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...Witch Project manages to sustain tension for minutes on end. By the end of the movie, even the pastoral daytime scenes are uneasy, and they get shorter and shorter, while the night scenes feel nerve-wrackingly long. Also, the scary things in most horror movies are outlandish and laughable. Scream makes a virtue of this, winking at every silly cliche of the genre. But Blair Witch invests ordinary things--piles of rocks, bundles of twigs--with horrifying meaning. Since similar objects appear in many shots, there's often a split-second when we're reminded of the unseen menace...
This prayer is now answered. Summer films are ready to creep over to the dark side, where anxiety about what's behind the door or outside the camp tent can drive people nuts. This isn't last summer's type of teen-scream movie. The new films, a dozen due for release this year, are essays in mature terror, for and about grownups, with big or serious stars and a few A-list directors. For the moment, slasher films are deader than a naked cheerleader. Horror is going both artsy, in the Method madness of The Blair Witch Project...
...days all the tunnels and shafts had to be dug with pick, shovel and explosives--backbreaking work. Now there are circular drills mounted on caterpillar treads, which lurch forward chewing at the soft rock, making a hellish racket that changes to a shrill glass-crunching scream when the teeth hit a pocket of "potch" (the gray waste near opal that runs in veins through the matrix). These drills are 4 ft. in diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely...
According to the study, which was published in the journal Nature, women who are ovulating tend to favor manly-looking men--big jaws, prominent eyebrows, larger overall size--you know, the kind of Tarzan stuff that is supposed to scream virility. During the other three weeks of the month, however, women seem to prefer the smoother, more feminized models--sensitive-looking types who would presumably be more likely to stick with Jane and nurture Boy over the long haul...
...Primal Scream snuck up on me in December of 1996. I had no idea why people were screaming outside my window in Weld at midnight, so I checked it out and was more than slightly confused to see several dozen undergraduates running around the Yard--sans clothing--egged on by more than 2,000 onlookers. Whoa...