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Michael Williams (Actor), Michael C. Williams (Actor), Dan Myrick (Director) Rated: R (Restricted) Format: DVD

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Genre	Horror
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Contributor	Mark Mason, Gregg Hale, Michael C Williams, Jim King, Sandra Sanchez, Robin Cowie, Dan Myrick, Daniel Myrick, Joshua Leonard, Patricia Decou, Michael C. Williams, Ed Swanson, Eduardo Sanchez, Heather Donahue, Jules Schermer, Kim Richards, Michael Williams, Bob Griffith See more
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Runtime	1 hour and 27 minutes
Studio	Lions Gate

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In October of 1994 three student filmmakers diappeared in the woods near Burkittsville Maryland while shooting a documentary... A year later their footage was found. Now prepare for a motion picture experience unlike anything you ve ever seen heard or feared before. The Blair Witch Project follows a trio of filmmakers on what should have been a simple walk in the woods... but quickly becomes an excursion into heart-stopping terror. As the three become inexplicably lost morale deteriorates. Hunger sets in. Accusations fly. By night unseen evil stirs beyond their campfire s light. By day chilling ritualistic figures are discovered nearby. As the end of their journey approaches they realize that what they are filming now is not a legend...but their own descent into unimaginable horror.System Requirements:Running Time: 87 Min. Color. This film is presented in "full screen" format. Formatted from it s original version to fit your screen.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 012236112662 Manufacturer No: 11266

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.45 x 13.79 x 18.8 cm; 0.28 Grams
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 11266
Director ‏ : ‎ Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel Myrick, Dan Myrick
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 27 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ Oct. 22 1999
Actors ‏ : ‎ Michael Williams, Michael C. Williams, Heather Donahue, Michael C Williams, Joshua Leonard
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ eOne Films
Producers ‏ : ‎ Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, Jules Schermer
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00001QGUM
Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Canada
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Jason Garrett

A 1990’s Classic Horror

Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2023

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This is a classic and the original “found footage” style horror movie. It was a big hit back in the 90’s.

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A lot of people hate this movie

Reviewed in Canada on April 25, 2017

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A lot of people hate this movie, and for reasons I can understand. It has a very low production value meaning it can feel outdated by today's standards. However, I believe that this movie is a staple not only in the found footage genre, but in the horror genre as a whole. It wasn't the first to try what it did in terms of found footage, but it tried viral marketing before people even knew what viral meant in terms of advertising.

This movie IS NOT scripted beyond some lore notes and plot points the actors were given, meaning the actors were heavily relied upon to provide all the lines themselves in their scene. Sometimes this works, sometimes it's a mess. Personally, this could've been trimmed a bit, maybe given a bit more direction, but overall it didn't take me out of the experience - sometimes it even ENHANCED the atmosphere since the frustration the actors felt bled very naturally into the frustration the characters were feeling.

Another point of contention is how the Witch is never shown in the movie. People think it's cheap, or that it's boring to leave it to the audience's imagination. I disagree. I LOVE the idea that we cannot be 100% sure that a monster is even terrorizing these idiot college kids. Sometimes it IS better left to the imagination, no matter what critics might think.

Overall a recommendation, either for someone looking for a horror movie experience, or just for someone curious in how the found footage genre really got rolling in the horror genre.

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Stewart Geworsky

"THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" A True Classic.

Reviewed in Canada on August 27, 2020

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This the first, original in the series and the absolute best. I now own "THE BLAIR WITCH", which is actually part 2 and now "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" makes it complete. Any interested in the Blair Witch movies will love these both.
Excellent movies.

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Jennifer Rose

Recieved wrong item/ no communication

Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2019

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received the wrong movie I ordered the Blair witch project the original I received the new movie( Blair Witch2016) the sticker on the movie was mislabeled it clearly said The Blair witch project 1999 but it was not that movie it seems like a careless mistake and a huge inconvenience and hassel just because somebody could be bothered to pay attention

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Good Movie

Reviewed in Canada on June 24, 2021

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I hadn’t seen this since it came out. My partner had never watched this before so he wanted to see it. Worth watching.

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Is It Real?

Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2016

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I saw this film back when it first came out on VHS. Rented it at Blockbuster. Back in the good ole days when I still had a tube TV. Anyway, my daughter asked me about it so I bought her a DVD copy. Its scared the livin jeebus out of her. But she loved it. I thought it was still pretty good after all these years, even though your know its phony.

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Product was as desired

Reviewed in Canada on January 2, 2020

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Good movie

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Great movie

Reviewed in Canada on November 19, 2018

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Needed for a school project. Arrived fast.

