| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) |
| Director | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez |
| Writer | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez |
| Lead Actor | Heather Donahue |
| Cast | Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard |
| Genre | Horror, Mystery |
| Release Date | July 30, 1999 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 21m |
| Budget | $200,000 – $750,000 |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 6.5/10 |
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THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT : In this fake documentary, which became a summer pop-culture obsession, three college-age kids wander into the Maryland wilderness. They aim to make a film about the legend of a witch in the woods, who is presumably responsible for many odd deaths and disappearances over a century and a half. Since all that’s found of the kids is this film, we presume that they paid for their curiosity.
The good news is that novice writer directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez artfully create a growing sense of apprehension and dread entirely by indirection the locale, the characters’ isolation and irritability, the creepy dark nights in the wild, the amateurish focus and waggling of their cameras and by various simple but suggestive items they find. There is explicit panic but no explicit violence.
Sadly, there is much bad news. The fractured-documentary style is easily parodied. Worse, the thematic implication is that wickedness rules. And there is more convincing evidence of supernatural evil than good.
In any case, there is no intellectual engagement. The young actors, we’re told, knew almost nothing and improvised their dialogue. (Heather Donahue, as the determined crew leader, is strongest and most memorable.) This makes for realism but also for banal, juvenile response to the situation. The pathetic f-word, frequently uttered, substitutes for thought and emotion.
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