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Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)

July. 11,1999
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6.5
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NR
| Horror Thriller
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A mockumentary exploring the life of the Blair Witch and the three missing student filmmakers.

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Greenes
1999/07/11

Please don't spend money on this.

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SnoReptilePlenty
1999/07/12

Memorable, crazy movie

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Reptileenbu
1999/07/13

Did you people see the same film I saw?

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Micransix
1999/07/14

Crappy film

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Horst in Translation ([email protected])
1999/07/15

I have to say I am a huge fan of "The Blair Witch Project". Horror films with unseen danger are exactly my cup of tea, so I would maybe even go so far and call it my favorite horror movie of all time. This piece here is a 43-minute add-on, which basically tells us what happened after the film, i.e. how they found the victims, investigated into the matter etc. There are interviews with family members etc. Still, you always have to keep in mind that this is not a real documentary, even if IMDb lists it as such. It's really more of a sequel than anything else, and also more than the actual very weak sequel. There are news telecasts in here, but everything about it is fake and only adds to the myth of the Blair Witch. In my opinion, these 43 minutes are at their best when they stay pretty close to the subject and I did not really care a whole lot about the references to the history of witches or a child murderer. Actually, I believe, if they had done without some of that and kept this film at 30 minutes max maybe, this could have been really great. But, even the way it is, it's still fairly decent, maybe also because this was written and directed by Myrick and Sánchez, the duo that also came up with the original film, a bit of a rarity that you see the original directors also coming up with the making-of. A bit of a pity that the two never came close again to their success from "Blair Witch Project" in the last 15 years and are not really prolific anymore in terms of movie-making. Same can be said about two of the three actors, including Heather Donahue. A bit of a shame that most of the people involved with the movie stayed one-hit wonders. Still, we can be grateful for what they came up with. This is a solid mockumentary here and I recommend it to everybody who loved the original movie.

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Doc Allen
1999/07/16

I liked "The Blair Witch Project"--didn't scare me, but the young woman who was the star did a fine acting job."Curse of the Blair Witch" however was, I thought, rather poorly done. It didn't work for me as a even briefly convincing "documentary." The "70s Hippy witch" was unintentionally funny and contradicted himself, the Murderer was not much of an actor and there were so many discrepancies that it just wasn't convincing at all. For example: early on in the film there is a short interview with a middle-age guy in Burkettsville, supposedly done by the Lost Teens, in black and white then an interview with the same guy, supposed done a year later--he was wearing the same shirt and his hair had not changed a bit. One of the faked letters, supposedly written in the 1830s by a not-very-literate person of Burkettsvile contained the word "fetish." The word was not generally known in the English language at the time.

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Blim
1999/07/17

I thought the documentary was okay except for the fact that the interviews with the murderer were totally unconvincing. They just taped some guy then made it black and white and tried to add scratches, it's too bad aside from the fake scratches that the picture was totally crisp. Other then that it was ok.

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andy-227
1999/07/18

I hate to say, this "mockumentary" didn't impress me. Although it was very informative on the(fake) "Blair Witch" legend, it added some very annoying characters to the scene. I hated the idiotic and obese sheriff Ronald Cravens, who thought the whole thing was a hoax. Pretty smug. I also didn't care for the fact that it was presented without stating the fact that this "mockumentary" was fictitious. Otherwise, I guess it was okay. The only way to really experience the phenomenon and terror of "The Blair Witch Project" is to see the film. I'm a hardcore fan of "The Blair Witch Project", so I guess it's for hardcore fans only. It's also somewhat scarier to see "The Blair Witch Project" without any knowledge of the back story or what's in the film. Basically what I'm saying is, see the movie.

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