Sorry amateurish flick introduced not only a sequel, but spawned other poorly done films- becoming a genre of its own.

For the horror to filmgoers who have had to endure its brethren and sequel-
a big fat 0

This movie had a lot of potential and showcased that indy films can be successful. Unfortunately that potential was wasted and it was a huge dissapointment.
I have wanted to remake this idea with some friends, but I just don't have the time. I was bored throughout most of the film and only one or two of the 'scares' actually made me jump and that was because my girlfriend screamed. A big dissapointment.
3/10

Wow, Im really surprised at how many of us seemingly hated this film. Ive been a horror/thriller fan all of my life, and I when I saw this film in the threatres it truly sent cills down my spine, as only a handful of others have ever done. Personally I thought it was great, a very original idea (the way it was done mostly, not the idea of a haunted forest), and it held my interest all the way thru. Eh, guess Im in the minority on this one, go figure.

I'm not knocking you because you don't buy into the movie...I actually said I understand why some people don't like this movie, you get it and you hate it...that's cool with me, you're not alone...I'm actually made that remark because you seem to have insinuated that people who do like this movie, like it because they are "pretentious".

That and your reviews and general comments are bit boring and spammy.

No I said that people who tell you you must not 'get it' if you don't like it are pretentious. I'd never call someone pretentious just for liking something, that would be silly.

Yeah thanks for the slur there, your class just continues to shine through there. I think you mis-read the contract, these threads are for being a movie critic not a person critic.

Let me try and make an exciting non-spammy post so I don't get the snob-police on my trail.

I saw the Blair Witch on the halloween it came out in a HUGE packed cinema hall with thousands of people around me, so it's always harder to get scared when you're amongst a small army. They did turn the AC up though for the chill factor which is always a nice touch.

The scene where they find the teeth wrapped in twigs didn't scare me because all I saw was something bloody wrapped in twigs, I actually thought it was a little dead animal or something, when someone said later 'it was his teeth man!' I was surprised.

When it finished and we all went for the train there was a real mix of reactions discussed. Some of us thought it was a boring movie where nothing much happened, at all. Some found parts scary but felt it was too loose and lacking in strong plot points. One guy thought it was of some sort of importance to the human race as a species, like he'd just seen the face of God or something. He would be the 'you just don't GET it!' guy.

So the crowded cinema and confused shock moment obviously didn't help it impress me, but I can honestly say if it had been a great horror movie like the Changeling or something it wouldn't have mattered, where as the Blair Witch I feel I could have been alone in a dark room and still be going 'for crying out loud just follow the river out!'

Blair Witch 2 was fffaarrrr from a great movie but it was genuinely surreal and had a 'oh ####!' twist atleast, so I'd have to actually rate it over the original, as rare as that might be.

Disagree, scream heresy if you will, just please don't insult my posts because I didn't like your fave movie.

Peace to you all.

You know, I kind of liked your latest post that bashed the film but your insulting me in this post is just pointless...and you're no movie critic on this thread, at least up until your last comment...this post quoted above is bordering on cowardly trolling. There are plenty of other reasons to take a crack at me other than my percieved class. You don't know me beyond the few words you've followed here, so don't pretend to over your keyboard.

By the way, the Changling is a better horror film in my opinion. I don't know man, maybe it's because I went camping the weekend after, but this film worked for me. The sequel is terrible.

Here is a 'true' review, I hope it is satisfactory.

To me the Blair Witch Project is a lot of smoke and noise with little real content. It's an attempt at a real movie that trys to use an amateur film as its style but actually remains as just an amateur film that wants to be a movie. I found the characters grating on my nerves rather than feeling sorry for them and I kept thinking how unlucky it was that three people got in to this situation and not one of them happened to have any leadership skills or organizational ability.

Usually in a movie of this kind the victims will fall in to societal roles as they try and survive the situation. There will be an aggressive male and a female survivor type who usually tries to latch on him. There's the person who tries to keep the level head and think their way out, and then there is the person who loses it completely and gets everyone killed. In the Blair Witch all three of the characters are the latter.

