With a Blair Witch sequel coming out, what did you all think of the original?

I didn't think it was as bad as everyone said it was. I was like 11 or 12 at the time it came out. Scared the piss out of me!

If any of those three whiny losers were real athletes they could have just run a 14 minute 5k outta there and not been killed by the witch. Those hobby joggers deserved what they got.

Not a movie critic wrote:

I personally thought it was a really great horror movie and actually achieved something unique to itself. That is; the build-up from uneasiness to frightened hopelessness to that helpless, near sucidal terror in the final scenes was seamless and absolutely brutal. It is the only movie that made me feel the same raw dread the characters did due to 1) flawless acting and 2) great camera work. Achieved more than other horror movies with no CGI, jump scares, etc.

I used to live in the town where it was filmed and that place is very creepy. Civil War history explains it, though, not the movie story. A strange part of the mid Atlantic and not far from Antietam.

I loved it. I was a sophomore in college when it came out & I remember watching it with my roommates & we were all too freaked out to go outside afterwards.

I know I'm one of the few, but I also really liked the 2nd Blair Witch. Nobody liked that one.

Came out when I was a junior in college.

Knew some girls who were really scared afterward, so I put a pile of rocks outside the front door to their apartment just to screw with them.

The original was a good movie. It was a very different type of film and was groundbreaking at the time because of the point of view.

I remember the camera being very shaky

It convincingly showed that you don't have to spend a lot of money to make a good movie.

The original didn't rely on cheap scares like thrasher movies and music does w most horror movies. It is the viewers imagination that makes that movie terrifying. The psychological stuff the witch does to mess

W them like having them walk all day just to end up back where they started... That stuff. Just really creepy.

I also believe the original was meant only for a theatre experience. The surround sounds of nature made it even more scary.

I recall the ending pissed a lot of ppl off back I the day but I recall my teammates and I went to see it after practice when it was first released and I don't think any of us blinked the last 15 min of that movie. My heart was pounding and they could not have shown anything as scary as what I was imagining they were about to.

Fun facts, they actually filmed some alternate endings: one being all three were hanging down in the basement, one being Mike was on the trade mark Blair witch cross in the basement and one being Mike floating above ground and you see the witches feet pick up and shut the camera off after heather met her demise. But I like the ending as is. It leaves to the imagination. Scary scary movie... And original for its time. Not cheap scares like most crap today.

I liked the first one the first time I saw it. We went camping a lot as kids, so it freaked me out. One time when we were camping, my sister and I shared a tent and had the door of our tent open to the mesh part, so we could see outside. There was a tree stump that looked like a hunched over old woman and we screamed our lungs out.

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It convincingly showed that you don't have to spend a lot of money to make a good movie.

Which is the best successful low budget horror film: Blair Witch or The Evil Dead?

The original is dated now, but only because it's premise has been ripped off and beaten to death in the years since its release. A sequel seems unneeded, and is likely motivated by a desire to capitalize on nostalgia and a lack of original ideas in horror (James Wan being the exception).

I thought the original sucked. Not scary, just a whole lot of screaming..over and over again, the same repetitive screaming.

It was all stupid hype. Hollywood thanks you for wasting your time and money.

When will America wake up from its slumber?

best part was when that guy threw the map in the river

Blair Witch Project was a successful scam perpetrated against the moviegoing public. It was dreadful and awful and almost entirely without merit.

The movie was so boring that it seemed to last forever even though it may have been the shortest film ever.

Kept waiting for it to get underway and for something to happen. It never did.

Pure hype.

I just remember thinking the whole time, "You idiots, following the f#cking" stream!"

The original was fantastic, especially if you were under the impression that it was real. Prior to the release there was a documentary released on, I believe, the history channel. It gave the impression that the upcoming movie was actual footage of real events. So I saw it when it opened (limited release if I remember correctly) and I think that everyone in the theater was under the impression that the movie was a true story. When the movie finished and the credits came on, there was absolute silence in the theater. It was pretty awesome. Of course it soon came out that this was a fictional movie.

There was a sequel already, which sucked.