Top 100 Favourite Films: #80-71

#80: Trainspotting – The use of drugs and people

There are a lot of users out there. People whose only real drive is to get that next fix, that hit that can help them escape their surroundings, if only for a little while.

Blair Witch (2016) - Movie Review

The original Blair Witch Project is the godfather of the found footage horror film, the outsider that in recent years has become the cool kid in school. With its bare-bones production values and understanding of viral marketing that was far ahead of its time, it set the world by storm. It’s also one of those films that, with how much it’s been copied of late, can be difficult to watch and appreciate as one could back when it first came out; kind of like Citizen Kane, in that viewing it objectively is probably the best way to approach it. Me personally, while I don’t find it to be out-and-out the scariest movie I’ve seen, I can definitely see all the merit that went into it.

Then the sequel Book Of Shadows came out, which took the first film’s notions of unsavoury but still realistic characters questioning their reality and pushed it far beyond the point of being in any way watchable. It is utter garbage and probably one of the worser examples of the Hollywood system just plain not getting what made the original so good in the first place when making a sequel. Looks we’ve got another contender for Sequel Rule #6 with this one, this time with rising star director Adam Wingard at the helm. After his success with The Guest last year, I can only hope that he manages to deliver on this one and not just give us another cash-in to burn.