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Very disappointing. I was completely underwhelmed when the witch appeared in the final scenes and looked like this. So, did what the witch looked like actually frighten anyone?
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20 some years after the original was worth the wait. I saw it a few days ago, but I'm still seeing the Witch in my head. So chilling. Not scary, just not even close to what I expected her to be. But that's what made it effective.
shareIt wasn't remotely frightening. It was just a generic demon monster created out of wonky CGI running around the house making obnoxious "whaaaaaaa!' screaming sounds. I've seen photoshopped Slender Man art on the internet that was more frightening looking that what we got in the movie. Showing the witch was a bad idea in the first place...showing the witch and having it basically look like a Tod McFarland action figure was an insulting idea.
Yes, I thought she was perfect!
shareI was hoping she would look like more like a scary looking woman, like an incredibly haggard old lady in a black witch dress or something like that.. Something intriguing like a woman who looks and dressed like she's been alive, and aging, since the 1700s.
I mean it's called the Blair Witch not the Blair Monster, and she looked like a generic rabid monster rather than an evil witch stalking people in the woods.
I was hoping she would look like more like a scary looking woman, like an incredibly haggard old lady in a black witch dress or something like that.. Something intriguing like a woman who looks and dressed like she's been alive, and aging, since the 1700s.
I mean it's called the Blair Witch not the Blair Monster, and she looked like a generic rabid monster rather than an evil witch stalking people in the woods.
It didn't dawn on me until now that this film kind of plays it like she never actually died and has been alive all this time...I still prefer to think of her as a vengeful spirit -- a "presence" if you will with no physical form or appearance. If they HAD to show some kind of visual, I wonder if it would have been at all effective to present her as she looked just before her banishment: A somewhat normal looking old woman, albeit dressed like it's 1785.
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Every account I've heard of the Blair Witch has depicted her as an old woman, not a long limbed monster, and not even immediately scary to look at. For example, in the Curse of the Blair Witch, there was the story of the little girl who the Blair Witch took by the hand and brought to the basement of a nearby house. While the little girl waited, the witch killed the search party who went looking for her. Obviously, the girl was unperturbed enough by the witch's appearance that she willingly went with her and waited for her return, which didn't occur.
^Agreed. Her ghost as it appears probably just looks as she did in 1785. Then again Mary Brown's account of her being covered in dark, horse-like fur doesn't really jive with this, but Mary wasn't exactly "all there" lol.
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I think that story takes place after her death, so she would have been in her "ghost form" in it.
shareTo me, an old hag looks much scarier than any monster that Hollywood could create. I think it's because the old hag has a fairly deep resonance in the human psyche as a portent of death. The idea of this frail-looking old woman who moves silently through the woods barely seen,, her presence barely even felt until it is too late, until that moment where she moves toward you, her sunken horrible wrinkled features emerging from the pitch black, is bone-chilling. A growling, screaming, lurching monster has nothing on that.
shareI thought she was frightening because there's only two quick shots of her. I do kind of agree with you though...if she was shown a lot more. What made her really effective was not seeing her for a long time. Imagine seeing the demon from The Exorcist in long numerous shots. If you look at him for a long time he's not really scary but what made him so scary is the quick glimpses we see of him.
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