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Summary: UUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!!!!
Review: If you thought this movie was scary, I have another recommendation for you: "Plan 9 From Outer Space" It will scare the heck out of you!! 'Nuff Said!!!
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Summary: The Scariest Movie in a long, long time
Review: Scream? I Know what you did Last Summer? Were they supposed to be scary? Those are more like comedies. But "The Blair Witch Project is different. It is up to you to decide what the noise in the woods is. When you let your imagine fly, it is much scarier than when you are simply being chased by some guy in a ghost mask. People who didn't like this movie just didn't actually think about the situation. Some also think that it would be no big deal being lost in the woods. The movie was filmed near winter, and it makes the woods the absolute best place for a horror movie. Nature looks dead and just plain dreary in this movie. Believe me, you would not want to be there. The acting is not bad, mainly because most of it is not acting. They improvised most of their lines, and it made the movie more realistic. Like I said before, when you must use you imagination, it is a lot scarier. You don't know where the noise is, how far into the woods it is, or what it is. All you see at night is a small layer of trees and just blackness. If you were there you can not say that you would not be scared. If you want to see this movie, you have to take the time and actually listen to appreciate it. Watch it at 2:00 A.M. with all the lights off, and use good headphones with the sound cranked up.
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Summary: Try to ignore the hype & just keep an open mind if you can.
Review: First, I feel like I have to address the buzz surrounding the movie. I am at the same time disgusted and sort of impressed with the hype. It is pretty clever when you think about it. No trailers (well, they did have some eventually, but still, it took them long enough) no cast members doing the rounds on talk shows, no big budget, etc. Just the website, the documentary on the SciFi channel, and big-time word of mouth. Apparently worked. I feel for those actors, since they got paid about what I make in 2 weeks for 3 weeks of hell. I hope to God the filmmakers were generous and gave them points in the film. I am also hearing that at most theaters, they pay the manager, etc to get up before the showing and get the crowd all hyped up, which is kind of lame. When we saw it Saturday, the owner (before she threatened people who had laser pointers) got up and yelled, "Hey, welcome to Crossroads theater, and ARE YA READY FOR THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT? Whooooo-hoooo! Everyone READY TO BE SCARED?" I was like, oh please. I also heard these girls in front of me asking someone next to them if **this was a real documentary**. We got up and moved because I did not want to spend the movie sitting behind someone so incredibly stupid and naive. But I guess that's what a good job they did marketing it, because I heard there are plenty of stupid people out there who think the thing is real. I also grudgingly admire whoever decided to market it initially as a 'hard ticket', meaning they wanted to have it only at one theater or so per city for a few weeks. I'm sure that helped the buzz. Hyping it as the scariest movie of all time (though maybe this is more word of mouth than the filmmakers doing it) is kind of dumb, though, because people are just going to be disappointed, unless all they've seen are "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer". I heard kids talking after the movie who were let down because they was very little gore, no monster, and no real pay-off. I had a good time because I told myself not to expect anything. I guess if you go, just keep an open mind, and don't think, "This better be the scariest movie of all time after all the hype, or I'll be p**sed". I do think it's kind of funny how the big studios spend millions of dollars marketing their lame summer 'event' pics, but this is the one most people are talking about wanting to see. So, that's my 2 cents as far as the hype goes. Went and saw BWP for myself a few weeks after in came out. Inside the theater manager had to come make an announcement about laser pointers, she said if anyone used them during the movie she'd take them away and kick them out. She was this huge, burly, tough woman who looked like a prison warden so people calmed down after that and shut up. Anyway, I loved it. Not the scariest movie I've ever seen, but if you asked me what the scariest movie I've ever seen was, I wouldn't be able to name it. I would saw BWP, the Exorcist, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, Last House on the Left (and a couple more I can't think of right now) are like the top scariest. I was really impressed though. Very realistic, the way it was shot and put together, and the character's reactions to stuff. My spouse said it really scared him, which he hardly ever says, because he's been camping and that's like your worst nightmare. The whole movie was very creepy and spooky but the last 5 minutes REALLY scared the crap out of me. It's funny, the audience started out very rowdy, and I thought I'd have to "shhh" people the whole movie. But after the first 5 minutes, people were engrossed. As the film got more and more tense and scary, there were no screams. Instead, the whole audience just sat there cowering quietly in fear. Not a lot of talking back to the screen, etc like there is in most horror movies, and the audience was full of teenagers. That speaks for itself, I think. I read a review in which they said that the movie was all about panic, and I agree. One of the most upsetting things is the way the characters go from calm, controlled, and joking, to nervously joking and then arguing, to trying desperately to hold it together, to understandable total freaked out panic by the last reel. As the film draws to a close they just give up all pretenses of composure and control and just panic and run around like maniacs screaming incoherently at the top of their lungs. Usually when characters in a movie do that you feel like slapping them, but the film draws you in so much that you do not blame them, one bit. You know you would probably act the same way if you were in their shoes, and the way the movie is filmed, you are pretty much in their shoes. Bottom line regarding how scary it is: If I'd been watching it by myself at home at night I probably would have started crying.
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Summary: Under no circumstances will I ever watch this movie again.
Review: I hate this movie with a fiery passion like no other. The movie is about a bunch of dorks who want to investigate some stupid legend about some old, hairy witch that is evil, but not as evil as the creators of this movie. The whole movie you watch a bunch of total idiots whine about how they're lost and stuff and scream obscenities at each other. It's like "Beavis and Butthead go camping", only Beavis and Butthead outwit these fools by a longshot. The movie is littered with bad special...whoops, I mean NO special effects and vomit inducing camera work (actually the movie itself is vomit inducing). There isn't a remotely scary part throughout the whole thing. This movie is a .... pressed onto a DVD and you should avoid it at all costs. Even the extras suck, judging from the commentary, the directors are complete morons, and the 40 minute curse of blair witch makes you want to flush the dvd down the toilet only more. Buyers beware.
