Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use of its lack of budget and cast of unknowns. The film is composed entirely of reportedly ".. Read more
| Starring | Patricia Decou, Mark Mason, Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams |
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| Director | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller |
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Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use of its lack of budget and cast of unknowns. The film is composed entirely of reportedly "found" footage shot by three missing college students who made a journey to the woods of Western Maryland in 1994 with the purpose of making a documentary about a "witch" of local legend who is linked to murders and mysterious occurrences spanning 200 years. It begins with footage of the crew leaving their homes and testing their equipment, but before we know it, they are lost deep in the endless woods, with the voices of screaming children piercing the blackness from off in the distance. Things get worse from there. The experience is disorienting and frightening as well as the most rewarding horror film experience to come along in many years, as it wisely chooses to prey on our vulnerable imaginations rather than bombard us with graphic images.
| Starring | Patricia Decou, Mark Mason, Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin, Jim King, Sandra Sanchez, Ed Swanson, P |
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| Director | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez |
| Studio | LIONSGATE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 18 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 18 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 17 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Collections | 100 Horror Films |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1999 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 15 Mar 2010 To Rent: DVD: 30 Jun 2003 Blu-ray: 04 Oct 2010 |
| LOVEFiLM Instant | £2.49 |
A extraordinary box-office success, this looks and sounds like the amateur movie it's meant to be, yet somehow, with its horrors never quite seen, scared audiences the world over, so well-faked was its feeling of reality.
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Original and demands some imagination
I saw this at the cinema the day it came out at 11pm as the cinema was so busy in demand for this one film, they were showing it throughout the night! Anyway... read more »
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dissapointing and over rated
I like horror films and never got round to catching this one and now i wish i hadn't bothered. Good how cheap they managed to make it. Did't find it ... read more »
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BRILLIANT! AWESOME!
The best horror i've seen in a long time. The twist at the end was fantastic!! It kept me guessing all the way through the film
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