I love the first BWP. Definitely one of my fave horror films of the past ten years. I sometimes wonder if, not being American, I wasn't so open to finding the characters as irritating as I've heard quite a few US viewers mention.
I never watched it thinking it was real (I can't honestly see how anybody could, even before it was 'outed'). Even so, it did genuinely scare me in certain scenes (the tent sequence, for example).
Whatever people think of it, it's certainly a lot better than anything else coming out of the US in the name of horror at the moment.
The sequels were dreadful though.
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