I don't like people slagging the best parts!

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 1999)

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OK, chances are, if you're reading this, the 339th comment on BWP, you don't need to hear about all that's already been said in the other comments. I want to discuss what people are beating it up for.
--The Final Shot
The last shot in the movie is the scariest image I have ever scene (next to Paula Jones holding that Check. Eek!). I read a comment in this list describing the last shot as: "dead guy in corner." Mike, back to camera in near darkness, is not dead for this last shot. As the legend has it, The Blair Witch, when presented with multiple victims, killed one and made the others stand in the corner because she didn't like feeling their eyes on her. Mike wasn't dead. He was under her control... or something... I don't know exactly ... waiting to be killed next.
--"It sucked! You never even see her!"
Or so a friend of mine said after the movie. Now, this is the scariest part of the film: You don't see her. You see very little. Hints of her existence: stick men, handprints (Egads!), etc. The closest we come is in the end when we hear Heather get hit... or something (again, we don't know for sure) ... and the camera falls to the ground and the credits roll.
The film is basically a POV experience. We ARE Heather for that part. We are looking through her eyes. We are just as scared because...she didn't ever see the witch either! We see Mike...what's going on? ...There's something behind! -click- That's it. So what happened? You should think about it tonight in bed... in the dark.
--"They wouldn't have kept the cameras running."
This is simple. We see early on that Heather is obsessive about her film. She wants to document it all. She even writes so in her journal (which can be read at www.blairwitch.com). She partially was leaving the tapes behind as clues in case they didn't make it back. ('If we die out here, at least the cops will see what happened when they find our bones.')
--Vulgarity
If YOU were in their situation, YOU would be cursing and screaming like a banshee, too.
--Jerky camera movements
Well, throwing up certainly adds to the realism of the experience, doesn't it?
In conclusion, I have to say the The Blair Witch Project is the scariest movie I've ever seen. I still, four days after seeing it, sleep with the lights on. Maybe I just have a hyperactive imagination...? Whatever, I'm just frightened.