[fandom] blair witch

[escritoireazul]

Am watching The Blair Witch Project, which is entertaining for the majority of the film because I like watching people put in a stressful situation only to fall apart. (Also, I recently read the first draft of a friend's story which is similar in tone to this movie, though the book is a lot scarier, and so was craving this type of entertainment.) Unfortunately, I'm going to have to shut it off soon, because the camera work is kicking off my vertigo. This is a bad sign, because back when it came out in theaters, I went to see it with friends and was fine. Now, all these years later, I can't handle it on a small screen. The vertigo spells themselves are occurring less frequently at night on their own, but more things are kicking them off. I'd prefer it the other way.

Anyway, I've never understood Heather's obsession with the 16mm (I think that's the right camera). The fact that the camera angles and switches have pushed the vertigo has only made me more aware of such things.

This kind of makes me want to go camping, too.

I remember how much this didn't frighten me when I first watched it. I really wanted to be scared, but I wasn't. I do remember the sounds being scarier, though. I think it was my own imagination. It's been awhile since I watched it, and after reading my friend's book (where various noises and events aren't described in great detail during the first draft, though she's working on it in the next draft), I became quite good at imagining really creepy, terrifying sounds. So now, when the movie's sounds have to compete with my imagination, it fails, as often occurs. I am much better at imagining scary things than what a movie can provide. I think many people are, and this is part of why horror novels are popular.

I've been reading King's Duma Key and I'm actually more frightened by it than the movie, and nothing frightening has happened in it. I am just frightened in preparation for what's to come.

I'm tired. I want to go back to bed. I can't, but I want to sleep more.

ETA: I just noticed a nice out-damned-spot moment. I had forgotten about it, though I remember appreciating it the first time I watched it.

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[ellid.livejournal.com]

I was one of the people who came very close to throwing up halfway through the movie. Looking back, it was probably an early symptom of my neuroma, but the shaky camera work probably would have done it on its own.

It's one of the very few movies that ever gave me nightmares...

[aea]

Duma Key freaked me out. I had to keep all the lights on while reading it. I love Stephen King's brain.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I did too, actually. What's so crazy to me about it is that I don't actually know what in particular was so terrifying. There is no any one scene which frightens me, it was just the entire atmosphere. He managed to tell me what was happening in a way that still left it open for my own imagination to make things worse. It was pretty much amazing, and one of the few things which has truly frightened me. I'm so pleased with it.