Great "Movie"

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2003)

The first mistake viewers make when they watch this movie is they treat it like a "movie". The Blair Witch Project is a movie but it wasn't filmed as a movie. It was filmed as live footage. It's a mocumentary.

Everytime this movie comes up in conversation people say the acting was bad, it was in black and white, the cinematography was non existant, you never saw the witch, and so on and so on. If any of those elements were different the movie wouldn't have been what it was supposed to be about. It would have ruined the entire production. The actors weren't actors. The shakey filming made the film seen more amateur. And you never saw the witch because how could you? The students filming the documentary had no idea what was after them. How could you know more than they knew? You watched the film through their eyes. There was no second or third party in this film. You only saw what they saw and that's it.
If there was a script, you saw the witch, and the film looked professional it would have been completely pointless.
This is a great little film. But no one watches it the way it was intended.