The Blair Witch Project

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Summary: Should have stayed an independent
Review: This film is not a piece of cinema, but an amateur horror film. Some people find this its most compelling aspect, it makes it believable to them, but it is in the end the film's achilles heel. Had "dan and ed" been schooled in the classics, they might have come up with a dense and interesting film, using the SAME TECHNIQUES. They simply lack the visual and narrative grammar to carry it off. Instead, the film comes off as sloppy and weak-storied. There's a ton of backstory, but the film itself lacks depth, intencity and direction. This film is a wasted opportunity to show the world the power of mockumentary filmmaking. Try Cannibal Holocaust (1980, Italian) on for size. This is a horror movie to scare only first-time filmgoers.

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Summary: Believe
Review: Whe you see this movie you understand that idea of Wittgenstein which says that "the limits of my world are the limits of my language". Fear makes us hesitate. The film shows how fear works when we can not get coherence between our beleives.

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Summary: Save your time and your money
Review: Unfortunately I succumbed to the hype and paid good money for the DVD version.....what a waste! The only thing that should have died was the batteries for their cameras. How did they manage to last so long, anyway? My VCR camera only last about half an hour...and that would have been too long to endure watching this rubbish! If they were finding it hard to sleep at night out in the woods, they could have just watched this and it would certainly have done the trick.

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Summary: POSITIVELY THE WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME
Review: I am SOOOO tired of reading all these reviews by people who loved this movie. Not because I wish to deny them of their right to an opinion, but because I take offense to the constant insults to those of us that HATED the movie. Get off your high horses people, if you actually enjoyed this movie then maybe a reality check is in order of YOUR "intellect and imagination". I am not a violent person but I wanted the characters to be brutally killed, not because I'm a "brain-dead suburbanite that was raised to expect blood, gore, and explosions", I just wanted to shut the VCR off and stop waiting for something remotely interesting to happen. What a complete waste of money. I dont care if its low budget or high budget, amatuer or professional, it simply stunk. Even if I had seen the movie thinking it was a true story, I would have been disgusted.

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Summary: Unlikely to become a classic
Review: "The Blair Witch Project" is more an interesting experiment than a really scary movie. It tries to frighten its audience by minimizing the distance between the viewer and the characters in the movie. To achieve that goal the creators of TBWP pretend to show us a documentary. What they don't offer are any tricks to manipulate the viewer. This would have been absolutely necessary since we all know that this is actually a fictional film. After a while we are getting tired of seeing three students walking through the woods doing stupid things. The directors could not not make me identify with the characters and they also did not find a way to tell their story visually, like Alfred Hitchcock used to do. He was able to create suspense through his visuals alone, almost like in a silent film. He always succeeded in making his protagonists interesting enough to make us sympathize with them. TBWP is the kind of film that gets less interesting with each viewing, the best proof that it is not a great film.

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Summary: Only good to watch one time.
Review: If you want to see this movie, just let me tell you. Rent the movie instead of buying it because when you watch it the first time, you will like it. But it doesn't want you to watch it a second time. Its a good scary movie to watch, but watch the movie only once. It's more scarier that way

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Summary: What if you can't go home again?
Review: People who have watched The Blair Witch Project and think that the film students were just screw ups because they stayed lost for days, have missed the point. The evil, unseen spirit of the witch, continously prevented them from leaving her neck of the woods. Yes the F- word was too omnipresent. Yes the plot could have been developed a bit better but don't let piles of stones trip you up about that. I must ask you this : How would you feel if an evil witch really wouldn't let you go home? This movie had plenty of drawbacks and was over hyped. However, it pushed that primal, primitive fear button, that resides way down inside the heart of many viewers rather well. Have you seen a stick doll today?

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Summary: This movie was not scary and it didn't really have a story.
Review: Well you can read this movie as you have read my title. This is not a scary movie at all. There is no plot in this movie it is just about these kids going out in the forest and getting lost while (supposedly) being chased by these witches. I give this movie 2 stars because it really didn't go anywhere. You didn't find out about anything and to tell you the truth it was kind of stupid. Many people liked it and I have nothing against that but if you read reviews before you watch movies take it from me.... DO NOT BUY THIS FILM. The last ten minutes is the scariest and even that is kind of stupid.

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Summary: Dumb Witch Project
Review: This movie totally sucks! Poor filming, acting, directing, and storyline. Not scary at all. In fact, it's kind of annoying! I guess that's why the movie promoters had to spend millions and millions of dollars to promote this roody poo movie! Now if I understand this correctly, the directors of this movie had a limited budget for creating this poor excuse for a movie, but then they all of a sudden have a ton a money for promoting the film? I think anyone who purchased this movie should take the DVD or VHS tape, put it back in its original packaging, shine it up real nice, turn it side ways, and stick it.....never mind!

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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This is the most scary and original horror movie ever made. The acting is absolutely superb. The performances are so natural and realistic that you feel like you're watching real footage. The shocks are subtle compared to most of today's overblown gore-filled horror movies, which is a good thing. You find yourself being drawn into the movie, and before you know it you're making yourself scared just thinking about what could happen next. I really cannot stress just how good this movie is. Buy it, rent it, but for goodness sake just see it!