Several years ago, AMC ran a show titled 'Movies That Shook the World'. They looked at movies that are know deemed 'important' by those who make these decisions. It ran for one year and looked at thirteen different movies. Here's a list of the movies.
I just finished watching the episode about The Blair Witch Project. They focused more on how the film was marketed and made as opposed to the plot, actors, where it stands in the cinematic history, etc. This is one of my favorite horror movies of all time just because of the story and the ending. The end makes the movie. My wife hates the movie, some of our close friends hate the movie, my brother loved it. IMdB fans rate it at a 6.8 (I gave it a 10), but they all suck because they also think that The Dark Knight is one of the greatest movies EVER!
For me, the reason Blair Witch was such a great movie was the ending. They showed a clip of the two running through the house and the final scene in the basement and it sent chills up my spine. And that was without being engrossed in the film for over an hour. That, my friends, is power of the cinema and the power of a great movie. If you are shown one scene from a movie you have seen once and you have that kind of reaction to it, that movie made it's point. The horror movie genre should have taken many many notes from this film because this was really the pinnacle. The slasher films are fun to watch and they have their scary moments, but it is more about blood and guts than scaring the audience. I have no problem admitting that after we went and watched this movie in high school, I could not sleep that night.
I also watched last week the episode on 2001: A Space Odyssey. I have watched that movie half a dozen times and I still don't understand it, but it's important because of the whole space race thing....
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