Review of The Blair Witch Project
Year: 1999 Reviewer: Chris Docker
Scary little low budget film, very well made, about a group of people who go out into the woods and get lost and very scared. Documentary style and brilliant acting carry it through as the various "happenings" take them on the ever-descending spiral towards the sophisticatedly mind-crunching ending. Curiously, those who like mainstream horror should maybe forget it. The spin offs are becoming apocryphal. There is already a big-budget American comedy take-off ready for release.
Scariest bit for me was the fact that by the time I found the cinema (whilst abroad in the USA) I was totally lost. Somewhere in the outback where I paid two dollars for a seat and the usher adjusted the curtains at the side of the screen by hand. When I came out (around midnight, with a full moon shining between the trees) I realised that the difference between being lost and lost-and-scared is refusing to give in to sheer panic (ho, ho, thought he, as he drove through a red light) . . .
Rating: Unrated
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