BRILLANT

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 1999)

A landmark American film that challenges it's audience to let there imagination provide the real horror. We are watching the supposed footage of three film students who disappeared in 1994 while making a Documentary on a local legend called the Blairwitch. A local myth about a witch who was cast out by the town 200 years before. The students are led by a determined young woman who wants to make her film at all cost. The trio starts out well enough but are soon reduced to three frightened and lost people who are faced with trying to maintain their sanity. They become aware that something or someone seems to be tracking there every move. The nights are filled with voices around their tent and strange artifacts left in their paths.The finale is a scene of such terror that I won't soon forget it. In an interview several years ago Francis Coppola said that one day someone's going to take a video camera and make a great film, it's happened, Blair witch project shows what film can be, a highly original totally collaborative effort by all involved. Not since Orson wells directed Citizen kane over 50 years ago has their been a more interesting exercise in the art of filmmaking