Spielberg gets freaked out by new movie - leaves halfway through

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=59151

The preview audience also was shocked by this. Looks like they might have a mild (to large) hit on their hands.

Blair Witch revisited?

shabbs wrote:Blair Witch revisited?

Yeah, this seems like a tremendous viral advertising campaign like Blair.

shabbs wrote:Blair Witch revisited?

"Clever" hype, I guess.

Spielberg is a jerk. He expects people to sit through 90 minutes of Dennis Weaver driving a Dung Plymouth Valiant, but he can't even sit through this?

The only movie that I can recall "jumping" at was "What Lies Beneath".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161081/

Saw it in the theater and I remember people in the audience yelling and screaming out loud. It was pretty good.

DUDE!! The sound isn't working on my computer, but it doesn't matter, that looks freakishly freaky! I love horrors, but I'm not sure if I would be able to handle this one.

I see no mention of Spielberg walking out of this movie? More fake hype?

I think this looks freaking awesome, hope they bring this out to NB.

Edit: 129 people have demanded it for Moncton, NB, I hope that number grows.

shabbs wrote:I see no mention of Spielberg walking out of this movie? More fake hype?

Huh, I thought it would be in there:

It's been an interesting road to theaters for the film, which was shot over the course of a week three years ago by Israeli video game designer Oren Peli. Total cost: $15,000. The Los Angeles Times reports this weekend that DreamWorks decided to to distribute the film after Steven Spielberg
watched it and had the hell scared out of him.

Now the film resides at Paramount, which is understandably a bit nervous about putting it on 3,000 screens. There's no name involved, and horror movies - even good ones - can be incredibly hit and miss. Case in point: Grace had people fainting at Sundance, which you'd think would be the best marketing ever for a horror movie. And it never made it into theaters. OK, it made it to two theaters.

So it takes more than scaring the bejesus out of Steven Spielberg to make a movie hit with an audience. The trailer is great, this new scheme of releasing the film to college crowds could build some buzz before a wider release next month, and maybe audiences will be so sick of Saw that they give this possessed house flick a little attnetion in the witching season.

"The movie could be stratospheric, or it could just become a cult favorite," says international sales agent Stuart Ford, who successfully pitched the movie to over four dozen foreign distributors. "It just depends on whether the studio can catch a wave."

http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/9/21/horror-movie-paranormal-activity-scared-spielberg.html

shabbs wrote:The only movie that I can recall "jumping" at was "What Lies Beneath".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161081/

Saw it in the theater and I remember people in the audience yelling and screaming out loud. It was pretty good.

I pooped watching that movie. Actually, now that you mention it, it might be (high) time to watch it again!

This movie came out 2 weeks ago. I thought news traveled faster than that with viral campaigns. I remember watching Blair Witch and being quite disappointed. My wife was freaked right out, but I found it annoying -- well, the characters, at least. The Ring was (for me) much creepier.

I also didn't get affected much by the Exorcist (maybe because I had read MAD Magazine's version -- The Ecchercist -- prior to seeing it).

"A Nightmare On Elm Street" was the first horror movie that actually scared me. Freddy Kruger and that glove of blades for fingers was Diddling awesome.

SpezDispenser wrote:

shabbs wrote:The only movie that I can recall "jumping" at was "What Lies Beneath".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161081/

Saw it in the theater and I remember people in the audience yelling and screaming out loud. It was pretty good.

I pooped watching that movie. Actually, now that you mention it, it might be (high) time to watch it again!

You like saying that a lot don't you?

I can only dream that that movie is going to be even half decent...I like what I've seen so far of it. I'm fairly excited...as well as for The Fourth Kind. Check that trailer out too...

Does anyone mind if I correct Spielberg's name in the first post? Good.