As a seasoned film viewer, it takes quite an experience to truly rattle me. This is the long-term effects of a lifetime of desensitizing myself by a (possibly unhealthy) overexposure to horror films. I find …
The Blair Witch Project
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The Aviary opens on Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenza Izzo) stumbling into the pre-dawn desert and looking back at a compound that “looks so small from here.” We quickly learn that they are escaping …
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ComedyReviews
’15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot’ Knows More Than a Few Things About Comedy
by Brian Connorby Brian ConnorIf You Go Down to the Woods Today Vlogger Brian is losing his mojo. Reporting for Vice Compound, a website with an extremely familiar-looking logo and modus operandi, he´s tired of covering the stupidest of modern …
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ReviewsThriller
‘Safer at Home’ Would Have Been Better Left on the Drawing Board
by Brian Connorby Brian ConnorA sub-genre of the “found footage” films, computer screen films have been less prevalent than their Blair Witch-related cousins but can, as in the case of Searching or the Unfriended movies, be surprisingly effective. If they’re …
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I love going to the movies. But there is one genre that I will not touch with a ten-foot pole. I will not see horror movies, especially around Halloween. I have an active imagination that …
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Retrospectives
Is ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Still Haunting Us After 20 Years?
by Cammy Maddenby Cammy Madden“In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.” — The Blair Witch Project These are the words that mark …