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The Blair Witch Project, 1999

Starring: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael Williams

Directed by: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez

Written by: Daniel Myrick

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 81 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.3

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Profile of The Blair Witch Project

The mood of The Blair Witch Project is bleak, tense, and scary. The plot centers around deadly creatures, survival, and friends. It is an independent, horror, and mystery movie. Stylistically, The Blair Witch Project is a fake documentary and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious. The setting is Maryland. The Blair Witch Project happens in the 1990s. Visually, it involves digital video effects and is partly black and white. The movie is known for being groundbreaking, original, and controversial. The Blair Witch Project is especially suggested for teens. Note that it includes mild violent content and profanity.

Summary of The Blair Witch Project

Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, The Blair Witch Project wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use of its lack of budget and cast of unknowns. The film is composed entirely of reportedly "found" footage shot by three missing college students who made a journey to the woods of Western Maryland in 1994 with the purpose of making a documentary about a "witch" of local legend who is linked to murders and mysterious occurrences spanning 200 years. It begins with footage of the crew leaving their homes and testing their equipment, but before we know it, they are lost deep in the endless woods, with the voices of screaming children piercing the blackness from off in the distance. Things get worse from there. The experience is disorienting and frightening as well as the most rewarding horror film experience to come along in many years, as it wisely chooses to prey on our vulnerable imaginations rather than bombard us with graphic images.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	25 January 1999
Runtime:	81 min

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Heather Donahue

as Heather Donahue

Joshua Leonard

as Joshua 'Josh' Leonard

Michael Williams

as Michael 'Mike' Williams

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Heather Donahue turns the camera on herself for her confession in The Blair Witch Project (1999)

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Variety

An intensely imaginative piece of conceptual filmmaking that also delivers the goods as a dread-drenched horror movie. Full Review

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by: Todd McCarthy

The New York Times

A nifty example of how to make something out of nothing. Nothing but imagination, and a game plan so enterprising it should elevate its creators to pinup status at film schools everywhere. Full Review

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by: Elvis Mitchell

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Not filled with special effects, yet still one of the best horrorfilms

The problem with today's horror films is that you just can't put yourself into the situation because of all the special effects, supernatural villains and all that bullshit, and therefore you won't be scared - at all. It's were those films are... Read and rate it

19.October.2011
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by: ylva
ylva rated this movie10/10Must See

While there's not much of a plot and the villain was a big disappointment, this is one of maybe 3 movies that actually scared me. I suppose it was the groundbreaking combination of handheld camera, long silences, and exaggerated sound effects. A... Read and rate it

17.December.2010
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by: tapwater
tapwater rated this movie8/10Great

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