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The scariest movie of all time is a true story.
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
The Blair Witch Project
1999 Directed by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
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It's maybe good that these guys got lost and eaten or whatever, because before stuff starts going wrong it seems like their documentary was probably going to suck.
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What scares you the most? Not necessarily something that make you jump out of your seat or scream in pure terror, but the thing that ALWAYS scares you. Always sends a chill down your spine, makes your heart fill with dread, makes your entire body weak and shake.
It can be the simplest or grandest thing imaginable to the human mind. For some, it's being lost. Others, it's heights. Rejection. Death itself. Drowning. Spiders. Ghosts. Zombies. Vampires. The things that go bump in the night and hide under your bed. Having your identity stolen. A loved one dying. Every different person has a different fear that clogs up their minds.
But there is one fear we always have no matter…
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Lets face the facts here, The Blair Witch Project was a groundbreaking film.
A horror classic.
A genre starter. And ultimately, the best of that genre.
Unusually for a horror, It shows you nothing. There is no blood, there is no violence, and it explains absolutely nothing. It's a brilliant watch. A proper psychological horror.
The actors never put a foot wrong, great performances. If we can call them performances, but of course this is real fear we are watching, and it is impossible not to let that fear get to you.
The shaky camera work has never been easy to watch, but just you try looking away.
I could tell you every single detail of this film, and you would still be scared shitless when you watch.
Genius film making.
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93/100
Fifth viewing, though the fourth was a decade ago. Tried and failed to work some thoughts on widespread hatred for Heather Donahue's performance into my Dissolve Movie of the Week piece, which is probably just as well as the comments would likely have degenerated into a Gamergate death spiral. But I really do believe a lot of the vitriol was fueled by misogyny. Guys like their scream queens less assertive, more docile.
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Believe it or not I have gone 20 miserable years on this measly planet without ever having seen The Blair Witch Project. I had been put off by the vitriol on both camps, those who love it and hate it. There was the initial hype then the backlash then the anti-backlash and then the backlash all over again. Luckily for me, I am good at divorcing myself from all the things that are not the actual film when watching.
So, I watched it tonight. Alone. In the dark. And it was fucking scary.
I got a strong Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe, in the sense that it felt guerrilla, DIY and 'real'. By real I mean that there was a small… -
I will never watch this film again.
Anyone who has ever been camping in the middle of nowhere will be scared shitless by this film.
That scene with the whispering and the tent and the pissing of pants.... awful, just awful.
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Watching the final 10 minutes as a gullible 12-year-old left me physically shaking.
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Never scary nor filled with dread, 'The Blair Witch Project' is dull, lifeless and a bad horror movie. I am unsure how it became such a classic.
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Fairly average, just not a lot in the movie that makes it appeal to me. The atmosphere and house scene at the end are phenomenal though.
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This movie is cool looking, but also disappointing in some ways. The ending is like when the movie gets good
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