Half in the Bag Episode 116: Blair Witch and Don't Breathe 

So Don't Breathe is a story about how a bunch of idiots try to rip off a blind, disturbed old man. Wonder where they got that idea from. . . . .

Someone's gonna make a movie thats filmed vertically and all of the footage is a bunch of 10 second snapchat videos cut together.

"Mike what did you think of.." "I HATE YOU" Classic Mike bantz.

2:58 I love that Mike says, "it had great sound" at the same moment his audio gets fucked up.

They SO need to make Silent Screams. It's a better idea than Space Cop.

I often wonder if Mike and Jay actually know how to fix VCRs.

I would watch a movie where a bunch of VCR repairers try to break into Mr Plinkett's House and steal his money and plinkett has to defend himself.

How did I not know they made a movie based on Mr Plinketts life?

this is the best thing to come home to

All I'm thinking about now is how awesome an early 1900 found footage movie would be. Grainy sepia film, no audio. Would be creepy as hell. I wanna see it!

"You can't amp up subtlety" I don't know if that is a well known expression or if it was something Hitchcock or someone said once, but that's kind of a brilliant statement.

Mike has watched so much Star Trek he has actual Vulcan ears now.

The thing about every horror movie from the past 20 years is that they all have the same sound effects. For example jump scares are all accompanied by 'Girl screeching + metallic thud'.

I knew one of the cats that survived 9/11. He managed to get a good job, nice home money in the bank... Yeah, he landed on his feet.

This channel almost makes it worth continuing to live

Ironic that there were audio problems just when Mike talks about how good the sound was in BW

"I like horror movies that are firmly grounded in reality." - Mike "I believe in ghosts" Stoklasa

The sequence from the original with Mike in the corner and Heather screaming like crazy still gives me goosebumps, even when it's shown in this episode for like 2 seconds.

You know, headset cameras aren't a bad idea for a found footage horror movie. You can make one about adventurers wearing Go-Pros, and a movie that takes place in real time, something in the vein of The Descent, maybe?

A 9/11 movie about cats could quite possibly be the worst and the greatest ever. Never Fur-get.

How bad are movies these days that you'd rather watch people talking about them than the movies themselves.

"You can't amp up subtlety." - Such a great quote.

I couldn't find cats dying in 9/11 (just a dog) but I did find a blind cat named Homer that had to wait for two weeks for her owner to get better from her injuries. He got a book written about him.

A silent found footage horror film with camp 1920's piano music would be pretty entertaining. Hopefully it's been done before so that hollywood can remake it.

After I left Don't Breathe I thought to myself, 'I can't wait to see if Jay and Mike make a video about this' Then I sat and stared at my computer for three weeks. Thanks RLM time to eat.

I enjoyed watching "Don't Breathe" a lot more when I imagined it was Mr.Plinkett's brother.

10:50 "You can't amp up subtlety" damn that's like some poetic shit, Mike.

I could tell it was gonna be abhorrent when the trailers were louder than a goddamn Meshuggah concert

Sadly Im pretty sure the plot for the movie Don't Breathe at its core is taken from a real life case. A man from Minnesota named Byron David Smith killed two teens who broke into his house looking for pain pills and other stuff to pawn to support their opiate addiction. It was an extremely sad case where the male cousin went inside to attempt the burglary and was shot and killed quickly. The female cousin waited for a while and then went in to get the male out of the house. When she entered the house the man shot her in the stomach. Unlike the male burglar the female did not die when she was shot. Mr Smith dragged the dying teen girl into another room where he recorded her crying and pleading for help. Mr Smith had decided that once the kids broke into his house that it didnt matter what he did to them or their bodies..kind of they broke onto his property and forfeit their lives.. so anything goes. He slowly watched her die for a while, but decided that she wasn't dying fast enough. He told her it was her time to die and walked up to her with a small handgun and placed it under her chin and shot her through the top of her skull. He waited for about two days before calling the police, and when they asked him how the girl died he told them "it was a good clean kill". The case was a fairly big deal politically with gun and property rights advocates claiming once the teens entered the house it made no difference how he killed them or what he did with their bodies, while the other side felt because the teens were unarmed the man didnt have the right to shoot them. The court eventually kind of split it down the middle, finding the man not liable for killing the male when he entered the house, but finding Smith guilty of murder in the case of the female teen. Once she was shot she was determined to no longer be a threat and the police should have been called immediately. Homeowners do not have to right to Coup de Gras 19 year old girls who are no threat. This was the center of the idea, and the movies writers went from there.

