Am I alone here or are there any others who just didn't "get" this??? I mean a trio of prats walk into the woods in search of a local legend with a couple of camcorders. They suddenly find themselves being "stalked" by something and at the end leaving you wondering how the police never managed to figure out the mysterious vanishing of these people.
Sorry but at the end when the girl is crying and screaming for Gosh, you see her view through the camcorder. In the corner of the house she enters is one of the two lads standing in the corner, then you see her camera fall to the floor...

My opinion, the two lads got pissed off by the totally stupid story line and lack of sex and killed her...

Also...being a normal bloke...I have to say if I was stupid enough to go into the middle of the woods and camped out at night, then woke up to the sound of weird noises coming from the darkness of the woods (call me a coward if you will) I WOULDN'T GO TROTTING OFF TO SEE WHO IS MAKING THEM!!!

Tis like the Matrix, either you get it or you don't.

The first guy was captured and chopped up, period, and when they end up in the house, he is made to stand in the corner like the little children were, then she gets it.

LOL

Good film really.

Totally HATED BWP crappy camarawork left me feelin sick with a headache by the end of the film i love my horror films an got really excited when i saw trailers....really clever marketing but a disapointment in the end

A good substitute is a little known movie called 'The Last Broadcast', it was actually the inspiration for TBW and it's a similar story line. It actually starts as a documentary looking at the filming the guys done on two different camcorders and recounts the story of the sole survivor out of (4) idiots who set off in search of the Jersey Devil. It's a lot of talking to the sheriff and investigating officers who looked into the discovery of two mutilated bodies and the vanishing of the third and a lot of "did he or didn't he kill them"...the end is a real let down though.

I found the Balir Witch Project hilarious.

I laughed out loud several times during the film at the cinema, which annoyed the other cinema-goers no end.

"It's got its shit all over my shit!"

Terrible movie.

thought it was total shite. have you seen that alien one "the Mcfaerson tape"? i didn`t think that was too bad.

I have to admit i enjoyed it, and that it frightened me. Not that i believed any of that tapes found in the wood horsesh*t, but im lucky in that i have a talent for suspending reality when i watch a film.

A film offers a specific world narrative and its up to you whether you allow yourself to be absorbed in it or not. I personally like to be absorbed and let the effects, dramatic or otherwise wash over me.

The Blair witch project was loaded before you even went into it, either with a niggling suspicion that there might be some truth to the marketing hype or you went in with an extreme sense of scepticism, and the determination to pick it apart as early as you could.

Its like people going in to watch the Sixth Sense trying to guess the twist before it happens. I don't see the point. The marketing and PR aspect has nothing to do with the creative part of the film. The Director concentrates on giving you a good show, the marketing and PR concentrate on selling it, if they have to sacrifice the flow of the film or give a flase impression to do it in order to make money they will.

Judge a film on its own merits. For a low budget film the BWP had a hell of an impact, and it wasn't just due to hype.

I'm with Chiefy here, it actually unnerved me slightly.

It's a film that absolutely, under pain-of-death, must be watched alone in the dark.

I wouldn't watch it again, but it was pretty much what I expected.

I totally agree with:

I have to say that BWP was well thought out and extremely well executed. Its got nothing to do with camera work. if you look at it from their perspective. Three friends out to make a documetary on "whatever" and none come back alive. To see each character fall apart and abandon each other in the way they did is enough to scare anyone. It makes you think 'How much do YOU trust your friends'?

The thing with BWP was the hype, there was so much the film didnt have a cat in hells chance of standing up to it, and thus, the hype flattened the reality quite nicely.
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to be honest they should have just not advertised it stuck it on the shelves in blank video form and given it to people saying here watch this far to much hype about the thing and the only thing that scared me at all was when i fell asleep watching it and the screen had gone blank when i woke up and all i could hear was some bloke in the distance making odd noises the rest just bored and angered me