Jan 21, 2017
Movie Meltdown - Episode 380
This week we discuss the 2016
film Blair Witch directed by Adam
Wingard. Is it a true sequel? Is it a reboot? And just how does it
compare to the original project? And what changes have happened in
both the real world and on the horror scene since the first Blair
Witch film left it's mark?
And while we hear a stick break in
the distance, we also bring up... Trevante Rhodes, Dog Eat Dog,
Naomi Watts, Shin Godzilla, Skull Island, voo doo doll, LaLa Land,
true POV, high end sci fi, jump scares, Jack Black, Creep, the
underground railroad, retelling those stories, The Force Awakens,
Rings, you got that many castles to pay off your gonna make a lot
of wizard movies along the way, Moonlight, Willem Dafoe selling
candy and getting a massage, King Kong, screw it... monsters,
hitting all the points, time missing, Ryan is old news, Paul
Schrader, Peter forgot how to edit, cowboy Adrien Brody, hell
dimension, a bunch of gangsters doing gangster shit, running away
from monsters, Book of Shadows, new technology, what was that one
where he was a wizard, revolutionizing the system, every fifteen
minutes Nicolas Cage makes a new movie, I need the believably of it
to be afraid, the young demographic, what just happened,
Christopher Matthew Cook, Sunnydale, having GPS, an epic Hollywood
movie and still being stuck in a corner.
Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers
for the 2016 film Blair Witch. (And possibly for
The Blair Witch Project as well.) So go watch at least the
most recent movie before listening... you have been
warned!
"...found footage is not
inherently... limiting. In that, it's not inherently going to be
like... a Blair Witch or a Paranormal Activity."