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The movie starts out sanely but ends on an insane note, and it does a great job of moving toward that insanity by focusing more on the technical side of the filmmaking rather than narrative exposition. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, but Stephen King nails what makes The Blair Witch Project so good. As the movie nears the end of its short course (at just eighty minutes and change, it’s like a jury-rigged surface-to-surface missile loaded with dynamite), the video actually disappears for long stretches, just as rationality disappears from the mind of a man or a woman losing his/her grip on the real world. When horror feels real, it makes it that much harder for you to retreat to a safe space where you can internally tell yourself the monster isn’t real.īlair Witch, it seems to me, is about madness – because what is that, really, except getting lost in the woods that exist even inside the sanest heads? The footage becomes increasingly jerky, the cuts weirder, the conversations increasingly disconnected from reality. The found footage method made it seem like a total amateur job, but because of that, it also provided the illusion of authenticity. At the time, the tactic was brand new, and made the audience feel as if what they were watching was factual. One of the most effective tactics The Blair Witch Project used as a horror film was starting out as a seemingly normal documentary. And because it does, it’s like the worst nightmare you ever had, the one you woke from gasping and crying with relief because you thought you were buried alive and it turned out the cat jumped up on your bed and went to sleep on your chest.

Another thing about Blair Witch: the damn thing feels real. One thing about Blair Witch: the damn thing looks real.

Here’s what the 'King' of horror himself said: In fact, Bloody Disgusting went through Stephen King’s reissue of Danse Macabre and found Stephen King’s explanation as to why The Blair Witch Project vociferous reaction to the popular horror film. Apparently, it had a major impact on Stephen King as well. When The Blair Witch Project landed a little over 20 years old, it became a huge phenomenon, spawned countless parodies and inspired plenty of found footage movies to come, like Paranormal Activity.

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