Sinister: "I AM SO SCARED!!!"

[Scott Turner]

I really don't want people to take this the wrong way, but I am 
absolutely shocked by the negative reaction that people have been 
having to the Blair Witch Project. I think the criticism's are even 
scarier than the movie is. 

Has hollywood conditioned your emotions so much, that you couldn't 
emerse yourself into this movie and be petrified???!!! I am SO 
SCARED!!!! Really I am. Not just that most of the criticisms completely 
didn't know how to deal with the movie on its own terms ("uh, the 
character development was a bit shakey",... "uh, the dialogue left alot 
to be desired, I think hemmingway could have done a better job with 
it"), but the fact that you couldn't feel. I mean people should do 
psychology experiments on you. What on earth is scary to you then? When 
hollywood "suprises" you with special effects and a quick 
montage!!!???  Neve Campbell in a tight shirt screaming bloody 
murder?????!!!!!!! Something you can put a face on and see and hear and 
know clearly????!!!! A confessional ending that ties up all the loose 
ends for you, puts your emotions in a tidy little package until the 
sequel???!!!! I am really interested to find out what you'all think is 
frightening.

In Blair Witch, there were no suprises, no sexual exploitation, no 
special effects, at all, yet if you emersed yourself into the 
experience, it was absolutely frightening. The film technique was truly 
inventive and forceful. See it without prejudice. Shed the emotive 
programming and feel something fresh for a change. Leave your 
insulation of jade and irony at home, and expose yourself to something 
new.

Again, I don't mean to offend anyone directly, I'm just flabbergasted 
in general.



B&S content:

Well sort of: all you new wave 80's kids should check out Barcelona on 
March Records. Its some great indie-pop with lots of casios.


Philly content:

Should have went to Sorted on Saturday but went to Silk City instead. 
Mistake. Other than a fine speech on ornithology and bird calls, Arling 
& Cameron were posers and thieves.
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