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Summary: NOT !
Review: Not "art", not scary, not realistic, and definitely not worth the money to rent or buy.
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Summary: Boring and unsubstantial - Where is the Witch?
Review: Less of a scary horror movie, but more of unrefined documentary footage, The Blair Witch Project, for all its hype and refreshing video camera shooting, fails to keep the viewer entertained at all. There were only a few so-called "scary" moments in the movie, but they were just too raw, too vague, to effect real terror in the viewer. Perhaps to savour these scary scenes, a strong imaginative mind is pretty much a mandatory requirement here, and I do mean, to an extreme level so much as to visualise a horrible-looking creature even though it might not be there?! Otherwise, the average viewer is likely to be left baffled and unsatisfied when the scary scenes pass. The use of home video camera shooting was a refreshing idea, but its novelty was no solid compensation for the movie's weak characterisation of the title subject. There were too little visual vestiges provided in the film as regards to how the witch looked like. Even a scary-looking shadow would have helped greatly. The "witch" seemed able to evade the camera all the time. On the whole, the movie was quite a bland and quiet experience both in the visual and audio aspects. The only memorable parts of the movie where things became creepy were probably that of the explorers discovering twig figures and the concluding part. Even for all the promise the concluding part had at the start, it still dissappointed the viewer ultimately by not letting sight of the "witch". VERDICT: One viewing of the movie will be enough, because it really is only worth that much.
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Summary: Hype about nothing
Review: The hype from the "horror" movie, "The BlairWitch Project" reminds me of the hype about the whole Y2K deal - all a bunch of talk. There were things said such as, "Scary as hell" , "Scarier than 'The Excorsist'", etc. I wouldn't go that far. In fact - I wouldn't go anywhere near that far. The story is clever, I'll give it that much, but there are many details that totally kill this movie. For one, every word out of the three teens' mouths was a curse, beginning in the letter "F" and ending in "K." I think that some people might find this offensive. Overall, this movie is a good waste of 80 minutes.
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Summary: I actually LOVED this one!
Review: Blair Witch shouldn't have appeared on movie screens across the midwest, and allover America. This is what made everyone HATE this movie. The Blair Witch Project is strictly an art flick. Anyway, I LOVED this movie. Every scene just kept gaining more momentum and then POOF! It scared the hell out of me. The actors couldnt have done a better job. They really did a good job. So what if the scariest part was when they see a bunch of voodoo sticks? It had eerie parts that make you terrified. Some of the visions in this movie will stick into my mind forever. Anyway a great movie for Halloween, Friday the 13th, or just about anytime!
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Summary: horrifying
Review: this movie is horrifying. horrifyingly hyped up. this movie is not scary at all. i had heard it was like the scariest movie ever. pleas, the scariest part of the movie was just when a camera drops. a camera dropping. if that is the scariest scene in a horror movie then this movie shouldnt of even made it to the theater. it should have been a straight to video realease. take my advice dont but or rent this movie its all hype.
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Summary: Oh yeah (yawn ...) very scary
Review: The scariest thing about this movie was that I actually spent the money to buy it. What silly stuff! People running around in the wood, screaming at each other, and when it finally - just before you drop to sleep - gets a little bit scary the film ends. Good viewing for sociologists: Shows clearly how many people can be fooled by advertisement hype!
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Summary: No good on video!
Review: I loved this movie in the theater -- I saw it in an early showing before all of the media hype came about, and it was terrifyingly wonderful. However, in video form, it loses not some, but ALL of its punch. What a bore.
