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Summary: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT!!!
Review: This movie was realistic in my opinion,... It didn't scare me a whole lot, but it was a bit spooky and creepy. There's no plot here. Just three foul mouthed youngsters being stalked by an unseen witch after getting lost in the Maryland Woods. Their so-called project turns into a hellish nightmare, and they will all meet an uncertain fate soon. Nothing much here, but I like it a little bit. This movie may be a delight to some, and a waste of time for others.
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Summary: Why can't we choose zero stars?
Review: There are those who think this is a wonderful example of terror, and I'm glad that they enjoyed it.
I, however, most certainly did not.
The first time I watched the movie was in the theatre.
I honestly fell asleep and had to have a friend wake me as the credits rolled. It wasn't until it came out on video that I gave it another chance.
This is by far one of the most boring "Thrillers" I've ever watched, and I have seen some pretty sad examples let me tell you.
The film is basically a group of independent film actors, trying to show how much more intellectual their movie is by having almost every other line be a quick retort or question.
An hour and a half of people stumbling around in the woods, swearing, crying and screaming at shadows is not what I would call "scary".
The only scary part, is the fact that it actually scared some critics!
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Summary: blair witch...
Review: this is the worst overrated movie i have ever seen, the critics were either not paying attention or were high when they reviewed this movie. This movie is not worth renting, not even worth seeing on tv. The acting is poor, most of it seemed to be improvisational, why the hell did he drop-kick the map into the lake? It does not even deserve 1 star! don't rent this video!!!
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Summary: The Blair Witch Project
Review: This is one of the smartest horror movies I have seen. And I have seen a lot of them.I saw this in the theater wen the phenomena was going on.
And the question did this really happen or not? Was being asked If you watched Curse of the Blair Witch that was TV it sure made it look like it did. But most of us know it did not The people that did not like this movie are some of the ones that did not understand it. One thing you must understand before watching it is that it is an independent film. And they did not have a big budget to spent on it.
All of the film is shot with handheld Camcorders that are very shaky at times and spooky the next. That make you fill like you are more in the movie then watching it.
The Story is about three film students that go in to the woods to shoot a documentary on the legend of the Blair Witch.
The three end up getting lost and are never seen again.
The only thing that is found is the film that they were shooting.
What you see is what they filmed and what happened to some of them. Even if you can not watch the shaky, motion-sickness-inducing camerawork You Must See The End It Will Shock You
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Summary: Where's the map??
Review: This movie was shot by amateurs, but since what you are seeing is supposed to be the footage of a movie which was shot by amateurs, who better than an amateur to play an amateur? Actually, this movie breaks new ground on a number of fronts, one of which is to involve the cameraperson in the movie. And so if the camera is off center or sideways or shaking or even dropped, you can tell how the cameraperson is feeling and since this is a horror movie, the point is to show how very very scared everyone is, especially the person who is holding the camera. Another effective aspect of the movie besides the way it was shot is the way it was cast. The characters/victims are not professional actors/actresses giving canned responses. They are again amateurs, and the way in which they talk and act in the movie is very realistic. The audience can identify with them. Finally, the situation that arises in this movie, that of losing the map and getting lost in the woods, is a situation which almost anyone can relate to. Even if you haven't actually gotten lost before, the fear or the momentary nudge that maybe you don't know where you're going, or that you can't trust the person who is leading the way or who is entrusted with the map is certainly a psychological dynamic which we are no doubt familiar with. And then there are those sounds and shadows in the middle of the night in the woods when you are camping out, which you can't quite identify but which look or sound eerily reminscent of something which you have seen or heard before . . . .
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Summary: a portrait of a generation
Review: This film is a work of art. It is a symbol of the triumpth of hype over substance that seems to characterize just about everything in modern society. Afterall, it transformed this garbage "D" grade horror flic into a blockbuster.
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Summary: SMART, SCARY, AND INTENSE
Review: Not only is The Blair Witch Project one of the best films of 1999, it's also one of the smartest, scariest horror movies ever made. It tells the story of three student film-makers who hike deep into the Maryland woods to shoot a documentary about the legendary Blair witch who is known by the townspeople to have killed several children in the area for two centuries. The three young students are never seen again, but their terrifying footage is found a year later and we, the audience, get to see the mysterious, harrowing last days of their known lives. At first the doomed project is more like a whimsical outing. Heather (Heather Donahue) is the bossy director; Mike (Michael Williams) is the wisecracking soundman; and Josh (Joshua Leonard) is the laid back cinematographer. The three actually seem to be having fun until they get lost...and find ominous ritualistic symbols hanging in the trees...and see and hear strange, frightening things in the night... To say anymore than that would spoil a movie that must actually be seen to be believed. It is captivating, tense, and brilliantly scary. The performances are very credible especially Donahue who was unjustly voted Worst Actress at the Annual Raspberry Awards. She has a knockout anti-climatic speech towards the end of the film that provides her character with some much-needed vulnerability under her strong-willed stubbornness. The film was a monstrous financial success especially considering the $10,000 budget. It created a huge Blair witch hype over the Internet and spawned a sequel in 2000. The writers/directors (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez) obviously understood that our imaginations are a terrifying thing. A lot of the time what is never seen can be the scariest thing in the world. One thing's for sure, camping will never be the same again. Rated R for very strong language and some very scary innuendos. (*****) (A+) AFTER NOTE:
Avoid the sequel "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2"!!! It's complete nonsense! (no stars) (F)
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Summary: More humour than horror
Review: I recently watched this movie for the first time. From the moment I first heard about it years ago there was just something about it that made me think that it was no big deal--despite the mammoth hoopla surrounding it--and now I know that I was right. Not that I'm trying to be conceited, that's just the way it turned out. There was really nothing scarry about the movie, although I've come to wonder whether this has something to do with the unadulterated lampooning of the movie after it was released. Probably not though; it just doesn't seem to hit the right cords, and as a result I found myself laughing quite a bit throughout this thankfully short movie.
