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Summary: Blare Boring Witch Project
Review: Yes, it has a new way of filming things, from the actors perspective. Yes, it relies on suspense and the unkown to drive your fear. Yes, critics love it. Does that make it something you should buy? Nope.The characters are unbelievable, getting lost in the woods in Maryland? And next to a river no less? It is insane that someone could be that stupid. The suspense created through the filming is nice, and a good break from the teen-age horror flick, but it is ruined by the horrible acting, bad dialogue and ridiculous precept. Do not waste your time and money, it just isn't worth it... you find yourself wishing it were over... and then it is and you say THANK YOU!
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Summary: Particularly Academic
Review: This film is a study (clinical?) in provoking terror. It succeeds admirably. It never pretended at any point, pre- or post-release to be anything but about those three filmmakers lost in the woods and a witch. Since it's about witchcraft (the supernatural), how much is supposed to be real or believable anyway? I give it 5 stars based on it's original approach to horror filmmaking and it's "seemingly" accurate interpretation of what may have happened to the real student filmmakers lost in the woods. In general, you must suspend disbelief (put it in your pocket or under the couch momentarily) to enjoy any movie. Try to see what the filmmakers are showing you with the least amount of bias. Think about it: film, photographs, CDs, DVDs, etc. are all facsimiles of something extinct or extant. Some can ask legitimately, "What is real?" This is quite evident by the ideas positioned by the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix), and their statement, "There is no spoon." They broke filmmaking ground at the other extreme. BIG BUDGET. Consequently, both companies make us think. I have to be intellectually stimulated to really enjoy something-you know, to analyze it. Therefore, even those who hate this film are enriched by its clinical study in terror provocation. The concept of clinical study is to isolate a variable into a fixed setting and test specific reaction. This movie functions from this perspective. We all participated in the marketing hype. However, the hype was generated more from the public's and media's reactions than from the true stories of the Blair Witch or this low-budget theatrical account. In conclusion, either this film will scare you (subliminally) or it will not-based on its fundamental academic/clinical intrinsic value.
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Summary: pretty spooky and different
Review: blair witch project is a different type of film. shot like a documentary. the film is quite unerving at the end. if you dont pay attention at the begining when there interviewing the townspeople youll miss the full effect of the ending. those bloody handprints on the wall, mike standing facing into a corner like those murdered kids had to that was spooky. kinda like a nightmare, not real vivid but frightening. the film is not perfect. it dosent really get going until late in the film and i find nothing scary about rocks and simple stick figures any child could make. id say heather gives the best performance. she deserves a career in hollywood. well thats my two cents worth
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Summary: overlong and just plain stupid.
Review: this movie takes forever to go anywhere! the only interesting stuff happens way after i cared about these people. the girl is SOOOOO ANNOYING!!!!! she won't stop filming every stupid conversation, and it isn't very believable that she would film some of the stuff in this movie! this could have been a halfway interesting short, but it had to be stretched out over an hour. while not a long movie, the story goes nowhere (too much conversating and dull arguments) for the first 40-50 minutes making it seem much longer than normal. since there was so much hype around this film i found myself bored waiting for the real "scary" stuff to happen, it didn't. definitely not worth the hype.
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Summary: the blair witch project
Review: now this one good scary movie the best i ever seen In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary... A year later their footage was found.
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Summary: C'mon
Review: I've never seen such a terrible movie before. My review's gonna be as short as the movies features Here's what: 3 characters, 1 place, that being the woods, and nothing much more than talking to each other. This was the worst movie ever made. How much did they get paid for this?
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Summary: Maybe in the cinema...
Review: Alright...I watched this video at home and in the middle of the day, maybe that has something to do with what I think of the movie, I don't know. I totally do not get why people are so exited about it, because I thought it totally sucked!! Nothing happens, they just keep arguing through the entire movie and while I was watching I was like, When are they going to start the movie??? I'm sure that it'd be a little better in the evening or something, but I can't imagine ever liking this movie
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Summary: Overrated, unscary and uninvolving non-movie
Review: Start by putting me into that category of people who - knowing and loving low-budget horror - cannot fathom the big deal about this entirely artless, witless production. Much has been made of the fact that Blair Witch "only cost $25000". WHAT WAS THE MONEY SPENT ON??? Bug spray? Who knows what it takes to trigger the kind of collective hysteria that sometimes allows US movie critics to lower their guard as much as they did to end up championing this glorified home movie (and a bad one at that!). How ironic that critics who normally display such antipathy to the horror genre would end up singing the praises of this film - undoubtedly the worst movie in the horror genre's recent revival (yes - even worse than Jan de Bont's abysmal The Haunting!). Thank heavens critics outside the US saw this film for what it was - a spectacularly anti-climactic non-event. Low budgets are no new thing for horror filmmakers - the best works of the genre are products of innovative filmmakers working with less than stellar budgets. And it is in horror more than any other type of film that filmmakers have proven to be so adept at wringing style, suspense and good storytelling out of the lowest of budgets (cf. Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Night of the Living Dead; Assault on Precinct 13 etc.). In this case, even the least stylish, least original low budget works (e.g. Friday the 13th) look like masterpieces in comparison to the inept "filmmaking" on display in Blair Witch. At least in even the worst of the cheapo horrors, directors make SOME effort to provide a decent story, told as best possible. Good luck trying to find any such inclination in this hysterical mess. Better luck trying to find a single scare in this film. Blair Witch makes Dogma 95 filmmaking look like cutting edge special effects cinema. It's nice to believe all of us have the ability or lack of it to make multi-million dollar blockbusters - and Blair Witch proves that we all can. It's nice to think we can all be George Romero or John Carpenter - but Blair Witch proves that we can't. A sad, cynical triumph of hip marketing over entertainment and no-style over no-substance, Blair Witch is the ultimate assault on the necessary value of story, plot and script in moviemaking. Blair Witch benefits from a high curiosity factor, of course. But whichever way you cut it, this so-called movie is little more than the most impressive con ever pulled on the movie going public.
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Summary: Don't hate it just because its popular.....
Review: The Blair Witch was THE summer movie of 1999, and I waited many hours to score my ticket. I was one of the lucky ones who got to see this wonderful film before it was decidedly established as a "movie" rather than a documentary. From the first few moments in, the film is pervaded by a dark atmosphere, the townspeople's descriptions, the eerie camerawork, Heather Donahue's lilting voice.... The film is extremely scary, and revolutionary. No big budget special effects here, no computer animation, just some college kids out in the woods.... The film works on many levels, and personally a little swearing in a film never bothered me very much. It merely adds to the realism. Everyone can appreciate this gem on some level, by the end, you will be left openmouthed in horror...
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Summary: Genre Upended
Review: In an entertainment industry where so many artists shoot for the stars by cramming their work full of stuff, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is notable for what's absent. The result of this admirable discretion is an unnerving film not for all tastes. No entrails dripping from corpses, no slashers impaling... teens, no eye-popping special effects. No big stars, no chart-topping songs, not even a... tripod. In fact, the only thing BLAIR WITCH shares in common with its genre is a group of young people (they aren't even that attractive!) and an ever-increasing anxiety. This is a good thing. Compare it with something like the remake of THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, where we know what's going to happen in any given scene because we've seen the conventions played out again and again. With BLAIR WITCH, we soon realize that our road map is useless, and that's a scary thing. The bottom line is, those looking for a standard Hollywood thriller will be disappointed -- bored, probably. Those with a more open mind will find a creepy, disorienting, dreamily-paced exercise in fear -- and brave filmmaking. BLAIR WITCH is not without its flaws in character and momentum, but as a taste of something new and refreshing, it's certainly worth a look.
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