![]() ![]() When he reappeared after three days, he talked about encountering a woman whose feet floated above the ground. Local Fishermen: During the early 1840s, a man named Robin Weaver had disappeared into the woods. ![]() The stories or the urban myths that were going around the town were as follows: The stories range all the from the early 1800s to the 1940s. Why was Mike just standing there facing the wall? Where was the witch we anticipated throughout the movie? When Heather entered the room, who knocked her down? Where the hell was Josh and why was he screaming for help? Historical Background and Urban Legendsĭuring the initial few minutes of the movie, a bunch of amateur filmmakers - Heather, Mike and Josh - are found interviewing the people of Burkittsville about the legend of the witch. The viewer is left with nothing but a slew of unanswered questions in the end. And then suddenly, she starts to scream louder than ever, her camera drops to the muddy floor and the movie comes to an end. As soon as Heather enters the room, she sees Mike standing in the corner of the room, his face turned towards the wall and not turning towards her even after she repeatedly calls out his name. Mike gets a little ahead of Heather and disappears from sight into what seems like the basement of the house. The ending of the film shows the two living characters, Heather and Mike, running through the terrifying corridors of an old dark abandoned house trying to look for their friend Josh whose exasperated shrieks echo all over the place. In fact, the movie is probably not even trying to convey anything at all and has just left it to your imagination. That itself is the reason why one will have to watch it, again and again, to get even a little close to what it tries to convey. ![]() Though ‘The Blair Witch Project’ has a fair share of scares throughout the movie, the ending is inconclusive, unsettling and downright terrifying. The ending can either make the movie or break it. It all comes down to the ending in a horror film. The rest of it is left for us to wonder which at times makes us as hopelessly lost as the characters in the film. There are no background stories of the character and only a few things are known about the backdrop of the Blair Witch story. While it’s obvious that the actual editor has purposely cut back and forth between the video and the film footage, the viewer is left to decipher the missing puzzles using his/her own imagination. The film is like a loopy story with a fictional editor inside the fictional story. What makes the whole film even more mysterious is understanding the motives of the fictional editor throughout the movie. ![]() The characters slowly start losing themselves to the path of hysteria and you can almost feel the madness that’s slowly starting to lurk deep down within them as the shaky camera guides you through the dark corners of the forest. Even the actors seem so natural at what they’re doing, you seem to wonder whether it’s really a fiction… or not. The film’s script - if there is one - seems devoid of any real meaning. The filming also has its own set of glitches in the recording here and there which makes it look even rawer. It appears to be an amateur recording of the events that took place and were later edited together to make it a full feature film. The film has no big actors, no visual effects, no dramatic explosions, and absolutely no fancy background music. ![]()
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