THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT FULL MOVIE MOVIE
Or maybe you’ve already surmised that the movie is a devilishly clever scam. Stop reading now if you don’t want to know the tricks that make The Blair Witch Project such a terror treat. Tension mounts as Heather, Joshua and Michael lose their psychological bearings, rage at each other and tempt fate in a deserted cabin that fully defines Heather’s fear when she says, “I’m scared to close my eyes and I’m scared to open them.” No fair to reveal more or to reflect on the ambiguous ending, which will have you arguing for days. The cameras, which can’t capture the thing or things that go bump in the night, produce increasingly shaky images that reflect the nerves of the crew. At daylight, they discover bundles of sticks and a burial ground.
In their tents, they start hearing strange sounds outside, like twigs being stepped on.
Things start well enough, until Heather gets the crew lost and the guys curse her out for having them walking in circles. When two fishermen claim that the area can be reached by an old logging trail, Heather, Joshua and Michael begin their journey into the heart of darkness. Heather interviews Mary Brown, a disoriented resident of the area, who claims to have seen the witch, a hairy blend of human and beast, near Tap-py Creek. Over time, others are reported missing, and in 1886, disemboweled bodies are found at Coffin Rock, along with oily bundles of sticks. A year later, the town’s children mysteriously vanished, and the Blair Witch cult grew. The purpose is to investigate a local legend, begun in 1785, about an alleged witch named Elly Kedward who was banished from the area (then called Blair) for luring children into her home to draw their blood. The trio hikes into Maryland’s Black Hills Forest, a two-hour drive in Josh’s car from Washington, D.C. Heather Donahue, carrying a High 8 color video camcorder and a list of questions, is the leader of the crew, which includes soundman Michael Williams and camera operator Joshua Leonard, who shoots on 16 mm black-and-white film. It’s that edited footage of their five days in the woods that we watch for the next eighty-seven minutes of sweaty palms and rabid anticipation. In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. The film opens with an explanatory note, and - no understatement - it’s a grabber: It’s what you don’t see in The Blair Witch Project that pumps your adrenalin and, in the best Hitchcock tradition, keeps you hanging on. Better yet, it does the job without guns or a glimpse of a naked, screaming coed and with a budget ($75,000) that couldn’t buy George Lucas a proper car.
I have seen the new face of movie horror and its name is The Blair Witch Project, a groundbreaker in fright that reinvents scary for the new millennium. That’s right: Lake Placid is the usual cheese passing for quality in a genre that has long since replaced inspiration with digital monsters, costly effects and fresh ways to splatter blood.ħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Time It’s a lake-front Anaconda, in which Jon Voight became the first Oscar winner to be swallowed by a jumbo snake. Kelley ( Ally McBeal, The Practice) seasons the gore with giggles in Lake Placid, featuring Bridget Fonda and a scene-stealing Brendan Gleeson out to stop a huge crocodile from bloodying a lake in Maine. Jackson, Thomas Jane and Saffron Burrows at the mercy of merciless, supersize sharks. Or check out The Deep Blue Sea, with Cliff-hanger director Renny Harlin pulling every trick an $80 million budget can buy to put Samuel L. Look at the fear on the face of gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Haunting, a $75 million scarefest from Twister director Jan De Bont in which Zeta-Jones’ lesbian designs on Lili Taylor pale next to the hideous designs that a haunted New England mansion has on both of them. The Horror! The Horror! It’s everywhere this summer.
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