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Summary: Sadly disappointing, didn't live up to the hype.
Review: Usually people just review what they really enjoy but, like confession, I reckon doing a review of something you didn't enjoy is probably good for the soul. The hype surrounding this film was absolutely immense, and nothing could live up to it. But I found this film particularly disappointing. Usually I don't like scary or horror films (life is scary enough, don't you think?) but I made an exception here, since it sounded like something special. Unfortunately, the film turned out to be exactly what it was, a low budget amateur film made by students. The film quality was poor (OK, so it was meant to be, but did it have to be that bad?), the sound quality was terrible (they could have improved this and not seriously compromised the "film verité" aspect, surely?), and the choice of shots was a bit repetitive (again, I suppose they were meant to be lost, going over the same ground again and again, but why so many extended shots of leaves?). As for the end, surely we could have been given a bit more to go on? I certainly applaud the film-makers for making such a popular film on a very low budget, but I'm afraid it didn't do a lot for me. Personally I didn't feel any atmosphere in the film, I didn't feel any mounting despair or desperation, and I never managed to really empathise with the characters as they got more and more lost. That said, I was quite impressed with the scene in the woods when they come across all the figures made of sticks, but that was the best bit in the whole film. I think what is really essential in liking this film is to be able to suspend your disbelief and really believe that it is a genuine film of a bunch of students who got lost (apparently some people really did think it was genuine, but I reckon the credits at the end probably gave it away!). For some reason I just wasn't able to do that with this film. Overall, top marks to the makers for making a ton of money, but for the shaky shots, rustling leaves, bad sound, etc., nil points.
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Summary: "Scary As Hell"? Please...
Review: I was one of the many who bought into the Blair Witch hype and bought my ticket confident I wouldn't be sleeping well that night. The result? I was terribly dissapointed, and most definently wasn't scared. This movie is just not scary. I still don't understand how anyone could find this scary. As one reviewer said "You would be scared too if you were out there in the forest with them". That point is irrelevant. Of course you would be scared if you were out there, but you'd also be scared if you had Micheal Myers or Freddy Kruger out to get you. I obviously didn't find the choppy documentary style the film was made in as effective as many other viewers. All it did was give me a headache (I was sitting in the very back row of the theatre!) and had to look away at some moments because I was feeling sick. I do give the creators credit though. They definently made a lot of money. The whole effect of not seeing what is out there didn't get to me at all either. All you hear is some sticks breaking, the kids cussing, and repeatedly asking "What's that sound?" That is just not scary. It's downright stupid. Maybe I should make a documentary in my house at night and record all the creaks and cracks my house makes at night, and try to pass it off as a horror film. I really don't see what the difference is other than the setting. The cussing, staring at the black screen hearing "what's that sounds?" asked a bunch of time, gets very old, fast. Even the climax I didn't find terribly frightening or suspensful. Just one whole big let down. The bottom line is it's just not scary. Anyone who knows me can testify that I'm not terribly hard to scare, but I went home that night after "The Blair Witch Project" and slept soundly. This is probably one of the biggest hyped and overrated movies I've ever seen. Don't bother with it, unless you're prone to get scared at little bumps in the night.
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Summary: Someone should drop a house on this witch
Review: Great Marketing appears to have drawn the crowd to see this one. Blair Witch offers a creative cinematic perspective however this movie gets lost in a most boring sequence of camping events and one highly annoying female character. The acting is horrible and the plot nothing more than overreactive hysteria to a bunch of freaky nonsense and mind games. The ending is somewhat scary without alot of special effects..but not nearly as scary as it's hyped out to be. I have seen some very creative and scary films without the violence and splatter ... unfortunately, Blair Witch is not one of them.
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Summary: "I'm So Bored."
Review: I managed to avoid most - but not all - of the hype that surrounded this movie before I saw it, and tried to watch it for what it was. It had my interest initially, but it doesn't take long to realize it's less about whatever it is that's after these people, then it is about watching three completely stupid characters squabble. Perhaps because jiggling camera shots is reminiscent of snickering at someone's dad's old home movies, I felt that the panicked effect would have been as effectively maintained and the irritation factor lessened if the jiggling had been toned down. The gimmick of filming without a script is vaguely innovative, the acting isn't that terrible, it is atmospheric, and it's genuinely scary at times. It's unusual enough to be interesting, although I don't like having to justify dissatisfaction in a movie with the rationale that they were trying something different. But mainly I was glad these characters weren't left alive to breed.
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Summary: blair witch
Review: Anyone else think that all this arguement over whether it was bad or good will only in the end add to its notoriety? I personally think that complaining will only make its star shine brighter.
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Summary: Scarier than 'The Exorcist'? I think not. . .
Review: This is probably one of the biggest let-downs in cinema. Hyped as being scarier than 'The Exorcist', it turned out to be nothing but bad videography sprinkled with a liberal dose of vulgarity. And the plot? Three young people throw away their map and walk themselves to the point of exhaustion in circles in the woods, crossing the same stream numerous times. Did anyone think to actually follow the stream downstream? I actually found myself rooting for the 'Blair Witch' at the end. Anyone that stupid deserved to be put out of their misery. As for being scarier than 'The Exorcist', as was claimed in many cinema reviews at the time of its release, this movie doesn't even come close. If you haven't seen 'The Blair Witch', do yourself a favor -- save your money and go see the re-release of 'The Exorcist' at the theater.
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