Voguevixen,
I missed it, but it sounds hilarious!
BTW…I LIKED BW
Contestant #3
What kind of pile of crap is that? Oh yeah, EVERYONE takes a gun with them camping! Not. It might interest you to know that there are a lot of people who DO NOT APPROVE OF GUNS. Add to that the large number of people who just plain don’t own guns, and the gun owners who don’t tote their guns eveywhere they go… I’d say probably the VAST MAJORITY of people on a camping trip do not take guns with them, and aren’t “stupid” because of it.
When we saw it, everyone was sort of in shock leaving the theater… there was a sort of “oh my god!” feel to it.
The questions about the guy vs the witch etc are all answered on the website (www.blairwitch.com) and in “The Curse of the Blair Witch” on Sci-Fi channel. Basically, the guy heard a woman’s voice in his head, presumably the witch, and she made him do it.
>^,^<
“Cluemobile? You’ve got a pickup…”
OpalCat’s site: http://fathom.org/opalcat
The Teeming Millions Homepage: fathom.org/teemingmillions
DIF asks:
> I’ve heard figures from $25000 to $60000
> for what went into the film, and all I can
> wonder is, where did the money go? They
> wore their street clothes,& used Josh’s
> car; and aside from a couple of video
> cams, a 16 mm film camera, and a few
> hundred bucks in camping equipment, where
> was it?
The absolute minimum for a feature film shoot, even if everyone works for free and there are no costume or location costs, is about $25,000. You have to rent cameras, sound equipment, and perhaps lighting equipment. You have to buy and develop the film. You have to pay for editing time (i.e., you have to pay for the time you spend in a studio using a machine to edit the film, even if you do it yourself) and time for redubbing some of the dialogue. The absolute minimum if you want to get the film cleaned up enough (and prints and videos made to show investors and festivals) to get it into a film festival (assuming that you want your viewers to be impressed by it as a film, not as a work in progress) is about $50,000.
Anybody who says they’ve done it for less is lying or not counting things that they were given for free. Richard Rodriguez claims that he made El Mariachi for $7,000, but he was given cameras. sound equipment, and film and he was given editing time. It cost the studio who decided to distribute the film about $100,000 to clean up the sound track after they bought the film.
Okay, I promise not to rag on this piece of crap movie anymore 
, this is only the results of my scare test, well, it wasn’t exactly a test, but you know. . .
Me, the kiddies, and a guy I date took my tents and headed for the mountains this weekend (got home a few hours ago - I am exhausted). We hiked deep into the forest and set up camp. I can say, with all honesty, that I have been more freaked out by telling the “Shhhhhh Paaaaaw” story around the campfire than I was talking about the BWP while laying in our dark tents. Not even a little spooky, even when we heard noises in the trees (I think it was a moose we saw later the next day.)
We did get a marshmallow eating skunk in the screened front part of my cabin tent during the night, but that is another story.
I have to agree with Opal. Unless you are camping in the wilderness of Alaska with the grizzlies (I have and my friend did have his gun. It really isn’t smart to be unarmed in the Alaskan wilderness.), the dangers of an accidental shooting of another human or harmless animal aren’t worth it.
>^,^<
KITTEN
Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
I laughed during most of the movie, especially when the guy said that he tossed the map.
It wasn’t really scary, especially going into the movie knowing it was fake. Plus, I never could understand their compulsion to tape everything and never having the batteries run low. They hadn’t prepared to be in the woods that many days, so why would they bring only enough food to last that time but have enough battery power for that amount of time? The way the girl was going on about taping every detail made it seem as if she had an infinite power supply.
The analysis of “The Real World goes camping” summarizes precisely the bad elements of BWP. The scene in which Josh is melodramatically pouting and Heather and Mike are shouting encouragement and criticism at him (while stage-whispering to each other) jarred me as precisely similar to “The Real World” (which I have watched maybe twice).
But that’s my principal criticism.
The best way to see this film is by:
(1) understanding that it’s a herky-jerky, simple, first-person student film. Don’t expect a Hollywood production. I was very impressed by student films when I was in college, because they used ideas and techniques that were interesting instead of flashy.
(2) Read the website to get the mythical background; it’s more fun that way. I saw BWP with a friend who had read none of the online mythology. He couldn’t buy into the witch story, and was convinced the film was telling the story of documentary filmmakers murdered by psycho rednecks. He didn’t find that creepy, just dumb.
The filmmakers knew that the narrative detail would be very sparse. The online marketing and mythology helps the viewer fill in the backstory gaps, and helps you ignore the rhetorical questions like “why doesn’t Heather run out of tape or batteries?”.
I measured this films “scariness” in an objective way: Two weeks after viewing, when I describe a scene to someone on the phone (not a spoiler, mostly talking about camera technique), the hair on my arms and neck stands up. That’s effective creepiness.