It's full-screen with rounded edges, as the movie was. As the liner notes state, "Here it is, the DVD of a film shot mostly on Hi8 video." I didn't see the movie in the theater, but another IGN employee recently told me it looks better on DVD than in the theater.
Video-wise, it's not amazing, but that's part of the point of the movie. 8 out of 10Īs a DVD product, The Blair Witch Project is as good as we could hope it to be. Those little kids' handprints all over the place? Hbuhgnuhbuh. I don't know if I'd say it's "the scariest movie ever," as it was initially hyped to be, but by the end I was definitely very freaked out, and my heart was beating pretty fast when the credits rolled. The inventive part (and the reason the film was made so cheaply) is that the film consists entirely of footage shot by the actors. It follows student filmmakers Heather, Josh, and Mike out to the Maryland woods as they shoot a documentary about a legendary witch that supposedly lives there.
The Blair Witch Project is definitely a very good, very creepy movie. The prevailing view shifted from that the film was brilliant to that it wasn't that good at all.įortunately, this reviewer waited out all the hype, good and bad, so that when I finally saw The Blair Witch Project on DVD the other night, I didn't know what to expect. When they didn't find it to be the scariest movie ever made, they concluded immediately that it sucked, and the backlash began. Hailed by reviewers as brilliant, inventive filmmaking that managed to scare on a meager $22,000 budget, people crowded to the theaters expecting the scariest movie ever made. Few movies have suffered from their own hype as much as last summer's surprise low-budget hit, The Blair Witch Project.
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