Did anyone like The Blair Witch Project?

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I know its old but I watch it every now and then because I am fascinated by what is happening to the three students.

I think I am starting to wonder if they are being haunted by the children who died in that house at the end and that the witch is not real but just a story. The woods are instead haunted by the children. Because when they are in the tent lots of children's voices and laughter are around them on the night they go running through the forest.

Anyway I thought it was effective as a scary film because the audience is left to imagine what was going on. It was clear the students were scared sh*tless but we couldn't see why so had to imagine what was after them.

I often wondered if during the nights that they were somehow transported back through time and that was why they couldn't find their way back to the car because the forest got bigger (presumably covering a larger area in the past).

I haven't watched it in quite some time, but as I recall I did like it, if only for it's novel, ultra-simplistic, no-frills technique of using the steadycam exclusively, with no post production special effects, no makeup or prosthetic sight gags and no music. It left virtually the entirety of the bogey-man to the imagination and in the climactic scene at the end, you were left to your own imagination to interpret what you saw and what it represented.

Best of all, it did not have a 'Happy Ending' resolution, in which the disheveled and terrorized heroine defeats the evil and walks away worse for the PTSD wear, but alive. To my mind, a true horror story can only end with the protagonist dead, insane or irrevocably damaged in some tragic and permanent way. Sadly, test audiences generally whine about endings like that and studios force changes with dollar signs in their eyes, but you never caught HP Lovecraft cheating his reader with a bittersweet ending.

Like The Exorcist, Blair Witch has a lot of young detractors, whose brains have been poisoned by gore fest bloodbaths, short on plot and long on torture and cruelty, who can't appreciate anything that's subtle or understated, but BWP is a uniquely thoughtful piece of work in a genre glutted with dumb garbage.

It was a great film, very creative, and I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it a little, but really, really one of the scariest movies ever.

I recall it certainly scaring a lot of people when it first hit the theaters, because the advertising campaign had purposely given the false impression that it was a genuine documentary. I know someone who had actually believed it was real at the time.

I watched it years later for the first time and found it a very enjoyable film, I think the horror techniques were very effective.

I really like the theory that the Blair Witch (or someone involved with it) appeared earlier in the movie, not only giving a description but having peculiarities, and some similar materials.

I remember when the SyFy channel was doing those fake documentaries about the film and trying to overly prove that it's real. Yet, at the same time the actors in the film were doing lectures at different colleges. Kind of defeated the entire purpose of them trying to make to it seem real.

Yeah I still like this movie, but sometimes I feel like the only one because whenever I try to talk about it with other people they tell me they think it's crap just because of the fact that a lot of people thought it was based on true events and it turned out that it really wasn't.

I know that the movie is fake, but as far as being a horror movie goes I find it to be a hundred times scarier than the crap we get from Hollywood. The movie felt like something that really could happen because they didn't drown the quality of it with anorexic talentless actors pumped full of botox and make-up combined with cheesy CGI effects. And yet the acting was good enough to make you believe that the characters really were terrified in front of that shaky home video-type camera that it's no wonder a lot of people believed the stuff in this movie really did happen. Just being lost in the woods at night combined with a few unexplained events and the creepy legend being mentioned was enough to make this a genuinely scary movie that fooled a lot of people (including me at one point) into thinking that it was real.