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Summary: WAY overhyped!
Review: Before seeing this movie, I was told it was the scariest thing since the Exorcist. Way wrong! It should scare ten year old girls, but most who see it feel the same. The creators depended entirely on the story( which isn't all that bad) to save a movie with inexperienced, underqualified actors. Don't waste your money!
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Summary: good movie
Review: The movie was not the greatest i have ever seen but they did have a good idea for a moving and i think for such a low budgiet they did do a realy good job filming this movie and i thought it was pretty interesting.
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Summary: The trailers show it all!
Review: If you saw the trailers then you've seen it all; the scary scenes are in the trailers beside the final one which was very disturbing. It could be a lot scarier and thrilling if well developped, It's really sad because it was a good material! So if you wanna buy a real scary dvd, buy The Shinning, my all times favorite.
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Summary: Blair Witch
Review: This is one film that I just couldn't stop watching. I wasn't scared no I was terrified. It was just too real the ending will stick in my head for a long time. The idea is a good one but would I buy it no. The reason, I could not watch this film again. I seriously do not ever want to watch a film that affects me this much more than once.
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Summary: Somewhat hyped
Review: I have mixed feelings about this movie. I have to give the movie credit for it's cinematography. When I first heard of the concept of this movie, I was expecting it to look really cheap upon viewing. It really didn't come across that way at all. It was well put together, even though some of the zigzag camera angles and the periodic blackouts were at times annoying, but I guess it was all for effect. What I really didn't care for was the storyline. What started out to be kind of interesting ended up becoming redundant in the middle of the movie: characters get lost, characters argue with each other, characters set up tent, characters get spooked at night, characters wake up and start arguing again, characters set up tent...you get my drift. It wasn't until the latter part of the film where it became unsettling. I thought the ending was disturbing, but by the time I got spooked, I was left hanging for more. Even though the movie was about 87 minutes, it seemed to last a lot longer because of the dragging storyline. I guess it was all the hype that left me disappointed. Great concept for a movie, though I hope this is not the direction Hollywood wants to go now because of the success of this film.
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Summary: WHAT?
Review: This movie is the wrost movie I have ever seen in my life.Its not scary at all and it has no excitment to it.Don't waste your money on this movie.
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Summary: The worst!
Review: Absolutely the worst film (and I'm including home movies in the selection universe) I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it don't fall for the hype and saveyour money.
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Summary: Good idea, terrible implementation
Review: Why buy this movie? I dunno. You could have the same visual effect turning your tv off and staring at a blank screen. It's not like the movie has much more than pitch darkness anyway. Hard to even *try* to believe this movie is real [which is the only thing that could give it a 'scary' factor] I mean...If film students in todays colleges are really *that bad* at holding a camera level, there is absolutely no hope for the future of filmmaking when these people come to charge.They should take a class in equilibrium. This way is up. This way is down. This is how you hold something *STILL*. I'll just reiterate... I don't think this is a bad new genre of terror films, I just think that this front-runner is the worst possible introduction to it.
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Summary: Blair Witch is Awesome!
Review: Even though most people didn't like the Blair Witch, I thought it was a VERY good movie. I just think most people were expecting something short of a religious experience because of the way it was overrated. THIS MOVIE ROCKS!
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Summary: Joe and The Blair witch
Review: The Blair Witch Profect has gone beyond being a cult film, or another fleeting trend emitting its pulsating "ping" on the radar screen of popular culture, it has become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. Why? Partly, because the movie is brilliant, (trust me, its frightening), but that alone does not sufficiently explain why masses of the population rushed out to see this film It has touched something much deeper inside us, something primitive, ancient.For those of you intellectually stunted people who insisted on rushing out and seeing "Deep Blue Sea", or (Ugh) "Runaway Bride", instead of something of quality, I'll give you a brief synopsis. Three 20-someting student film makers head deep into the woods of Burketsville Maryland, formally Blair, to explore the legend of the Blair Witch, a centuries old supernatural menace that town folklore has blamed for a wide range of bloody, and mysterious atrocities. On the second day of shooting they become lost in the woods, and on top of being hungry, cold and frightened, they are terrorized in the dead of night by an eerie, noisy, and unseen presence, that becomes more menacing with each passing night. The film's directors, along with a trio of incredible young actors have managed to take "Cinema Verite" to a new level with this gem of a film, but I'm not reviewing it, so you'll have to go see it yourself. I'm only attempting to explain the psyche that is driving the phenomenon. First, the movie has re-introduced the witch in its original form, a dark, evil aberration of nature that lives in the deep, thick of the forest untouched by the hand of man. In medieval times, the deep unexplored woods were believed to be a portal to hell, where Satan's minions sprang forth from the fertile soil. Romanian folklore draws time and time again on the concept of vampires, wolfmen, and other shape changers, as creatures who emerged from the forest in the dead of night to terrorize villagers, and the unfortunate tourist arriving late on his journey. Without the means of modern science to explain crop failures and drought, or the forensic tools to understand the socio-pathology of the serial killer, supernatural folklore was accepted as sound reasoning to explain away the horrors that plagued the short, and often harsh realities of European life in the middle ages. These ideals were brought back in full force during the American colonial period, where the puritans, despite the fact that they built their new country on the foundation of escaping religious persecution and ignorance, brought back the concept of the inherent malevolence of the dark woods. Centuries have since past, and a new age of science and reason has replaced the superstition that now only finds a warm bed in re-runs of the X-files, and Hilary Clinton's evenings with the ouija boar. But can years of evolution be swept away that easily? My wife the biologist, when reading my rough draft for this article, summed up what I'm trying to get at quiet nicely. She opines that the reaction to Blair Witch is not much different than the need to re-enact other primitive urges inherent in man. The impulse of man to hunt for sport is really a re-enactment of the times when man's survival was dependent on his ability to kill in order to provide nourishment for his family. His fascination with violent sport, wrestling in particular, may still be a remnant of a spark left in us from primitive ages when physical prowess ensured the future survival of your lineage. It would later find other incarnations in the gladiator's ring, and the Roman Olympiad. As the necessity of these actions become obsolete, they still survive in the form of ritual, which serves as vehicle to satiate these engrained urges. While it would be a leap of logic to try and argue that the success of Blair Witch owes itself to the need to pacify some bizarre impulse to be frightened, it is undeniable that the movie has triggered something not experienced before. The most frequent comment I hear about the movie, is that viewer's find that the film stays with days after they went to see it. They find themselves jumpy, and on edge. Some, like myself, experienced strange nightmares the night after they went to see the movie, as if some tiny switch, long dormant in the recesses of our brains was switched on again. A primitive fear within us, resurfaced, because of the gritty realism of a low budget movie. So does all this sound like the boring thesis of a nerdy academic? Maybe, but tell me how a weekend of camping sounds after you go see the film!
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