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Starring: Heather Donahue,  Michael C. Williams,  Joshua Leonard,  Bob Griffith,  Jim King, 
Directed By: Daniel Myrick,  Eduardo Sánchez, 
Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 1999
Studio: Lions Gate
Format: Black & White,  Color,  DVD-Video,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about The Blair Witch Project

Product Description
Three film students set out into the black hills forest to make a documentary on the legendary blair witch. Armed with a 16mm camera a hi8 video camera and a dat recorder every step word and sound is captured. After wandering around black hills forest heather josh and mike are cold lost and hunted. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/01/2005 Starring: Heather Donahue Joshua Leonard Run time: 87 minutes Rating: R Director: Daniel Myrick/eduardo Sanchez

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The Blair Witch Project
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 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 theaters, The Blair Witch Project tracks the doomed quest of three film students shooting a documentary on the Burkittsville, Maryland, legend of the Blair Witch. 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

Curse of the Blair Witch
Are you wondering just exactly who the Blair Witch was? What the Burkittsville, Maryland, legend was all about? Or what exactly fascinated student filmmaker Heather and what possibly took her, Mike, and Josh from this earth? Get all your background questions answered by Curse of the Blair Witch, a one-stop-shopping "documentary" originally produced for the Sci-Fi Channel as a tie-in marketing tool. Entirely fictionalized, Curse of the Blair Witch focuses both on the past and the present, with copious info on the Blair Witch myth as well as on the disappearance of Heather, Josh, and Mike. As it turns out, the original witch was one Elly Kedward, who was accused in 1785 of taking blood from several children; she was subsequently banished to the harsh winter woods and left for dead. Her grisly and bloody legacy involves missing children, polluted water, disemboweled men, and a serial killer of children who claims to have been haunted by "an old woman ghost." Aside from some ineffective "newsreel" footage of the serial killer, all this intriguing information is presented convincingly and chillingly. Curse may in fact freak you out more than the movie, and it evokes the great, pulpy In Search Of series of the '70s, one of the prime inspirations for filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. News clips of the search for Heather, Josh, and Mike lend a vérité atmosphere to the proceedings, but shed little light on their mysterious disappearance or their characters. Basically, it's a tease to go see the movie. Still, The Blair Witch Project provided only ever-so-slight information on the legend that haunted the forest, so you'll want this cleverly constructed mock documentary to supplement your knowledge of the film. --Mark Englehart

Customer Reviews for The Blair Witch Project

IT WAS LIKE KIDS GETTING SCARED OF SANTA CLAUSE
THIS HAD TO BE THE WORST EXCUSE FOR A HORROR MOVIE EVER. I HATE THE SHAKY CAMERA AND THE WAY EVERYONE RAN AROUND WITHOUT REALLY DOING ANYTHING. IT SEEMD THEY WHERE SCARED BECAUSE PSYCHOLOGICALLY THEY WHERE DOING TO EACH OTHER. I HATE TO RIP ON THIS FILM BECAUSE I AM SURE OTHERS HAVE DONE THE SAME THING. RUNNING RAMPID IN THE WOODS IN THE DARK SURE WOULD SCARE ME IF ESPECIALLY IF THE PEOPLE WITH ME WHERE TRYING TO BE HORRIFIED BY THE UNKOWN. I DO NOT NEED BLOOD AND GORE BUT GOOD ACTING AND DIRECTING WOULD BE NICE. I HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED BY STUPID MOVIES LIKE "PUMPKINHEAD" AND "KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE." I AM EMBARASSED BUT I AM AFRAID OF CLOWNS AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT THE SCARE FACTOR IN "PUMPKINHEAD" WAS GOOD BECAUSE OF THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE SURPRISE AND THE DIRECTING. I REMEMBER A REVEWER SAYING IT "SCARED THE MESS OUT OF HIM." I GUESS HE MEANT IT WAS A MESS.The Blair Witch Project

