Having a hard time believing people actually thought this movie was good. saw it a few days ago...

having a hard time believing people actually thought this movie was good. saw it a few days ago, it ended up being a movie that appears to be a horror movie, but ends up being a not-scary mystery movie that leaves a million unanswered questions by the end. very disappointed!

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Only movie ever to legit give me nightmares. Might be a generational thing

how? nothing scary really happens in it except maybe at the beginning and the end. it's mostly just walking around talking to people

back then, missclicking the tv remote or sitting on it could change the cable channel to one with nothing but static. it was a relatable spooky moment

The cinematography is kino as fuck though.

I liked the mystery aspect, it also just looked really good, was well acted, and the concept is fucking creepy.

>he didnt get scared at the girl in the closet scene

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I watched this as a kid and it made me afraid to take showers for some reason

It scared the crap out of me as a child but upon rewatching it last year I realized how bad and incoherent it was, generally speaking

Yeah, kinda like in 20 yrs people will wonder why the fuck they made a hangover trilogy. It's popular on their times yet surprisingly shit.

ITT, it was scary for kids, but shitty once you’re older

the mystery aspect was fine, but it's the responsibility of a mystery movie/novel to make sure most questions are answered by the end.

why did rachel and noah's son talk and act like a stoic adult? unless that was some kind of weird bad acting. why was he drawing things about the video a week before rachel even came in contact with it? what significance did the upside-down spinning chair, box of severed fingers, centipede, mirrors, and finger being stabbed by a rusty nail from the footage have? the list goes on and on.

It was a cool urban legend type film like tooth fairy and if you were a kid like I was when it came out, like eleven, the whole creepy legend aspect made it fucking terrifying like the original candyman

Just another bad adaptation of good book. Japanese one was crappy as well.

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the kid was close with the girl who died from the tape at the beginning of the movie, so it was some contact thing. The tape was just surreal creepy shit. it's a horror movie you dont need to analyze it that closely

I watched this in the theaters when I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me. Part of it is that I thought it did jump scares right(the closet scene) and that the actual video tape was pretty fucking creepy(the shot of the well, the mom brushing her hair, etc)
The other thing worth mentioning is that it was a kind of pop culture hit because of the 7 days thing. This is pre smart phones era so it had a sort of Blair Witch vibe in that sense.
I had a nightmare of the girl walking Into the bathroom as I was showering and for like 2 years i would constantly look outside of the shower curtains while washing.

an entire generation of people had nightmares about that little girl. That's apparently a common symbol in Japan, the pale girl in white with long black hair covering her face, some kind of traditional monster or something.

It's a very atmospheric movie. Also, I enjoyed the surrealist ifluences a lot.

>it was a kind of pop culture hit because of the 7 days thing.

Yep. Everyone calling each other and saying '7 days' and then hanging up was pure kino when it first came out. It was a fun time to be alive

Is the book worth checking out? I read Edge by the same author some years back and it was kind of weak to be honest.

If you gonna read a whole trilogy, there's a great turntable at the book 3, which is not really appreciated by many readers. But Book 1 is good enough itself, and it totally beats the movie.

Thanks, I'll be checking it out.

you had to be there at the time and watch it on VCR.
It was freaky and the market wasn't swamped with jump scare shit

this, honestly
if more horror movies took this atmospheric approach maybe the genre wouldn't be so derided

>you had to be there at the time and watch it on VCR.
People always says this, but man, the movie did nothing for me when it came out. I was 11 at the time, easily scared by horror movies, and it didn't phase me at all. I've seen it a few times since then and think it's an okay movie, but I've never found it effective as a horror movie. The atmosphere is good and the mystery is cool, but the premise itself is just silly to me and always has been.

Retards like OP does not understand that horror effect wear off with experience, no matter which movie it is..

It's a movie you have to see in a quiet theatre in october at night pre internet we've seen it all jaded era. Preferably with only a few other people watching with you but no close enough that you can look to them for comfort.
Take a time machine back to 2002 and follow these directions and I promise that you will have a different take on the film.

>come into thread thinking op is just some zoomer retard
>turns out hes an ACTUAL retard
wew
kys immediately

I was scared by it because I watched it when I was 6 and Samara is Freddy Krueger scary plus some because she can travel through visual displays so what if she walks straight into your eye
Anyway I want to FUCK Samara now, closest thing I get is usually Lain waifus but I take what I can get