![]() Sitting in a theater surrounded by my friends with popcorn in my lap and watching Mike and Heather run around some creepy old house, I felt for the first and last time in my adult life *real, creeping fear* when I myself was not in danger. I saw this movie shortly after it opened in wide release. ![]() ![]() In the summer of Star Wars: Episode 1, this was the movie that originated several cultural symbols. (NOTE: as far as I'm concerned, the opinions of anyone calling any movie the best- or even more especially, the worst- movie ever are to be immediately disregarded.) Highly innovative in its way, it spawned many parodies and an interesting but inferior sort-of sequel. Many love it and consider it the best thing since sliced bread, and plenty more absolutely hate it and call it tripe, drivel, awful, wretched, the worst ever, etc. What is there left to say? I've waited for most of the hype to die down to even add my comments for this movie to IMDB, and here they are: This is really a movie that has polarized a lot of people. Of course the movie is very slow and the scenes of the characters getting lost in the woods can be repetitive for a lot of people, it really is a love it or hate it movie.Hmm. At one point of the film my mom started watching it too and she even asked me if it was real or not. Although I already knew it was all fake, the acting did an outstanding job to make it feel more like a documentary than a movie. I totally get why a lot of people find this ending and the movie as whole disappointing but it worked so well for me.Įdit: Read a lot of comments here saying that the mystery of it being real or not was one of the strongest points of the movie. Did the witch manage to follow them in the woods the entire time, kidnap Josh without them noticing it, possess him to lure Mike and Heather to the house and then capture them both at the same time flawlessly for whatever kind of fucked up ritual? What the hell is this monster and what is it capable of? The imagination effect is so good. This amount of questions are a bad sign in a normal movie because it means a poorly structured plot, but it works so damn well for a found footage movie since it leaves you thinking about what the hell happened.Īnd one thing that just popped into my head while I'm typing this: Was the witch actually filming the last shot? Because Heather's screams seem to be so far away while the person behind the camera walks so calm and slowly. "What actually happened to Josh?", "What did the witch do to Mike to make him face the corner?", "How did they not find the house before after walking in the woods for so long?", "How did they hear Josh's voice, was the witch possessing him?", "Was the witch planning all of this?". The moment you see Mike inexplicably standing there after he was desperately looking for Josh makes you know Heather is screwed.īut the best part is how there are so many unanswered questions. And it directly ties to what the man in the beggining of the movie said about the murderer making one kid face the corner while he killed the other one. You never see the witch, only what she did to Mike and Heather's reactions. ![]() Then it switches to Heather's perspective until she finds Mike and all you can hear are her screams. I love how the camera starts in Mike's perspective until he reaches the corner and it suddenly falls on the floor. ![]() But after watching the movie everything becomes so effective. "Is that it?, "They didn't even show the witch", "Why is the girl screaming at the guy facing the corner?". I watched it on YouTube some days ago out of curiosity and didn't get why it was so good. And the funny thing is that I already knew what the ending was. It had the most terrifying ending I've ever seen in a horror movie. ![]()
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