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Summary: The biggest media-hoax ever! ZERO STARS!!
Review: This horror movie is so sadly bad, it is not even funny. After seeing it I was so angry that I wasted those eight bucks. I decided right there and then , that this movie was either paid off to movie critics to give an independent film a chance. That's not a bad idea maybe, but this movie is horrible. Tha actors are annoying brats in the woods, and they go on bickering throughout the entire movie, loudly, til you get a headache. It is NOT scary at all. All these top movie critics must have been given money or hallucigens to rate this movie 4 Stars out of 4!!!
Come on! I watch alot of movies and is pretty critical, and this has to be one of the dumbest excuses for art I have ever seen.
EVER!!!
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Summary: The Scarryest Movie I've Ever Seen
Review: Any one who hates on this movie obviously has no imagination, no will to be scared, or just does it because it's the popular thing to do. Either that, or they saw it in the theaters surrounded by a bunch of screaming [people]. I personally find this movie to be the scariest I have ever seen and beyond that an awesome film with good acting and a great story. To this day I have only watched this movie three times despite the fact that I own it and love it. In fact I can still remember vividly the first time I sat and watched the movie, it was three o' clock in the morning, completely dark, completely silent, and that's the type of atmosphere needed to fully enjoy this masterpiece of horror cinema. I think that most people didn't have that atmosphere when watching it and for that reason it gets a bad rap. For those of you out there who didn't see this movie in the theaters and haven't watched it with your buddies at a party or something, you are very lucky to not have a great and very frightening movie ruined. So take my advice and watch this film alone, when it's dark, and prepare to be scared!
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Summary: A waste of celuloid (film)
Review: If I could give this film negative stars, I would! I did not find it scary at all. It was not inventive, imaginative or anything redeeming. This is really a "movie" about some kids acting stupid in the woods. The characters are just not believable, and it was very hard for me to believe that there is something out there that these people are really scared of. If you have not seen this movie I would not recommend wasting your time on it unless you are jut dying of curiosity. That and the fact that a good friend of mine told me it scared the living daylights out of him and he had nightmares for days are the reasons I watched it. I cannot figure out how he was so frightened by it. I generally have a wild imagination, but this did not grab me.
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Summary: I'll spare you the trouble...
Review: This is the worst low budget film ever made. Seriously, my recent Hi-8 of a family picnic where the dog jumped onto the table and stole a hamburger is scarier and has better production values than this lame excuse for a horror movie. People get lost in the woods, they gradually disappear, something vaguely scary is going on but the camera doesn't hold still long enough to catch anything. You know when you roll down a hill in a trash can and then try to walk? Imagine you're holding a camera while doing that. That and hearing ambiguous evil sounds like "the owl, the mongoose, or the washing machine whirr kind of altered to sound kind of creepy." Cinematography aside (far aside), Casting was done very well, if the goal of the film was to pick people who the audience wanted to see summarily killed by the end of the film. In that case, awesome choices. [applause].
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Summary: Horrifying-but not entertaining. worst movie experience ever
Review: It is irritating and boring. But is WAS effective in its agonizing horror. It was scary in a nightmarish way. That is why you shouldn't put yourself though this. A waste of two hours and a few more hours not being able to sleep.
Halloween 4 had an ENDING!!
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Summary: The Project--Love Hate Kinda Thing
Review: I have to admit that I originally got caught up in the hype that was all over THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, when it was originally released, in 1999. Now, some three years later, I decided to take a hype free look at the film. Heather, Josh, and Mike are three film students, who decide to shoot a documentary, about a Burkettsville Maryland legend of unspeakable evil. Written and directed by Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, the film is a cross between a reality program, and a horror flick Rather than use ficticious names the 3 leads use their real names. At times the journey into the woods seems like a segment of MTVs The Real World and not a thriller. The film sustains a great deal of tension and spooky chills, but I have to say that the controversial ending, didn't have the same effect on DVD that it did in the theater. I think the main problem with the film now, is that anyone out there who hasn't seen the film yet will be expecting more from it, thanks to the hype it generated. After all this time though, the film seems to have lost its luster, and plays like a dulled pair of scissors, not quite as sharp as it once was. The way it was filmed and put together, THE BLAIR WITCH is more interesting to diesect as a filmmaker, than to watch as a viewer.The tongue in cheek mockumentary "Curse Of The Blair Witch" is a clever way to discuss the film's production. The commentary track by Myrick and Sanchez is pretty good (better than I thought it would be). Production notes, theatrical trailers, and filmographies complete the main bonus features on the DVD. For those with a DVD-ROM drive, there's a few "extra" extras In the end, I would (marginally) recommend the disc, even though I didn't find it as cool a film today, as when I first saw it in '99.
