Blai witch project- can u see the witch?

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Watched it for the first time tonite, thought it was pretty rubbish to be honest! I know it was advertised as real true story with real footage which would have probably made it scarier at the cinema, but I thought it was rubbish... nothing happened!
Anyways, my friend said at the end you could see the Witch, im not to sure I looked hard enough, can you see the witch at the end or not? If so where?? Ill watch it on E4+1!
 
Save yourself the trouble, Slash. If you didn't think it was a good film the first time round, you won't think any more of it the second time. And no, there's no witch.
 
no I just wanted to watch it again to see if there was a witch!! Although I didn't think it was anything great, Im certainly impressed by theirmethoRAB of filming this film to get so real emotions out of the actors/people. (I read that the people who star in it weren't actually actors)
 
I just watched it for the first time too. I dunno what to make of it, really. I dunno what I was expecting. The idea is great, I just don't think having breaks every 20 or so minutes kept up the atmosphere.

I think the whole point is that you don't see the witch - it's left to the imagination - is it really a witch? Is it just some sick freaks? Is it something else?
 
Hmmm....

You NEVER see the Witch, although there was a very early cut of the film where she's seen briefly, but it was deemed that it looked pretty crap so they ditched it.

It is of course, not a true story. However, it was the first film to make full use of the Internet and the potential for marketing and the website was set up well in advance of the film. To help things along though, the film was originally screened with no end credits, so as to help with the illusion.

By the time it had reached our shores though the myth had been broked and we all realised that we were just watching a movie (Though what I would give to be one of the first audiences).

As someone pointed out, the actors were not really 'actors' at that point, though I do believe they were aspiring. The banter in the film is improvised, and sometimes one of the actors were given certain things to do (Like when one of the group goes missing - none of the others knew about that). It's actually the film makers who left the sticks and the pile of rocks outside the tents and just watched from a distance as they freaked out. It must've been hell for the actors really.

Oh and it is possible to like it on multiple viewings, even if you didn't like it the first time. I worked at the Cinema when it came out and detested the film...I really really hate it. But then for some reason I wrote about the final scene for Film Studies, so I begrudginly watched the film again and found myself loving it. Very odd and not something I can really explain.
 
I absolutely agree with you Dr Venkman, but then you know a thing or two about ghosts I'm sure.

I think if you take the film at a very basic level you won't get much out of it. You can't watch it and get a great deal from it if you just consider it to be a film. I think that is why when it was first released in the states and people thought it was real it had much more of an impact. You have to give yourself to the film and say well even if it is a film, what if that did really happen. What if I were in that situation. therein lies the power of The Balir Witch

Italso has a very strong narrative within it which is all brought about in teh final scene which I think is probably why writing about the final scene may have changed your mind. We are told about the story of guy who used to take up children in the hut. He made one stand in the corner while he killed the other one. At the end as we see the girl running down the stairs we see more and more children's hand prints on the walls. We hear the screaming. When she finally come into the room we see the guy standing in the corner like the kiRAB. It has a sick inevitability about it. The growing panic, the lack of civilisation.

We are also told that there were 13 kiRAB. Well if he killed them in pairs why 13. The answer lies here I thikn with the idea that he only ever killed one kiRAB while another watched on. The kiRAB that watched on may never have been killed but may have even been an accomplice to the real killer. helping lure the kiRAB and instructing the adult what to do

I think the film works well if you accept the premise and look respect the fact the whole story comes together in that final frantic scene of her running down the stairs and into the room. Whatever demons lay in the wood, the worst are with in the people. Killers, witches and campers.

Its quite a clever movie, though not immensly so. Having said all that it is surely better if you bought into the story that it was real.
 
Nothing happened? You mean there were no scary monsters and no explosions and no flying ninjas and no car chases...

Well if you watch the movie again you'll see that what happened was a bunch of teenagers got very lost, scared and paranoid. What happened was what happens when people are scared: we see their reactions and their fear, their confusion and the breakdown of frienRABhips, of desperation and isolation.

This is why the film divided audiences so much - it was an exercise in psychological fear. Were we meant to be afraid or were we just watching other people being terrified? What was scary was that there was *something* out there that they couldn't see. Essentially, like the characters in the film, you create your own fear out of the unknown. It's scary enough if you engage with the characters and empathise with their fear.

I think far too often with movies these days we're spoiled by being given something to be scared of - some hideous CGI-created monster, for example. While those sort of movies have their place (I love "The Thing", for example) there is still room for the good old-fashioned horror of what is *not* seen as much as what is seen. It just means that you have to use your own imagination rather than being passively fed everything by the cinema / TV screen.
 
Don't they explain that in the film anyway? I'm answering my own question now but yes they do. I remember because I heard mnay a person complaining about the ending and why was he just 'standing in the corner'. I swear that sometimes people just don't absorb what they're seeing.

Some more recommended viewing is the faux-documentary that comes with the DVD. I watched it before watching the film last night and it's absolutely fantastic.

About why I enjoyed the film after disliking it initially. I don't actually think it has to do with the final scene, I just think that after the hype had died down I watched it with an open mind and found myself sucked in by it. Though I have to say that although I loathed the film I did really like the end and I could see then how effective it was.
 
no, the Americans thought it was based on a true story though. They thought it was cruel of the film makers to exploit the misery of those poor people!...... :) :D
 
It will be rubbish now because its a bit old. Its like when the exorcist first came out it had a big impact, now its like whatever. Anyway, when i first saw the blair witch project i rented it out, and i was by myself like always and when it was over i couldnt get out of my chair because i was so scared, thats what i like to see in HORROR films, SCARY STUFF!.

8/10 for The Blair Witch Project, and did you notice all the swearing? there was like over 100 F! worRAB.
 
i thought u did see the Witch .. well the legs. at the end in the cabin/old house thingy when the last kid is killed and the camera is on the floor on a dodgy angle, im sure u see somethin like the legs run past or somethin, might not was a while since iv seen it, i could be think on another film!
 
It's only 4/5 years old!
I was terrified when i first saw it, and did all the jumping out chairs and what not. I thought it was a brilliant film. Haven't been able to bring myself to watch it again - mostly becasue I'm a big wuss, but i remember the end and it still gives me the willies.

If you liked BWP, go to the theatre and see The Woman in Black or read the play. Bloody scary!
 
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