the Blair Witch Project

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So...what did you think of the Blair Witch Project? (Spoilers allowed, I've already seen it.)

-- Gillian (gillian@episodes.net), July 31, 1999

Answers

I have been anticipating this movie for at least a month, and it really didn't disappoint me. I loved Heather's character, and thought that for a movie that I think was mostly improved, it had a lot of irony and humor in it as well.

A few things confused me, though. Why was the first man Heather & co. interviewed talking about an old man taking children into the basement and standing them in the corners etc? I thought the Blair Witch was a woman?

What do you think?

-- Gillian (gillian@episodes.net), July 31, 1999.


Ok, I have these questions after seeing the film a second time (I cleared up my first question by reading the Blair Witch website...thanks Elizabeth :)

(1) Do you think that the spirit of the Blair Witch made Josh do to Heather and Mike what the hermit did to those 7 children?

(2) Do you think Josh was dead already?

(3) What body part(s) were in that bundle of sticks tied with Josh's flannel? Everyone around me kept whispering that it was his tongue, which I found ironic because of his shouting out their names in the forest & house (if it was really him). My friend Brian's sister says it might be his intestines even though it didn't look like it. It looked like teeth to me, but too large to be teeth...

(4) Why the hell did Mike do that to the map???

(5) What was the significance of those hanging voodoo doll things?

(6) Do you think the 7 piles of rocks at their first campsite was representive of the 7 members of the search party that were found on Coffin Rock, or do you think that they were for the 7 children in the hermit's house?

(7) What was up with all the handprints/writing on the walls of the house?

-- Gillian (gillian@episodes.net), August 01, 1999.


Go see the Blair witch website and read about the history. A lot of things in the movie are prefaced by the "historical facts" that were cut out of the movie itself.

Conversely, if anyone reading this -hasn't- seen the movie (I haven't yet...going on Saturday), reading the history won't diminish your enjoyment of the movie at all, since there is very little overlap. It's like reading about the history of the civil war and seeing "Gone With The Wind" or something.

~Elizabeth~ atropine: saper vedere http://www.moderngypsy.com/hidden/

-- elizabeth (gypsy@moderngypsy.com), July 31, 1999.


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