Working with so little money, The Blair Witch Project had no choice but to tease the audience into being scared of what it couldn't see the new Blair Witch, with its Pacific Rim soundtrack, tries to yell until your eardrums bleed. Then the yelling starts: "James!" "Lisa!" "Peter!" "Ashley!" And the rain comes flooding down after that, with the thunder pounding like mighty kettle drums overhead. Oh, the noise! The microphones on the tiny digital cameras shouldn't be picking up much, but verisimilitude be damned, because Blair Witch renders every snapped stick, crushed leaf, and distant guttural noise as an ear-blistering assault. The Blair Witch, actually named Elly Kedward, was accused of witchcraft in 1785 when several local children reported that she had performed witchcraft on them. They haven't thought their actions through-and neither have the filmmakers.īut there's noise. In Blair Witch, everyone's running full speed into the darkness, usually in search of someone else who's done the same stupid thing. ![]() When Heather finally dashes into the woods in The Blair Witch Project, it's a moment of heart-stopping recklessness, like she's grown desperate enough to hurl herself into the void. The Blair Witch Project is a unique and important production insofar as it looks forward, to the future of film promotion, at the same time as it looks backward. The last half is a panicked free-for-all, with no pauses in the action once night permanently falls and very few sequences that have been choreographed with a mind toward building suspense. Or, alternately, the Blair Witch will pick them off one by one and leave their fancy cameras for other yokels to find. The Blair Witch Project followed the young filmmakers as they went into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, to make a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. There was about a three-week period where we got a lot of calls asking did we find the missing people yet Have we solved the murder. Their plan seems to be to wander around in the forest until they get there, at which point some positive, edifying occurrence will surely happen. In 1999, it became known for The Blair Witch Project. They have no solid plan for finding the dreaded house, which the search team never confirmed existed. (James would have barely been potty-trained the year his sister disappeared, but it's best to accept the premise at face value.) The quartet becomes a sextet when they allow two locals to join the search and all of them set out with shitty tents and an arsenal of technical equipment: walkie-talkies, earpiece cameras, a long-lens Canon, an older-model DV cam, even a phone-operated drone. ![]() ![]() The characters haven't thought their actions through-and neither have the filmmakers.īlair Witch finds Heather's little brother James (James Allen McCune) dragging three of his friends to the woods outside Burkittsville, Maryland to find the house where she may or may not have died.
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