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KEI

観る人を選ぶ映画

Reviewed in Japan on August 10, 2017

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この映画を一言であらわすならばそうなるのではないだろうか。この『ブレアウィッチプロジェクト』は公開前から行われていた斬新な宣伝手法もあって公開後は世界中で大ブームを巻き起こす作品となった。

しかし、公開後からその評価については大きく賛否がわかれていた。ドキュメンタリー風な映像も相俟って即物的なホラー映画を好む人にはあまりお薦めできる作品ではない。
この映画には、いわゆる化け物などは出てこないからそれを期待してこの映画を観るならばやめた方がいいだろう。

この映画はそういうタイプの作品ではない。即物的な恐怖ではなく、素人が撮影した映像という手法を逆手にとったドキュメンタリータッチな作風により内面的な恐怖が煽られる作品だ。

元々、素人による映像というカメラワークも超低予算というハンデを逆手にとったものだった。1999年に6万ドルという超低予算で製作されながら世界興行収入2億4800万ドルという記録的大ヒットをたたき出したフェイクドキュメンタリー風映画の先駆的作品。

この映画を楽しむ一番の秘訣は事前情報を耳に入れないことだと思う。公開当時であれば斬新な宣伝手法とともにリアルタイムで楽しむということが出来ただろうが今はそれが出来ない。寧ろ、逆にネット情報などが邪魔して純粋に楽しめなくなっているのではないだろうか。この作品の肝は観ている者も作品世界に入り込むことである。
しかしながら、今の時代事前にネットなどでネタばらしされているのは当たり前だ。そうなったら面白さは半減どころではないだろう。
わたしは、作品の肝は「作品世界に入り込むこと」といったが、もっと言えばドキュメンタリーだと思って観ることである。それが出来るかどうかが作品を楽しめる者とそうでない者の違いである。

わたしは、この映画『ブレアウィッチプロジェクト』の手法はカメラワークも含めてあまりにも斬新であり、シリーズものには向かない作品だと感じた。あまりにも完成されすぎていて唯一無二の世界観が確立されていたからだ。
しかし、続編(『BW2』)が後に公開された。この第二作目はシリーズものをうたってはいたが、第一作目で確立されたコンセプトなどを継承してはいなかった。

ある意味で第一作目に対する批判を一つひとつ受け入れていって出来た作品といえるかもしれない。第一作目に対するアンチテーゼにもなっている。しかし、それはもはや『ブレアウィッチプロジェクト』ではなかった。
真の続編が完成されるのは2016年まで待たねばならなかった。

『ブレアウィッチプロジェクト』をみたことがない方には事前情報なしで作品を観ることをお薦めしたい。また、『BW2』と見比べることによって、その作品の特異性がわかるはずだ。さらに、なぜ世界的に大ヒットしたのかも理解できるのではないだろうか。

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Aaron M.

A welcome throwback to the era of intelligent realism in horror.

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2011

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This is a film comes with some baggage: the whole "true story" marketing campaign and the insinuation that the events unfolding were not just a film recreation, but actual found footage. The same thing that helped make it a smash hit was probably to blame for the backlash against it. People probably felt duped and there is little else that makes people angrier than feeling like a fool. Other films have used this technique; The Coen Bros Fargo or Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, neither of which were later hated for the use of it, though neither of those films tried to present their movie as actual footage either.

I didn't get to have the experience of thinking it was real; I had heard about it months before the release from other horror fans on the internet who were already blasting as a rip off of The Last Broadcast and Cannibal Holocaust before they had even seen it. I didn't have high hopes for it.

I did see it several times in the theater though, with several different groups of people. Initially I was reluctant but by the time I saw it near the end of its run, at a matinee where only myself and one friend were the total audience, I was a very willing viewer.

Some people complained about the shaky camera. It never bothered me. Most people I went with were True Believers. They just knew it was a true story and the footage was real, no matter how much I tried to convince them otherwise. I'm not sure if they were truly fooled or fooled themselves because they wanted it to be true. I'm not sure which is more disturbing: the film, or the people that wanted to believe these three people in the film were actually dead. Personally I would have been much less interested in seeing a snuff film. I wouldn't have gone to see that.

I can't understand anyone who was angry at the fact that what they had thought was three dead people cringing in terror during the final days of their lives, turned out to be fiction. Seriously, you don't think these kids families would have had something to say about their children deaths being turned in a money-making entertainment? Come on.

But enough of all that, what about the film? For me it's a great nod to films like The Haunting (1963) and the school of horror where the implied is king and your imagination does the job on you. I'm not going to argue with those who hate implied horror or think its cheap. I'm also not going to accuse them of having no imagination. Everyone has their own taste. Whatever.

But I would even include such films as the Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre within the sphere of implied horror. For every shock the Exorcist throws at you, it offers another subtle implied threat. One you have to think about to fully experience. With Chainsaw it's the fact that very little blood or gore is shown, the film lets your imagination do most of the heavy lifting.

