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I wish I had gone into
this movie with no clue. I wish I thought it was real -- in fact,
I wish it was real. No, not because I wanted three kids to
die, but because this would have been the scariest thing ever. Knowing
it wasn't real kind of ruined things for me. Yes, it was still freaky,
and the acting was actually better than almost all the movies I've
reviewed on this site. The day after seeing the movie, I saw a faux
history documentary on the Sci-Fi Channel that went through the legend
of The Blair Witch through the ages, using clips from the The
Blair Witch Project, fake old footage and documents, and interviews
with the professors and relatives of the cast. That, coupled with
the actual film, would have been an amazing story -- if , again, I
hadn't found out it was fake. Damn the media. The marketing for this
extremely low-budget film was great and just thinking about the process
the actors and directors went through to make the film is, in a way,
more interesting than the movie itself. I must point out that Jeffery
Lyons is a complete idiot. That just had to be said. Again, the movie
was completely convincing and the actors seemed genuinely scared,
cold, hungry and angry (as they may well have been.) Having been lost
in the woods myself, (through no fault of my own, of course) it is
amazing how quickly people begin to give up hope, turn on each other
and create horrors that may or may not be real. And I'm just happy
to see a movie that uses absolutely no special effects or computers.
Bravo! [movie theater]
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