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Summary: I find "Shrek" to be scarier than this movie.
Review: Almost 1600 reviews, but I just got to add one of my own.
What is this? it seems that the creators of this movie spent 5 dollars for the making of this film and earned back more than 100 mil. The "based on real events" things is so pathetic, just shows another way of hollywood for stealing our money. Proof? the movie follow-up. First they tell us that this 2 tapes which make the whole movie, were found a year after and were real and these 3 students were never been seeing again. So you wanna tell me that after some time they found another tapes by these students? that's just the proof for hollywood taking all of our money out of our pockets, and some people actually buy it... Gim'me a break... Mike threw the map to the river because it didn't help? yeah, right... need I say more for the stupidy of this film? and I've read some reviews here which say that the ending was shocking. In fact, I find the ending for "Shrek" to be scarier than the ending of this film. Want a REALLY scary psyhcological movie? I recommend "The Mothman Prophecies". I will never spend another 70-80 minutes of my life for watching this...again. I honored this film for being my #1 at the most terrible I've ever seen.
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Summary: About As Scary As A Nickolodeon TV Show.
Review: I heard many great things about this movie.It got great reviews and everything.I also heard alot of people say things like "The Blair Witch Project is even scarier than the Excorcist".Because I heard so many great things,I decided to see this movie,expecting to be scared out of my mind.Turns out,I wasn't scared one bit.This is one of the most non-scariest movies ever created.It is just unbelievable how un-scary this movie is.Basically,all it is is just 3 morons carrying around a camera saying cuss words at any given time.It's hard to see anything since the camera is all shakey and blurry.So overall,this movie was just plain bad.If you are looking for a scary movie,just keep walkin',because this movie is definitely not for you.Peace Out.
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Summary: This is the only good modern horror film
Review: This was scary! It was a psychological horror film, and it is as scary as you want it to be. Use your imagination and actually get into a movie. I do that with every movie, wich is why I enjoy seeing movies rather than reading books. If you use your imagination in books, who is to say that you can't use it in movies. Maybe people have become dumb from seeing films like The New Guy, Not Another Teen Movie, and the Scary Movie series. This is great, but not for lazy or stupid people. Your not cool unless you use your imagination. Without imagination there would be no books or movies. Don't believe the negative reviews or the ones who use the corniest line of "I would have given it zero stars, but it won't let me." Yeah, that's how lame and pathetic they are. How many people have used that frase? This movie is for intelligent people, not for those who thought Scream was scary.
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Summary: cousinpaco's top terror: #4
Review: I'll admit it: I'm a grown man, and "the Blair Witch Project" creeped me out. For days. Three acquaintences set out into the woods of rural Maryland to film a documentary about a local legend. Losing their way, they are forced to spend a few nights in the woods. The film from their cameras is the only thing police ever find of the trio. Most of the complaints I've heard about this movie focus on the amateurish camera-work--and I can't argue. The frame bounces and jiggles more than my high-school government video. However, since the characters featured in the film are supposed to be using hand-held video cameras to document their search for the fabled Blair Witch, it's a brilliant way to blur the line between their reality and ours. Take a Dramamine before watching, and you'll be fine. Besides, the creepiest stuff isn't what you SEE, it's what you HEAR. Sound is a vital component of this film, so be warned--you'll need more than standard television speakers to truly get the full effect. How scared you are by "the Blair Witch Project" depends on how afraid of camp-outs when you were a kid. It's the same kind of creeped out feeling you'd have if you took a picture of your buddies at a campfire, and the developed photo showed someone in the woods watching you. If you're like me, you'll want to buy a nite-lite after watching this one.
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Summary: It just didn't scare me
Review: I went into this movie all excited and ready to be scared. Instead of being scared, however, I ended up scratching my head and wondering what the fuss was about. How could *this* be considered scary? Rather than scary, I found it irritating, boring, and the kids obnoxious. Forget "scary," how can this be considered a *movie*? A friend told me that I was too shallow in my observation and that I needed to look for the "hidden significance" in things (such as the idea that the Blair Witch was causing the kids to be disoriented and agitated). I looked for that hidden significance, I believe I found it, but it still wasn't "scary." Eerie, perhaps, but not quite scary. Creepy, maybe, but not quite entertaining. I told my friend that maybe this movie appeals to a certain audience with a low threshold for what is "scary." For example, having grown up in the inner city "ghetto" and having become accustomed to the sounds of gun shots as a part of my daily environment, I just can't consider a vaguely mysterious "witch" implanting disorientation into annoying amateur film-makers to be a frightening prospect. Actually, I find it funny, if not endearing, that there are people who find THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT to be scary.
