The Blaire Witch Project..... Scariest film?

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I have just watched TBWP for the 2nd time and it is so bloody creepy, and you don't even see any witch ect. But the scene that makes me freak out is when there in the tent and they hear noises then the tent shakes. Then the last scene where they head inside the abandoned house soooo bloody scary then all you see is the boy standing in the corner.

It shocked me 'I know I'm going to sound dumb' but because I have never seen the Blair witch project before and did no research on it I honestly thought it was real, it's just looks do real BUT once you watch it over again it becomes kinda obvious then you read the credits and says the crew involved ect.

But I think TBWP is great to make you think it's real.
 
I watched it at the cinema and thought it was very very poor. I was with my girl friend at the time and if I was with other frienRAB I would have walked out as I really don't rate it as a film at all.
 
I first saw it on a bootleg VHS copy, which just added to it somehow. I watched it a few times; each time it scared the crap out of me (and I say this as a horror movie obsessive who is always disappointed by films not scaring me). Then I saw it at the cinema when it was released, and just being in the cinema ruined it- it was much harder to suspend your disbelief in that environment. So I watched it again on video- and, yeah, it freaked me out again.

It seems to be a movie people either get into and are terrified by, or they don't and don't get what all the fuss is about. For me, it was DEFINITELY the first.

My favourite creepy bit (which was, apparently, unplanned) is right at the beginning, when they're interviewing Burkitsville residents, and the woman's talking about the legend of the Blair Witch, and her kid reaches up and tries to cover her mouth to stop her talking.

That and the final shot really MAKE that movie for me.

Yeah, I'll admit it. I have hundreRAB of horror movies, and of all of them THAT one nearly made me sh*t my pants.
 
The only scary part is the last scene , not sure how someone could believe it was real. I'd love to find a Horror film that was scary!
 
It was the first film to use the internet as a marketing tool. It set up websites about the missing people, which looked convincing! The other clever thing they did here at least, was to release a 'documentary' to rent from Blockbusters before the film release itself.

I rented that and got REALLY spooked by it! Mind you, the whole ancient witch thing is pretty creepy :D An American friend of mine told me all about the legend of the Bell Witch.

Then watching the film, I definitely found it scary. The piles of stones they disturbed, running into all those totems hanging from trees, finding piles of stones outside their tent in the morning, etc. It certainly made me think twice about camping in the wooRAB, that's for sure :D
 
No where near being the scariest film. I thought it was okay, but not scary. As a film, I preferred the sequel - but even that wasn't scary. It wasn't even that good to be honest....!
 
I thought it was a shite film!

My friend lent me it a few years back and it didn't scare me one bit. I was waiting for something to happen but nothing did. The ending was all of a sudden too. Plus that woman with the camera was so bloody annoying.
 
isn't it best to watch these type of films while you are young enough to be scared by them...my 13 years old daughter loves horror films and was scared watching this..don't think it'll have the same effect when she's 18 though..and no there's no nightmares or bad behaviour from her..she's wise enough to know it's just a film
 
I wouldn't say it was a scary film but I am a big fan of TBWP, I love it's low-tech approach.
It's a shame it got hyped to death, I think it would have worked a thousand times better had it been a film that found it's audience as opposed to the audience having it rammed down their throats.

I kind of got the feeling though that there was more behind the 'over hyping' of Blair Witch.It came out at the same time as Star Wars Episode 1, I got the feeling people were pushing the film more in a means of distracting the public from the Lucas hype machine.

Didn't Blair Witch do better than SW:TPM at the box office, I'm pretty sure it did?
 
Wouldn't say I found it scary but I admire the movie.Well it's more of a student experiment than a movie but at least it was fresh,daring and innovative.

We need more of that kind of thing than countless remakes and CGI action movies pushed our way.
 
Any film that involves the supernatural as a supposedly scary component is immediately off to a bad start. The rug's completely pulled out from under for the simple reason that there's no such thing as the supernatural, hence there's ipso facto nothing scary going on.

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Mark
 
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