I was looking for something to watch and after listening to a couple of reviews on www.BleedingCritic.com I decided to give this film a watch. I’ve always been partial to a found footage style film add in some demon possession along with Bleeding Critic’s review praising the film and I was looking forward to this.
This film seemed to come out of nowhere, I love the original despite it spawning a crap load of terrible found footage films. The sequel to what is arguably the best marketed horror film (if not just film in general) of all time was a huge disappointment as it went away from found footage and ended up being run of the mill boring. I was happy that this was going to return to what made the original so successful and hopefully add a bit more to the mythology of the Blair Witch.
As I’ve mentioned, I enjoy a found footage film but for some unknown reason I’ve never seen possibly the most famous one of the last decade or so. A few of my mates had said it wasn’t that good and I’d just not taken an interest in seeing it until recently. I guess this means I’ll have to watch all the sequels this has spawned as well at some point!
When I started this blog I told myself that I would review every horror film I watch from now on and so far I’ve done this. Sometimes this means writing a review of a film I assume nearly every horror fan has seen. So just think of these types of “reviews” as more of a nostalgia trip, a look back to horror films of the past! So here’s my review/look back of The Blair Witch Project.
After checking a list of the films that were shown at last years FrightFest, me and Mrs AcidBurn decided to give this one a go based on the synopsis. We didn’t know that it was Spanish or that it was a found footage film, as I’ve said before I have a soft spot for monster movies and for found footage films. (Edit-Also turns out this film is Peruvian not Spanish!)
Another found footage film! I’d never seen this film until a few days a go despite hearing a lot about it and watching Quarantine which is the Americanized version of it. For some reason I’d just never fancied it, maybe for the silly reason that I did not like the American remake. When out shopping me and Mrs Acidburn noticed the REC trilogy on sale and thought sod it lets give it a go, it promptly sat on my horror DVD shelf for 6 months or more until we decided to give it a watch.
I’ve seen this film loads of times on Netflix and for some reason every time I’d breeze past it and watch something else instead. Eventually I decided to give it a watch due to how cool looking the monsters looked on the background of Netflix. I must admit I am partial to found footage films for some reason I really enjoy quite a few of them.
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