So I live in Wisconsin and there are a lot of trees, like way too many trees. I really don’t have a thing against trees, but you see witches live in trees and there is this one witch that really bothers me a lot named Blair. She keeps coming over and trying to make me shoot videos in the woods at night. But that is just way too freaky for me to make a movie about a witch in the middle night in the woods. Anyway I came to a compromise with the Blair Witch and told her I would tell every one that visits my blog that her movie was the bomb and I will never ever diss witches again…
{picture of me apologizing to the Blair Witch}
I will never ever camp in the woods either.
So Yeah- if you haven’t seen the Blair Witch Project in awhile rent it…
Never saw it and I’m not sure I want to. If I tried to watch it, my kids would wake up right at the super scary part and never sleep again.
If I remember right, I think part of the scariness was (way back when) not knowing if it was actually real or not, because of the viral Internet marketing campaign, back when that kind of thing was new and we weren’t all jaded to those things.
Absolutely and it grossed more per film dollar to production dollar. It worked because viral marketing was not an every day occurrence and we weren’t glutted with it.
Today people call something viral if it makes the front page of digg… my husband has done that several times on one of his blogs and while fun to watch it didn’t net us millions of dollars.
The other great thing about the Blair Witch Project is that as far as horror movies go- I enjoyed it’s relatively gore free, psychological thrills. I doubt I will ever in million years see the movies Saw or Sweeney Todd- it’s just not my thing. I try to limit my bloody movie intake to once every decade- Silence of the Lambs was a bit much for me. The cool thing is I was up all night after watching the Blair Witch Project and they did it all without swimming in blood.
I knew the movie wasn’t real, but the idea of it still scared me senseless. In fact, the night that a friend was to come over to watch it on DVD (I was too scared to watch it in a theater, because…what if the witch was out in the parking lot?), I actually had to watch the movie alone at 10 AM in the bright sunlight before watching it at night.
It scared me pretty bad BOTH times.
I will never go camping. Never.
All I know is that movie scared the heck out of me, especially the last scenes.
Did anyone remember the scene where they go to interview the creepy old lady?Right before they actually go driving into the woods? To me her face was exactly what a witch would look like. Also did you see the gate? The gate seemed to be made up of sticks,yeah sticks the sticks that made up the gate seemed strangely similiar to the strange stick figures that hung in the trees,
Can anybody relate to what i am saying?
Hmm- I remember the old lady- but I don’t remember the part about the sticks on the gate. I wrote this post because I always see this movie in the vhs section of the thrift stores I shop. I saw it originally in the movie theater and I want to buy it again, but I remember it as being really scary and I am not sure I want to watch it again.
Thanks for dropping by- I appreciate the comment.