“Ever since pieces of the film showed up on the Independent Film Channel's Split Screen TV series last year, heated Internet discussions have broken out about whether the story was truth or fiction,” the Village Voice wrote at the time.
That’s another thing you probably won’t believe if you weren’t there: At least in the beginning, a huge swath of the public bought in. Nah: People just thought this shit was real is all. What was really behind this phenomenon? Was it the barebones, “no frills” approach to horror after decades of formula? Was it the hitherto untapped potential of viral Internet marketing? Was it really just that scary in spite of what the haters says? But lots of classic movies are disappointing when you finally sit down and watch them you really can’t win ‘em all. We’re to the point now where “Blair Witch” is a classic-which is not to say that there is not still argument about it.
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The backlash looms large in my memory, but that’s probably because at the time it was still unusual for a podiatrist from Connecticut to be up at 3 AM telling you this is the worst fucking movie he’s ever seen and also you’re a commie and the Jews have ruined synchronized swimming, so that kind of thing stands out. Looking back at the IMDB reviews from that time (yes, they had IMDB in 1999, although it was mostly coal-powered), while there are plenty of gripes, most of the initial public feedback was very positive. Principal photography took eight days, but the production overall was some two years. Thirty years later, co-director Daniel Maryck told the Guardian that they shot this movie off of just a 35-page treatment with no dialogue.
Kevin Maynard just came out and said, “It might be the scariest movie ever made,” which was just short of actually, literally throwing the two first-time directors to the wolves (that presumably an impractical course, as there are no wolves in Maryland these days). The Chicago Tribune’s Mark Caro projected that, “Aside from giving many moviegoers a happy case of the creeps, ‘The Blair Witch Project’ is likely to inspire a generation of aspiring filmmakers,” and oh boy did he not know what he was letting out of the bottle there. The BBC’s Ali Barclay praised the movie for its “element of implied horror, a subtle technique which has fallen by the wayside recently.” This was 1999 and only like 200 people were on the Internet, but seemingly ALL of them had opinions about “Blair Witch,” which came in incredibly hot off of its Sundance premiere with hype on par with, say, “The Phantom Menace,” which also ruined the Internet just two months prior. Hard to believe this movie has never made the list in previous years-but really, what is there to say about it? If you’re too young to remember the original theatrical release of “Blair Witch”.sorry, I was just pausing to wonder whether I too could become young again by extracting the marrow from your bones.Īnyway if you weren’t there you might be surprised by just how acrimonious it got. Six months later and this could have been the rare Easter-themed horror movie instead, joining a proud tradition with “Critters 2,” “Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!” and I’m going to say “Night of the Lepus.” Is “The Blair Witch Project” a Halloween movie? Yes: Decorations are visible on the homes and businesses in the opening scenes, although this is seemingly just by virtue of the fact that they were shooting in October. Every day in October for 30 days I'm watching a different scary movie set on Halloween.
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