As far as scares go it just didn't do much for me. I'm actually not much of a fan of the visceral hack and slash horror, suspense and good score are infinately more terrifying. Using the Changeling again as an example the scene where they are talking in the hall and they look up the dark staircase and there is the old victorian wheelchair is truly one of the scariest scenes I've ever experienced in a movie. It's just a wheelchair rolling down some stairs to jagged music but it makes me leap higher than a dozen rustles outside a tent or stick men dangling on trees.

I'm also one of those viewers who wants the pay-off at the end of a horror movie. I always disliked the nightmare movies because they'd have the big death scene then Freddy would always be back before the movie even ended. It was like cinematic climax then turning the light on and she has a mustache. However, in comparison to TBWP and it's non-ending they're cigarette moments.

I give TBWP 1 out of 10, the same as your Jaws the Revenge example. Jaws the revenge atleast has guilty pleasures like Michael Caine slumming and Mario Van Peebles standing wwaayyy out to the prow of the ship on a piece of timber and having the audacity to look surprised when he gets eaten. In fact couple that with the nice switch in tempo (shark attacking right away, throwing off the usual Jaws delayed kill) and I'd give Jaws the revenge a healthy cheesy 6 out of 10 if I was asked.

But anyway, 1/10 for the Blair Witch, I was not bewitched.

AH, Blair Witch. The movie on it's own actually sucks, IMO. Watching it on a TV set makes it suck worse. Thankfully I was able to see it in the theatre durign all the hype.

THAT is the key here. The movie is awful, but...the "blurring" of what was true and what was fiction before the movie came out was a brilliant move. I swear it was like a psychology experiment when my wife and I went to see it. There was an adult man sobbing a few seats away from me. Sobbing. It freaked him out THAT badly and, as I found out later, it was mainly due to the before-movie hype. People screamed, were disoriented, were scared before even watching it and that made it successful.

So again, horrible movie but brilliant tactics in psychological warfare so I have to rate it: 7/10

Yep, nobody can deny the movie sucks.

But how you say the idea is brillant. I remember I know the true, and i scary my friends a possible victim girlfriends about all the true of the movie before star waching in the video tape. All get very scary. I really enjoy and knowing the true, I remember I was scary in some point, specially because was in the night what we saw the movie and in a place with wood outside.

8 of 10

I clapped when it ended. Actually, the whole audience gave it a standing ovation.

We were all glad it ended.

0/10. I'd give it a negative number, but I found out months ago the system just doesn't work that way. ...but it should probably get one since it's all plagarism. I'd describe The Last Broadcast, but someone already enlightened y'all.

Uh, again, I can, as I actually enjoyed this film. Found it to be very original from anything I had been exposed to before, and the amateurish feel only made me feel even more than I was Member #4, dreading the sunset on each and every day because of what might be lurking that night. True I saw the Sci Fi channels Curse Of The Blair Witch just before this, but I wouldnt consider that being caught in any hype. I can truly say that this was one of the top most eerie and nerve wracking horror movies I have ever seen in the threatres, and Ive been a fan of the genre all of my life.

Eh, I loved it, most of us hated, ce' la vie.

I'd give it a 7 only cause I like to go the movies and it would take alot for a movie to to be carp. The sequel was hard to sit through.

Old thread, but interesting reading nonetheless. I liked the concept of the movie and thought it was very innovative for its time. I went to the theatre after having watched the Sci Fi channel special and even knowing that the movie wasn't a "real" event, I greatly enjoyed the suspension of disbelief. The end was somewhat perplexing, but very disturbing all the same. The sequel was so bad that I couldn't sit through the whole DVD. It was awful. In case voting is still allowed for this film, I give it an 8 out of 10. I haven't watched it in years, so maybe I will do so again soon. (BTW, I didn't know about the Last Broadcast - guess I'll have to put that one in my Netflix queue as well.)