THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Duration: 81 minutes
Plot: three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Analysis: Damn! Another horror movie, you are going to say. Chill your horses, guys. Because this is not just another horror movie. This is THE horror movie. A film that costed less than 60.000$, gained more that 200.000.000$ (!) and actually created a whole new category regarding the first person shooting movies, with countless films following its path during the next years.
The script is rediculously simple -some people may even consider it childish. Neverthelss, the results are extraordinary, since Blair Witch Project succeeds in giving its viewers the creeps. Direction may be one dimensional but at the same time highly sophisticated, should we take as granted the one and only available camera which was used to shoot the whole movie! The scenaries are pure perfection. Almost twenty years have passed since i last saw this movie and i still cannot forget the night scenes in that crippy, haunted forest. Last but not least, the performances of the three young actors are quite persuasive, making you share their despair and horror (rumor has it that the three actors were abandoned in the forest by the executives of the studio with one strict order: make a god damn scary horror movie. And they did).
All in all, if you are looking for a movie which was succesful not through its expensive budget, its fancy CGI effects and its famous actors but thanks to its ingenuity, creativity and originality, then Blair Witch Project is the finest example.
Things to notice:
The script is rediculously simple -some people may even consider it childish. Neverthelss, the results are extraordinary, since Blair Witch Project succeeds in giving its viewers the creeps. Direction may be one dimensional but at the same time highly sophisticated, should we take as granted the one and only available camera which was used to shoot the whole movie! The scenaries are pure perfection. Almost twenty years have passed since i last saw this movie and i still cannot forget the night scenes in that crippy, haunted forest. Last but not least, the performances of the three young actors are quite persuasive, making you share their despair and horror (rumor has it that the three actors were abandoned in the forest by the executives of the studio with one strict order: make a god damn scary horror movie. And they did).
All in all, if you are looking for a movie which was succesful not through its expensive budget, its fancy CGI effects and its famous actors but thanks to its ingenuity, creativity and originality, then Blair Witch Project is the finest example.
Things to notice:
- the simplicity yet ingenuity of the script,
- the bloodcurdling forrest's scenaries and
- the eerie atmosphere.
Oscar awards (2000): -
Should be watched tonight if: you are curious to find out what was the genuine idea that inspired hundreds of horror movies during the last fifteen years.
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