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Blair Witch
Sep. 16th, 2016 11:19 pmBack in 1999, a co-worker and I were out of town at a training class and decided to catch a showing of "The Blair Witch Project". The shaky, found-footage movie was new and exciting, and left me feeling a tad queasy.
Normally, I don't do spoilers, but since the original film is from 1999, people have had a chance to see it. Briefly, three amateur film makers (Mike, Josh, and Heather) go into the Burkittsville, MD woods to look into the legend of the Blair Witch. In the course of things, Mike gets mad at Heather and kicks the map into the creek, they get lost, Mike goes missing and is never found, Josh and Heather find an old house, Josh is found standing in a corner (as is part of the legend), and Heather is attacked and apparently killed. The footage of the film makers is later found and made into the movie.
While it certainly looks like the Blair Witch got them, my mind put the pieces together a different way. I always believed that Mike and Josh took Heather into the woods and killed her, using the Blair Witch as a cover. Mike is largely responsible for getting them lost by intentionally losing the map for a stupid reason. Heather is the only one on camera that is attacked. I believe that Josh is responsible for leading Heather to the house and Mike is the one who attacks her from behind. Anyway, that's how I rationalized the movie.
Tonight, I saw "Blair Witch", the sequel to the original. In this movie, Heather's brother is enticed to go into the woods after a video possibly showing Heather is found. He takes his friends along with LOTS of video equipment, including a video drone, and bad things begin to happen.
It definitely has more of a supernatural vibe verses what I felt from the first one, and completely wrecks my theory regarding the original three characters. It was a decent flick with some good scares. No extra scenes at the end, but I didn't expect them.
Now I'm home and tired. Thank heavens the weekend is here.
Normally, I don't do spoilers, but since the original film is from 1999, people have had a chance to see it. Briefly, three amateur film makers (Mike, Josh, and Heather) go into the Burkittsville, MD woods to look into the legend of the Blair Witch. In the course of things, Mike gets mad at Heather and kicks the map into the creek, they get lost, Mike goes missing and is never found, Josh and Heather find an old house, Josh is found standing in a corner (as is part of the legend), and Heather is attacked and apparently killed. The footage of the film makers is later found and made into the movie.
While it certainly looks like the Blair Witch got them, my mind put the pieces together a different way. I always believed that Mike and Josh took Heather into the woods and killed her, using the Blair Witch as a cover. Mike is largely responsible for getting them lost by intentionally losing the map for a stupid reason. Heather is the only one on camera that is attacked. I believe that Josh is responsible for leading Heather to the house and Mike is the one who attacks her from behind. Anyway, that's how I rationalized the movie.
Tonight, I saw "Blair Witch", the sequel to the original. In this movie, Heather's brother is enticed to go into the woods after a video possibly showing Heather is found. He takes his friends along with LOTS of video equipment, including a video drone, and bad things begin to happen.
It definitely has more of a supernatural vibe verses what I felt from the first one, and completely wrecks my theory regarding the original three characters. It was a decent flick with some good scares. No extra scenes at the end, but I didn't expect them.
Now I'm home and tired. Thank heavens the weekend is here.
