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Summary: Should have been called, "Ha ha, we took your money!"
Review: The Blair Witch Project is a film of sheer genius! Let me qualify that statement: Jim Jones was a genius; the Enron scam was genius; and many others.I was prompted to go see this film because of a very engaging and ingenious Sci Fi Channel program (which I later realized was a one hour commercial for the film). The one hour program was scary and interesting. The film was anything but. The Blair Witch Project tells the "true" story of a group of twenty somethings who go investigate the legend of the Blair Witch in some remote part of Massachussetts or Maryland. Using nothing but video cameras, the fimmakers intent was to give the film a raw and documentary feel to it and then go so far as to promote it as being a real film - the last film by this group of students - as they are supposedly killed by the Blair Witch. The video cameras used jump around so much that I became quite queasy watching the film. The scripted dialogue (yes, it was actually scripted) is cheap and amateur. The climax of the film is such a ridiculous thing that it is amazing that it did the business it did. And, boy, did it do business. I can remember leaving the theater and overhearing a girl, sobbing her eyes out, talking about how horrible it must have been for those people to die like that, and how someone should do something so that no one ever has to die like that again. I laughed my head off at that. And then I got angry. I got angry that anyone could be so monumentally stupid as to believe the ridiculous story that had just been portrayed on screen. But then I comforted myself that most people are that stupid and to this date there was no law against stupidity - even though there should be. Laughably bad and ridciulous!
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Summary: About as scary as an old boot...
Review: I don't know why this movie was praised by critics and movie-goers alike, as the only thing this film did for me was give me a slight case of motion sickness. This film WAS NOT SCARY IN THE LEAST. You want scary? Go watch the Exorcist, not shaky cam in the dark forest. I cannot believe people were proclaiming this as "scariest movie ever". Mass hypnosis and sly marketing are the only theories I can come up with to explain this movies success. Zero stars. Also, this movie isn't even original - watch "The Legend of Boggy Creek" and replace Bigfoot with the "Blair Witch". Boggy Creek had this beat by 25 years!
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Summary: Unbelieveably realistic
Review: The Blair Witch Project was not made to make you mess your pants and be forever afraid. There is not one scene in here that is absolutely terrifying. The cameras are cheap and the picture is grainy...so what? This movie is fantastic! The atmosphere is amazingly chilling and dark. The acting is mostly all real. The cheap picture quality and shaky movements just increase the intensity. We see the blair witch through the character's eyes, and not from God's. We know just as much as they do. We follow them on their journey through the dark and haunted woods as they search for a local legend called the blair witch. We hear about her in interviews with the townspeople in the beginning. She gets built up in our minds and doesn't leave. I watched this movie alone at midnight, turned up pretty loud. It was althogether, a terrifying experience. When you look back on this film, you don't remember one scene in particular, you remember the whole thing. All these slightly scary things are happening that all add up to something very frightening. It's all in all a very fun and exciting experience that will leave you coming back for more!
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Summary: Scary movie, really.
Review: This flick deserves so much more credit than it gets. Anyone who thinks that THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT does not deliver sufficient chills, knows very little about atmosphere and mood. This film fills the viewer with dread and the same desperation the characters feel by the finale, which is really spooky. The fact that the creators built a whole mythos just to put the whole thing on handheld cameras and have it witnessed firsthand by the "filmmakers" is truly original and extreemly cool. What you don't see is really scarier than some lame make-up effects or CGI. The viewer acctually has to use their own imagination which is rare in this day of 'we'll show everything now, because that's what people want.' This erie tension builds slowly, however that makes it all the more tense, and the documentary style puts you in the middle of the woods with the doomed characters. A truly clever and creepy movie to be savored at night, highly recommended. Avoid BLAIR WITCH 2, it's nothing like this one.
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Summary: Phsycological Horor
Review: Ive heard this film called stupid, lame, pointless, and boring. Ive also heard it called scary as hell!, epic, and phsycological horror at its best! This is either a love it, hate it film. Watching this movie with NO sense of the blair witch will make the film seem "stupid." After watching the history of the blair witch, It made it more chilling to watch. So before you watch this (who hasnt seen it?) ok then, watch the extra stuff first and then hit "play movie" on the DVD menu, btw..all of the DVD features are great. A 5* DVD. The documentary isnt real, but someone tell me how it wasnt convincing. Another reviewer wrote that everything could be explained..thats such bull man. I wont get into the stoty, but I bet this kid hasnt even seen the movie or the whole thing before. This movie works on ALL psycological levels, no special effects, no witch running around, no "cheesy-ness" at all. C'mon, this movie really gets to you. But the amazing thing is that, the next day after watching it, remembering things from the movie dont scare you anymore. this movie does NOT get old fast! If you dont think its scary, watch the extras, and then the film...alone in the dark of your basement!
