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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Lions Gate DVD Layers: 2 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9780784013373 Edition: Special Edition Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0784013373 Item Dimensions: Label: Lions Gate Languages: Manufacturer: Lions Gate MPN: IVED11266D Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: Lions Gate Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 22, 1999 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: Lions Gate Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Editorial Review: Product Description: Three film students set out into the black hills forest to make a documentary on the legendary blair witch. Armed with a 16mm camera a hi8 video camera and a dat recorder every step word and sound is captured. After wandering around black hills forest heather josh and mike are cold lost and hunted. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/01/2005 Starring: Heather Donahue Joshua Leonard Run time: 87 minutes Rating: R Director: Daniel Myrick/eduardo Sanchez Amazon.com: The Blair Witch Project Anyone who has even the slightest trouble with insomnia after seeing a horror movie should stay away from The Blair Witch Project--this film will creep under your skin and stay there for days. Credit for the effectiveness of this mock documentary goes to filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, who armed three actors (Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Josh Leonard) with video equipment, camping supplies, and rough plot outlines. They then let the trio loose into the Maryland woods to improvise and shoot the entire film themselves as the filmmakers attempted to scare the crap out of them. Gimmicky, yes, but it worked--to the wildly successful tune of $130 million at the box office upon its initial release (the budget was a mere $40,000). For those of you who were under a rock when it first hit the theaters, The Blair Witch Project tracks the doomed quest of three film students shooting a documentary on the Burkittsville, Maryland, legend of the Blair Witch. After filming some local yokels (and providing only scant background on the witch herself), the three, led by Heather (something of a witch herself), head into the woods for some on-location shooting. They're never seen again. What we see is a reconstruction of their "found" footage, edited to make a barely coherent narrative. After losing their way in the forest, whining soon gives way to real terror as the three find themselves stalked by unknown forces that leave piles of rocks outside their campsite and stick-figure art projects in the woods. (As Michael succinctly puts it, "No redneck is this clever!") The masterstroke of the film is that you never actually see what's menacing them; everything is implied, and there's no terror worse than that of the unknown. If you can wade through the tedious arguing--and the shaky, motion-sickness-inducing camerawork--you'll be rewarded with an oppressively sinister atmosphere and one of the most frightening denouements in horror-film history. Even after you take away the monstrous hype, The Blair Witch Project remains a genuine, effective original. --Mark Englehart Curse of the Blair Witch Are you wondering just exactly who the Blair Witch was? What the Burkittsville, Maryland, legend was all about? Or what exactly fascinated student filmmaker Heather and what possibly took her, Mike, and Josh from this earth? Get all your background questions answered by Curse of the Blair Witch, a one-stop-shopping "documentary" originally produced for the Sci-Fi Channel as a tie-in marketing tool. Entirely fictionalized, Curse of the Blair Witch focuses both on the past and the present, with copious info on the Blair Witch myth as well as on the disappearance of Heather, Josh, and Mike. As it turns out, the original witch was one Elly Kedward, who was accused in 1785 of taking blood from several children; she was subsequently banished to the harsh winter woods and left for dead. Her grisly and bloody legacy involves missing children, polluted water, disemboweled men, and a serial killer of children who claims to have been haunted by "an old woman ghost." Aside from some ineffective "newsreel" footage of the serial killer, all this intriguing information is presented convincingly and chillingly. Curse may in fact freak you out more than the movie, and it evokes the great, pulpy In Search Of series of the '70s, one of the prime inspirations for filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. News clips of the search for Heather, Josh, and Mike lend a vérité atmosphere to the proceedings, but shed little light on their mysterious disappearance or their characters. Basically, it's a tease to go see the movie. Still, The Blair Witch Project provided only ever-so-slight information on the legend that haunted the forest, so you'll want this cleverly constructed mock documentary to supplement your knowledge of the film. --Mark Englehart Average Rating:
 Rating:  - HorrorI recieved this movie in very quick time in outstanding shape and good quality. I will never have any problems purchasing from this seller. Rating:  - IT WAS LIKE KIDS GETTING SCARED OF SANTA CLAUSETHIS HAD TO BE THE WORST EXCUSE FOR A HORROR MOVIE EVER. I HATE THE SHAKY CAMERA AND THE WAY EVERYONE RAN AROUND WITHOUT REALLY DOING ANYTHING. IT SEEMD THEY WHERE SCARED BECAUSE PSYCHOLOGICALLY THEY WHERE DOING TO EACH OTHER. I HATE TO RIP ON THIS FILM BECAUSE I AM SURE OTHERS HAVE DONE THE SAME THING. RUNNING RAMPID IN THE WOODS IN THE DARK SURE WOULD SCARE ME IF ESPECIALLY IF THE PEOPLE WITH ME WHERE TRYING TO BE HORRIFIED BY THE UNKOWN. I DO NOT NEED BLOOD AND GORE BUT GOOD ACTING AND DIRECTING ... Read More Rating:  - A brilliant Piece of Indie Work...The reviewers who give the movie a poor rating because it never showed the monster or because they claim that it is boring are missing the point. It is an ingenious idea, with fantastic human elements, and it should give any young film student hope for their projects to be widely received in the future. The reason the movie works, it because of what we CAN'T see. The twig men, creaking woods, and loud rock hits during the night are as effective as the gruesome SFX in The Exorcist. Two very scary ... Read More Rating: - Following the documentary was really fun and intense.The ending was kind of messed up and too short, but the movie as it progressed was intense, sad and very well-filmed. I know that it's just a movie and it turned out to be just that, a movie but it was good for what it was. 4 stars. end note: 10/26/08: and this was my second time watching the movie. the first time was when it first debuted. Rating: - A Film for the Indy snob in Your LifeRemember that guy or girl in your school who refused to listen to the Top 40 radio stations not because he/she didn't like the music, but because too many other people liked the songs and that alone made them "corporate trash"? This is the film made for him/her, and only that type of person. If this describes you, then buy a copy tout de suite so you can watch it in the company of others. After watching, if they are people who actually watch films in order to be entertained, they will ask, "Why do so many ... Read More |
