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Vampirella said:
The best found footage movies, and they're rare, are the ones where it has a wrap around of the footage actually being found and watched to find out why everyone died. Yes, we know everyone is going to die but the interesting part is finding out how. There are some out there that are more then just a teen running in an old dark house with a camcorder/gopro. The only reason the Blair Witch did as well as it did was the advertisement campaign that built it up. It was fun to watch in theaters with people and have a good time, but I could never get in to it again after that.
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Blair Witch is the only found footage movie that feels real at all to me. Most of them are like tv shows with a TikTok vhs filter thrown on. I watched Poughkeepsie Tapes recently and even the mundane bit part guys like "student asking questions in class" weren't really selling it imo. Even when the acting is good, you can tell it's all scripted. iirc BWP was heavily improvised and all the actors basically played themselves, so that must help.
 
Calandrino said:
Blair Witch is the only found footage movie that feels real at all to me. Most of them are like tv shows with a TikTok vhs filter thrown on. I watched Poughkeepsie Tapes recently and even the mundane bit part guys like "student asking questions in class" weren't really selling it imo. Even when the acting is good, you can tell it's all scripted. iirc BWP was heavily improvised and all the actors basically played themselves, so that must help.
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I pretty much agree about BWP being the only real seeming one, although I still enjoy a well done found footage. Horror in the High Desert is probably the closest to seeming realistic. Had my wife fooled or st least questioning until the PI showed up.

Sometimes it just doesn't matter, like One Cut of the Dead or Deadstream, they're just good and the FF aspect doesn't bother me. There's a couple segments of V/H/S series where I respect the thought they put into keeping it realistic as far as angles or moving the camera between characters, but it's still not going to make up for a shit story or shit acting.

Basically FF never adds anything to a movie, it can only detract from it, so other than novelty or making it easier to fudge over parts that would otherwise be hard to film, it just seems like a dumb crutch. It's not even a gimmick anymore, since it's ubiquitous and no one is impressed by it.
 
I saw Exorcist 3 and it was a good movie. Still not better than the original, but it was an enjoyable film overall.
 
Good Boy was really good. Most enjoyable and thought provoking movie I've seen in a while.

If I was rich I would want to do that to people. Most dogs don't live that long and its sad when they die. But if you could mentally break someone to be your dog you would have a pet for all you life. Or until you got sick of them and killed them.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
Don't worry, Exorcist: Believer will look like a masterpiece when DGG makes Exorcist: Deceiver which will be worse but people will soy out over Regan returning, and then the third film which will make that look good.
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Maybe the third film can be a crossover with The Pope's Exorcist, the ending of which feels like the end of the first Iron Man movie. I half expected Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing to turn a corner, joined by the Boondock Saints or whoever, to announce that Russel Crowe was now part of a "larger world":

 
Hey, I need some opinions on the Terrifier movies. I watched the first and thought it was kinda garbage and overhyped. I don't know if I want to waste my time watching the second.
 
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Elite Miko said:
Hey, I need some opinions on the Terrifier movies. I watched the first and thought it was kinda garbage and overhyped. I don't know if I want to waste my time watching the second.
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I felt the same way, 2 is better but if you felt like that with the first I don't think you will like 2, maybe not dislike it as much however.
 
Commander X said:
Maybe the third film can be a crossover with The Pope's Exorcist, the ending of which feels like the end of the first Iron Man movie. I half expected Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing to turn a corner, joined by the Boondock Saints or whoever, to announce that Russel Crowe was now part of a "larger world":

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HiwN4_tYyBg
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That would have been so much better if it was The Pope's Exorcism, shocked none of those mockbuster studios tried to make that already
 
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The scariest part was seeing fat Russell Crowe on a scooter.

Maybe the sequel can be The Pope's Exercise Bike.
 
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The Cunting Death said:
Better atmosphere, better acting, better actual scares.

I still prefer the original but what 3 does well it does phenomenally.
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Personally the atmosphere of the original was better along with some of the acting (though Brad Dourif is a gem in Exorcist 3)

I do think it improved on the soundtrack and I do think in terms of scares its better even on a conceptual level given what happens to Karras.
 
AnOminous said:
I was impressed by how such a low budget film with often laughably bad special effects somehow managed to be terrifying anyway.
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Blair Witch Project was scarier and it had low budget too (OK OK I lied I might've watched some other horror movies, but very few and none that I can remember).
I never saw Evil Dead as scary, we were really young when we watched it (found some VHS tapes the parents of some friend had, and lemme tell you, the tree rape was the spiciest even though half the tapes were obviously porn lmao). We laughed our asses off at the makeup and exaggerated screams and dismemberments all the way through it.
 
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