These really do seem like early twenty-somethings who have pretensions of making a creepy indie doc and coming home like nothing’s happened. If it seemed like these people were reciting lines for a minute, the surprisingly intricate edifice of The Blair Witch Project would collapse irreparably.
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Yet what impresses me most in the actual creation of the movie is the chemistry between the actors. The movie is always going to be most remembered for its seasick camera swinging, a gesture towards utter realism which was the centerpiece of a Best Picture winner within a decade, and then next for its weird semi-human branches which eerily prove that something wrong is happening outside of Burkittsville. There’s some dialogue in there about how she’s used to long hikes and roughing it in the great outdoors. She’s the one who is supposed to have scouted out the area. The film about the supernatural happenings outside of Burkittsville, Maryland, is her film, and aside from her auteurist sensibilities, she’s also the one who Mike (Williams) and Josh (Leonard) look to as the leader.
Heather (Donahue) is the leader of the film crew. If there’s an argument to be made for Blair Witch as an exceptional movie based on the text itself and not based on its influence or its marketing or its profits (which remain staggering), it’s in the film’s perspective on filmmaking. The plot, after all, is basically just this for most of the film’s runtime. More than two decades later, knowing perfectly well where the strings on the puppets are and knowing that the three leads are wandering around safe from the influence of witchcraft, the engine of our fear stalls out. The Blair Witch Project is a rarity among horror movies because I think you had to be there to think that it was genuinely frightening, to really not know what happened to the three people depicted on film, to believe in the viral marketing campaign on a virgin Internet where gullibility was a virtue. There are a couple moments here and there which are nervy, but on the whole it’s hard to credit the picture as a truly frightening one.
Williams, Joshua LeonardĪs a horror movie, The Blair Witch Project is pretty disappointing.
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