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4/10. Here's why:

posted 9 years ago by IMDB_Vits
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I agree that THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is scary... when it tries to be. It's one thing for a horror movie to build suspense by not showing scary things for a while; it's another thing for it to not do anything until the last part. An 80-minute film cannot be this slow. Also, the characters are unbearable. Maybe it was on purpose, but that’s no excuse.

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Any thoughts?

[–] kdhappy2 9 years ago

Scary stuff did occur throughout the whole movie! They got lost and were obviously being tricked, if you happened to be in their situation being lost would be terrifying. You watch as they all go crazy in the woods. The witch messes with them in form of their friend who got lost, and the dead little kids. The rock piles terrified me, the endless stick figures in the trees terrified me,the blood and teeth in the cloth.. it was all pretty creepy.

[–] MoviemanCin 9 years ago

I disagree. I loved it! I thought it was very new (to me at least), creepy and scary. And the whole fake documentary thing made it even more chilling. I give it an 8.5/10.

But a friend of mine had the exact opposite reaction. I guess that's why they make chocolate and vanilla (and sometimes strawberry).

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

[–] FridayOnElmStreet 9 years ago

Only a 4?

[–] IMDB_Vits 9 years ago

Yes. And the reason is in the OP.

[–] skiop 8 years ago

I gave it a 3. I was being generous.

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

also gave it a 4/10, come to think of it it may be too high, this was barely a movie

so many movies, so little time

[–] bird_canrock 8 years ago

If you've seen it for the first time in 2016, the year when the sequel is released that being tonight I understand your low score but seen in 2000 when internet connection isn't for everyone and you see it in the middle of the night on the TV, trust me it scares the *beep* out of you even with the lights turned on... It's the only movie that ever made me scream my lungs out and rewatching it right now it's really cool and chill but again back at the beginning of the 2000 it was a really *beep* scary movie X_X Don't get me wrong but back then you wouldn't have questioned I-phones and other 2016 modern gear that I've seen in other questions and you would just have taken the movie for it's scary parts and creepy story behind The Blair Witch. So for me it will always be a 10/10 when it comes to scores. Again I'm a old school generation of horror and it was the first found footage movie that I really gave a crap about. It's harder for you guys from the new generation to find something worth your time but you can't do anything about the time you were born, can you? Peace out,bitches!

[–] third-gunman 8 years ago

Yeh I agree, the Blair Witch Project is an awesome movie, and very very scary.

But you have to put it in context. It won't have the same effect unless you saw it when it came out, things have changed since 1999, quite a lot actually.

When this was released, found footage movies weren't a thing so this combined with the marketing was groundbreaking and very original. A lot of people thought it was real, which added another level of fear to this.

If you immerse yourself in the movie then the tension and fear slowly build up, also if you bought into the le=gend and background of the movie then the end scene will hit you so hard.

The fact you don't see any monsters or withes or anything horror related though, means that your imagination works overdrive (If you have one), and that is more scary than anything they can show on film.

It was very cleverly done, and very awesome.

[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

Yes... That's why I always consider the year of release when I watch a movie. In this case, I didn't see it when it came out, but I remember how everyone thought it was real.

[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

seen in 2000 when internet connection isn't for everyone and you see it in the middle of the night on the TV, trust me it scares the *beep* out of you even with the lights turned on

How do you know how I saw the movie? I didn't say it in the O.P.

back then you wouldn't have questioned I-phones and other 2016 modern gear that I've seen in other questions

What are you talking about?

Again I'm a old school generation of horror and it was the first found footage movie that I really gave a crap about. It's harder for you guys from the new generation to find something worth your time but you can't do anything about the time you were born, can you?

It has nothing to do with that. I've given good scores to older horror movies. Actually, by your logic, no one would like any kind of movie made before they were born.