Tulin, that's the other problem with IT, the stuff with the young kids I found very creepy, once they grew up into John Boy etc it got far too mawkish.
I haven't watched Blair Witch in a while, but I know part of my love for it just come from the extended world (for example knowing that Rustin Parr's house was burned down years before, or that the rucksack with the film canisters in it was buried underneath a wall that had been built on top of it decades before is creepy as hell). They built up a wonderful mythology that's genuinely unsettling. People go on about the fact that if they'd have mobile phones they'd have been fine but they really wouldn't have because either the phones wouldn't have worked down to supernatural interface, or they wouldn't have worked because they weren't in 1999 anymore.
I haven't watched Blair Witch in a while, but I know part of my love for it just come from the extended world (for example knowing that Rustin Parr's house was burned down years before, or that the rucksack with the film canisters in it was buried underneath a wall that had been built on top of it decades before is creepy as hell). They built up a wonderful mythology that's genuinely unsettling. People go on about the fact that if they'd have mobile phones they'd have been fine but they really wouldn't have because either the phones wouldn't have worked down to supernatural interface, or they wouldn't have worked because they weren't in 1999 anymore.