"Ah...leisure."

It wasn't a rape dungeon, it was a fertilization basement.

What I found funny was that Blair Witch 2016 pretty much did EXACTLY what Mike wanted out of the first movie: -Giving the audience something specific to be "scared" about -Tying the Blair Witch plot with the serial killer in the 1940's -Technically faster pacing since all the shenanigans started EARLIER despite the movie's running time being 10 minutes LONGER than the original.

Classy sleaze is rare and underappreciated. Crank comes to mind!

> "Skip to this time code" > (No time code provided)

*praising audio in Blair Witch* *video makes buzzy/static noise*

I woke up gay.

"You better not shout, you better not cry, or sharp hand joe gonna poke out your eyes"

REVIEW THE FORCE AWAKENS ALREADY!!!

20:01 mike is so proud of his joke that he temporarily regresses to age 3

Victim 1: Blair Witch Victim 2: Death Note Victim 3: Godzilla vs King Kong Wingard needs to be stopped.

YAAAAY I don't have to kill myself.

"Australiaing" - A character climbing something perilous for no reason, and then dying for the purposes of contrived tragedy.

I think this movie should have been an action movie. They DO find his sister, and she is the rambo of the woods. She's been hiding out for years, hiding and surviving. They're sitting around her campsite that has a protective barrier around it. She says in a really gruff voice, "Finally, we have enough to fight back. Here, take this AK."

Silent Screams, written by Max Landis, starring Rich Evans as Space Cop and Mike Stoklasa as alien monster Palpy, shot using 1920s film stock. Take my money already!

No cats died in the making of 9/11.... A lot of birds and some service dogs though. RIP

The "it's soooo cooooold" line toward the end (whilst in the presence of the witch) was creeeepy & evocative

DON'T BREATHE has more plot holes than a piece of Swiss cheese...But everything happens so fast you do not get a chance to think about the holes...The audience I saw it with really enjoyed the movie...

Oh god please oh please will someone greenlight and fund RLM's "Silent Screams" film? This must be made.

Somewhere between 2 A.M and 3 A.M I realised Mike is exactly how Trent Reznor would have turned out, had the latter born in 80's and never made any music.

That spiel about the 1800's found footage had me dying. Spot on, funny shit.

When the cats jumped from the burning twin-towers... they fucking landed on their feet!

Don't Breath seems like a very big rip off of People Under the Stairs. Burglars breaking into a house with a hidden treasure, getting trapped in the house with an unsuspecting person being a bad ass, hidden tortured people.

A found footage movie I found to be super-effective is JeruZalem, much of it filmed guerrilla-style without permits. I enjoyed it for what it is: a movie which substituted inventiveness for budget; the film costing $300,000... this I saw the same day as I watched Batman v Superman, a film which cost $300,000,000+ and is totally creatively bankrupt.

I looked up "How many cats died" and the first fucking suggestion was "in 9/11". Not even kidding.

When you said... *"Plinkett...Coming Soon."* ....at the end of your last video, this is what you meant, isn't it?

Well, that's basically how I felt. As soon as the stick figure hoax was revealed, I was like "Oh shit, here's our element of doubt!" Then they immediately discard that and confirm the witch is an unstoppable, supernatural entity. I like to hope for the protagonists in these movies, but they felt doomed as soon as it was confirmed they were magically trapped in the woods with no chance of escape. Yaaaaawn! The tunnel scene was very tense, I would most like to NOT die in a situation like that - but that's all it was, a good setpiece inserted into a half-baked movie.

If you type "how many cats died" into google the second suggestion is "on 9/11"

The kids in Blair Witch weren't poor college students, they were all there through the "John Hughes Scholarship".

1920`s Blair Witch = Jack Black in King Kong?

As a guy who spends time camping in the woods, the thing about this movie that really disturbed me was the fact that the sun didnt come up. Imagine that for a second.

Is no one wondering how a blind guy kid napped a women who has sight in the first place?

I want a show that's just Jay and Mike pitching movie ideas.

With "Don't Breathe", it is established that they gain entry through the one window which isn't barred. Maybe it's the only unbarred window on the ground floor, but the group I saw the film with all understood from that scene that it was the only unbarred window in the entire house. This would explain why they try to exit through the ventilation shaft in the upstairs room rather than the window and why they conclude that their only hope of escape is to unlock the front door. This all makes consistent sense apart from the scene where the dog pushes one of the characters through the window of that same upstairs room. OK, maybe the burglars thought up until that point that all the windows were barred, but have I missed something which would explain why they never attempt to escape through the broken window?

