The Blair Witch Project

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Summary: smart movie
Review: this movie is one of the best movies i have ever seen realy scary ,grab your mind in a high level not depending on big stars or spceial effects new way of advanture .but we have to admite that the movie is not for every one to taste you need to use a lot of imagination and thinking to get the best out of this peice of work . no doubt i will buy this movie for a further thrill .

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Summary: Yeah, 5 stars.
Review: Like the other guy, I'm getting a little tired of people being so down on this movie. It's not fair to it. I'm sorry, but if you walked into a movie theater and had no clue in the world what this movie was about, you would be scared out of your wits. It seems real enough, hence it would be real to you. But, because of the hype surrounding it, people expected maybe... oh, I dunno... aliens to send a 4-eyed witch to kill 3 kids who hold the secrets to the wonders of the universe. Sorry, folks. You won't find that here. What you will find is a creepy and well-thought out odyssey into heart-pumping terror. As for the people who hate this film cause they thought it was too "cheap looking," just stop right now. You have no idea what you're talking about, your favorite movie is 8MM, just stop right now. It rules and kudos to Dan Myrnick and Eduardo Sanchez for a job well done. P.S. Heather did a great job! :)~

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Summary: The best horror film in years
Review: More than any movie I can think of, the Blair Witch Project needs to be viewed with a morbid curiosity rather than melodramatic expectancy. Those who recognize and simply watch it for what it is - the combined and edited footage of the last days of the three students' lives - will be rewarded with what is, honestly, one of the most disturbing horror films in years. Those looking for clever plot twists, slick editing and heroic dialog will be appropriately disappointed.

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Summary: A worst movie I've ever seen!
Review: This is more like a documentary than a movie. The sound track is terrible. The video is even worse. The camera's shaking is unbearable. I got so dizzy watching this "movie" that I had to close my eyes many times during this film. The language is also intolerable. Besides the media hypes, this is the worst movie I've ever seen!

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Summary: Thank God I missed the hype!
Review: It just goes to show you how being pelletted by hype can ruin a film for some people. I don't watch any tv and so missed all the hoopla about this film and thus was truly mezmerized by it. Yet I did know the story was fictional. While it dragged a bit in the beginning, it paved the way (without unrealistic effects) for a rather disturbing climax. It was that very lack of a computer-generated "monster" that nailed my last nerve to the wall in the end of this film. Excellent! ...but best viewed, like many movies, without having been subjected to the pre-publicity.

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Summary: Keep repeating to yourself, "This is not a movie."ÿ
Review: Clearly the reviews on this page are quite polarized. That is good; it makes for interesting reading. What I find objectionable, however, is the opinion of a snobbish few who feel that if you did not like this film, then 1)you must be an unthinking person who needs to have things explained to you; 2) you have no imagination; or 3) you are an MTV-type who prefers slash-and-dash gore to "real" horror. Such remarks only betray the reviewers' naivety.Any avid movie goer can think of a few titles that can be appreciated for their artistic merits (acting, set direction, etc.) even if he left the theater thinking that the film he just watched was boring as hell.("The English Patient" comes to mind.) But that is the problem with BWP. If you weren't thoroughly scared out of your Fruit-of-the-Looms, as so many claimed to be, then what else can you find commendable about this film, save perhaps its originality?Admit it, people; there are many sophisticated film goers who appreciate all genres-yes, including Horror-and who followed the story-line of BWP quite well, and who understood what was going on in the final scene, but nonetheless felt that the movie was decidedly unscary. And as I said, if you weren't "creeped-out", what could you like about it?As a final thought, I feel that BWP would have been a better film if it would not have tried so hard to convince us that the story was real. I realize that this was a marketing ploy (and quite a successful one), but intelligent audiences aren't duped by that schtick, and they often are turned off by attempts to do so. I say keep the documentary syle, of course, but instead of using a shaky video camera, use state-of-the-art camera work. If done well, we would still be able to put ourselves in the midst of the fated trio, and we would be spared the motion sickness that ruined the experience for many of us.

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Summary: best indie film... ever
Review: The Blair Witch Project is creativity at its best. With the DVD's excellent supplemental footage and a director's commentary that solves seemingly all the mysteries of props, dialog, and plot, this movie is one that you may find spooky, interesting, and brilliant. Rumors of motion sickness during the movie don't hold true with anyone I know, but the scenes will keep me out of the woods. I'd recommend this movie to anyone who loves the DVD formats and extras (extra footage, outtakes, director's commentary, info on the actors). At this price, it's a great deal.

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Summary: Psychological Disembowelment
Review: I viewed this film after helping my son edit a short remake he and two friends shot for an english project for high school. I explained to my son how ambiguous certain aspects of his version were and he said "You have to see the movie." Well, I've seen the movie now and am more impressed by my son's plot twist than the shallowness of "Blair Witch" I am impressed only by the innovative style and marketing. I was not scared at any time because the characters were so obnoxious. I was definitely routing for the witch! The "Project" aspect was quite intriguing and I'm sure other similar films will follow. Perhaps the mistakes in this one will ultimately lead to a true masterpiece.

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Summary: Simply one of the most successful cinematographic projects.
Review: The Blair Witch Project is completely different from anything ever produced in Hollywood. No special effects. No movie stars. Just originality and a very involving and disturbing story that dominate the public and silence them, as the movie proceeds and the expectation increases. Whatever is said concerning The Blair Witch Project is not enough to describe the experience of watching this movie. It is a psychological experience. You have to feel the terrifying atmosphere of the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland, and the despair and suffering of Heather, Mike and Josh, the three student film makers who disappeared in there. All the movies, from now on, are going to seem kind of artificial. The Blair Witch Project is really scaring because it is scaryly real. It seems so real, so spontaneous, that you forget the fact that it is just a movie. It is simply a despairing motion picture that you will never forget.

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Summary: A truly bad film that'd make Ed Wood weep with pride.
Review: This is bad film. It is presented as the discovered documentary footage shot by some film students who mysteriously vanished a few years back searching for a local urban legend called the Blair Witch. Actually, this movie is just three actors going into the woods, with cameras in tow, in search of the dreaded Blair Witch. They get lost, lose their map and of course fail to follow the flow of a nearby stream downward to civilization. Along the way they over-act fear and anger for most of the movie. A complete lack of a cohesive screenplay leaves the actors to hurl obsenities toward each other (anger/day), and to ask each other if they heard something (fear/night). This pattern rather quickly caused me to begin rooting for whatever it is that begins terrorizing these losers. I wanted them dead so that I wouldn't have to hear them scream obsenities at each for yet another day. This, go- with-the-moment type ad-libbing causes serious plot and credibility problems. Considering the documentary fashion the film takes, I found my suspension of disbelief stretched beyond any realistic expectation many times. For example, these terrified folks scramble out of their tent, into the darkness, frightened out of their minds, with their cameras turned on and positioned so as to catch every second of their panic stricken flight. This film fails to live up to it's hype on many levels. Knowing this was essentially a student film, I wasn't expecting top notch, or even mid-range quality visual effects. I was therefore not surprised to find that the creepy visuals consisted of rocks stacked on top of each other, sticks and goop wraped up in a mojo type bag, and stick figures that look like something Martha Stewart knocked out on a really bad day. Unfortunatly, I was neither frightened nor even mildly creeped out by these visuals. Sadly, this movie made so much money that we can, no doubt, aticipate a sequel. Please save your money, do not by this bad movie!