The Witch | February 19, 2016 | The new indie horror darling

[75Live]

3 hours ago, Baumer said:

Well if @75live likes it then im fairly confident i will. Then again @Telemachos you like it follows so i guess im worried now. I am working sort of late tonight and then it's the walking dead so I will have to see this tomorrow. Meaning Monday.

 

well I am not saying it is the same as If Follows but I think it is more atmospheric like that and another film I want to say, but I can't 

 

It's definitely not going to be a universally liked film so there's still a 50/50 shot you may brutality hate it  

[Mockingjay Raphael]

20 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

This seems to be more of a scathing commentary on patriarchy and its effects and aims to be more disturbing than out and out horror. While critics dig that kind of psychological examination, GA want literal bumps and scares. I can understand the disconnect. Also, apparently the Jacobean English doesn't seem to be helping.

 

that's a good discussion, which is better for the genre? More 'intelligent' horror movies like The Witch, that would bring some respect for the genre, but, would receive zero attention from GP, or, more generic movies like The Boy, that would be hated by most of critics, but, would be a success with public? That's why The Conjuring is so genial, it brought the perfect combination from both worlds into a single masterpiece

[Gumby]

Very few people want to see a PC lecture on patriarchy, much less the audience attending a horror film.

[Plain Old Tele]

Not sure why you'd think this was a PC lecture. 

[Spidey Freak]

42 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

that's a good discussion, which is better for the genre? More 'intelligent' horror movies like The Witch, that would bring some respect for the genre, but, would receive zero attention from GP, or, more generic movies like The Boy, that would be hated by most of critics, but, would be a success with public? That's why The Conjuring is so genial, it brought the perfect combination from both worlds into a single masterpiece

 

Speaking of masterpieces, I'm still amazed at how unique and ground-breaking The Blair Witch Project was as a movie. Folks keep reducing its insane success to "shaky handcam gimmick" but it's really impressive how it completely forsakes gore and even the typical jump scares for atmosphere and psychological play. Even the handy cam is more of an atmosphere building tool than an audience nausea inducer. You could easily apply the common complaints to it like "Nothing really happens in it", and "The witch doesn't even turn up!" And yet, people flocked to it. Just shows that if you're innovative enough then the disconnect between critics and audiences can be bridged.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

1 hour ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

Speaking of masterpieces, I'm still amazed at how unique and ground-breaking The Blair Witch Project was as a movie. Folks keep reducing its insane success to "shaky handcam gimmick" but it's really impressive how it completely forsakes gore and even the typical jump scares for atmosphere and psychological play. Even the handy cam is more of an atmosphere building tool than an audience nausea inducer. You could easily apply the common complaints to it like "Nothing really happens in it", and "The witch doesn't even turn up!" And yet, people flocked to it. Just shows that if you're innovative enough then the disconnect between critics and audiences can be bridged.

 

yeah, it's an amazing movie, no doubts about it, but even more amazing than the movie was the whole marketing around the movie, I always say that it was the best marketing in the history of cinema, my mother used to say how big it was in her time, how everyone truly believed that it really happened, and went to cinema to see the last moments of life of these young teenagers, I don't think we will ever see something like this again, especially in this internet Era, the most similar thing was the PA phenomenon, and even this one wasn't half as big as TBWP, that's why I love this genre, for all those innovations that only the horror genre can bring, that's why is so sad to see the current situation of the genre, where the producers seems unable to bring a new innovation

[Jake Gittes]

7 hours ago, Telemachos said:

Not sure why you'd think this was a PC lecture. 

 

That's just because you're already brainwashed by teh man-hating feminist propaganda

Edited February 21, 2016 by Jake Gittes

[Stringer Bell Theory]

I enjoyed this quite a bit. There is an aspect of the ending I didn't really dig, but aside from that I liked it. It's definitely not a scary film though.

[tonytr87]

6 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

That's just because you're already brainwashed by teh man-hating feminist propaganda

 

I hope this is in jest. 

[Blankments]

Final predict:

DOM: 23M

[Mockingjay Raphael]

every local review that I read says that it is even slower than IF, but that has one of the best and most shocking ending of a horror movie, I'm so excited and worried at same time for this  

[SWXII]

Melting.

[Mojoguy]

How much of The Witch had people staring at each other and saying nothing for long periods of time? Overly long silent scenes are the only thing that put me off in Horror movies.

Also this movie or The Boy?

I'm seeing The Purge: Election Year on the first weekend.

[Mojoguy]

I liked It Follows.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

9 hours ago, Mojoguy said:

How much of The Witch had people staring at each other and saying nothing for long periods of time? Overly long silent scenes are the only thing that put me off in Horror movies.

Also this movie or The Boy?

I'm seeing The Purge: Election Year on the first weekend.

 

TB is a great surprise, better than almost every horror movie released last year 

[Bishop54]

A24 is expanding it into 158 more theaters this werkend.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

14 hours ago, Bishop54 said:

A24 is expanding it into 158 more theaters this werkend.

 

The movie is having great holds during the week, it may not be receiving the toxic WOM that we all expected 

[Mockingjay Raphael]

 

[Taylor]

They're re-releasing it this weekend, apparently. They released a new extremely spoiler-ific trailer to promote it.

 

EDIT: A24 is re-releasing The Witch in theaters, taking it from 146 locations to 666.

 

 

Edited March 30, 2016 by Taylor

[tonytr87]

Seems unnecessary. They already tripled their budget I think.