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New Trend For Horror Films (Click to select text)
New Trend For Horror Film Horror movie fans should know that The Blair Witch Project has raised the standard for all future horror films. The makers of The Blair Witch Project made a hauntingly spooky documentary and before it's release promoted it as being real, which fooled most audiences into thinking it really happened. Taking the standards of the horror film to a new level in most horror movie fans' opinion. The promoters of this film made it look so much like a real documentary that according to Time magazine "the Burkittsville Maryland sheriff's department regularly recieved calls from confused filmgoers offering to help search for the three missing students that starred in the film." Many film critics proclaimed The Blair Witch Project as a instant cult classic, which most fans of the film would probaly agree.In most everyone's opinion The Blair Witch Project is the best horror film released in a long time. It's not the standard Slash and hack horror movie that most of us have grown up with, remember the guy with the hockey mask that just would not die. Scary at age of eleven but quit laughable now. This movie puts a new twist on things without the buckets of blood and gore displayed in the horror films of the past. The misleading promotion before the film's release and the prologue at the beginning of the film have us beliving what we see is a true account of three student filmakers that disappeared while making a documentary about a legendary witch. What hooks the audience and draws them in, is the excellant storyline and the terror of waiting to see what it is that's keeps these three, wouldbe-filmmakers, from ever retuning again. Also, the fact that the audience gets to see through the eyes of the, scared out of their mind, students is a fresh perspective and that alone makes this film genuinely original. The prologue in the film's opening scene tells us that three student filmmakers Mike, Josh and Heather went into a Maryland forrest to make a documentary about a legendary local witch and were never seen again. It sounds very believeble. A year later, their film footage was found. What we see next is the three students' last days as they filmed themselves being terrorized, presumingly, by the ghost of the "Blair Witch." The audience never sees what it is that's scaring the students out of their wits. That leads the audience to another aspect of this film; the unknown. The Blair Witch Project thrusts the audience straight into the unknown and doesn't let them come out. Unlike horror movies of the past, the audience just dosen't know who or what wants to do these students harm. The trio becomes hopelessly lost and panics when they realize they're not alone in the dense woods that is now their prison. They start feeding off each others paranoia, which escalates when they happen to find some deliberately placed objects that really aren't scary, but once your mind starts running wild with fear it's about as easy to stop as a runaway train. Strange figures made from sticks and little plies of rocks become signs of inpending evil. Then, there are the undiscernible voices, which seem to be,calling from all around them and the disconcerting sound of someone or something crashing though the woods in the dead of night. These things are left to the audience's imagination. The acting is nothing short of extraordinary, especially the acting of Heather Donahue. Particularly, when she holds the camera close to her sobbing face, apologzing to her family, there's no question that she fears for her life. The look on her face says she knows she is going to die. The Blair Witch Project is a movie worth seeing, even though by now everyone knows it's just a movie. This movie sets a new stardard for the horror film catagory. It will be very interesting to see how this new standard affects future films. I personally saw this movie and thought it was quite good, but thinking that it really happened heightened the effect. After all, if it really had happened seeing those tapes they made would be very interesting to say the least. It's not everyday that three people disappear will make a documentary about a legend. Curiosity compels us to find out what happened to these people did the ghost of the witch kill them or did they simply get lost in the woods. Even though this film turned out to be a work of fiction it has enough merit to stand on it's own as a great horror flick.
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