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The Blair Witch Project [1999]
from Pathe Distribution
starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffith, Jim King
directed by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez

Features:

• Black & White
• Colour
• Full Screen
• PAL

Editorial Review:

Anyone who has even the slightest trouble with insomnia after seeing a horror movie should stay away from The Blair Witch Project--this film will creep under your skin and stay there for days. Credit for the effectiveness of this mock documentary goes to filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, who armed three actors (Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Josh Leonard) with video equipment, camping supplies, and rough plot outlines. They then let the trio loose into the Maryland woods to improvise and shoot the entire film themselves as the filmmakers attempted to scare the crap out of them. Gimmicky, yes, but it worked--to the wildly successful tune of $130 million at the US box office upon its initial release (the budget was a mere $40,000). For those of you who were under a rock when it first hit the cinemas, The Blair Witch Project tracks the doomed quest of three film students shooting a documentary on the legend of the Blair Witch from Burkittsville, Maryland. After filming some local yokels (and providing only scant background on the witch herself), the three, led by Heather (something of a witch herself), head into the woods for some on-location shooting. They're never seen again. What we see is a reconstruction of their "found" footage, edited to make a barely coherent narrative. After losing their way in the forest, whining soon gives way to real terror as the three find themselves stalked by unknown forces that leave piles of rocks outside their campsite and stick-figure art projects in the woods. (As Michael succinctly puts it, "No redneck is this clever!") The masterstroke of the film is that you never actually see what's menacing them; everything is implied, and there's no terror worse than that of the unknown. If you can wade through the tedious arguing--and the shaky, motion-sickness-inducing camerawork--you'll be rewarded with an oppressively sinister atmosphere and one of the most frightening denouements in horror-film history. Even after you take away the monstrous hype, The Blair Witch Project remains a genuine, effective original. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• original and untouchable
  if i was running the oscar nominations at all back then this would have won every single award goin...this film was advertised in such a way that i had to go see what real horror was coming about and i left that screening a very happy adolescent at that time it was sheer class and of any horror i have come across in any genre this was very much in a world of its own...it may have been a mock documentary but boy you cannot and will not ever in my opinion beat what i saw that night it was original and... more info

• The most HUMAN horror to date.
  This got alot of bad reviews - people didn't like the fact there are no special effects, no gore (well hardly) and that you don't actually see anyone get killed.
  That is the magic of this movie. What is scarier? What you can see, or what you can't see?
  The premise of the movie (as everyone knows) is three documentary filmmakers head off into the Black Hills woods to explore the legend of The Blair Witch. As they make their journey through the woods they end up lost and even their compass cannot... more info

• boaring
  The only real good thing about this movie is the last 50 seconds. the other 70 mins complete waste of time. THought it was made up withsome shoody acting and a boaing story line whitch they could have made into an amazing film. Wasnt scary and the people who thought it was must be scared of the dark or something.

• a let-down
  after the all the hype my friends had about this film i thought i had to watch it..so i bought it on dvd and was hugley dissapointed..this is proberly one of the worst films i have ever watched. It wasnt scary, it wasnt suspenseful and i was just boring really. i really do not recommend this film

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