I vividly remember the marketing campaign and was so looking forward to seeing this paradigm shift in horror.then I watched it. I not only wasn't impressed by it, I actually think it is a load of pretentious rubbish. I'm gonna have to dissent with the majority here. So while it's fair to say that Witch wasn't the first anything, it's also fair to say that it opened a floodgate, and because of it we've gotten a lot of entertainment that otherwise never would've been made. ![]() Without Witch we wouldn't have had Paranormal Activity, and without Activity we wouldn't have had Blumhouse, and without Blumhouse we wouldn't have had like thirty of the horror-genre features we've had over the past seven or eight years, some well respected ( The Bay, Oculus, Insidious) and others less so ( The Purge). I think it's probably fair to say that it was a trailblazer. It was certainly the most artistically and commercially successful. It wasn't the first found-footage film by any means, but it was arguably the best found-footage film at the time it was made. And they did it and it worked magnificently, and for that they deserve a boatload of respect.ĭid it establish a genre? Eh. It was something that could really only be done once. They dropped their actors into the woods with a tent and a couple of cameras and they made spooky noises and they shot tons of footage and they edited it into one of the creepiest eighty minutes ever committed to film. Instead they created it out of circumstance. They didn't meticulously craft Witch out of the blank page. ![]() In my opinion, the lightning-in-a-bottle nature of Witch is illustrated most clearly by the fact that neither filmmaker - bless their hearts - has done anything of particular note since. That's one of those stroke-of-genius ideas that comes along once in a writer's career, and those guys deserve credit for grabbing on to it with both hands and holding tight and making something out of it. There's just no way to say no to that pitch. It taps right into those fundamental fears.Īnd really, you have to credit Myrick and Sanchez for coming up with one of the best elevator pitches in living memory: Three filmmakers got lost in the woods. ![]() "Lost in the woods at night and something's out there" is even more visceral and primal. "Lost in the woods" is one of those primal, universal fears.
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