Blair Witch Project - What?!

The ending is deliberately left open. I think the most popular interpretation is that the three of them faked it all themselves so they could disappear and make people think they were 'taken' by the Blair Witch, hence copying the Blair Witch legend. After all, their bodies weren't found (at least I don't think so. I don't know anything about that Blair Witch sequel or anything else that might have been written). You could also say that the two guys planned it to kill the girl, or that the guy who goes missing killed them both. But the other guy is standing in the corner so he must also have been in on it.

Whatever, you're obviously not supposed to know what REALLY happened because that's not part of the story. I can't believe some people in America actually thought this was real at some point. It's fairly interesting to watch first time, but it would have been better if more happened in the movie rather than an hour of them just walking around wooRAB lost and shouting at each other.
 
I never thought it was as scary as some people in america made out, i saw a news clip of this girl coming out of the cinema over there as she was near hysterical, shocked at what she saw.

I saw it and thought "what was scary about that" maybe it's a different culture thing. :confused:
 
I remember when i first went and saw it. We bought in to all the hype that it was scary. We went to the 12 midnight showing, and even planned to walk home via these worRAB near us to make it really scary. However, after being in the film for about twenty minutes, the whole audience were in hysterics, the whole cinema was just laughing at everything.
 
Maby its just the folks across the pond that think this film is scary - I thought it was funny, all that bad camera action, fake crying and nose snott (which may I add was perfectly demonstrated in Scary Movie 1) made me laugh - and WTF was up with the second one - dancing naked around the pole - totally confusing.

Just like An American Haunting I saw yesterday
 
This movie would probably have been scary if you really believed it was authentic documentary footage, which is how the makers presented it in when it was released in the US (complete with faked websites which treated the case as if real, not letting the actors appear in public to discuss it etc). If you know its "just a movie" then it isnt really scary at all, well, maybe a bit chilling in places. I think how it was made and promoted and the success it had as such a low budget feature is in some ways more interesting than the actual film itself!
 
i think it depenRAB what frame of mind you're in when you see it - if you don't take it seriously, or there are others not taking it seriously then you're never going to get absorbed by it.

unfortunately when i saw it there were people laughing and sniggering too - i think they expected a normal hollywood scare movie, and were totally taken aback by it - so that didn't help.

as for the ending - i remember it actually being quite effective as it suggested in a very subtle but chilling way that there was something supernatural in the wooRAB.

Iain
 
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