Unlike those two films though, Blair Witch does not even share time with more direct horror. It wants to be a mind fueled shadow play through and through, and I applaud it for having the courage to do so...and for me, it works.

Its three main characters are distinct, fleshed out, and most importantly sympathetic. The best horror asks you to empathize with its characters. The characters here are not cardboard cut-outs that the filmmakers can brutalize for the pleasure of the crowd. Some people didn't like Heather, but I saw her more "objectionable" behavior as a coping mechanism, hiding behind her camera and insulting the other characters at times as an understandable attempt to keep the fear underneath at bay.

A lot of their acting is subtle and not shoved into your face. In a normal movie this would not be the case. Character moments would be underscored with music and typical film language which would lead the viewer into what to think. Blair Witch is not interested in leading you by the nose in such a way. They respect their audience enough to allow them to think for themselves.

These characters do bicker a lot, especially as the stress of their situation begins to take its toll. Their situation strips away the façade of civilization. It's not heroic or romantic. It's what happens to real people. Not that it's all pessimism. Once acceptance has come, it allows for truth to come out in a way it rarely does (Heather's confession), and towards the end Mike shows courage as he single-mindedly seeks to find their missing comrade. The best horror lifts the façade of the false goodness of the "civilized" person (with its conditional nature of doing for others only as a means to gain for oneself) and shows humanity's base selfish, frightened animal side. But perhaps buried under that can be found true goodness, or at least some authenticity.

The filmmakers present a rich back story in a short period of time. They pull this trick off by sprinkling bits of information throughout the film from various sources of uncertain dependability. They leave you to fill in the blanks, simulating how such legends grow and spread in the real world. They offer many possible sources for the events in the film, never truly settling on any definitive answer. Observant viewers will notice the tales relevance to the story as it unfolds. (the seven missing children from the Justin Parr story coinciding with the characters finding seven piles of rock cairns in the cemetery later on, for instance)

Despite the supernatural overtones in the film, there are no definitive supernatural events. Nothing that could not be explained away rationally. Even their returning back the their point of origin after walking for an entire day could be explained away by a faulty compass and the very real phenomenon of human beings tendency to walk in circles when lost.

Unlike most films, we can't explain anything away through hallucinations. The nature of the film being that everything is being picked up on camera, we are not allowed the luxury of that. So, something is definitely out there. Something that sounds like small children playing at times. A bit hard to explain that one away, unless there really is a cult living out there in the woods. Could be. Could be ghosts. Could be human agents. Could be the Blair Witch. It largely lets you fill in your own answer, which serves those of the more supernatural bent and those that favor a more rationale answer. Some people don't like question marks in their films, so I guess it loses out with that crowd but otherwise it's great the way the filmmakers have managed to allow the film to have its cake and eat it too.

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Ian

How'd That Happen?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2002

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Picture the scene: It's 1999 and amongst the big-name releases (Eyes Wide Shut, The Phantom Menace, Fight Club) there is only one contender for the big-hype release. Granted, the director generated a fair amount of the attention over the Internet but we also had reports here in Blighty of people fainting in cinemas in the USA and having to be carried out. "THE SCARIEST FILM EVER MADE" screamed the press, and with the hoopla in America who was going to doubt it?
I'd never been much of a Star Wars fan anyway so I was really excited about the big horror phenomenon of the year, and yet I can't express how appalled I was by what I saw. I sat and stared with a half smile on my face wondering when the film was going to kick in...after 80 minutes I realised it was not. The air of disappointment, not to mention disbelief, was palpable from my fellow cinemagoers as well.
Months later I was out-voted in a video night at a friends house and The Blair Witch made a re-appearance, this time I was surprised for all the right reasons. With the lights off and the curtains drawn (and essentially not in the company of 100+ other viewers) it takes on a whole different atmosphere (with the emphasis on fear).
Reviewed on the small screen, Blair Witch works exceptionally well. The infamous shaky camcorder footage is, after all, meant to look like a dodgy home video and now it does, all the more effective on the appropriate medium. And, the hype having now died down, the viewer doesn't feel the same pressure to love its "originality", praise its "ground-breaking" style and boast about how long its been since they had a night's sleep.
Blair Witch is a mini-masterpiece of cinematic beauty and breathless creepiness. Many a professional critic has written that this is not an accomplished film and that "cinematically it's shaky" (step up Monty Smith of The Mirror) but the whole point is that this is a homefromhome-video filmed by less than professional kids made all the worse by fear. Mission accomplished.
I've just watched the film again on TV and it was still fantastic, and that remember is coming from someone who was originally its biggest critic. How'd that happen?!
The ending (set up earlier in the film in a scene that isn't highlighted at the time as being important) is truly chilling and made me love the film even more.
So settle down alone or with a few friends and give this film a chance, it may not always shock but as a horror should, it will scare.