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Summary: What?
Review: I have never been so disappointed! I should have known that with all the hype surrounding this film, it was certainly going to be a stinker. I seen cartoons scarier than this! If people considered this to be scary, they must be afraid of people arguing, since that's all the film amounted to. Save your dough and buy some really scary movies. There's plenty out there better than this!
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Summary: Interesting Film Student Experiment
Review: Student filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez have delivered a quaint, spooky little tale with a budget tantamount to the price of catering a single meal for the cast of a standard Hollywood film. "The Blair Witch Project" follows the misadventures of a trio of film students (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams), who armed with two video cameras, set out to make a documentary based on an eerie Burkittsville, Maryland folk legend. Not far into an excursion through a secluded woods, their playful enthusiasm gives way to tension and terror, as they find themselves lost, someone - or some thing - stalking them every step of the way. Relying on a paper-thin plot barely sustained by realistic emotion and situations, "The Blair Witch Project" generates its effectiveness by exploiting what most big budget films consider taboo - raw, shaky camera work, unheard-of actors, believable premise, and zero usage of special effects. The environment selected for the shoot, virgin of set decorators and flashy lighting techniques, captures the essence of an ominous forest perfectly - I kind of like it because it bears a startling resemblance to my favorite place to hike! The acting, which demonstrates the mental breakdown of the characters, is quite convincing, especially Heather Donahue (recently seen in Steven Spielberg's Sci-Fi Channel miniseries "Taken"). While the incessant arguing of the three tends to become a trifle vexing, it actually imbues the film with a higher degree of realism. If you were lost in a cold, damp forest for days, hungry and thirsty, being followed by a psychotic killer or other entity with the intent to harm, would you be leisurely skipping, beaming a robust smile? Still does not explain why they never took a cellular telephone... "The Blair Witch Project" is not really scary - spooky, but not scary. Over hyped and hardly a "Citizen Kane", but still worth a peek for its unique approach. A fun film for amateur filmmakers to watch.
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Summary: Should have carried a cell phone
Review: There must be a conspiracy among some movie critics. The Blair Witch Project is a total waste of time - I mean for making the film. So the 3 film students are scared of the dark, and they cannot find their way back. What could be the worst that can happen to them, any way? It's hard to believe none of them carries a cell phone, either.
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Summary: Without a doubt the worst film ever made
Review: Scariest film ever made, my .... This film was boring as all hell and there were no shocks of any kind; everything that happened to the kids can be logically explained if you stop hyping the damn thing. No one stops and realizes that these kids were the stupidest beings ever to walk the planet and they deserved to die; nothing supernatural happened in that forest...like I said, everything is can be explained away very easily. This could have been set aside if there was any semblance of plot or suspense in the film, but that (as well as even halfway decent acting) is absent as well. All in all the worst film ever made; it doesn't even deserve one star.
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Summary: Prepare to be freaked out
Review: How much did this movie scare me? When I went to see it in the theater, I was terrified of walking back to my car, even though my brother and one his friends were with me. That night, I not only had to keep a light on, I played the radio non-stop, because if it was too quiet, I started thinking about this movie too much, and scared myself all over again. Why did this movie scare me so much? Even today, after a few more viewings, I can't say for sure. It feels like the audience is making the journey through the woods with the characters, and after becoming familiar with them, one of them disappears suddenly, and the other two...well, who knows? And that is probably they key here: the more active your imagination, the more frightened you will ultimately be. The final sequence, of Heather chasing Mike downstairs to the basement, is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen...and I've watched a lot of horror movies. Repeat viewings of the film find me watching the last few minutes over a few times; it's so dreadful, you can't look away even though you're watching through your fingers. Opinion is sharply divided on "Blair Witch," it seems: you either love it or hate it. However you feel about this movie, you do end up talking about it, and isn't leaving a lasting impression one of the goals of almost any film? In that sense, "Blair Witch" has certainly succeeded.
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