Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3348 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-06-30
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Anyone who has even the slightest trouble with insomnia after seeing a horror movie should stay away from The Blair Witch Project--this film will creep under your skin and stay there for days. Credit for the effectiveness of this mock documentary goes to filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, who armed three actors (Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Josh Leonard) with video equipment, camping supplies, and rough plot outlines. They then let the trio loose into the Maryland woods to improvise and shoot the entire film themselves as the filmmakers attempted to scare the crap out of them. Gimmicky, yes, but it worked--to the wildly successful tune of $130 million at the US box office upon its initial release (the budget was a mere $40,000). For those of you who were under a rock when it first hit the cinemas, The Blair Witch Project tracks the doomed quest of three film students shooting a documentary on the legend of the Blair Witch from Burkittsville, Maryland. After filming some local yokels (and providing only scant background on the witch herself), the three, led by Heather (something of a witch herself), head into the woods for some on-location shooting. They're never seen again. What we see is a reconstruction of their "found" footage, edited to make a barely coherent narrative. After losing their way in the forest, whining soon gives way to real terror as the three find themselves stalked by unknown forces that leave piles of rocks outside their campsite and stick-figure art projects in the woods. (As Michael succinctly puts it, "No redneck is this clever!") The masterstroke of the film is that you never actually see what's menacing them; everything is implied, and there's no terror worse than that of the unknown. If you can wade through the tedious arguing--and the shaky, motion-sickness-inducing camerawork--you'll be rewarded with an oppressively sinister atmosphere and one of the most frightening denouements in horror-film history. Even after you take away the monstrous hype, The Blair Witch Project remains a genuine, effective original. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

Special Features
4:3 Full Frame
English
Region 2
Dolby 2.0 Surround English
Dolby 2.0 Surround
Unseen Footage
Excerpts From Psychological Experts
TV Spots
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Director And Producer Commentary
Interviews With Directors
Cast And Crew Information
Theatrical Trailers
Web Site Access

Synopsis
Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use of its lack of budget and cast of unknowns. The film is composed entirely of reportedly "found" footage shot by three missing college students who made a journey to the woods of Western Maryland in 1994 with the purpose of making a documentary about a "witch" of local legend who is linked to murders and mysterious occurrences spanning 200 years. It begins with footage of the crew leaving their homes and testing their equipment, but before we know it, they are lost deep in the endless woods, with the voices of screaming children piercing the blackness from off in the distance. Things get worse from there. The experience is disorienting and frightening as well as the most rewarding horror film experience to come along in many years, as it wisely chooses to prey on our vulnerable imaginations rather than bombard us with graphic images.

Customer Reviews

original and untouchable
if i was running the oscar nominations at all back then this would have won every single award goin...this film was advertised in such a way that i had to go see what real horror was coming about and i left that screening a very happy adolescent at that time it was sheer class and of any horror i have come across in any genre this was very much in a world of its own...it may have been a mock documentary but boy you cannot and will not ever in my opinion beat what i saw that night it was original and untouched....i have loved many films of all genres but the blair witch project is an instant classic even before you see this...everyone has different opinions on different matters including film but for me when it comes to a masterpiece there are very few that really sets its self apart and in horror blair witch was the only one that delivered in a way others cannot..the only down side to this film was it was not real but if it was the negativity from people who dont like it im sure would have been a whole lot different...5 stars

The most HUMAN horror to date.
This got alot of bad reviews - people didn't like the fact there are no special effects, no gore (well hardly) and that you don't actually see anyone get killed.

That is the magic of this movie. What is scarier? What you can see, or what you can't see?

The premise of the movie (as everyone knows) is three documentary filmmakers head off into the Black Hills woods to explore the legend of The Blair Witch. As they make their journey through the woods they end up lost and even their compass cannot stop them walking in circles.

At night they hear voices, children crying, and creeping footsteps, and they begin to find ominous rock piles and stick figures - signs that they are definately not alone in the woods.

The genius of this movie is that it follows the true human nature of those who are scared. The directors of this movie sent three actors who really didn't know each other into the woods with video cameras and instead of giving them a script, gave them the vaguest outlines on what they should do.

This led to some of the most unbelievable performances on camera as the three start to lose their minds as the fear begins to set in. These actors did not know what their directors would be doing to them during the filming and therefore, they are always on edge.

A masterpiece in horror and the truth about Human nature when fear is introduced.

boaring
The only real good thing about this movie is the last 50 seconds. the other 70 mins complete waste of time. THought it was made up withsome shoody acting and a boaing story line whitch they could have made into an amazing film. Wasnt scary and the people who thought it was must be scared of the dark or something.