The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror / Mockumentary
Duration: 86 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
Stars: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams
IMDb score:
6,5 (314.218)
Releasedate: 14 July 1999
The Blair Witch Project plot
"Everything you've heard is true."
Three film students travel to the Black Hills forest to make a documentary about the legendary Blair witch. After walking around for a while, Heather, Josh and Mike become lost, hypothermic and hunted. In the end, they are never heard from again. Until a year later their footage is found...
Actors and actresses
Heather Donahue
Joshua Leonard
Michael Williams
Short Fisherman
Interviewee (uncredited)
Waitress
Fisherman With Glasses (uncredited)
Mary Brown
Man in Yellow Hat (uncredited)
Interviewee with Child (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
Black Math
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- 5430 messages
- 1753 votes
My previous boss didn't like my colleagues at the time and I going to the opera now and then, and thought we should spend our free time watching horror movies. Which one was his own favourite? So that turned out to be this movie.
Now finally seen and luckily the playing time is quite short, because I don't like this at all. Lost footage (and apparently the first in that genre), so the image quality is downright bad, but that's forgivable if there was at least some tension. I only see some students going crazy because of some bricks and at the end you don't even see what happens to them. Highly unsatisfactory.
The only positive thing I can say is that it comes across as realistic, especially in terms of acting for which a half extra on top of the minimum. But most of all it is realistically boring. 1*.
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3576 votes
Apart from the film itself, The Blair Witch Project is a fantastic experiment in itself. The film was one of the first films to use the internet as a means of promotion and that worked like a charm. They also did everything they could around the promotion to make it feel genuine, so for a long time there were sounds that this could all be real. The movie was a phenomenon, everyone in high school in the late 90s was talking about it. Something that you don't get done so easily these days, that people en masse believe that something like this is real. In addition, the way in which the filmmakers have worked is also unique; no professional crew, the actors filmed everything themselves and a large part of the film - in terms of dialogue anyway - is improvised. A daring experiment that turned out very positively on all levels.
But with everything surrounding it, The Blair Witch Project also remains solid as a film. The film is proof that the maximum effect can be achieved with minimal means. Where many found footage films feel somehow directed, The Blair Witch Project feels genuine, both in camera work and editing. Elements such as the lack of sound from the 16mm camera, ie sound from the handycam, give scenes that little bit extra. The three actors are all believable and the film actually shows nothing at all, but is extremely effective and regularly genuinely terrifying. It is pitch dark in the tent and we hear children in the distance; genius in its simplicity. The Blair Witch Project is not a film to watch with half an eye or turn on in the background, you have to create the right setting for it. But in a dark, quiet room, this film still comes into its own, almost twenty years later. Very handsome.
4.5 stars.
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james_cameron
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- 7060 messages
- 9825 votes
Revised after twenty years. The film has actually lost none of its power, despite the fact that an entire genre has emerged from it since then. However, the found footage film has never been as effective as here. The increasingly increasing panic of the main characters is especially cleverly realized. Visually, the film is also convincingly put together, despite a miniscule budget, with an effective and almost claustrophobic use of sparse locations. And the soundtrack completes the whole in style. Those nighttime scenes in the tent, with all kinds of ominous sounds deep in the woods... brrrrr. It doesn't get much scarier than this, in my opinion.
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