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Summary: You Want To See Something Really Scary ?
Review: For the longest time I've tried to scare the living daylights out of myself with horror movies. I've heard that The Blair Witch Project was a really good movie ( and scary ) so one day I rented it and watched it that night. First of all, I knew that these weren't actually real people lost in the woods. But I gave it the benefit of the doubt and went along with the movie. That was all I had to do for it to mess me up, scare the living daylights out of me, and shock me out of my skin. Wow. What a great movie. I can't quite understand why people wouldn't like this movie. If you're prone to motion sickness and saw it in the theatres then okay, I'd understand that. Then there are the people who think that you need a litre or so of blood and gore for every minute of a horror movie. I actually prefer movies to be bloodless. It takes a lot of guts in a horror movie not to show a lot of guts. People say that the movie wasn't scary. Although this movie was made to strip you away layer by layer psychologically and bruise your most cherished and primal instincts and fears, perhaps some people... uh... are reptiles ? I can't figure it out. If you haven't seen this movie, go and see it with an open mind. This movie will crawl into it and stay there for a long time.
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Summary: Scared the heck out of me!
Review: When young college film students Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams decide to make a film about the Blair witch legacy in Burkittsville (formally known as "Blair") they must enter the woods where the witch onced lived some 100 years ago. During the night sounds are heared. Disturbing sounds, such as children crying and screaming and in the morning the trio finds mysterious rock formations and stick figures lying around. The longer they stay there, the more evil surrounds them. Though, you never see what is attacking them the movie leaves it up to you to decide what this ghostly force is. One of them disappears and bloody teeth are found. Filmed in b&w with some color footage this film will have you shivering until the very end...
I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO SAY THAT THE REASON WHY MANY PEOPLE GAVE THIS FILM ONLY ONE STAR IS BECAUSE AFTER SEEING "SCREAM" OR "NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET" THEY FEEL THAT THIS FILM HAS VERY LITTLE GORE (WHICH IS TRUE). SO THAT'S WHAT EVERYONE WANTS. GORE GORE GORE.
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Summary: How bad can a movie get??
Review: If you want an answer to that question, just try to sit through this one. This film occupies a prominent place on my list of the ten worst movies ever made. The only thing remotely scary about it was that so many people were actually deluded into thinking it was worth the price of admission. Lemme see now... three totally obnoxious, foul-mouth college kids traipse off into deepest Maryland (I'm cracking up just typing this) looking for signs of some kind of local witch. They manage to lose themselves in the woods by a river, yet (did it ever occur to these bozos that if they followed the river they were sure to come to a populated area?) and are never seen again. Don't we wish. They actually came back and made a sequel to this mishmash! On a scale of one to five I'd give this mess a minus-ten, but the review rules say I have to give it at least one star, so I will grudgingly shell out one. And people actually paid to see this?!!?
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Summary: One of the best Horror Movies
Review: I seen this movie in the theaters and it got to me. I have been enjoying Horror movies since I have been able to talk and this movie is literally one of the scariest I have ever seen. Watch this movie at night and then go take a stroll out in the woods somewhere. This is a great movie.
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Summary: 2nd time a charm!
Review: I must honestly admit that the first time I saw The Blair Witch Project I hated it. I saw it again a few nights ago and it really freaked me out. There are parts of this movie that made my skin crawl. The acting in this movie is nothing short of magnificent- these characters truely portrayed fear to extent!I could feel the terror that these three individuals were experiencing. The camera work is shaky and sometimes out of focus but this adds to the realism. I don't think this movie would have worked as a large budget film.
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Summary: Great ending, but camera work makes you sick
Review: As we all know, Blair Witch was an experiment in improvisational acting. There was no script, and the actors themselves filmed each other using camcorders. The actors did a great job improvising lines, and the ending of this movie is great.That said, I had a headache for three days after watching this movie. The cameras are usually angling toward the sky or up one of the actor's nose, and more than a few people watching this film in the theaters.... It was a neat premise and a neat acting experiment, but I wish the filming was better.
