While watching the Blair Witch Project and just reading about it after, I heard about this film. As both wikipedia and IMBD notes, the film got some attention following the release of ‘Blair Witch’ owing to the somewhat similar manner and ‘documentary’ filming.
Thought it is fairly short and actually quite enjoyable, there is a very good reason why this movie remains much-less well known than Blair Witch. I’m going to give a few ‘spoilers’ in this so just beware.
Though for most of the film, the information being presented as though it was a real documentary, for some bizarre reason in the last 15 minutes, the movie jumps into third-person omnipresent camera which is both incredibly jarring and completely removes you from the film. In fact, when you’re watching it, if the movie changed around a few small things and finished at around 1.10, or added a completely different ending, it is quite possible that this film would be seen as an enjoyable ‘alternative’ to the Blair Witch. What’s incredibly annoying is that nobody thought to say it to the filmmakers that the ending was just silly. Especially as, if they simply explained the reappearance of the extra film in another way and never were able to reconstruct that final frame, while possibly adding another 10 minutes to unnerve you, the whole thing would be a much better contender for being the best ‘real’ horror documentary out there.
Instead though, you get something that’s an enjoyable, if perhaps somewhat wasteful way of spending a hungover bank holiday Monday..
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