Zeeboe
06-24-2012, 07:04 PM
What are your memories, if any?
For the unaware - The story takes place in the fall of 1994. Three young twenty-something student filmmakers go to the backwoods of Burkittsville, Maryland to shoot a documentary about a local urban legend called "The Blair Witch".
The film presents itself not like any ordinary film. It's exactly like watching somebody's home movies, but it's a lot scarier because these college students discover that the Blair Witch is real, and the whole film pretty much shows them being stalked and harassed by this witch. It's more of a psychology horror film because for the most part, during the scary scenes, it takes place late at night, and you only hear the witch out in the woods doing her thing, and that's what makes it scary.
I first saw this movie back in the summer of 1999 at age sixteen, and it scared the heck out of me. I hadn't seen too many horror films at that time, so this film was pretty damn scary to me back then. I honestly was not aware if it was real or not too. The producers of this movie tried to play it off like this was in fact a true story and these college kids you see in the movie were not actors, but real people. What the producers did was set up a realistic website that treated the film as if it was some big kinda news event that you'd see on the CNN website. Also, the IMDb had listed the three people in this film as "missing", and then there were several documentaries that came on TV that made it seem like the Blair Witch was in fact a real legend. I later discovered that it was in fact all staged. Regardless though, at the time I saw it, I was terrified, and The Blair Witch Project soon become one of my favorite horror films.
Today, as of 2012, it doesn't scare me at all now because I've seen so many horror films since then, and I watched the Blair Witch Project several times through out my teen years and early twenties and it's sadly become a bit stale for me as a result. It'll probably take a really long time before it becomes fresh to me again. In a way, I can understand why some people hated/hate this film since it's mostly just three people yelling at each other in the woods, and then some people just aren't into just hearing a killer, but need to actually see it.
But I'll never forget how much it scared me in 1999. Like I said, it was one of the first horror films I watched, and it'll always be special to me as a result. I place it on the list of "high school films" because it was one of those movies I watched so often as a teenager, and talked about with my friends that when I watch it today, I can't help but become nostalgic and remember 1999. I remember my friend, my cousin, and myself all went out to the backwoods of Texas late one night, and shot our own "Blair Witch Project" film and it was a lot of fun. I need to find that tape, and put it on YouTube.
For first-time viewers: I think if you enjoy films like Paranormal Activity, you'll enjoy this one. It was the first mainstream "found footage' film. I think some teenagers today and horror-movie newbies would also still find it scary.
For the unaware - The story takes place in the fall of 1994. Three young twenty-something student filmmakers go to the backwoods of Burkittsville, Maryland to shoot a documentary about a local urban legend called "The Blair Witch".
The film presents itself not like any ordinary film. It's exactly like watching somebody's home movies, but it's a lot scarier because these college students discover that the Blair Witch is real, and the whole film pretty much shows them being stalked and harassed by this witch. It's more of a psychology horror film because for the most part, during the scary scenes, it takes place late at night, and you only hear the witch out in the woods doing her thing, and that's what makes it scary.
I first saw this movie back in the summer of 1999 at age sixteen, and it scared the heck out of me. I hadn't seen too many horror films at that time, so this film was pretty damn scary to me back then. I honestly was not aware if it was real or not too. The producers of this movie tried to play it off like this was in fact a true story and these college kids you see in the movie were not actors, but real people. What the producers did was set up a realistic website that treated the film as if it was some big kinda news event that you'd see on the CNN website. Also, the IMDb had listed the three people in this film as "missing", and then there were several documentaries that came on TV that made it seem like the Blair Witch was in fact a real legend. I later discovered that it was in fact all staged. Regardless though, at the time I saw it, I was terrified, and The Blair Witch Project soon become one of my favorite horror films.
Today, as of 2012, it doesn't scare me at all now because I've seen so many horror films since then, and I watched the Blair Witch Project several times through out my teen years and early twenties and it's sadly become a bit stale for me as a result. It'll probably take a really long time before it becomes fresh to me again. In a way, I can understand why some people hated/hate this film since it's mostly just three people yelling at each other in the woods, and then some people just aren't into just hearing a killer, but need to actually see it.
But I'll never forget how much it scared me in 1999. Like I said, it was one of the first horror films I watched, and it'll always be special to me as a result. I place it on the list of "high school films" because it was one of those movies I watched so often as a teenager, and talked about with my friends that when I watch it today, I can't help but become nostalgic and remember 1999. I remember my friend, my cousin, and myself all went out to the backwoods of Texas late one night, and shot our own "Blair Witch Project" film and it was a lot of fun. I need to find that tape, and put it on YouTube.
For first-time viewers: I think if you enjoy films like Paranormal Activity, you'll enjoy this one. It was the first mainstream "found footage' film. I think some teenagers today and horror-movie newbies would also still find it scary.