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Summary: Into the Woods with Blair Witch
Review: The Blair Witch Project is a scary, original, and well-acted movie. Without any spectacular special effects or any computerized monsters, The Blair Witch Project proved to be one hell of a scary movie. Why? Because the viewers have to use their own imaginations. We live in a time in which Hollywood dictates what we should like, dislike, love, hate, fear, etc...The Blair Witch Project goes against that and allows US to create what is lurking out there in the woods and what the Blair Witch looks like. We all have our own unique images/ideas of what the Boogie Man looks like, what lurks under our bed, in our closet, and in the dark...and these images/ideas terrify us. Therefore, when we take our own unique images/ideas and project them into this movie, we are scared witless and the movie becomes scary. People have told me what they thought the Blair Witch looked like, what the mysterious children who ambushed the tent looked like, etc...and their descriptions were all scary. People who say this movie isn't scary haven't got imagination...They remind me of what Daily News Critic Dennis Hamil said recently: People want sensational effects to tell them what to feel and when to feel it. The acting is so amazing and realistic and the camerawork so raw and amateur-like, that you wonder whether this mock documentary IS in fact real. You see three ordinary people (which could easily be any one of us) deteriorating and going crazy before your eyes...that is also scary. However, if there is one thing that bothered me about this movie, it's the actors' usage of two cameras instead of one. The movie would have been better from a technical standpoint if the action didn't shift between two cameras. If The Blair Witch Project is playing under the pretense that this footage was found after these three teens disappeared, then how did the "discoverers" edit the footage from both cameras to make a seamless timeline of events? The switching back and forth between both cameras makes it look like the people who found the tapes were superb film editors who knew how to piece the footage together to make one seamless timeline of events. Or, maybe this is just the director's way of saying: It's only a movie, kids.
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Summary: Blair witch hype or horror?
Review: In what is arguably the most hyped movie in recent years this really is a movie that you will either love or hate. It difficult to categorise this actually as a movie, because it resembles so much a tv documentary that you would watch on late night tv. The main reason this got so much attention was the hype though - as for weeks we had it drummed into us that it WAS a scary movie and it WAS a movie we HAD to see. I watched this movie the night we were moving, in a nearly empty house, alone, and late at night - as I basically wasn't expecting much from it, alot of people had told me it was not scary, and basically annoying, it was seemed to become the 'cool' resume of the movie from those who went to see it. Its true, it starts slowly, with the 3 characters running around interviewing people, and because of the hype, you sit there just wishing they would get on with it - and get into the woods and start screaming their heads off. The main irritation of this movie is the way it IS shot by a simple camcorder, and therefore the picture quality is relatively poor, the shots are often not totally on the bits you want to see, and obviously you have the shaking camera. A move which was supposed to add to the tension and make you feel like you were really there, it didn't do that for me, it just became an irritant that I had to try and dismiss. The one stroke of masterpiece in this is the periods of black, where you only hear voices. Granted, it meant sitting there trying to entertain yourself visually by looking round the room, but it created tention beyond belief, as you have no total idea what is going on, and the unknown is what makes this movie truely scary. Despite what everyone said, it IS a very scary movie - but only if you get really into it - had I been down the cinema with a group of mates, I'd have laughed at the silliness of it all, but being alone, I really got caught up in it. Its hard to call the acting great, because they tryed to pass it off as though it was a set of trials for the actors and they were meant to be acting on instincts, although that seems to be rubbish, it is by far the most unauthodox movie in terms of creation, this decade. The plot is original, but follows a similar vein to many scary movies, but the real attraction of this movie is that is it basically is very scary. Its by far the scariest movie I've seen in many years - but I persoanlly don't find people being slaughtered with huge knifes scary at all - a la Scream et al. It basically a movie you will find good or bad, the main attraction for me was that is was scary, although its not something you'd watch for scriptual enjoyment. The ending is very abrupt and you have no idea what has gone on - and that is in many ways a bad move - but the restrictions they put themselves under by making it out to be a found tape, meant they couldn't have an over view camera to show all - as you despirately wish they had - by the end. It does however have to be highly commended for actually doing what it's genre suggests - and IS horror, something not seen for years. And for that reason alone - it is worth seeing. Whether you laugh through it, or cower through it, you WILL appreciate that this IS a highly original style movie, and it is worth seeing - even if it is just to claim it wasn't as the hype suggested, but at the end of the day if you prefer big budget movies - it is known for costing $10,000, and it is VERY obvious.
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Summary: The Blair Not Scary Project
Review: Everyone knows this is supposed to be more a psychological thriller than gore-fest, but it still fails. 2/3 of the movie has the three main characters screaming at the top of their lungs.....at each other, at the witch, at the creek. If I was that scared for that amount of time, I would be too weak with fear to scream that much. I appreciate what the film tried to do, and I admire the creativity in its approach, but all that annoying screaming never amounts to anything except a lame ending where Mike is standing in the corner in accordance with the legend.....give me a break!
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