The Blair Witch Project (1999)

That was an excellent one.

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Amateur movie with Big budget

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The only thing scary about this movie is how gen Xers will fall into line and start marketing anything just as much as the person paid to do so will, and don't seem to be aware they're doing it. It really depends on that principle of self delusion. And self obsession. "I know I am FEELING SOMETHING...". So it must be real. Typical gen X solipsism. Someone that suggestible could actually work themselves into fear over...nothing. And they do, because you can see all the terrified ones that thought it was great. But if you don't create the delusion...well, you see the rest of the reviews. There's nothing there. They seem to recover though, if you look at the movie's ratings trend. Straight down to hades!Vapid, irritating, unconvincing, illogical, amateurish film making at its very worst. Over hyped by the hype machine. Gobbled up by the gullible. Yeah, there's real horror here all right!

You have got to be kidding me.... An hour and a half of annoying 20 somethings arguing is supposed to be scary? I'm actually at a loss at how people even consider this a horror. It's not that I don't enjoy it because there's no gore, violence, etc. in fact, most of my favorite horrors are more of the "unseen" terror type movies. However this one just doesn't do it for me. Not even close. I kept waiting and waiting for something even remotely exciting to happen, and I never got it. If this is what passes for horror, then that's just a plain shame. Not only was it the most underwhelming horror movie I have ever seen, it was the most underwhelming movie I have ever seen.

I'm trying Hulu now and I see they have the "new" version of this movie. Not sure if I want to try it but I remember paying actual money back in 1999 to see this total piece of CRAP. Talk about overhyped! It was sooo long ago now and I have not seen it since but one thing I do remember is that it was (and continues to be) one of the worst "horror" movies I have ever seen! I remember the entire craze. How GREAT this movie was and how it cost pennies to make and it was raking in tons at the box office. I went in expecting "good" at least. I had seen horror movies before that ended up being a disappointment. It was awful! I just stayed in my seat thinking "Oh...this has GOT to get better!". Nope. It never happened. I walked out just shaking my head! 90 minutes of hand-held shaky cameras, dark shadows and tons of HEAVY BREATHING! Yes, I do think it would have been possible to make an actual scary film with hand-held cameras on a shoestring budget but this was NOT it! This continues to be one of the cheesiest awful pieces of crap I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot because I have seen plenty of crap movies! It would have to be awful for me to be able to remember just how bad I thought it was after all of this time. Wow this thing sucked. I just can't believe how much $$ this piece of garbage made! $140M (USA) box office in 1999 dollars is insane! I think people must have been hypnotized into thinking it was good with all of the shaking camera shots!

Is this movie scary? To be honest, no it isn't, not really. Does this mean the film is bad? No, quite the contrary really, the film is very good. It isn't typical horror by any means and it does take great risk in doing something new. But this attempt proved to be quiet effective. Perhaps this film might have been more scary in the movie theaters but watching it at home creates a difficult environment to become scared in. There were never any moments that made me even the slightest bit startled, the film played more onto the realistic factor of horror, things that make you uncomfortable and nervous.The acting in this film is outstanding, some of the best I've seen in a while, never stale, never artificial. I think that's what makes this movie so great. The ending could have had a bit more complexity to it but it does work out in the end.Even though this film is not the newest addition to the horror collection of films out there I would say that it is indeed worth a watch.