the hype...and the movie HAS A SPOILER!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (30 November 1999)

i wrote the title like that because they are two very different things. so, here it is: "the star wars of indie-movies"(referring to the hype) as said somewhere. I was really thrilled when i heard this new, horrible,"scarier than the exorcist"-movie was coming.(although a movie doesn't have to be scarier than "sesame street" to defeat the exorcist in horror)I like scream, i.k.w.y.d.l.s. and their sequels, urban legend etc, these new "horror" movies, but they don't scare me one bit. frankly, i don't know any person who can scared by a man/woman with a mask killing teens in most horrible ways. while watching the killings i hope he/she dies soon so the movie can go on with REAL horror: WAITING something to happen. The makers of Blair... have realized the true meaning of horror:(as i said)WAITING that something happens. The real horror is when you are alone in the dark forest and suddenly, you hear something.... you come paranoid, you start thinking what's there...The real horror comes from your mind, you create it yourself. So the film makers realized it, BUT they didn't have enough skill to create this speechless horror. Sure, Blair... was a little bit scary,my heart even started jumping faster in the end, but mostly i was hugely disappointed. It seems the hype just was bigger than the movie.****SPOILER****** DO _NOT_ READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE*********SPOILER********' ------------------------------------------------------------- But there were some positive things too: 1.they didn't show us the blair witch. if they had, the idea of the movie would have been spoiled. We don't know if there were really something in the woods, we don't know if Heather,Joshua and Michael really saw anything. a friend of mine even suggested: what if michael was the "blair witch!!!" He could have put the weird things on the trees(don't ask me how!), and when Heather and Joshua were killed(or were they...) Michael could have done it!!!! I know this theory is really out there but that's just the beauty of the story:WE DON'T KNOW 2.Acting was really realistic, people in panic probably had behaved the way they did. -- But mostly, the movie just makes you think, where else I could have spent those 40 marks that the ticket cost.