Cast:
Heather Donahue - Heather Donahue
Michael C. Williams - Michael Williams
Joshua Leonard - Josh Leonard
Review
Blair Witch is one hell of a movie,
especially when watched on your own. The film cannot have repeated viewing but it
has many ingredients which may have been missed the first time.
The film doesn't rely on the special
effects of such companies as ILM, but the tension created within, and the performances of
the three actors is outstanding.
The incident involving the house, wraps
up the story yet also opens up many other corridors for the viewers imagination to travel
down and create different points of view.
I bet you all out there had different
opinions on what was in the little bundle left outside the tent. Is it Josh's
liver?? His tongue?, finger, Heart. I from the start was convinced it was his teeth
and I was Correct.
I am looking forward to the sequel and
prequel of the Blair Witch and I am hoping that it creates as much tension as the original
did.
Blair Witch attacks us deep down in the
core of our hearts, it attacks our imagination and plagues it so much that we begin to
create evil incidents within our head.
I feel that the Blair Witch Explores our
subconsciousness, just like a sound in the night time is more sinister when infact it is
probably just the wind.
Go and see this film or rent it out on
Video/DVD.
Trivia
 | Filmmakers Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel
Myrick practically abandoned their cast in the woods for eight days of hysterics and
weirdness, all captured on film. Armed only with the Blair Witch legend and a vague
outline of the action, the actors filled in the bulk of the story with improvisation. The
filmmakers also resorted to cheap scare tactics ("Hey, do you hear footsteps?")
to get a rise out of the witch-hunting cast. The film was inspired by a bewitching legend
repeated in the hills of Maryland, where Sanchez grew up. |
| The three "student filmmakers" weren't as
lost as they looked, although they were made to walk around the woods in circles at times.
The actors actually had a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to guide their way
between locations. They'd know they were at the right place when they found an orange flag
sticking out of a white crate. In the crate would be their characters' motivations for the
next scene, written in the form of notes inside film canisters marked with the individual
actors' initials on them. Eduardo Sanchez wrote the notes, about five sets per day, while
Dan Myrick would spy on the actors to see how they were doing improvising with the
material and the cameras. Michael Williams reports that one of his notes stated simply,
"Ditch Heather." Considering how freaked out he was at this point, it was the
furthest thing from his mind. |
| The contents of the bundle is Josh's
teeth! |
| The
three principal actors and actress shot nearly all of the completed film --
the first time in motion picture history.
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| The
actors were requested to interview the townspeople, which often, unbeknowest
to the actors, were planted by the directors. As a result, the expressions
on the actors' faces were unrehearsed.
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| The
original working title was "The Black Hills Project."
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| The
actors were given no more than a 35-page outline of the mythology behind the
plot before shooting began. All lines were improvised and nearly all the
events in the film were unknown to the three actors beforehand, and were
often on-camera surprises to them all.
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| Some
theatergoers experienced nausea from the handheld camera movements and
actually had to leave to vomit. In some Toronto theatres, ushers asked
patrons who where prone to motion sickness to sit in the aisle seat and to
try not to "throw up on other people."
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| The
production company Haxan Films borrowed its named from Benjamin
Christensen's witchcraft documentary, Häxan (1922), a source of inspiration
for the film. |