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Summary: All you lemmings pay attention!
Review: For those of you not quite bright enough to have figured it out yet, the story behind BWP is NOT TRUE! Agreed, the movie would have been much more exciting and enjoyable had I not known that the entire thing was made up. What annoys me most is not the film itself, but that most of you are just too stupid to go and find out for yourselves whether or not it is 'real'. Lemmings of the world unite!
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Summary: I expected more from British Filmgoers
Review: After enjoying the film here in the states I heard many people complaining that they were disappointed because it didn't scare them. I expect this here because many people would rather see blood and gore and a scary witch running around with a big knife where they get to cheer when the "clever" catch phrase is uttered before someone is disemboweled. I am glad to see that many of you Brits get the moviegoing experience but I am surprised that the ratio of those who can't get into it seems to be about the same as it was here. Here's a tip for you who haven't seen it yet: don't distance yourself from the film, let your walls down and relate to the characters and forget that you are in a theatre and you are watching a movie. If you do this and listen to everything that is said, you will enoy it much more. You probably won't be scared in the way you are accustomed to, but you will take the film home with you and it will play over in your head as the eerie feeling sticks to your brain like a person who recently saw a horrible event.
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Summary: An Innovative, Cinematic Triumph
Review: Here is a bona fide movie-movie, pure cinema all the way. The soundtrack, the camerawork, and the editing actually become CHARACTERS in the film, making what would normally be a semi-scary campfire story into an absolutely chilling horror experience. I found this film as innovative in its own way as "Citizen Kane" must have seemed back when IT was new, employing modern film equipment and technology in exciting and innovative ways. The extras on the DVD are fantastic, and add a lot to the cult experience that "Blair Witch" has engendered. If you like to be scared, and/or if you enjoy studying film, you'll LOVE "Blair Witch" on DVD.
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Summary: I may never walk in the woods again...
Review: This was a truly freaky movie. It seemed very realistic. The ending absolutely STANK! I've heard that they want to make a sequel.. Where would they go from? They all died! Anyway, I really liked this movie. I stayed away from the woods, or any trees, for a long time after I saw this.
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Summary: Extremely, icredibly boring
Review: This movie was the absolutely worst horror movie i have ever seen.The only actually scary part was at the end in the house. I think it was just a waste of time. A bunch of people lost in the woods scared to death of something that you don't even see through the whole movie is not my idea of a good scary horror movie.
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Summary: A movie for those of us with overactive imaginations! Yes!
Review: TBWP is a startlingly refreshing bit of film-making that represents a rare victory over the stultifying dumbed-down garden-variety "explosions and blood" type of movie which seemingly appeals to the typical empty-headed suburbanite zombie so amply represented earlier in these reviews. Simply put, if you don't like to use your imagination, if you want your entertainment vanilla-flavored, mass-market, and spoon-fed, its not the film for you. But if you think, if you READ books and build images in your head, if you know that what you can I-M-A-G-I-N-E is always worse than reality...then check out this flick. The acting, despite some people's uninformed opinions, is first-rate. These characters are people you know--perhaps all these people who insist that the characters were too whiny and argumentative to be realistic need to look in the mirror and be honest about what they're like on a stressful day. And the ending being the only good part? Whatever. Its magnificent, wrenching, heart-stopping horror could only be fully registered if you had watched the entire film very closely from the very beginning...an astonishing effort, and better every time I watch it.
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Summary: A movie meant for a precious few...
Review: When watching "The Blair Witch Project", one can not help but wonder if it really is a movie at all. The performances are so chilling and unbelievably convincing that it can not really be called acting. Living is a more apt term for the stars of this film. This is a big step forward for independant filmmakers everywhere. I was fortunate enough to have seen it before all of the hype, before it was hailed as the scariest movie ever by every known means of syndicated communication. Hype kills a movie. I was so scared, that I had to hide my eyes on the shoulder of my female companion. I slept in the spare bed in my sister's room that night. I still haven't mustered the courage to go into the woods along, and I don't think that I will ever go camping again. But what makes this movie so frightening. Again, the realistic camerawork, the believable performances, the fact that the actors are relative unknowns. It would not have been as believable starring Brad Pitt, Alec Baldwin and Gwyneth Paltrow. But what makes the film scary, what gives it its edge is the unknown. In real life, do we ever discover the source of those unexplained noises coming from the basement, or who really moved the book from one side of the table without anyone noticing (I am speaking now to those of us who have had unexplained phenomena occur in our lives)? No we don't. What makes this movie work is that we never really know where the noises are coming from, what really happened to Josh, and who is behind it all. Is it the Blair Witch? Or is it a group of teens trying to scare the group. Was the "footage" a hoax, and the three simply got lost in the woods and were killed by wolves? Or were they abducted? No one knows. The unknown beats a guy running around in a ski mask killing well endowed blondes anyday in my book. And what makes me sad about the general public is that we would rather have the guy in the ski mask. Mindless suspense is good enough. At least we can explain it. At least everything fits neatly into a category and now we get to watch the gory results. It is time that we demand more from our scary movies. It's time we end the constant insult to our intelligence by filmmakers. It's time we demand integrity, intellect, and intelligence from our horror films. The three "I"'s that are the key to the formula of the horror genre.
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Summary: Yawn.
Review: zZzZzZzZz...er, what? Oh sorry dozed off there. Blair Witch was everything BUT scary. This is the most unscary movie I've seen. And there's no way I will buy in on DVD, there are hundreds of other titles I'd rather get first. Pass on this puppy.
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Summary: The next movie you watch should be this one...
Review: I too have discovered a link between peoples intellect and how much they get out of this film! I pity people who have no imagination, and miss out on enjoying some great films like this one. You cannot just sit back, switch off and relax....to get the most out of it your mind needs to get involved. Which is too much trouble for some! And low budget? If you hadn't been told, you would never have given a thought as to how much it cost.If the budget had been $100million it would still have cost $40,000. There's nothing lacking which required extra money. This film is so original, utterly convincing and a refreshing change from the arty, effects overkilled, mind numbing offerings of recent months.And is it scary? Well I still get the creeps if I lie facing the corner of my room when I go to sleep! Its the very last few moments that really get you!
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Summary: Until now i thought it was real. It really fooled me!
Review: I found some of it dull, but you really had to pay attention to all of it to get the true meaning out of it. I like movies that make you think. And this one made me believe it was real. And it also left you with questions. A movie that really made you wonder.
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