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Summary: at one cent per copy, it is over priced...
Review: Alright, folks, are you thinking about watching this movie (and I use the term loosely)? All you really need to know is that you can by a used copy for ONE CENT. What does this tell you? Oh, what about the 3 star average? That just proves that there is a real drug problem in this country, if not in the world, that's all. ..
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Summary: Maximal results from minimal capital...
Review: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Most people either loved it or hated it; middle ground is not an optional piece of territory. I loved it. I'll tell you why. One word- -ingenuity. That about sums it all up for me. Sure, there's more there, there actually is a deep, dark horror to it, a spoiled seed which could be the starting point of a magnificent mythos, but I think the element which exists in greatest abundance within the world of the mysterious witch is a categorical and clever kind of resourcefulness; it is filmmaking which is so anti-Hollywood that Hollywood was powerless to ignore it. After all, we are fascinated by what we fear, are we not? And a bunch of kids with a few cheap digital cameras riding a powerful idea to a box-office gross north of the century mark can be pretty scary to old, stodgy powerbrokers, let me tell you. PROJECT is a faux documentary edited together from reels of footage discovered a year after the disappearance of three young, amateur filmmakers by the names of Heather, Josh, and Mike. Their goal was to explore the rural legend of the Blair Witch, a supernatural force said to haunt the forest near the township of Burkittsville, Maryland. Everything is pretty harmless, benign at the beginning; there's a lot of hamming for the cameras, a surplus of joking and chiding at the expense of each member of the trio, and the conducting of interviews with a few of Burkittsville's finest, who recount different aspects of the evil Wiccan lady, a creature they believe is responsible for many missing and mutilated people over the years. A creepy tone is set with the cool campfire tales related to the documentarians, the most terrifying being the one about Rustin Parr and his malicious slaughter of several children (he eventually comes out of the Black Hills Forest with the chilly enigmatic proclamation "I'm finally finished"). But the real action takes place when the group begins to explore the woods; strange things start to show themselves, like odd rock formations, unnatural hanging childlike figures formed from twigs, and the unearthly song of young kids in the distance. As time goes on, the friendly dynamic previously enjoyed by the threesome denigrates into quick decay, the pressure of the foreboding unknown takes a trying toll. They walk 'round and 'round the woods, becoming more and more lost, all attempts at orientation null and void. Adding to the animosity is Heather's seemingly blind ambition; Mike and Josh just want to figure a way out of the mess, but she is unflappably determined to continue with her thesis, caring more about photographing the twilight-zone incidents they encounter than with formulating a plan of escape. One of them is marked and then taken by the witch; the remaining duo eventually happen upon a most haunted house and an extremely blood-shocking horror hidden inside. Perhaps the most intriguing construct of the film is the fascinating high-concept idea at the lowest level: imagine what clues one would find on media generated by people missing for a long, long time. When I first read the tagline promoting the project, I was immediately struck by the utter perplexing nature of such a springboard; it filled me with a bursting sense of curiosity which would have to be satisfied as soon as possible. The next vital component is the main mechanism of presentation: the documentary format (or, the documentary of the documentary format, at the least). Upon first inspection, it works; it takes you fully in and makes you feel as if you are watching a nonfiction account of what happened in the woods. However, upon subsequent viewings, it should be noted that some flaws not previously noticed eventually become conspicuous; these shortcomings aren't necessarily specific, tangible things, they tend to be more abstract in nature. Simply put, the first time around, you accept the film as an investigative exercise in reconstruction of a potential crime scene, it is nothing more contrived than that; but, as one becomes increasingly familiar with the work, a sense of staging and plotting is made apparent, ruining somewhat the magic of the virginal viewing. In fact, the issue of the missing map is something that probably should not have been included, as that became a point where the viewer definitely intimated an intrusion of an obviously fictional hand upon the desired effect of verite. (Going into the film, I thought I was going to see a narrated, paranormal-type show one might find on the History Channel at Halloween time; in some ways, I think this would have been a more ideal route, although not by much- for the most part, PROJECT's design does its job.) The acting talents of the three main players are finely suited for the nature of the material. Of particular note is Heather Donahue, who seems to have a disproportionate amount of training and polish in relation to the other two; but this can sometimes work to her detriment, since too skillful a job can detract from the insouciant, unconscious demeanor that a director would want to see in this kind of a role. Remember, these are three ordinary kids under extraordinary circumstances; it would not do for any of them to suddenly show off any sort of technique learned from an educational institute- instead, the "everyman" approach is best. There probably was a bit of overacting at times, particularly when the arguments really started to rise along the temperature gradient, but it was kept to an acceptable minimum. But let me go back to where I began: I just loved the genius level of this movie. We don't have a lot of money, so let's scare the pants off of everybody by devising an invisible menace, let's play with the minds of the audience and make them gasp by giving them high-resolution terrors instead of complex CGI algorithms. Check out THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT; and stay out of the woods.
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