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Summary: Creepy and Scary
Review: On a chilly fall morning, three ametur filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Josh Leonard, and Michael Williams) set off in search of the Blair Witch. The legend states that a supernatural force is haunting the woods surrounding the town of Burkittsville, Maryland. The filmmakers believe that its the spirit of the witch. After gathering their gear and doing some interviews with local residents, they set off into the woods to find the witch. What happens next can only be described as several days of sheer terror. Strange occurrances start taking place at night. Small piles of rocks are piled outside of the tent, but no one knows where they came from. Meanwhile, Mike reveals that he threw the group's map of the woods into the creek. Frustration and panic sets in as the group realizes they are now hopelessly lost. Morale in the group deteriorates, hunger sets in, and fights among the group start. At night, terror fills the darkness in the form of voices and other creepy noises. By day, the group tries vainly to escape from their self-inflicted prison. Ultimately, they find out that they are no longer filming a spirit, but their own struggle to survive. This is a genuinely scary movie. It is not typical blood and gore, but psychological terror. One critic who reviewed this movie called it "Scary as Hell"; I agree. Watch and see for yourself. If you like good psychological horror, then The Blair Witch is one you won't want to miss.
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Summary: Even After All the Hype, A Damn Good Movie!
Review: Everybody knows the story of The Blair Witch Project: 3 student filmmakers go missing after heading into the woods to make a documentary about a local legend. I saw the movie a few times when it was originally released theatrically, and was blown away by it. I bought the DVD to see if it still held up, especially after the disastrous Book of Shadows debacle... I'm happy to say that, while I don't necessarily think it's a watershed of filmmaking, Blair Witch holds up as a great horror movie, something horror fans get precious little of. The constant bickering of the characters seems more noticable now that the newness is gone, and the acting doesn't seem quite as good. Also, as I've expanded my horror horizons, Blair witch doesn't seem quite so original, either. (See Ruggerio Deodato's late '70's jungle epic "Cannibal Holocaust" for a more gore-oriented spin on the same concept of vanished filmmakers, and "The Last Broadcast", which preceeded Blair Witch by a few years, and seems like another unacknowledged inspiration, and also has a more satisfying ending.) Blair Witch has lost none of it's creepiness, or it's power to disturb. For my money, the last shot is one of the creepiest in cinema history. The DVD comes with some nice extras, including the 45-minute "Curse of the Blair Witch", originally shown on the Sci-Fi channel, which is incredibly informative and well done; "Newly-discovered footage"- A forgettable 5-minute scene; A timeline of Blair Witch sightings and events, Director Commentary, and a fairly easy-to-find Easter Egg: Highlight the stick man on the extras screen, and you'll be able to access trailers, TV spots, and a trailer for "The Stand". Overall, a great DVD. Watch it in the dark......
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Summary: Buy these [people] a tripod...
Review: First let me say that my father and I agree on very little, but after viewing this grade b piece of crap we both had more in common than two dumb college students in a record store drooling over the Dave Matthews section. I mean can you possibly believe that our young people are so depraived of thought that this piece of junk is considered revoloutionary?
I would like to thank the makers of this gem for bringing me and my father closer together than I ever thought possible.
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Summary: Great horror in a fine tradition
Review: This movie is not so much a ground breaker as it is a return to the basics of good horror, reminiscent of the original The Haunting from the 1960's. There are no special effects, very little blood and no gore. The menace is never directly shown, just hinted at with increasing intensity as the film unfolds. There is good reliance on proper setting (dark, gray days in the fall/winter, deep in the woods), sympathetic characters (tho they could have been more likeable), and, above all, a fine progression in the minds of the characters from casual enthusiasm for the project to absolute dread. The climactic scene in the old house was chilling, esp. the final few seconds. This is a thinking person's horror movie, unlike the abysmal sequel. Watch it often.
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Summary: You are kidding, right?
Review: What amazes me is the fact that half the nation admitted to being scared senseless by this film, then quickly changed their stories when they found out it "wasn't real." Then, they all thought it was dumb! How stupid is this country anyway? How could anyone think this was real? Like footage of some mystical being slaughtering three kids is something they'd just throw into the theaters for you to kick back and eat popcorn to. Well, I guess the film makers succeeded in what they were going for; They made a film for about two bucks and made a mint.
Personally, I don't see what's so scary about this. Maybe I've been desensitized over the years by the number of horror films I've seen. I do admire the effort. These guys made a blockbuster out of practically nothing(just like Night Of The Living Dead in the 60s). But, after watching it, I just didn't think it was much of anything. I saw it in the theater before the hype(thank god), and the film only took up about half of the screen. I was wondering when the rest of the friggin' movie was gonna come on. For the most part, this movie is about an hour and a half of bickering, arguing, running screaming into the darkness at the sounds of a shaking bush(who on God's green earth would go running blindly into the pitch black woods if they saw or heard something scary? Especially if you were lost anyway?), two or three "creepy" moments, and a not-so-grande finale. I had no sympathy for these ... kids. I didn't give a rat's behind if they were Blair Witch-ed or not. Throughout the film, our ... heroes are supposed to be lost and walking in circles. However, it never once looks like they're more than 20 yards from where they parked their car. They never seem that deep into the woods.
I did like the last five minutes from the whole crying-frightened-apology-snot-confession to the end. That actress was very convincing in that scene, it looked great. That doesn't make up for the rest of the film however.
And I don't care what anyone says, they would have stopped taping long, long, long before then end of the film
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