Blair Witch Project. But only as a kid. Stuff hits different when you’re 12…and an idiot. You have to buy into the “this movie is real” bullshit juuuuuuust long enough until the credits roll.
Every fall I seek out horror as a franchise* and there are a lot of amazing horror movies that are good movies in themselves or projects on YouTube or well made crime podcasts. I love the feeling of glooming dread, which I actually hunt for once a year. But nothing is scary anymore as it was as a kid.
*)accept video games. I cried like a bitch in RE8 in that baby basement. I left the lights on when I played Iron Lung. And even thinking about playing Alien Isolation makes me hyperventilate. I can’t handle any of this. No thanks.
As a kid in the early 90s I taped tons of horror movies from TV to VHS, so I was kind of used to the scary stuff. In 1999 I had just turned 16 and was finally allowed into the cinema to watch horror (16+). I’m from a small town without a cinema, so me and a friend took the train to the big city.
We knew nothing about The Blair Witch Project other than from the posters. It was surreal walking out of that movie, back into a bustling city where no one had any idea of what we had witnessed. That movie felt so damn real. No other visit to the cinema has been able to live up to that.
Blair Witch Project. But only as a kid. Stuff hits different when you’re 12…and an idiot. You have to buy into the “this movie is real” bullshit juuuuuuust long enough until the credits roll.
Every fall I seek out horror as a franchise* and there are a lot of amazing horror movies that are good movies in themselves or projects on YouTube or well made crime podcasts. I love the feeling of glooming dread, which I actually hunt for once a year. But nothing is scary anymore as it was as a kid.
*)accept video games. I cried like a bitch in RE8 in that baby basement. I left the lights on when I played Iron Lung. And even thinking about playing Alien Isolation makes me hyperventilate. I can’t handle any of this. No thanks.
As a kid in the early 90s I taped tons of horror movies from TV to VHS, so I was kind of used to the scary stuff. In 1999 I had just turned 16 and was finally allowed into the cinema to watch horror (16+). I’m from a small town without a cinema, so me and a friend took the train to the big city.
We knew nothing about The Blair Witch Project other than from the posters. It was surreal walking out of that movie, back into a bustling city where no one had any idea of what we had witnessed. That movie felt so damn real. No other visit to the cinema has been able to live up to that.