All I can say is that is was a tremendous load of hooey. Which I can usually take in stride when watching a “horror” flick. I’m personally a huge fan of “An American Werewolf in London” which felt more like a prono without sex than a legitemate film, and even the NZ thriller, “Black Sheep” was entertaining.
But if for no other reason (and there are plenty) than because it was billed as a super duper scary & creepy bit of celluloid and failed to deliver, I dub this movie: Dreck. Ya, I know it was supposed to be “actual footage” and therefore it was scary, but that assertion alone wasn’t enough to convince even me that it was just a bad movie with a very interesting premise. The only truly scary thing about it was that I’m sure there was a fair number of viewers who actually believed it was for reals. But it just sucked and I want that 90 minutes of my life back.
ETA: “The Blair Witch Prject” is essentially tthe same movie, I’m told, as “The Blair Witch Project”, just with less “o”
I guess what I’m really bummed about is that I see this movie EVERYWHERE for sale or rent, and yet I can’t find “My Life As A Dog” or “Buckaroo Banzai” anywhere.
It’s Hallowe’en. In a week, you’ll be seeing “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” and “Elf” everywhere. And FWIW, I found both titles you’re looking for on Amazon.
Hell, as far as I could tell it was like pretty much any given weekend for me. A bunch of clueless people lost in the woods and bitching at each other.
Who knew I coulda been rich if I had been filming my weekend romps…
I liked the very last scene, but that was it. That did make me gasp in shock.
The rest of it? Meh.
I know the dialogue was improvised. I also know that when real people speak, they say a lot of things that don’t sound like dialogue does - repeated phrases, pauses for no apparent reason, ums and ahs and other filler words, etc. That being said, a talented improv actor can make their improv’d dialogue sound “real” enough for us to believe in it. These guys? Not really. Among other problems, I’m pretty sure the only swear word used was “fuck”, and it was used a whoooole lot.
The problem with the map - I suspect this was supposed to be explained away by the witch starting to get to them or whatever. Sorry, didn’t buy it. I was just left mad at the character involved.
Hated the now-much-parodied shot with her talking to the camera and lighting up her snotty nose.
I know the budget was small. But there was a scene where they were lost, there was a visible airplane flying in the sky, and the characters/actors don’t even notice. They could have used it to at least try to determine an idea of which direction to head. Maybe it was left in to represent their cluelessness, but it left me distracted, bothered by them, or peeved at the editor for leaving it in.
I was at least interested in it, if irritated at times, but my husband was actively annoyed by them and how utterly incompetent they were at dealing with being in the outdoors. I thought his head was going to explode when the map’s disappearance was explained.
Oh I never said I wanted to buy those movies (but I would if I thought about them while surfing the web some drunken night), just that I never see them as conveniently available as The Prject–which is everywhere even at Easter. Gah, it makes me mad just thinking about what a horrid waste of time it was. Not even any quotable lines. Well, unless your in the woods sometime with someone in the know I guess you could start frantically screaming “JOSH!”
It was an interesting concept, and I can see how the first people that watched it would have been scared out of their wits. But once you know the gimmick (and let’s face it, by the time this hit wide release most everyone did) it’s just a bunch of people pretending to be lost.
I thought it was over-rated, but I saw it very early in its run, in the theater, and I was totally creeped out. I knew it wasn’t really real footage, but other than that I had no expectations. so it really did work.
I bought the DVD when it came out and I’m not sure I’ve ever watched it since.
I guess I must be the only one round these parts, but I liked Blair Witch. I thought the concept was fresh, and quite well executed. I even liked the sequel, particularly the way it was the only sequel I can remember that spoke about the original movie, as if it were a movie, not real life!
Bah…one of the Blob movie seqeuls, with a Bill Cosby? cameo, had Bill watching a scene in the original Blob movie before the son of Blob got em. I think.
