Blair Witch Scam Project - One of the worst films ever made

Rating: 1/10 (22 August 2005)

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As a fan of movies and horror films for 45 years, I've seen a lot, and I have to say that BWP is a totally amateurish piece of junk.
To call this a "film" is laughable. It has no plot, no ending, no story. It is the 90 minute rambling of some dunderhead carrying around a hand held camera filming everything he sees. This movie was made by loading some film, getting some nobodies together, going to the woods and shooting enough film to make up 90 minutes. No film was left on the cutting room floor. Every worthless scrap was included. The ineptitude and total lack of film-making skills is astounding. I used to think Robot Monster was the pits; BWP is worse.
Here is what happens in the "film". Three dimwits find a tape made by three nitwits who supposedly uncovered the Blair witch and were never seen again. The three dimwits head into the forest to investigate. Along the way they hear weird noises at night, find some sticks hanging from trees, get lost in the forest, start to cry because they are so scared. In the end one of the dimwits wanders into an abandoned shack and the last scene shows him trying to look scared into the camera. THE END. That's all folks. I'm not kidding. That's the movie.
In these times when anyone has access to equipment to make a movie, BWP proves the theory that any talent less person can make a "film." BWP was the biggest movie marketing SCAM in history. It proves P.T. Barnum's "There's a sucker born every minute." By using the internet to lie and hype the film, the cynical lug heads who made this suckered people in. As they say in the used car business, "For every seat, there's an ass." I was one of the asses who got suckered. Using the same "based on a true story" technique as The Amityville Horror, BWP lured well-intentioned moviegoers into the theater. If BWP were a car then it would be subject to a "lemon law" and you could get your money back. Unfortunately, the movie business doesn't work that way. Those of us who lost our $$ on this scam have no recourse. The only recourse I have is to slam this piece of trash in this review, which I hope I have done. Why I detest BWP so much is because it was such a shameless scam that showed utter contempt for movie goers. This was not a film; it was just a mechanism to cheat people out of their money.
I would rather watch Robot Monster ten times than ever see BWP again.