Scary as hell...

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2001)

I say so simply by having put myself into the situation in the movie. When it was circulating as a bootleg, the rumour was that it was real archival footage...that's how it was marketed. I only wish I had gotten to see it without knowing it was a fake.
It can be scary, but I think you have to transport yourself into the situation. There's no music to TELL YOU HOW TO FEEL. I think this is one of the main factors to cause people to not like this movie. Most movies, in general, rely on music to generate emotions in the viewer. Slow romantic strings for love scenes, loud sticatto boomings for action scenes, etc.
In BWP, the viewer is forced to pay attention to everything and consider how he would feel in the situation. Or, something like that.
It would have been much better if the staged "interviews" were better performances. Some were horribly obvious HORRIBLE actors.
I was disturbed by the ending. That was creepy. Then, again, why were they still filming everything? Would you be running up and down stairs in some abandoned home in the middle of nowhere with crazy witches all over with a camera blocking half your vision?