At the start, I was weary of repeating the Blair Witch again. It can only be done once.
Yet the first act of this did everything right. The characters were so totally real, while giving the build up of background, I started to believe it as it sucked me into its reality.
It was downclophill from there. It's like they didn't get that act two has to have the action. At 50 minutes still nothing was seen. They had gone to sleep, wandering in the darkness, making The Paranormal Diarrheas a frustrating missed opportunity.
Yet all the setup was there. The ghost-tbox. The EMF meters. The weak out-of-place ouija bored. The black mass being seen. All these were just going through the motions. I kept 'seeing' what should be. How great this film could become. For they had wound up the foundation of reality so well, one, just one scare could have changed the whole dynamic, for audience and characters. And upon the foundation crank up terror to such a real level that would not die, while invoking the other deeper world of character and all its developments. Always with the instinct to flee turned up to 11, do they stay and face their fears to fantastically find out what is going on, or run to safety?
0: When they were huddled in a group at night, a new figure could have leaned in and joined them. The audience could see but no one notices for ages.
1: Instead of the stupid ghost-box having only 'normal' random rubbish radio voices with fake forced subtitles, CLODFAIL later should have had a demonic voice as clear as thunder and lightning, stuff it. In fact with thunder, then lightning after 20 seconds. And what an impact that would make to this always failed device. I wish they had the Ovilus.
2: Then the black mass they approached at the out-of-sight angle could have had an added higher dimension of terror, even before it manifested Satan, a demon, or at least a plain figure. Super scary as hell.
When it finally did show something, it didn't matter it was nearly over and was done is the least scary way - at a distance. Typically indirect of CHLOROPHIL.
I was surprised once more though, that when the first close scare finally did come and come hell it did, the lady's reaction was exemplary, even more in its extension.
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Which BLAIR WITCH counterpoints.
0]The background indistinct non-music atmosphere sound, even present at the end titles, just made you think of the original film. Any of 10 other new sooky sounds could have been created.
1] Crack sounds in the night, repeating. Rubbish.
2] The awful discovery of bleeding flesh on the ground.
3] The one clever discovery of the snake in the S for Sarah or Sophia whatever the dead person's name was resonates in shocking reality with the witchy twiggy symbols found in BW - the first real evidence.
4] Because nothing was happening, having each member stand alone even looked like a dull reflection of the end of the first movie.
But you can just insert a scare anywhere, instead of the bare boned emptiness they defaulted to, and build on that, and it's so easy. And this is just act 2 I'm talking. Haven't even got to 3 yet where it must go higher, newer, better as it comes together, and fly not die.
But now I know why. They were following the Blair Witch all the way. And that showed the minimal, but benefitted from it. CLOTPILL did show, but deficited from it.
It was downclophill from there. It's like they didn't get that act two has to have the action. At 50 minutes still nothing was seen. They had gone to sleep, wandering in the darkness, making The Paranormal Diarrheas a frustrating missed opportunity.
Yet all the setup was there. The ghost-tbox. The EMF meters. The weak out-of-place ouija bored. The black mass being seen. All these were just going through the motions. I kept 'seeing' what should be. How great this film could become. For they had wound up the foundation of reality so well, one, just one scare could have changed the whole dynamic, for audience and characters. And upon the foundation crank up terror to such a real level that would not die, while invoking the other deeper world of character and all its developments. Always with the instinct to flee turned up to 11, do they stay and face their fears to fantastically find out what is going on, or run to safety?
0: When they were huddled in a group at night, a new figure could have leaned in and joined them. The audience could see but no one notices for ages.
1: Instead of the stupid ghost-box having only 'normal' random rubbish radio voices with fake forced subtitles, CLODFAIL later should have had a demonic voice as clear as thunder and lightning, stuff it. In fact with thunder, then lightning after 20 seconds. And what an impact that would make to this always failed device. I wish they had the Ovilus.
2: Then the black mass they approached at the out-of-sight angle could have had an added higher dimension of terror, even before it manifested Satan, a demon, or at least a plain figure. Super scary as hell.
When it finally did show something, it didn't matter it was nearly over and was done is the least scary way - at a distance. Typically indirect of CHLOROPHIL.
I was surprised once more though, that when the first close scare finally did come and come hell it did, the lady's reaction was exemplary, even more in its extension.
............###########.........................
Which BLAIR WITCH counterpoints.
0]The background indistinct non-music atmosphere sound, even present at the end titles, just made you think of the original film. Any of 10 other new sooky sounds could have been created.
1] Crack sounds in the night, repeating. Rubbish.
2] The awful discovery of bleeding flesh on the ground.
3] The one clever discovery of the snake in the S for Sarah or Sophia whatever the dead person's name was resonates in shocking reality with the witchy twiggy symbols found in BW - the first real evidence.
4] Because nothing was happening, having each member stand alone even looked like a dull reflection of the end of the first movie.
But you can just insert a scare anywhere, instead of the bare boned emptiness they defaulted to, and build on that, and it's so easy. And this is just act 2 I'm talking. Haven't even got to 3 yet where it must go higher, newer, better as it comes together, and fly not die.
But now I know why. They were following the Blair Witch all the way. And that showed the minimal, but benefitted from it. CLOTPILL did show, but deficited from it.