The scares on the original were so simple yet effective, this reboot feels like it's on steroids I chuckled a few times.

I Always love Mike angry with a movie.

Mike talking about the 1900s found footage movie he and Jay concoct towards the end of the Blair Witch review, Silent Screams, is probably the most animated and most happy I've EVER seen him in any of these reviews and videos.

phhhhhhthhhthppht "It had good sound" phhhhhhthhhthppht

"The witch" is the prequel to "the blair witch"

Make Silent Screams. I'm serious. Fucking do it.

36:04 Jay is supremely unconcerned with that VCR about to topple onto his head, doesn't even flinch

I always wonder if in a Blair Witch situation it is good solution to set forest on fire.(?)

Through my extensive research I have found and concluded that "some" cats died on 9/11.

Anyone else notice some mic/audio problems with the commentary?

Mike laughs about it, but set designers really work their best no matter what job they have. A set designer can't have a vanity project, it's unfair to them to sink them with the movie when they did a good job.

I think those VCRs look gorgeous. I love the look of 80s/90s technology.

“You can’t amp up subtlety” -Mike Stoklasa That statement sums up this review beautifully.

I scrolled down a lot, but I couldn't find anyone who pointed out that a movie called "Silent Screams" already exist. It was directed by Vitaliy Versace...

Basically what i'm getting out of this is that they took Blair Witch and added a bunch of sledge hammers. They crushed the subtlety that gives the original any of it's effectiveness.

"Why do they keep making movies?" four seconds in and I'm laughing my ass off. Thank god for RLM

The rules and specific answer to how to escape is exactly the reason I love Japanese films like Ring.

This makes me forget I can't produce quality man milk.

Yay! Dual Half in the Bag is back!

I keep revisiting this episode in particular for that opening attack by Mike

I felt so much nostalgia seeing all of those VCRs. Thanks!

One week of pre-production for a RLM film? That's a new record!

That last VCR, the Orion, brought back some memories. It was the last VCR I ever purchased. How's that for an interesting and profound comment?

Just watched 'You're Next' - really good, thanks for the recommendation

"Amp up the Subtlety!" might be a good T-shirt.

20:03 Video evidence of Mike's descent into madness

The official cat death count totaled over 14,000, a true "cat"tastrophy.....

Plinkett should review the dumpster fire named "The Martian".

I've watched this video twice and laughed out loud at "Don't Look" both times

The turkey baster down the throat was actually some of the most poetic justice ever put to film: >old man shoots money with his own gun >old man gets the moneyshot from HIS own...gun

36:50 lighter on table. Who smokes? I bet its Jay. I'd smoke me some Jay.

YOu didn't go on enough about how inconsistent his senses were. Dude's got no sense of smell at times.

Apparently there were no cats in the building, the only ones that got directly affected were cats that were strays, who were near the buildings, and who breathed in the smog and dust created by the buildings collapsing, other than that, no dead cats in the buildings themselves, only around the buildings, and ones who were indirectly abandoned.

At 18:27 we get a classic "Oh My Gaaaaahd!"

Jay wanted something to hold onto with Blair Witch because he likes Wingard. And I have it. Spoilers, obvs. The theme of the movie is letting go of someone so your obsession doesn't destroy you and is illustrated multiple times. 1. James wants to believe that Heather is still in those woods after 20 years, which - as was pointed out - is ridiculous. It's absurd, but he's holding onto it because of a piece of new evidence, this tape that has surfaced containing an image of what *he* thinks is his sister. But at the end of the movie, it turns out that he himself created the piece of evidence that spurred his journey. He very literally created what he wanted to see and then ran with it. And it killed him. 2. The very very end, when James and Lisa are killed. They're facing the corner and James hears 'Heather.' Now after the last five minutes, there's NO WAY he really thinks she's still alive, right? But he looks anyway and it kills him. This parallels his entire journey. He knows she can't be there, but he can't let go, and he looks anyway and it kills him. 3. To really hammer the point home, Lisa falls into this same exact trap. She just 'saw' what happened to James so she DEFINITELY knows he's gone. But she looks anyway, and it kills her. So Wingard and Barrett were going for a deeper, larger theme, and maybe it didn't land as well for people as they intended. But it's certainly there. Or I want it to be. (DUN DUN DUN)

Silent Screams? Rich Evans in the woods? Sign me up!

If the movie really has great sound, it should win the Oscar for Sound Design.