The Blair Witch Project (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Scary, excellent acting, brilliant directing
Disadvantages: You **have** to use your imagination

...in your mind” may be the generic catchphrase of cocky psychologists everywhere, but that really is the case when it comes to the Blair Witch Project. The movie is something of a genre breaker in that you never actually see ‘the Blair Witch’ but it is up to you to imagine it and as such the film is only as scary as your imagination is active. This is largely the reason that the film has received a mixture of praise and criticism from pundits and filmgoers ... Read review

Advantages: See op!
Disadvantages: See op!

...living under a rock for the past 8 or 9 years) but it sounded so good, I just couldn't turn it down! Well, ok, maybe I could. The hyped up film "The Blair Witch Project" was a budget movie, about 3 kids who go into the woods and get lost. Sounds scary? Perhaps - throw in a few stick figures, some gory stuff in a backpack, and you'd have a pretty terrifying movie if you ask me. Plot - - - It all starts when Heather Donahue (referred to ... Read review

Advantages: It's put together nicely, the actors were great
Disadvantages: Just makes no sense what so ever

This opinion reveals everything about the movie's plot Well it was about time someone made a 1st person horror/documentary right? Now all my friends were telling me about this movie. They all also had different opinions about it as well. Some told me this movie was really cool others said it blew monkey ass. So the only way to figure out this complex mystery is to see this movie by myself. The only problem was I kept holding it off. It was on ... Read review

Advantages: Acting, Ending, Hype
Disadvantages: Nose Bit, Start, Hype

...all those who have watched the Blair Witch Project have, as the cliché goes, either loved it or hated it. It would probably be in the best interests of this opinion for me to claim to be somewhere in the middle, undecided as it were, and it would be easiest and most obvious for me to slate it, but I think it’s going to be more fun just to like it, so there you go. Most people who disliked The Blair Witch Project watched the film expecting ... Read review

Advantages: Original and different.
Disadvantages: Poor sequal.

...three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary… A year later their footage was found.” After reading this advert for the movie The Blair Witch Project, I just had to see it. I use the word movie, but it is actually supposed to be a documentary, so please forgive me if I call this a movie. Using footage of separate film-cameras, this movie is put together allowing us to ... Read review

Advantages: Quite chilling if you have a good imagination, great idea for a story
Disadvantages: Home movie style, very short film, too much shrieking!

...probably just about everyone on the planet knows, this film was one of the most hyped movies ever. The story goes that it is real video footage shot by 3 film students who went missing in 1994, and their footage was found a year later and made into this film. Amazingly, a lot of Americans believed this, and believed it really was a true story - thanks to a website which detailed the Legend of the Blair Witch. In many ways this seems laughable - if ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent acting, makes you feel you are there with them, eerie
Disadvantages: Just niggling little things really, see op.

...go and see it in the cinema, it’s been released on video/DVD since Oct 26, 1999 too but there again, that meant me actually buying or renting it, it was then shown on Sky Box Office for a while but there again, I’d have to pay for that. So, needless to say, when I saw it in the ‘Weekend TV Guide’ I decided I’d record it and watch it ASAP in order to review it for ciao (all in the name of ciao research you understand!). I’ll ... Read review

Advantages: Scary edge of your seat type movie.
Disadvantages: I think they could have given more info about the Balir Witch and what might have to these kids.

...this was a documentary about the Blair Witch or just some video footage about a few lost campers. They begin with talking to people in Burkitsville, formerly Blair, about the Blair witch, visiting the cemetery and talked a bit about how this small town started with 200 people, and even read a portion of the legend of the Blair Witch. I liked what they did with this. I think I did because it gave a feel for the townspeople and a bit of its history. ... Read review

Advantages: Very atmospheric
Disadvantages: Not very well known actors.

...film makers who went into the woods filming a documentary on the local legend the Blair Witch! All the critics and all your mates probably told you what a rubbish film this was. But if you give it a chance, its great! The reason this film got such low marks is because when we go to see a horror movie we expect gore and expensive affects. Well this film ditches that. It relies on good old fashion ways of building tension. This film actually has ... Read review

Advantages: Good concept
Disadvantages: Not as scary as the hype led us to believe

...literal when it comes to the full truth of the reasons for the horrors – you don’t get to see shots of any madman in “The Blair witch project”. But it’s a similar story – young kids wandering around, getting lost (a staple of many a Hammer horror film, and even the “Rocky Horror Picture show”). I suppose that essentially “The Blair Witch Project” lies somewhere between a psychological thriller ... Read review

Advantages: Original in its direction and well made.
Disadvantages: Not original in its plot and slow.

...three students go off into the woods investigating the myth that is the Blair Witch. As amateur filmmakers, they record themselves as they go in search, only to get lost and fall victim to the witch… We know this is going to happen, it says so on the video, and little else happens, save for a couple of squabbling moments, a few screams here and there, and a bit of ‘funny goings on.’ That is your plot, my friends. As for ... Read review

Advantages: No over-the-top special effects
Disadvantages: None (In my opinion!)

The Blair Witch Project is very different to main stream Hollywood productions. It is presented as an incomplete student film, as it has not been polished up as a Hollywood movie. It has been filmed and presented as an unedited documentary, with hazy and blurred camera work. The only editing that it does have is the edits between the two different cameras, this is very jumpy and often one scene or shot does not follow on from the previous. These points ... Read review