[ SECRET POST #3262 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3262 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Yogscast: Hannah Rutherford and Lewis Brindley]


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[El Goonish Shive]


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[Evita]


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[The Blair Witch Project]


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(Kirsten Dunst as Peggy Blumquist in Fargo)


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 035 secrets from Secret Submission Post #466.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i.imgur.com/be0TRzM.jpg
[The Blair Witch Project]

[wannabe_influential]

That's the thing about movies that start off a whole genre

Other movies steal the most important bits from it, making it less memorable

[kallanda_lee]

Yes, exactly. Everyone steals good ideas, but not everyone can execute them well.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm pretty sick of Found Footage now. Feels so forced at this point. Blair Witch did it best, not because it was the best film, but because its marketing was kind of a one-shot deal - how so many people actually thought it was real and that the actors were even listed as "presumed dead" on websites, the film was presented in a really unique way which made it even scarier.

[(Anonymous)]

Naw, I love Found Footage movies. I'm so glad they became a thing. It's interesting that most of them are horror. I'd love to see some non-horror SF done as Found Footage.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I love found footage. It's my favorite. And the worse the movie the more I want to see it because I know I'll have a good time laughing my ass off. And when they're actually good it's such a treat.

[iambecomebees]

what a fresh and new opinion

[(Anonymous)]

Don't be a jerk, dude. People are allowed to have opinions that aren't fresh and new to you, and being a snob isn't exactly an original move, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you OP or something? They really weren't being a jerk.

[(Anonymous)]

They were certainly being snide.

[(Anonymous)]

No, and what isn't jerky about commenting on a secret for the sole purpose of being snotty about how the secret isn't "fresh" enough for them? Like how is that a polite thing to do?

[iambecomebees]

OKAY

[dahli]

Well, you're not wrong....

Like Scream triggered all those "teenagers being murdered by crazy killer", BWP triggered all the "people killed by somethingsomething while filming it". Plus, it's cheaper than doing an actual scary movie.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Scream kicked off the "teenagers murdered by psycho" films?!

Don't you mean "revived"?

[dahli]

...Y-Yes. I meant revived.


/ESL problems

[(Anonymous)]

Not an ESL problem. You said kicked off, but there was an earlier instance of those movies being popular, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and stuff, so they're pointing out that it's more of a revival or renewed interest. :)

[dahli]

I remember Nightmare on Elm Street!

Aha I see. Like I said up or down there, I barely remember those movies because I was a wee lil baby and all I remember was being scared out of my socks by them. :P

[kamino_neko]

Like Scream triggered all those "teenagers being murdered by crazy killer"

It came about 20 years too late for that... Black Christmas started the genre, Halloween made it into an actual genre. The 80s then burnt it out (after popularizing supernatural elements), though it never really went away.

Scream, at best, revitalized it by adding a meta twist.

[dahli]

Aaah, I see. Admittedly I barely remember the 80's movie outside of being traumatized as a kid because my aunt/nanny at the time loved watching them.

[kamino_neko]

The first two I mention are actually from the 70s (74 and 79, respectively), but the 80s were totally the heyday of the genre, both the supernatual and ordinary psycho variants.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think I saw "The Blair Witch Project" listed on TV Tropes' "Unbuilt Trope" page because it has things in it that later Found Footage movies don't have - like the characters getting into fights over the person with the camera obsessively filming everything.

Personally I am not hugely fond of Found Footage, I'm not overly fond of shakey-cam.

[tabaqui]

I never saw this, and have only seen bits of other 'found footage' movies, because the whole style triggers my motions sickness *hard*. I just cannot watch that.

But most of the movies seem pretty unimaginative and a lot like those 'ghost hunter' tv shows, where everyone ramps themselves up to being hysterical over not much.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I'm the opposite. I thought that movie sucked and the found-footage subgenre later came to WILDLY outstrip it with movies like [REC] and Chronicle