The Blair Witch Project | | Cast : | Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams | | Director : | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (II) | | Studio : | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Black & White, NTSC | | Released Date : | , 1999 | | DVD Released Date : | August 17, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 11, 2005 | | Summary | Well done -- a lot of fun | Content
 | I'm surprised at the amount of emotion that this film is still generating -- everyone's seems so troubled by it. I can't remember the last time a movie, once so popular, later became the source of such derision.
Ignoring the hype (pro and con) and the ridiculous "is it really true?" nonsense, The Blair Witch Project stands as an admirably well-made horror movie, one that holds up over repeated viewings. It has strong performances (I think that the improvisational approach is the only way that this could have worked -- if it had been scripted the immediacy of the performances would have been too stilted to maintain the illusion), a really nice horror movie setting and, most importantly, a creeping sense of dread.
As the story progresses you can feel the tension and menace begin settling in around the edges -- in fact it's in this sense of impending doom where I think the film-makers were most successful. It's what carries the whole thing -- it locks you in and keeps your disbelief nicely suspended. I also liked the fact that none of these characters were likable -- it made them seem that much more real, which in turn made their situation that much more dreadful.
This is a horror movie, and, like any horror movie if you go into it with a jaundiced eye, you're not likely to enjoy it. But, if you can ignore everything else and allow yourself to get into it, then you'll discover that The Blair Witch Project did indeed deserve its original reputation as a great horror movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 11, 2005 | | Summary | its just a bunch of hippies screaming | Content
| this movie dosen't make any sense. i mean the story's messed up,
and so is every thing else. its not scary because it never shows this so called "witch". it just shows people running away screaming. its not scary, completley stupid and low on special features. and if they were going to make this movie, use the actual film instead of sing another one. Horror fans might want to rent it. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | The haunting of Blair Witch | Content
| I am up in the wee hours writing this review...commentary really. A dream about a shadowy figure in the dark distance woke me up. I hadn't seen this movie in years, yet a silly nightmare made me think of it again.
Blair Witch is like that. I saw the movie after it opened and laughed at the end. I didn't hate it; just thought it was rather silly...interesting, but not terrifying. But the film had done its trick by taking hold of my mind...touching the psycholocal triggers of terror lying in wait.
A few years ago I was hiking in a familiar woods with my husband. It was a bright fall day...nothing at all sinister about it. But we found ourselves lost for a bit...playing around and not being careful...oh, let's go this way; it's a short cut to the trail. Well, we stomped around for an hour and found ourselves BACK WHERE WE'd STARTED. That chill of terror ran down my back, like biting down on a bad tooth, hitting the raw nerve...Blair Witch. Needless to say, we calmed down, figured out how to get safely back, but the terror was real for awhile.
I recently re read Bill Bryson's funny and well written A WALK IN THE WOODS..about hiking the Appalachian Trail. The chapter about the Maine woods is especially graphic...reminding me again of Blair Witch.
America is full of wilderness...even in Maryland. And the mind is full of imaginings and nameless terror. Like Hansel and Gretel and the Brothers Grimm, we fear the woods, the unknown, the horror waiting around the next bend. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | 68 minutes of intro with a great ending... | Content
| What the hell was all the hype about? Apart from the last ten minutes, nothing happened. But to be fair, it was worth the ending. Uneasy setting and a fear of the unknown meant it was perfect to scare people. Why couldn't it have been then minutes of crappy, boring intro, and sixty-eight minutes of nervous running where it was evident that somthing sinister was present? Well not bad on a budget of peanuts. But in my humble opinion, the second one was better. Enjoy! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | I wish I got to kill everyone in this movie. | Content
| So when I finish my time machine, the first thing I'm going to do is visit myself the night I saw this 'movie', and do what ever it takes to prevent it. Sure you can site all the temporal dynamics you want at me, but I'm still going to do it. There's not really any point to writing a review for this POS so long after its release, other than my own amusement. I saw that I had added it to my worst movies ever made listmania list, and yet had not properly denigrated it in the form of an actual review.
This is probably one of the three worst movies ever made. It's entire trick relies on you the viewer being a complete idiot. I actually knew some people that thought this might be a true story. Nevermind that the film in the camera, stuck in the basement of a ruined house in the middle of the woods probably wouldn't survive a whole year without getting ruined. I encouraged these people to go out into the woods themselves till something out there killed them too. Which brings me to my point. All I wanted was for the girl in this movie to die. She does by the way, but you have to wait a very long time for it to happen, and by then its pretty much not worth it. If I had been in this movie it would have been about 20 minutes long, and would have ended much more brutally than it did. But alas, I was stuck in the theater just like everyone else, wishing I could get my money back. |
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