You wanna see something really scary?
Last night, in a darkened corner of the earth I saw THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. If you want to be scared, I mean genuinely unnerved. Don’t read another thing on this film. Don’t find out how it was made, don’t seek out any information besides what is on the screen.
Take this next paragraph as gospel, tell it to all of your friends. Then, whenever the film comes out... feel your pulse rise, your eyes dart around and let the creepies hit you. Plan a camp out the next night. Get your little tent, go out into the woods, and sleep tight.
“Four years ago three prospective filmmaker types set out to make a documentary. Their subject? The Blair Witch.... A legend of some sort out on the east coast. I heard it had something to do with children disappearing in the woods or some dudes or something. Anyway, the three filmmakers decided it would make a good documentary. They went to the town outside the forest where it ‘happened’. They interviewed the local townfolks. They scoffed at them. Then set out into the forest to ‘find the Blair Witch’ and make fun of it all. The three filmmakers are missing to this day, nobody knows what happened to them, but a year later their cameras were found. This is the film made completely from ‘found footage’ that documents what happened. This is for real”
That is how to see the movie. Memorize that paragraph, tell your friends that paragraph. You see that is what the film is. And as such... I found it to be an incredibly disturbing horror faction. It’s a true story told by the people that lived it.
Unlike all these ‘teenage’ horror films of late this movie is about real paranoia, real horror and it is about real things that go bump in the night.
Remember the ‘video’ scene in HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER? Remember that honesty? That terror? Well, a bit of that is here. This film is completely disarming.
My father has seen the movie 3 times now, and if you were to offer him $20 to sleep outside in the backyard... he wouldn’t do it. This isn’t a gore film, this isn’t a ‘jump’ film. This is a real film.
Do not read the talk backs below, not even their headlines... not until you have seen this movie for yourself. After it’s release I will write another review that will go into everything in much further detail, but for now... Hold your breath and await this film with fear.
I have been a horror fan my entire life, Tom Joad has been a horror fan forever as has my father. This is something seemingly new.
Imagine, if you will, if Bruce Campbell and his girlfriend took a pair of video cameras to a cabin out in the woods... and The Evil Dead happened. Imagine if the demons stayed in the shadows, if you heard something, if you never found out what really happened. BUT YOU KNEW IT HAPPENED.
I love this film. It’s the type of film you want to show people yourself, as if it were your own proud walking baby. Have fun with this, let your pulse race and your mind freak. And most of all.... be afraid because this isn’t a very safe film...