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Summary: No walk in the woods
Review: A few years have past and all the hype and anti-hype of this film is practically gone. So, I took a fresh look at this film to see how it stands up. It is important for me to admit up front that I am not a fan of the horror film genre. They usually are under whelming and predictable. "In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. One year later, their footage was found." The opening frames of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT display those words that tell the whole story. The three students working on a Blair Witch study, interview locals before hitting the woods armed with 2 oft recording cameras. The entire length of the film consists of tape from those two cameras exclusively. Thus, the resulting film is not so much THE event, but rather a portion of the bigger BLAIR WITCH project, which included Internet story points, a couple excellent documentaries and the film itself, compiled from the discovered tapes. Okay, the whole thing is fictional but the marketing expertise and creative design of the Blair Witch experience is stupendously original and successful. The film itself is frightening; truly frightening without any of the usual techniques. It brilliantly utilizes sound and darkness to freak you out. In fact, there is never a visual of the horror and so remains a mystery even after the credits have rolled. There is no musical score to the film until the closing credits (and that's hardly musical scoring...) Most of the film is improvised by the actors. Their shoot schedule was like a boot camp where even they did not know what was coming next. All of this is well explained in the audio commentary by the creators on the DVD set. There was a big budget sequel to the film but I prefer to consider the documentary CURSE OF THE BLAIR WITCH included with the DVD as the true sequel. They continue to give truth to the mythos created for the film. And they are a lot more entertaining than its follow-up. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is as haunting as it is creative.
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Summary: Original concept and very eerie
Review: "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) I still really don't know what to think about this film. I've watched it about 3 times, and I liked it all the times I viewed it, but somehow this film continuously leaves me muddled. I don't know whether to think this movie is a bunch of baloney about people running around with cameras scaring each other or whether it's a true scare-fest with excellent ideas and a great premise. I think I'd go with the second one, but there were elements of the first one that put the movie down a little for me grade-wise. The premise and whole filming idea for The Blair Witch Project was excellent. It added more to the atmosphere and it proved that what we can't see is much scarier. You don't get much blood, guts and gore, but what you do get is a really creepy setting, tonnes of scary rocks and some fantastic acting to make the scenarios real. On the subject of acting, I am very shocked that Heather Donahue got a Razzie for this film. I thought she was really great in the movie. Donahue is the leader of the cast and takes the material seriously, and she is her character - she's very frightened and believable in her role. Michael and Joshua are also very good, but Donahue is the movie's heart and soul, and she is exceptionally right into her character. I mean, she doesn't deserve an Oscar or anything, but a Razzie? No way! I also liked the idea of the movie how they used the actors real names. Somehow it made it a little more believable and I think the actors got into the characters a little bit more because they could base it on themselves. This film does have a lot of great idea and premises, such as one I've just mentioned, but some scenes are unnecessary and you might get a little tired of the constant swearing and screaming and joking, instead of getting in touch with the more scary side of the film. None-the-less, I still enjoyed the movie. I don't think many people realise how sometimes this movie brings across some warmth and quite a bit of character development, like in one scene the group talk about what they like to do on a Sunday morning ("go for a walk in the woods," says Donahue, following it up with "not anymore!") and what they'd love to eat at the current time of their loss in the woods. The movie also has a reasonably funny map scene. But, in the end, The Blair Witch Project is all about terror and scaring the audience, and they succeed in this. Just so you know, this is not another slasher teen movie like I Know What You Did Last Summer or Scream. This is raw, real, terror and you'll be clutching your pillow with fright. The final scene in particular is one of the most frightening sequences I've ever seen on film. All in all, this is a very original piece that will be remembered for a long time after viewing, and I recommend it to those who like something new in horror films. MY GRADE: B+
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Summary: Give me Scream, Urban Legends, IKnowWhatYouDidLSummer anyday
Review: Despite all the hype BWP is barely an average movie. There's been heaps of articles to promote it and that's why it's famous. I don't quite understand why they took 8 days to film this. It felt like they could have done it all in 1 to 2 days. I commend that it does have a scary atmosphere and the acting is good. But you don't need a lot of skill to have done the film, both acting and producing.
The DVD presentation for the Australia Region 4 version is the best I have seen out of the 16 DVDs I own. The menu is spectacular. There's a lot of written info too & there's 2 hours worth of bonus material (director's commentary, the mock documentary, trailers etc.) So you somewhat get value for money & are compensated for the cheap budget of this $30,000 movie.
But when it comes down to it this movie fails to rank up against the Hollywood ones like Scream, I Don't Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legends. At least those movies have a sophisticated, polished, thought-out & multi-faceted script where not every fourth word isn't a swear word.
To sum up I don't understand how it cost $30,000 to produce. Anybody could have shot it with a standard video camera. The scenery is very dull. It felt like it could have been done in a small space in the forest. So there's no sweeping camera views or scenery for the eyes unlike in most normal movies. It's just the same patch of forest done over and over. So there's no variety. The sound is eerie but on my stereo setup the left right balance was too much on the left...
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Summary: For a fact
Review: I liked the movie. But there was one thing the matter. It wasn't real. I mean Heather was on 2000's Boys And Girls. And Josh was on 2001's Men Of Honor. I mean the Rustin Parr story is real, Elly Kedward story was real, but this isn't real. Theres no such thing as the Blair Witch. Burkettsiville isn't a scary town, its where people can rest the dead. So stick with Blair Witch 2 first then check it out. This is HJ. Peace Out.
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