I'd have known too much, many things would have been explained (or at least graspable), overarching theories would have been more easily explicable. If I'd seen this mockumentary, I don't think I'd have been as scared. Being not quite sure what to expect only increases the tension and the terror. Without having seen it, the film is extraordinarily rich and suggestive, playing havoc with the viewer who carries no preconceptions (like myself). I think this mockumentary both weakens and strengthens the film.
Watching CURSE was of great therepeutic value - shorn of the big screen and the mechanics of the horror film, I was able to dominate the material, to emasculate its very real hold on me. As I mentioned in my review, I was scared witless by BLAIR, and felt great anguish for some time after it. Sometimes cynicism can be so tiring, and I'm really jealous of Americans who were genuinely scared watching BLAIR.Īpparently this mockumentary played a large part in the film's mythology - I don't know how true this is. Hee hee! we titter as reports come of spectators needing psychiatrists after THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Ho ho! we chortle when we read about audiences feeling sick at such a tame film as THE EXORCIST. It is a favourite sport among 'sophisticated' Europeans to laugh at gullible Americans, and it is a pastime, I'm ashamed to admit, I've indulged in myself.
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