I blame watching The Blair Witch Project just before going to bed, though it was really quite disappointingly rubbish and not actually very scary, even as the psychological horror story that it was obviously trying so gut-wrenchingly and camera-wobblingly hard to be.
Oh, agreed entirely.
Eddie Izzard has had this rant better and funnier, but it does annoy me that the people in horror films never seem to have watched a horror film in their life
Scream did OK with that I thought. Not great, but OK. As a trilogy, what it needed and lacked was, I think, Christopher Walken. [ Playing himself. ]
And fwiw one of the things I am writing has as one of its thematic elements what happens when someone is sucked into a secondary world and has actually grown up on stories about kids sucked into a secondary world; the right and wrong decisions you make pulled into a world with a functioning medievla-oid economy that you see in terms of Narnia.
(at least in the sense of "reality TV" -- "reality" is just another genre, but it's very hard to do convincingly). The total lack of awareness of context didn't sit well with all the obvious signposts to Scary Stuff About To Happen
The only way in which I can imagine Blair Witch working as it seems meant to work is if someone comes across it late at night in thirty years' time without having heard of tit before and does not realise it is fiction.
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Date: 2005-11-15 03:25 pm (UTC)Oh, agreed entirely.
Eddie Izzard has had this rant better and funnier, but it does annoy me that the people in horror films never seem to have watched a horror film in their life
Scream did OK with that I thought. Not great, but OK. As a trilogy, what it needed and lacked was, I think, Christopher Walken. [ Playing himself. ]
And fwiw one of the things I am writing has as one of its thematic elements what happens when someone is sucked into a secondary world and has actually grown up on stories about kids sucked into a secondary world; the right and wrong decisions you make pulled into a world with a functioning medievla-oid economy that you see in terms of Narnia.
(at least in the sense of "reality TV" -- "reality" is just another genre, but it's very hard to do convincingly). The total lack of awareness of context didn't sit well with all the obvious signposts to Scary Stuff About To Happen
The only way in which I can imagine Blair Witch working as it seems meant to work is if someone comes across it late at night in thirty years' time without having heard of tit before and does not realise it is fiction.