And that's half the scare right there, that this shit is real. It wasn't the first to do it but it made found footage a trend and no one in the coming years pulled one on the masses like Blair Witch did. This was when everyone was still on dial up and I swear to you they fooled everyone. I was 11 when this movie came out and it was nothing short of a phenomenon.
Well let me tell you what this movie was like when it came out. Sure it's scary but found footage is so over done. I think it's because people watch it now, or after the invention of RT, and think what's so special about this. There's quite a rift between the critics score and the audience score on rotten tomatoes for this one. It was really a once a generation type thing. I know that was a wall of text but I really don't think people who watch it today appreciate the hype and fear that movie created when it came out. I remember staying up really late and sneak watching it in my room one night under a blanket and being so scared i slept with the lights on for weeks. I remember my brother actually ended up getting it on what I'm pretty sure was a bad pirate copy, which in shittier vhs quality made it feel even more real somehow. I remember when I seen it I think I was 10 years old, the movie had been out a few months and even at 10 I'd heard all about it, even on the news. Had they shown the monster you couldn't rationalise it away but because it's always just off screen it never gives you anything to explain away. The fact you never see the witch is in my opinion the best part because it made it feel more real. It was the best part, the interviews near the start seed so many strange and unsettling stories related to the witch, including the little girl that the one local says went missing for 3 days and when she was found talked about a woman "who's feet didn't touch the ground" all made it feel so genuine and unnerving. A heaviness resting on your soul as you end the movie. It doesn't really answer anything and it leaves you with this vague feeling of unanswered questions. I can see why the ending is possibly the worst part of the movie, but it fits everything else. Not only is it like watching them being hunted by a monster, but its the very real terror of getting lost out in the middle of the woods. Then these college kids get wrapped up in it and you see their descent into madness. When you know those legends, and let your imagination run wild, it creates a tense scenario that feels rather vague and mysterious. Or at least pay close attention to when they tell you the legends they've created, in the movie. It helps that I live out in woods that look just like the ones used in the movie, but you have to. Yeah, it doesn't have any jump scares really or anything like that, but for it to be scary, you have to like. I completely disagree (IMO) that it isn't scary. The filmmaker's decision to leave the actors to completely ad lib everything was terrible. I actually liked Blair Witch 2 more, and that movie is terrible, so that really says something. Sure, the final shot of the guy standing in the corner was a great way to end the film, but everything leading up to it was so contrived and shitty as to make the moment completely devoid of chills for me. Every time I remember that angry guy yelling about kicking the map into the river, I think of Job in Arrested Development, trying to defiantly throw an envelope into the ocean. To this day, the line, "I kicked the map into the river!" is my shining example of the worst conceived plot point. I personally was laughing my ass off at the film (not literally, butt still attached). My sister was so frightened by the film that she asked me to turn it off and if we could finish it the next day when the sun was up. It had been so ridiculously hyped up as the scariest thing anyone had ever seen, they even had Scooby Doo commercials on Cartoon Network that played off it, with a close-up of Shaggy with a flashlight in his face going, "I'm soooo hungry!" it was incredible the amount of attention the film was getting.Īnd I think that is probably part of the reason i hated it so much. We rented it to watch together one night. I was living with my sister's family when this movie came out.
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