Review of The Blair Witch Project (1999) by Torion O — 01 Nov 2015
How it was made is neat in and of itself, though not very effective. I'm theorizing the reason why people find it so scary is that the girl's breathing and screaming being audible and so close to the camera almost the entire time is making them feel that they should be scared.
Well, I found it obnoxious. The shakiness and bad quality of the movie may only slightly enhance the edginess of the woods these children are wandering in, but even then it doesn't feel scary at all.
Nothing is inherently threatening other than the kids' incredible stupidity that eventually got them lost. The ending fell so flat and hard that it went through the floor. Leaving things up to ambiguity is a clever thing to do in horror movies, because I do believe less is more, but there needs to be something more instead of little more than nothing.
This review of The Blair Witch Project (1999) was written by Torion O on 01 Nov 2015.
The Blair Witch Project has generally received positive reviews.
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