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.

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.

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.

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.

This movie had much influence on the modern horror movie of the 21th century.
But its not that great.
66/100

303 The Blair Witch Project. Pretty Good. I dig it now, but I imagine I would have hated it in '99. #366Days #366Movies #DLMChallenge

really good high school film project

I can't believe that someone made a documentary about my time in film school. But in all honesty, I love found footage horror films

Thoughts:
- what is up with white people and trying to disturb ghosts and spirits like omg just leave them alone

The 2017 Cult Movie Challenge | Ranked

Week 29 - Found Footage Week

I have a disinterest in found footage films, which is evident in that I hadn't seen the film that caused the trend in them. However, the found footage style in The Blair Witch Project worked more than I thought it would. This is helped by them never catching the witch on camera. However there are some instances of when they were still filming that was just unbelievable.

The initial buildup of the background story with the interviews of the townspeople was well done. However, I can't say I ever found it very frightening when dark grainy panic began. Maybe if I had seen it when it came out, and had got into the whole viral marketing aspect of it, I probably would found it more scary. Also the characters are very annoying without an interesting dynamic between them, which didn't make me particularly interested in their fates.

The quintessential masterpiece of the found-footage genre. Just wish it didn't have so many other movies clinging to its coattails these days.

Classic.

Love it or hate it, the Blair witch projected presented a different form of horror with a style that did not rely on excessive violence. Instead it relied on realism, suspense and characterization. The movie is well packaged, and stylized well, and has a good and original film to that will leave many horror fans pleased with plenty of others disappointed.

Scariest movie of all time.