did. It is so good that it almost defies analysis.
It seems the natural successor to the mind storms of Dialobique and the Kubrick version of The Shining. I know a lot of people hate it, but it was a genuine life-alterer for me.
On a side note it was sad to read that the makers of the original Blair Witch fell quickly on hard times. I would have thought that such a big hit would have earned them bog studio deals, but it seems that the perception was that the hype made that film rather than any of its inherent qualities. I hope they do better with Altered.
01-01-07 | 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay G.
The creators of Blair Witch had almost nothing to do with the sequel. They didn't write it, they didn't direct it. I think they were even on record as feeling that a sequel was a bad idea.
01-01-07 | 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by breadlymoore
It's funny to read love for SHADOWS...
Even the director hates the finished product.
Even the director hates the finished product.
01-24-07 | 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by iggystar
Oh how I despised the execution of BWP, but loved the marketing and the concept. This looks interesting (from what little is known).
By the time you saw it, it was in wide release, backed by studio muscle and a web page that cost several dozen times the film's original budget.
As an exercise in zero budget filmmaking targetted at a niche or festival market, it was canny and really startling. As a major studio release horror flick, it obviously lacked the polish, for $20,000 that you would have on movies that cost more than a thousand times as much.
01-26-07 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by MovieMaster11
Add me to the list of people that hated the Blair Witch Project but loved Book of Shadows.
