Oui relisons les critiques d'époque : voici un lien vers la revue de presse de "Blair Witch" pour nous rappeler qu'il avait été bien accueilli, même par la critique français pourtant frileuse en terme de cinéma fantastique. Tout le monde avait défendu : studio, cinélive, libération, les inrockuptibles, l'express, mad movies, les grincheux de chronic'art... Quelle belle unanimité ! Seul télérama avait vraiment boudé ! Pas un film martyr à sa sortie donc, au contraire...
http://www.allocine.fr/film/revuedepres ... 20268.html
Et aux Etats Unis, c'était tout simplement un des films les mieux notés par la critique en 1999. Les grincheux étaient là aussi minoritaires !
Movie Reviews: The Blair Witch Project
16 July 1999 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news
"There is something revealing about the nature of movie making in the fact that an odd horror film made on a shoestring budget and starring unknowns is receiving better reviews, by and large, than one of the most hyped films of the year, starring a superstar couple and directed by one of the most respected figures of the medium. Indeed, many critics are suggesting that Blair Witch Project, The (1999) is not only a more inventive film than Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), but that it may also become more successful at the box office. Desmond Ryan in the Philadelphia Inquirer describes the film as "that rarest of accomplishments in a field notorious for tedium and repetition -- an original horror movie." But originality for its own sake is no great virtue. Lloyd Rose in the Washington Post pays the film the ultimate honor, calling it: "The scariest movie I've ever seen." Even the fact that much of the movie is shot on Super 8 video apparently works for it, since the plot hinges on a group of student filmmakers who are investigating reports of ghosts. Jay Carr in the Boston Globe writes that the "graininess, blurriness, and jerky camera movements" help make the creepiness "as real and as terrifying as you could hope for." But it's all too much for Edward Guthman, who writes in today's San Francisco Chronicle: "The Blair Witch Project, The (1999) is neither fun nor exhilarating in that adrenaline-inducing way we're accustomed to from horror movies. It's just dreadful and draining and, for some of us, literally sickening." »
Quant à "Paranormal Activity", il a aussi eu un formidable accueil critique aux USA comme en témoigne un coup d'oeil chez rotten tomatoes :
http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/paranormal_activity/
Bref, ce sont des films qui plaisent beaucoup aux critiques en général... justement parce que ce ne sont pas des films d'horreur "comme les autres" (traduire : mauvais, forcément !)...
) et les deux gugusses de Blair Witch dont la carrière ne semble ne toujours pas avoir commencé vraiment !!
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