The Blair Witch Project (DVD)

...three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. One year later, their footage was found."... And so begins the legend of "The Blair Witch Project". The Plot - ======== Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard are student filmakers who, for a college project, plan to film an investigative documentary into a local legend - "The Blair Witch". Legend has it that in 1785, a ...
...Blair was renamed "Birkittesville", however the residents are still plagued by mysterious happenings, unsolved murders and unexplained disappearances. The movie opens with Donahue, Williams and Leonard preparing for their expedition into the woods near Burkittesville. The atmosphere is excitement and anticipation of what they may uncover. Before the team venture into the woods, they take the time to interview several townspeople, asking them of ...

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...from ‘Macbeth’, add one of the main themes of ‘King Lear,’ set it in the woods like ‘As You Like It,’ add a liberal dose of weirdness a la ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ and then update it by employing a video camera. And behold! The Blair Witch Project is born! There have been varied reactions to this film, ranging from ‘a big pile of poo’ to ‘scariest movie ever made.’ My ...
...the left a bit. I shall explain further. But first… ~THE CONCEPT~ You all know the premise. Three students go into the woods to make a documentary about a witch. They disappear, but a while later their footage is found blah, blah, blah… And this, I must admit, I find an interesting concept. In most Hollywood movies, the camera plays the role of ‘omniscient narrator.’ That means that it can leap from the point-of-view (POV) ...

Amadahn 26.07.2001 · Read full review
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Please note, as in the film itself, there is an instance of foul language in this opinion, and if offended, please do not read the paragraph on performances. Do you remember how excited the world was when this film came out? The slew of "documentaries" that came with it, the praise for the innovative and interesting premise, and the fact that it proved just how useful the internet could be in marketing a film. Remember how it also split opinion ...
...who proclaimed it one of the scariest movies ever made, that it would go down in history as such. On the other hand, you had those who said that it was an over-hyped waste of time, and was about as scary as an old person's birthday party (actually, they can be pretty hairy). I remember that, at the time, I was studying for my A-Level Theatre Studies, and as part of the final exam assessment, was, along with four others, trying to devise a piece ...

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...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 ...
...had me glued fervently to the screen ::Synopsis:: The storyline, as most people will probably know, goes like this. 3 teenage film makers go into the woods near a small town called Burkittsville, Maryland. They go with the intention of making a documentary about the Blair Witch, a legendary woman who lured children of the village into the woods and allegedly killed them. However they lose their map and end up lost in the woods; then the strange ...

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...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 as H for ...
...her university about the spooky goings-on up at the woods in Burkittsville. She brings along a few mates (Joshua Leonard (J) and Michael Williams (M)), sets up camp, puts a few bangers on the barbie and stupidly loses the car. J and M are not best pleased with H, and squabble about silly things until it's nighttime, and small wooden cross-shapes appear in trees. They are terrified at this point, and lots of running about occurs until the end of the ...

jellytotsgirl 16.04.2003 · Read full review
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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 the ...
...with a lot of promise. The kids went out to do their research on the Blair Witch. They interviewed people from the town you found out information that will help you comprehend the mystery. Like the fact that some serial killer had murdered 7 kids in the haunted woods. The funny thing was that 8 kids were kidnapped and 7 were killed. Now before you start to wonder if the 8th kid is the killer don’t worry he’s not. It will be explained ...

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...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 the ...
...– both big mistakes. The Blair Witch Project is original, first of all, no one can deny that. Of course, original doesn’t always translate to ‘good’. The story follows three Americans trapped in some woods, making a documentary on the local legend of a witch who supposedly kills men and rapes the souls of virgins or something – you get the picture. The whole film is shot through this supposed home camera (although the ...

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...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 see ...
...students starting their adventure into the woods, and a feel for the legend that is the Blair Witch. You discover that back in 1941, Rustin Parr (a hermit from the woods) went into the local town and announced that he was finally finished. And when police searched his house, they found the bodies of young children murdered in a ritualistic manner. The reason you may ask? The ghost of an old woman told him to do it. During the students trek through ...

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...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 ...
...good idea really! By the time the film reached the UK, we all knew it wasn't really true. However, the hype continued, with it being heralded as the scariest film ever, and TV features showing people coming out of the cinema throwing up and in tears. Again, what they neglected to tell us was that the main cause of the sickness was the fact that the film is mainly shot with handheld cameras, and the footage is very shaky - causing a motion sickness ...

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...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!). ...
...away too much about the plot or the ending for those who haven’t seen the film yet. --------------------------------------------------- WHAT IS THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT ABOUT? --------------------------------------------------- “In October 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found….” That’s about it really. ...

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...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. ...
...twists and turns, giving it the unique personality that only a legend can. I wish that they had gone a little farther into who the Blair Witch was and more of the gory details of what happened. These 3 kids, especially this girl, Heather, had a certain amount of attitude going into this project. They film the shopping to get supplies for their trip and it seemed to consist mostly of Power Bars. They seem to want to film every single little thing, ...

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...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 ...
...that you are lost in the woods with these three students This is one of the films that you have to listen to at the start to understand what happens in the end. Heres a brief review about what happens in the film: To start off there documentary the students film people telling them what they believe about the Blair Witch. They get a mixed reaction. Then they come to the woods. It all seems to go very well for the first day. Then the second day ...

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...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 ...
...as the former. You get a very real impression of the fear and the terror of the characters’ fear. But there were too many times in the film when I found myself switching off, I really found it quite tedious in parts. This was, I am sure, partly down to the fact that I could feel nothing at all for the three central characters. All their arguing and pathetic crying over little things didn’t endear them at all to me, so I found I couldn’t ...

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...several in fact… ahem… The Blair Witch Project falls into such a category, where there has been immense hype and no rhyme or reason for this. It starts off pretty good: 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 ...
...Eduardo Sanchez, it is in the guise of a documentary told by the students during their time spent in the woods. Their footage is found afterwards when they have gone ‘missing.’ So it was nice to see a fresh look on horror, using modern technology. I suppose ‘cult’ is what we would describe this 1999 film as. There will be people out there coughing up there cocoa, ‘Borg! But did you not like the overall imagery to this ...

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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 ...
...to the chilling story that unfolds. The only lighting that the film has, in a production sense, is the light that is attached to the hand held camera. All other lighting is purely natural, well actually the ONLY other lighting is the sunlight in the day. The supernatural thrillers’ plot is this: Three student filmmakers set out to film a documentary, to discover the truth behind the Burkittsville Blair Witch. The legend of the Blair Witch ...

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