love or hate it, it started a new genre

Rating: 7/10 (19 September 2016)

Love or hate it, it's the film that started a new era in the horror genre, the found footage. It's true, Cannibal Holocaust (1980) started it all but this flick came out in the beginning of the internet. The Web was something that everybody started to know and this flick was well promoted on that way. Not everybody was comfortable with the web and giving nothing away except the title did the thing. I was in the US when it was promoted and yes, you did believe what you saw.
Cannibal Holocaust surely was a found footage but it was all about cannibalism. And it's there that Holocaust fitted in. The Blair Witch was controversial because love or hate, no in between was possible. Some were afraid seeing it others fell asleep. But it do has a few creep moments especially the night scenes.
Is it all that great, that's the big issue because the only effects used are done with branches and stones. And that's just why it all looked real.
The remake is now a few days before release so I will surely go watch it. Therefor I recommend to see the original one which also spawned a sequel that was terrible. But without the Blair we would never had the Paranormal Activity franchise and so many other found footage flicks.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5