Blair Witch Project

[CEsgirl13]

I was just wondering if anyone else on the board was helpessly obsessed with The Blair Witch Project like me. yea I know it's pathetic but I love horror movies and when I first saw this I screamed my head off and kept the light on for 3 nights.This is a place to discuss the legend or if you believe it or not or about the movie, actors/actresses in both movies Blair witch and Book of Shadows Blair Witch 2. So hope you enjoy!

~Jamie

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[Jennpurr]

Well, I have to say that the first time I saw this movie, it did scare the shit out of me, but I didn't obsess over the after effects as much as I have with Darkness Falls.



OMG... I still panic when I turn the lights off in the house and walk to my room to go to bed. Sometimes I've been known to wake up and not want to open my eyes, afraid that I will see a demon woman in my room waiting to kill me.







I know... Pathetic, but hey... has anyone else seen Darkness Falls?



Jen

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Edited by: Jennpurr at: 12/29/03 7:58 pm

[xita]

I like this movie enough to have it on DVD. When I first saw it, i hadn't heard the hype so I went to see it and was surprised at how much it scared me. I enjoyed it for what it was an independent movie with lots of flaws but a whole lot more creative than a big hollywood production. Like anything really novel it was overplayed and done but it was still good.

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[sam darls]

Ooh Blair Witch..one of my fave movies ever!! I loved the 2nd one too, I preferred that one to the first one. Ooh, Jen..I love Darkness Falls..Emma is so lovely in it Love sammi xx

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[Ginner WTluv]

I loved this movie. It scared the crap out of me first time i watched it... and if i'm honest.... *looks around, before whispering* it still does... lol. I'm a horror movie freak myself and this movie, i think, is gonna be up there with the greats. I'm yet to see Darkness Falls though....



~ Jen

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[Scout]

It's funny, but I live about two miles from the Maryland park where they filmed a lot of the movie - Seneca Creek Park. I've even taken classes at the community college where the kids were supposed to be attending - Montgomery College.



I loved the detail they put into the movie and the website when it first came out. They even used props from a local Eastern Mountain Sports store here in Gaithersburg, near the school.



If you like the movie, something else that is good is the "Curse of the Blair Witch" documentary that they did on the SciFi channel. I love to watch it first, then watch the movie. Really increases the scare factor.

[redleia]

I enjoyed it for what it was an independent movie with lots of flaws but a whole lot more creative than a big hollywood production. Like anything really novel it was.



More and more,you have to turn to the indies for creativity.It is sad that Blair witch,one of the great Indy sensations got a lot of it's steam from the Sundance film Festival. Todays Sundance would not know a true Indy if it slapped them in the face.Blair Witch is an Indy.The Big studios latest art house product is not.It takes more than a small budget to be a true Indy.



Blair Witch was a labor of love for a small group of people who had a lot more creativity than they did money and no big studio support.That is an Indy.Fox Spotlight pictures newest offering is not.They may tackle subject normaly confined to Indies and have small(by studio standards) budgets but they are studio fare.



Red Leia

[sam7777]

Yep good flick and a remarkeable debut for the filmmakers that proved hard to follow up. It was a brilliant idea to market the movie using a web site, something that is common now but not so when the Blair Witch came out. The best movies have alot of back story worked out that is only hinted at. The creators are working on a new project:

Heart of Love

It's a comedy with Peter gallagher and Don Knotts so it should be quite a departure for them.

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[dekalog]

Even cooler than the movie is the website - www.blairwitch.com/ IMHO

[so why so sad]

Pretty cool site

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[sam7777]

It's 5 years since "The Blair Witch Project" first hit screens. I remember what a phenomenon it was. It's lasting legacy IMHO was the pioneering of using web sites to see a film:

Hollywood embracing Web

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On-line marketing isn't just for films like the The Blair Witch Project any more, analysts say.

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Though it's no longer the big deal it wonce was, it's still getting a mention in recent articles: The joy of gore

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Could global unease be fuelling our appetites for horror films? Eli Roth, writer/director of teen horror film Cabin Fever, thinks so. Marisol Grandòn met him



Horror is enjoying a renaissance. Since Blair Witch Project catapulted the genre back into the mainstream after years of chewy self-reflection, film-makers have been gleefully answering young people's calls for scary films to watch with friends.

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"The Blair Witch Project" is an example for me of how something that was a bug deal does not remain a big deal as the years go by. Blair Witch broke ground in web marketting but the film itself has not made a big impact. I liked it when it came out but it's not something I would see again and again.

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