Blair Witch Project...couple of movie questions
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Skootz

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 10:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I ended up turning the television last night to the last 45 minutes this movie. It was on the tv in my bedroom, so it was not as clear or as big a picture.

This guy Josh disappears...so what was in the sticks that the girl found in the morning. It was some type of body part wrapped in part of his clothing??? What was it?

Also, ( I was getting tired at this time too) How did it exactly end...They heard Joshs' voice coming from this old abandoned house and then they were upstairs looking for him and then heard him and he was downstairs...I could see someone with their back to the girl but that is all and then the credits came up..aaaahhhh

Could someone please just give me a bit of info here would be appreciated so I can figure this movie out.

Thanks

Jan

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 11:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll bump up your thread for you Skootz but, unfortunately, I have never seen the movie so can't answer your questions.

Egbok

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 12:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Skootz, I saw the movie when it came out and I can't answer your questions because the damn movie got me so dizzy, I literally closed my eyes and just listened. Truly, LOL!!

Draheid

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
FWIW, here is a transcript of the movie, according to the text, created when it first aired at the Sunset Film Festival: Blairwitch Transcript

Hope that helps.

(Note: It is not formatted so you may want to save it to your computer and open with notepad and use the word wrap feature for easier reading.)

Tabbyking

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i also couldn't watch it--for the same reason i could not watch NYPD--the cameras are too jittery and jump from scene to scene. i felt i had morning sickness.
my kids did watch the movie but absolutely did not 'get it'. most people i know didn't get it, come to think of it.
i'll have to read that transcript myself!

Hippyt

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 12:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's been a long time since I saw it. But,I do remember the bundle she found contained part of his shirt,and bloody teeth. The guy with his back to her,was her other friend,he was waiting to be killed,like the little kids had been.

Abbynormal

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 01:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It has been a long time for me also and I thought it was not very good movie. From what I think I remember the other kids would turn their back on the next victim. What I figured was the girl was next to be killed.

Hippyt

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 01:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That makes more sense,Abby. I tell ya,I was so excited to rent the movie because of all the hype. I thought it was gonna scare my pants off. When it was over,I was like,uh,that's it?

Yankee_In_Ca

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 01:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw the movie in the theater, and STILL didn't really get the ending.

And I thought just what you did, Hippyt -- "That's it?" To me, it was just a bunch of annoying people lost in the woods and yelling.

Didn't like it, and it surely didn't freak me out. It did, however, make me dizzy!

Skootz

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 04:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks hippyt..a tooth..yes that does make sense to what I sort of saw. I do agree the moving of the camera was rather annoying at times that is forsure...Especially being tired to boot :)

thanks for the explanation for the ending (even if that was not much of an ending for me lol) I didn't see the entire movie so I didn't know about the kids being turned to the wall before they were killed. So now it makes a bit more sense to me.

Thanks

It was a strange movie.

Willsfan

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 04:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did you know that some people thought it was real (documentary) and traveled for hundred miles to visit that town only to be told it was "only" a movie? LOL

There is a second movie that describes how they did the movie, etc. but I've never rented it. Maybe someone here will tell us what it was and if it was any better.

Sia

Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 10:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BWP is a weird movie, I'll say!! I didn't understand the ending, either. I thought the guy's heart was wrapped in the shirt near the end of the movie--guess I didn't see that I was looking at teeth! LOL!

There's a web-page for the movie, too.

Slothkitten

Monday, November 03, 2003 - 02:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
A friend and I saw this movie the day it was
released..1999? The theater was completely
full and we were all excited.The movie had huge hype-Scariest movie of all time!It made a fortune,too.
The entire audience kept waiting for the
good parts and the whole place groaned
at the ending.Rip-off!

My friend and I both still use the phrase
"blair witch!" when we see people getting
suckered in,lol.

Sia

Monday, November 03, 2003 - 10:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Slothkitten! That's a perfect phrase to use to describe getting taken in by a scam! I love it!! "I've been Blair-Witched!"

Brenda1966

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 02:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I went and saw Blair witch on opening night in a packed art house theater and I can tell you that this crowd loved it! It scared us and entertained us. The ending was so creepy because the guy was standing in the corner, facing the corner, like the others killed by the Blair Witch, just waiting to be killed.

This was a small independent film that sufferred because of too much hype. People went in expecting much more than was there. The "horror" was in your mind, not in what you saw on screen.

This is what I wrote after I saw it: " Speaking of moments, how rare is it when one scene, a scene that barely lasts 5 seconds, brings together all the scenes that preceded it into one final horrifying conclusion. While many will talk about the Blair Witch’s unusual filmmaking style and low budget, what comes to mind when I think of the film is that one shot of Mike. Eewww! I get the creeps just thinking about it. This film got under my skin in a way that a horror film rarely does."

Why does it seem like I'm always in the minority about these films.... :)

Hermione69

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 02:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with you, Brenda, I loved this movie and it creeped me out. I like how you put it-- "the horror was in your mind, not in what you saw on the screen." I think if you have the type of mind that "fills in the blanks" in a way that makes you uneasier than what you are actually seeing, you are more likely to get wigged by this movie.

Calamity

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 03:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There was a companion video (actually just a really long tv commercial for the movie), think it was called Curse of the Blair Witch, that I thought was much more freaky than the BWP movie itself.

I did think the movie was over-hyped but have to admit that when I got semi-lost in the woods the following summer, memories of that film did not comfort me, lol!

Brenda1966

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 08:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Hermi and Calamity -- it's nice to know I'm not nuts!

Blair Witch was verbal storytelling -- like sitting around a campfire and hearing a spooky tale. People expected a visual story, but there wasn't much there visually.

I've always been one to find the woods very spooky and I would NEVER sleep in a tent -- only in a locked camper! LOL!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 08:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i like verbal storytelling but i literally could not watch the movie because of the jumpy filming. on a winding road, i can get carsick even if i am the driver and in a convertible with the top down! lol i realize it was because they were walking with the video camera, but it gave me a headache. i think my eyes and brain were working too hard to steady the film!
the transcript would be better for me i think.

Vixeninvegas

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 02:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't even believe I sat here all day & read the transcript - LOL well at least it cleared up some of my questions about this very strange movie. :)

Lobster

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 06:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Blair Witch scared the crap out of me. I loved it. I agree with Brenda about the horror being in your mind. The horror stayed with me for quite a while after seeing it. Jaws is the only other movie that scared me that much.

Eliz87

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 08:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was so messed up after I saw this movie that I got lost in the theater parking lot trying to find my way out. I'm almost getting tears in my eyes just reading this thread.

After I saw it that first time with my friends, I took my husband to see it and he just laughed at it and said that it's only scary for people who are afraid of camping. UGH! Well, I agree to disagree with him -- the movie really creeped me out, especially the end.

Suitsmefine

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 08:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What really creeped me about that movie was the way that girl snotted all over the place...had the camera right up to that schnoze just snottin' in every direction...creeped me out.

Melfie1222

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This thread inspired me to start one over in the Movies section... Scariest/Creepiest movies or scenes. Come over and post yours!

Scary Creepy Movies

Pbnj

Monday, November 17, 2003 - 05:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia......that's so funny....I thought it was a finger in his shirt! Have no idea how I got that! because they didn't even show it! or did they? I thought it was such a confusing movie....I didn't 'get' most of it till later.....the house at the end was abandoned? was it ? or never mind, I'll never get this movie but yep, it freaked me out to think of being lost in the woods like that and circling around the same area, unable to get out.....that alone is a nightmare!