Deliverence meets Man Bites Dog

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 1999)

Blair Witch Project may be one of the more inventive ideas to come to the big screen in a long time. It takes a lost in the woods struggle of Deliverence, a slasher film premise and films it in a style so much like Man Bites Dog that the film makers had to have seen Man Bites Dog. There are cetin key elements however to watching the movie with optimum veiwing pleasure. One of those is the whole marketing campaign built around it, especially the sci fi channel special. Secondly I had seen this movie twice in the theaters, once in an art house theater on opening night and the second time in a giant super plex. The movies scariness is tripled by seeing it in a small very private theater, it adds to the real feeling of the movie. Seeing it in an auditorium with people munching on pop corn and teenagers talking detracts infinetly from it's feeling of reality that the makers tried to aim for. Substantial amounts of credit need to go to the film makers for their filming techniques. Such as not filling in the actors on all the plot details. Brilliant but partial inadvertant acting from the actors make this movie feel as though you could have filmed it yourself. One other thing that sets this movie apart is that there are no big shocks in it, the scariness of it all comes from letting the imagination get way ahead of you. See it with Man Bites Dog and compare the numerous similarities. Give it an 8 out of 10