I can't believe this show is still on the air. Just what is supposed to be interesting or informative about this show? I grant you the subject matter is interesting. It's a shame they can't do something with it. Enough of the "Blair Witch Project" style footage of idiots running around screaming at shadows and scarying themselves silly. Not remotely entertaining.
sharei bet if you went into one of them huanted places you'll be more than entertained.
shareWould love to go. These places would all be a lot more interesting if you could actually see them. The way the show is filmed makes it seem like the same place with different people bumping around in the dark and screaming.For me. that gets old. If you find out how to get on the show, let me know. I would at least try to describe what is going on and not spend the whole night screaming. I mean come on already, these people go in there saying "Give us a sign" and what do they do the second they get one? They just run around screaming their heads off. Must be very annoying to the spirits.No wonder they get cranky.
shareI collect scary themed documentaries because I have an uncontrollable hunger for them. I've come to realize something, the older they are the better.
When I watch say... "Arthur C. Clarke" or "The Force Beyond" they're way creepier than newer stuff like "Scariest Places On Earth". I would like to do this kind of thing for a living so naturally I tried to figure out what made the older ones scary. Here's what I came up with...
In the older ones they don't go out of there way to be overdramatic. They interviewed real people and whatever they said that's what they used. In the newer ones you can totally tell that either these people are full on actors or they're actual people being given direction. In "Scariest Places" there's a scene where this dude says something like "I suppose in a sense her spirit still walks this place..." What? Uh... go back dude, and explain what you just said. Not to mention this girl walks up to Bunnyman Bridge "alone" and she acts all scared when there's clearly a camera crew there with her. You can totally tell which people are real and which people are actors.
In the older ones the people that they interviewed seemed pretty intelligent, but in the new ones they seem to talk to the stupidest suburban yuppie kids they can find.
The atmosphere, I found, was quite different as well. In the 70s they use mellow kinda eerie music where in "Scariest Places" they use a lot of loud noises and jumps. The MTV style video cuts don't help either.
I like Zelda Rubinstein as much as the next person but having her slowly and creepily narrate the upcoming scenes felt unbelievably cheezy to me.
I really want to like "Scariest Moments" because there aren't a lot of scary documentaries out there but it's hard man, it's hard... I'm gonna try again. Here we go...
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