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Review of The Blair Witch Project
Like many, at the time of watching the movie first time, I kept on wondering if it's a film or a documentary. No background music, no histrionics and no drama. Only an array of amateur footage, pieced together to give the feel of a movie. Three youngsters Heather, Mike and Josh went to Burkittsville, Maryland for making a documentary on the storied 'Blair Witch'. After a year their hand-held video cameras were the only things to be found.
Reviewing a movie like 'The Blair Witch Project' is quite difficult. At least I find it so. One reason is, the idea and approach behind this film are so unique that our known tool-kits to judge a movie are hard to apply. I can't make a comment on how the actors performed, as apart from the three leads, all are interviewees and the three main actors made cameo appearances.
So let's face it, it's the tentativeness of director Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez (both were underrated filmmakers), which resulted in such a bizarre and yet scary-to-the-core film. Wholehearted thanks to the actors as well, as not even for a second, their expressions part away from realism. If I was lost in the wood instead of them, I would behaved in the same way. I would have yelled 'it's not the same log...it's not the same log' only to console my feared psyche and after a pause 'it's the same log', Ohhh!!! Spine thrilling.
Sometimes, the concepts with which we are familiar, need to be redefined. Such a redefinition came from 'The Blair Witch Project' and the concept was 'Horror Movies'.
Great film! Excellent screenplay, direction and climax.
Like many, at the time of watching the movie first time, I kept on wondering if it's a film or a documentary. No background music, no histrionics and no drama. Only an array of amateur footage, pieced together to give the feel of a movie. Three youngsters Heather, Mike and Josh went to Burkittsville, Maryland for making a documentary on the storied 'Blair Witch'. After a year their hand-held video cameras were the only things to be found.
Reviewing a movie like 'The Blair Witch Project' is quite difficult. At least I find it so. One reason is, the idea and approach behind this film are so unique that our known tool-kits to judge a movie are hard to apply. I can't make a comment on how the actors performed, as apart from the three leads, all are interviewees and the three main actors made cameo appearances.
So let's face it, it's the tentativeness of director Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez (both were underrated filmmakers), which resulted in such a bizarre and yet scary-to-the-core film. Wholehearted thanks to the actors as well, as not even for a second, their expressions part away from realism. If I was lost in the wood instead of them, I would behaved in the same way. I would have yelled 'it's not the same log...it's not the same log' only to console my feared psyche and after a pause 'it's the same log', Ohhh!!! Spine thrilling.
Sometimes, the concepts with which we are familiar, need to be redefined. Such a redefinition came from 'The Blair Witch Project' and the concept was 'Horror Movies'.
Great film! Excellent screenplay, direction and climax.