![]() ![]() ![]() The Blair Witch Project is, in a word, brilliant - and is even more impressive considering that it's the debut effort from filmmakers Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick. It's a horror movie that lives up to its name, and does so with only one brief scene of mild gore. And, while The Blair Witch Project belongs in the same loosely defined category, it's another kind of film altogether. Titles like Dadetown, Unmade Beds, Forgotten Silver, and 20 Dates have toyed with the line between fiction and reality in often interesting ways. Recent years have seen a dramatic upturn in the number of so-called "meta-documentaries" (or "mockumentaries"): real-seeming fakes in the mold of Orson Welles' infamous "War of the Worlds" radio play. Word-of-mouth was so strong that a special screening had to be scheduled in the 1300-seat Eccles theater, and it was packed. The Blair Witch Project caused a major stir with Sundance, and for good reason - it was perhaps the most offbeat, energetic, and eye-opening motion picture to screen there. It's an effective and startling hook to open a film, and the product that follows delivers on the promise of this unusual premise. A year later their footage was found." With this ominous pronouncement on a title card, The Blair Witch Project begins. "In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. ![]()
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