Blair Ditch Project

Rating: 2/10 (8 May 2008)

At first, I was appalled at how bad this piece of tripe was. Then I finally got it. As the camera jerked from one scene to another and the music swelled to make sure that we knew something horrific was happening (in case we hadn't noticed heads flying off), I was reminded of the Blair Witch Project, another paean to hurky jerky movie making. Then I got it. This movie was released only a few days before Tony Blair left office. This was a subtle (well, not not subtle, maybe) vision of what GB would be Post Blair. A brilliant satire. But did anyone get it? No one could take this incredibly inept piece of nonsense seriously. But how was one to take it, then? The answer? Laugh hilariously. As people chew each other up, pass the popcorn. When they burn up all the survivors, yell out, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." When the few actors who are not infected try to act terrified, yell "Ooooh, scary." I suppose the current movie going generation, apparently under 17, has never heard of George Romero. They may think all of this gore is a new vision, or think gore has only to do with global warming. George did it much better in every one of his movies and they aren't brilliant... just good. But compared to this nonsense, Romero's movies are the Sistene Chapel compared to finger painting. Hopefully, even though this movie seems to have pleased some, we will be spared anymore efforts from this promoter of sensationalistic blood and guts in which the guts of the movie are constantly spilling out of hapless victims. That's a plot that's just a lot of rot.