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Summary: Give me a break!
Review: Last summer, I made the mistake of believing the hype and went to see this movie. What a dud! Not only wasn't I scared, it was painful to watch and might have been funny (especially the "confession" scene) had it not cost me six bucks. While the concept is compelling, the execution was botched: bad filming (I know its intentional, but its also extremely annoying), worse plot and terrible dialog. If you really have an urge to see an independent film, forget this and see PI.
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Summary: Should have been called the "keep audience awake project"
Review: Is it just me but does this movie look like it was filmed at a cost of about $150.00, instead of the 40 grand it really cost? The fact that it made millions is obscene, but at what cost? Mass disappointment, I guess. I mean, take the acting, for example. After about 20 minutes I wanted to kill the chick myself. The other two I could care less about, but then, that's the hook in this movie isn't it? You have no choice but to wander the woods with these three idiots who are terrorized by a pile of rocks that seems to be following them and the badly made stick men hanging in the trees. The fact that, given a compass, a map, eight park rangers and bright yellow arrows marking the way out of the woods, these three would still be lost has no bearing on the plot. I was hoping for a great big bloody ending, but apparently even that wasn't in the budget. And really, all three of them couldn't have carried all the fully charged camcorder batteries needed to film this thing. I do give it credit for making more money with a shoestring budget than any movie ever...and on the flip side, had Hollywood got ahold of this, they'd have spent 50 million, hired great actors to do it and it would have been a flop.
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Summary: Hmm...
Review: I firmly believe that in years to come, when the film history books are rewritten, "The Blair Witch Project" will go down as one of the greatest jokes ever played on cinema audiences. Like many, many others, I was taken in by the hype that surrounded this film and was prepared to be scared out of my skin. I was not. The acting was appalling (OK, so I concede that this may have been "the point"), the camera work truly nausea-inducing, and, let's be honest, would these young students really NOT have taken a mobile 'phone with them? (Yes, I do understand the concept of suspending your disbelief, but it is a good film that makes you do this.)The biggest problem with this film is that you really do not give a hoot about the fact that someone is out to get the main characters. Compare this with "Psycho": although Marion Crane has committed two "crimes" (that we know of)- adultery and theft- we still care about her and are thus devastated when she dies. With the main characters in "The Blair Witch Project", they could not have been killed off quickly enough for my liking. (Interestingly enough, when I saw this film at the cinema, people were walking out after about 30 minutes: the film only ran for 80!) For genuine psychological terror, use your cash to buy the original version of "The Haunting" or Polanski's "Repulsion", Spielberg's "Duel" or, for a different type of psychological torture, witness the dreadful and destructive games that Burton and Taylor play out in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". Like the victims of The Blair Witch who are forced to stand in the corner and not look at the Witch, "The Blair Witch Project" would stand in the corner and hide its face in shame when compared with such masterly studies in psychological terror.
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Summary: This is a REAL horror film
Review: The Blair Witch Project is a reminder that Indepentant film is far superior to main stream film. This is a film with no scripts, not real actors, and no cheap props. Three college students are lost in the woods shooting a documentary about the Blair Witch. Everything that we can see comes from the lense of their two cameras. We never see anything exept that. And that is the beauty of the film, it' simplicity. This is a film that works so well, and can never be duplicated successfully. The best part of this film is that the reactions the actors display are real. This film is impovisation, like I said, NO SCRIPTS. The actors are really in the woods, and are being terrorized by the director and his crew. The DVD features are excellent. The commentary is excellent, as is the documentary that is included. This is an excellent film that sadly, you will either like or hate. I have never heard of anyone who has a median position about this movie and this is mainly due to the ending. Good luck and sweet dreams......
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Summary: Good Concept, Bad Acting, Even Worse Dialogue
Review: I give credit where it's due, but be for real. O.K, there's no doubt that the three who made the movie will go far in cinematography, but where was the scare in this movie? The only thing that TRULY SCARED me about the movie is the fact that it made so much in the theaters.
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Summary: Don't waste your time!
Review: This is the worst movie ever!
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Summary: Glad It Didn't Happen to Me
Review: Anyone with Insomnia should pick up a copy of the Blair Witch project. This video is about as boring as it can get, even more so than the theatre, if possible. This movie is an excellent product of hype, but like all products of hype up there, it falls short. Unlike all products of hype, however, this falls insanely short. Hell, it doesn't even fall. There are a few things that plauge the BWP. First, the horrendous acting. If I can get paid a lot of money for just screaming and pretending that I'm scared (rather poorly, I might add), then please sign me up. These "actors" have almost made an art out of it. Another problem: get a script! There is no plot or storyline or even an event that happens in this movie that attention to detail (or even not to detail but just attention in general) could have ironed out. The last problem I will talk about is the camera view. Good idea, people, but quite nausiating, as well. This movie has turned me off of any "innovative horror" out there, and one less person will see the sequel. If you buy this, you are succumbing to hype.
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Summary: Toms Blair Witch project review
Review: Very Creepy, 3 student film makers go out into a wood in burkervitch, Maryland, researching a legend known as the `Blair Witch` apparently the blair witch is an old hairy woman who floats above the ground, and she goes around killing children, she stamds one child in the corner whilst she kills the other and then kills the other, the whole film is seen through the eyes of the 3 cameras, once they are in the woods they begin to hear noises, like a child crying, they find piles of rocks layed outside their tent, they see strange signs made out of sticks in the wood, the tension begins to grow as one of their team mates Josh, vanishes, then one day they find his bloody tongue wrapped in sticks, then at the end they discover the witches house and ....
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Summary: BWP - barely worth a peek
Review: Many said this film is so real and scary. It does feel real because it is soooooo badly filmed that it could only happen in the amaeture hands. If the director insists on the unfocused scenes to make it REAL then there could have been a better plot and more sensible dialogue without sacrifice its sense of reality. By finish watching the film, it makes me feel like a fool. Surely lots of films make people feel like fools by the end, in an amusing way. But this film is neither amusing nor scary. Simply distastful. I give 2 stars for its originality.
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Summary: Blair Witch: A movie misunderstood.....
Review: I originally saw the Blair Witch Project on its opening night. At that time there wasn't much information about its content or origins. I was fortunate enough to see the Blair Witch documentary on television two weeks prior. I, as many of you might have been, was under the spell. I wasn't sure if the documentary type film was 100% fiction or if it was the real deal. Such ignorance on my part, resulted in one of the most profound cinema experiences I have ever had. Many people out there refer to the movie as melodramatic, but keep in mind, this film was never meant to become a mainstream blockbuster. This was a small independent project, and it was designed to capture real human emotion: fear, anger, hatred, guilt in its truest form. True emotion should not be labeled melodramatic, the emotions portrayed in most (99% in my opinion) movies is bogus and not realistic. There were no heroes, unlike most cinematic flicks; there was just unadulterated emotion. I must say I can't blame many people for feeling let down about the movies hype. The movies was a one time shot, best enjoyed when it was new. I purchased the DVD out of respect for the actors, and creators. The respect was born from the true feeling of terror and confusion I experienced in the theater.
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