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Summary: A no show (in more ways than one)
Review: "We're the kids in America!" Poor darlings, one day lost in the woods and they're reduced to eating leaves in a state of desperate starvation. Another ten minutes pass and they go from bungee-jumping hysteria to a state of catatonia over the lack of The Simpsons (Nay Osbournes), mega burgers, chips, dvd's and a sound system that makes Notre Damme look like a sandpit castle. Can't wait for 'The Blair Witch Project Goes To Rawanda', can you?
The flaw in this risable film is giving actors a camera and then letting them improvise. Naturally, they're going to want to show us their full 'range'. Bust their acting chops. "I can do fear. I can do King Lear. Would you like to see my Al Pacino?" But no self respecting film student would shove a camera at a bag of marshmellows. Gotcha! Or maybe not, as it proved, courtesy of Eduardo Sanchez who smugly pointed out the statistic that something like 40% of young people still think his film is real and that he didn't know "what that says about America." Yes, it's yet another man who stubs his toe on the bed and curses his wife. Least he can afford a very expensive footbath. In fact, it's probably a whole pool.
Is there a script book you can get with this film? You know, like 'Reservoir Dogs' and that sort of thing. Can't wait.So what did happen to Josh? I mean, JOOOSH! Perhaps a certain hairy armed personage in the wood spirited him away in protest at the worst acting she'd seen since her rare outing to a cinema matinee back in the fifties (the box office teller saw two feet go past the window.) Who can blame her? After a tantrum like that they really should be made to stand in the corner.
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Summary: So scary, it's easier not to think about it...
Review: We've become so conditioned by the Hollywood horror formula that when it doesn't unfold that way, we're either disapointed or sucker-punched with fear. A friend of mine saw it before I did, and when I asked him about it, he said it was so disturbing that he didn't want to talk about it. Someone said in an earlier review, that the last scene, the last 5 seconds of the film were probably the scariest ever recorded - I still have a hard time thinking about this movie after 2 years...I have never seen anything that tweaked me like this movie did. Alfred Hitchcock said "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. " I think he would have liked this movie.
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Summary: First 45 Minutes = Good...... Rest of the film = Bad
Review: First of all The Blair witch project just isnt scary, its not for children but its not scary.I, like most people have have been frightened by horror films before but not this one.
The First 45 minutes of the film are good with tension being built up as they begin to find 'strange' things in the woods and tension begins to build up between the 3 Media Students as they become hungry and cold.So far so good.But then everything seems to go downhill and the film degenerates into some kind of low budget slasher movie.Because after the first 45 minutes are over everyone seems to turn stupid, i guess they must have been scared stupid by someone rattling the tent and treading on twigs and leaves.They then get lost desoite crossing more than one river or stream.They even manage to cross a log bridge then go around in a circle and start crying because of what theyve just done.Now im no expert in wilderness survival but if i was lost and iwanted to get away as fast as possible from a certain point then i might just maybe consider following that bloody river! I dont know much about Americas rivers but im pretty sure that water doesnt go uphill,where they had just come from.But having just turned stupid they were to dumb to realise this.They then set up up camp and leavesomeone outside to go on watch, who by morning has disapeared,what a shock to me that one was! It gets worse and eventually builds up to a pretty bad ending although to be fair the ending was better than the 30-40 or so minutes that came before it.
My Verdict = Nothing more than a low budget slasher movie.
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Summary: Simple effects produce the best thrills
Review: The Blair Witch Project is the kind of film that will not appeal to everyone. A very small budget (in comparison to the standard employed by Hollywood) was used to make this film and this is evident from the lack of special effects, the use of unknown actors to play the three main characters and the directorial style which could be described as simple but edgy, filmed in a bland black and white/sepia. The film is presented as an investigate documentary, the project of Heather, Josh and Mike, three college students out to investigate the infamous legend of the 'Blair Witch'- a semi-mythical being who supposedly haunts the desolate Burkitsville (formerly Blair) woods. The story unravels through the eyes of this trio and the viewer is exposed to the primal fear and emotional desperation ...In my opinion, the film is made more, not less terrifying because of what the viewer doesn't see rather than what you do. Nothing is overt and you are forced to use your imagination, a concept rarely employed in modern cinema where the techniques of special effects and predictable storylines have drained viewers of their mental creativity. Those viewers who are used to getting their thrills on a plate will therefore dislike this film. The BWP could have been a disastrous and pretentious attempt at a new style of filmmaking. However, I believe it has attained a status and reaction that very few contemporary horror/thriller movies achieve by appealing to base instincts and emotions both of the actors and the viewers alike.
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