A brilliant Piece of Indie Work...
The reviewers who give the movie a poor rating because it never showed the monster or because they claim that it is boring are missing the point. It is an ingenious idea, with fantastic human elements, and it should give any young film student hope for their projects to be widely received in the future.
The reason the movie works, it because of what we CAN'T see. The twig men, creaking woods, and loud rock hits during the night are as effective as the gruesome SFX in The Exorcist. Two very scary movies, for completely different reasons.
And about the cussing:GET OVER IT!! What would YOU say if you were hopelessly lost and pursued by an omniscient and omnipresent witch? Probably not "Jimeny jillikers!" The cursing adds realism, even if it's a tad overblown.
And the viral campaign was awesome when the film was released. Fake websites, documentaries on TV, and missing persons posters? That's almost better than having the incident be real, because you can appreciate just how clever the whole charade is!
Bottom line. The acting is impressive, especially for an unknown film, it is entertaining, and it is downright scary. And everyone complains that they weren't scared once they found out it wasn't real. C'mon, now didn't you all suspect it was a fabrication to begin with? Any horror fan needs to see it, and to be honest, probably already has.The Blair Witch Project

Following the documentary was really fun and intense.
The ending was kind of messed up and too short, but the movie as it progressed was intense, sad and very well-filmed.

I know that it's just a movie and it turned out to be just that, a movie but it was good for what it was.

4 stars.

end note: 10/26/08: and this was my second time watching the movie. the first time was when it first debuted.The Blair Witch Project

A Film for the Indy snob in Your Life
Remember that guy or girl in your school who refused to listen to the Top 40 radio stations not because he/she didn't like the music, but because too many other people liked the songs and that alone made them "corporate trash"? This is the film made for him/her, and only that type of person. If this describes you, then buy a copy tout de suite so you can watch it in the company of others. After watching, if they are people who actually watch films in order to be entertained, they will ask, "Why do so many people like this film? Nothing happened. It's a bunch of annoying, worthless college punks running around in the woods swearing at each other". You then can put your "snob" on and denounce them as "populace filth" who cannot grasp the sheer genius of a film where nothing happens on the screen and everything is supposed to be one's imagination. When they leave, you can then throw your copy aside because you will never watch it anyway unless you have the opportunity to belittle those who cannot "get it".
Another reviewer called this the "reality show version of a horror film", and to me, nothing describes this film better or demonstrates exactly what was wrong with the entertainment world in the 1990's as well as that comment. People became burnt-out on the flash and glamour of the 80's and, as with every other concept in human history, decided to go the other extreme and make music that was dull and boring, sung by ugly people (which would had been fine if they had been guitar wizards or something, but their musical skills were by and large pretty horrible too), the models looked like junkies,clothes were so hideous that bums wouldn't wear them now, and the reality show was born.
God I hate reality shows. They destroyed decent writing and camera work for at least a generation and gave every freak willing to swallow rat's brains a spotlight usually reserved for people with real talent. Hence, this film was born. The "actors" are extremely annoying (as other reviewers have written, the viewer begins to wish for their slow, painful deaths a few minutes into the film), the story was beyond weak and nothing annoyed me more than the lie that the producers put forth that this was some kind of documentary (once again, as someone else has said, how could a camera survive on its own in the elements for a year?), and the jerky, haphazard motion of the camera might very well make you ill. I know that we're supposed to be the MTV generation and all have ADD so badly that we can't concentrate on a single image for more than half a second, but let's vote to stop that now! It's insulting to everyone under 40 that Hollywood assumes that we just don't want or can even tell if a film has quality production.
To close, if you love films shot up people's noses, with no dialogue besides the "F" word, and that are so jerky the viewer feels worse than after riding in a plane during severe turbulence, this is the film for you. But if you're a pretentious schmuck who enjoys torturing others with films that not even the actors' parents would watch twice, you'll enjoy it too.The Blair Witch Project

This movie is enjoyable and addictive
You either love or hate it. I'm more in the love ... well, like alot camp. I like ghost stories and ghost movies that don't have blood and guts splashed all over, and I think that's why this movie appeals to me so much. It's the unknown, the dread, you can hear the creepiness but can't see it. Very much liked the characters (okay, at times Heather really got on my nerves) and the concept ... go into the woods to film a witch story, and the witch doesn't like it. Also enjoyed the filmmaking technique. Thankfully wobbly camera shots don't bother me! Really liked the B&W and color footage interplayed.

This will not go down in history as a classic movie in any category. But personally, I enjoy watching it every now and then. (And hey, for less than $5, go ahead and add it to your library!)The Blair Witch Project

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