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Laura Dean

Pretty creepy, but not as nail-biting as I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2011

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The premise is a great one, and I can understand how some audience members believed they were watching real documentary footage. The hand-held camera shots, deliberately dim lighting and sometimes dodgy sound all make this seem a perfectly convincing amateur film. A clever marketing campaign also perpetuated the idea that this was indeed real footage (all very postmodern, enthused the film geeks). I think if I'd watched it believing that, it would have been a different story. As it was, I was well aware that I was watching a created 'reality' and so it was less effective.

The film itself is really a cinema film - much of the tension comes from the sounds heard while the screen is nearly black. At home, even with a decent surround sound system, some of this is lost. In terms of horror- well, there is pretty much no gore bar the 'find' amongst the twigs (I won't give it away) and even then, it's tame. The chill comes from the suspense and tension which is effectively built.

Personally, I didn't feel at all scared while watching it and didn't once cover my eyes, which is rare for me as I'm a wuss. So five for cinematography and originality, but a three for spookiness.

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Daniel Jolley

Absolutely brilliant and genuinely frightening

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2003

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The Blair Witch Project is the most brilliantly creepy movie I have ever seen. I can no longer say just how many times I've watched this film, but I become more and more impressed with its production with each viewing. I can't really imagine how so many people can claim that this film didn't scare them in the least. I am a long-time horror fan, inured long ago to almost everything the movie studios throw out there on the big screens with a "frightening" label. The Blair Witch Project, I am delighted to say, creeped me out quite impressively. It may well be that this is a different movie experience depending on the venue of its audience. Those watching the film for the first time at home can turn off all their lights and watch the movie in the dark, but there is really no way to recreate or equal the powerful mood and atmosphere that came rushing in icy waves on to a theatre audience. When I go to see horror movies, there is almost always some laughter to be heard from time to time, and usually I am the one doing the laughing. Once Heather, Michael, and Josh got into the Maryland woods and the spooky meter began to rise, an eerie, almost unprecedented silence took over those of us sitting in the theatre. There was no laughter; I heard no one sucking on a straw or chomping on popcorn; no adolescents whispered back and forth. There was no longer an audience around me; I and the film were locked together in a mortal embrace, and as the suspense built up at the end I felt as if some force were pushing me farther and farther back into my seat. When the movie ended, I don't remember anyone really talking about what they had just seen; I think we all just wanted to get the heck out of that darkened theatre. That kind of experience, I must say, is what my horror dreams are made of. Viewing the film at home just cannot recreate the movie experience.
To me, The Blair Witch Project is simply brilliant in many, many ways. First, of course, Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick used the Internet to build up a hype of unprecedented proportions for this film many months before its general release, creating a thriving fan base drawn deeply into the legend of the Blair Witch and the mysteriously doomed student film project, mucking up the waters of truth and fiction into a bloody froth that attracted horror sharks such as myself from far and wide. Then there was the SciFi Channel documentary Curse of the Blair Witch that was released just prior to the film's release. In this remarkably professional and believable documentary, the fictional story of the movie was given sturdy legs with which to scurry around the truth. The actors used in the documentary were amazingly good, and the use of family photos, old historical documents and letters, newspaper articles, television news features, interviews with law enforcement, family and friends, etc., did a great job of masquerading fiction as reality. Even those of us who knew going into the theatre that this was a work of pure fiction could allow ourselves to wonder if the story could still actually be true, and that suspension of disbelief did much to increase the power of what I saw on the big screen.
Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams were simply brilliant. Their displays of fright, rage, and hopelessness were stunningly believable; of course, some credit for the actors' performances must also go to the geniuses behind the film. I would imagine that the dark woods would become quite unnerving after a few nights, even when you know that whoever or whatever is out there is just someone associated with the film production, and the fact that the characters were forced to endure sleep-deprived nights and grueling daytime hikes over the course of a full week had to do wear down the defenses of the actors and bring to the surface emotions and expressions that lie too deeply to be accessed simply on command. I am still fascinated to read about the way in which things were managed in the filming. The actors ad libbed almost everything they said and did, which is actually quite amazing. At times, though, they had to redo things in order to please the filmmakers; the best example of this comes in the movie's final scene. As I understand it, the scene in the movie is actually a second night's shoot of those events, as things did not go quite the way the filmmakers wanted on the first night. To see that kind of emotion and fear portrayed by an exhausted Michael and Heather on a second night's take is just outstanding.
This horror fan welcomed such a refreshingly new type of movie to the fold. I like blood and gore as much as anyone, but true fright is best achieved by unspectacular yet highly personal events taking place in what looks very much like the real world as we know it. Millions of dollars have never made an expensive, special effects-laden horror movie as creepy as this extremely low-budget masterpiece of mood, atmosphere, and unseen things that go bump in the night.

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