Summoning the Blair Witch

Into the woods with Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard

"...Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project birthed a genre, and any sequel will..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Blair Witch Project

Something wicked in the woods in this eagerly-awaited horror.

"...into the woods and, consequently, suffer fateful run-ins with witches, becoming caught in doom's lair like hapless insects in..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Two

"...the title's indication otherwise -- contains neither book nor witch. Along with partner Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger previously crafted..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blair Witch

Stay out of the (noisy) woods

"...the woods, and splintery, booming, and downright ear-splitting. This Witch doesn’t simply whisper in from the forested shadows of..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exists

This found-footage horror film shot in Austin finds a Bigfoot chased from its home by the Bastrop fires.

"...The co-director (with Daniel Myrick) of watershed terrorizer The Blair Witch Project hasn’t had a hit of that tectonic..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Phoenix Forgotten

Missing teens and mysterious lights in this found-footage sci-fi film

"...Barber and co-writer T.S. Nowlin have based this very Blair Witch-y film on actual events, namely the widely reported..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Halloween: Resurrection

"...(that honor falls to Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which broke from the Myers storyline entirely and featured..."

July 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: 'Exists'

'Blair Witch' creator revives 'The Beast of Boggy Creek'

"...The genius of the The Blair Witch Project was it was all tell, no show...."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

V/H/S/2

Horror anthology scares up few thrills.

"...director Eduardo Sánchez – helped usher in with The Blair Witch Project), almost all of the imagery is of..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fourth Kind

This pseudo-mockumentary starring Milla Jovovich echoes both The Blair Witch Project and The X-Files.

"...Fourth Kind is a pseudo-mockumentary that echoes both The Blair Witch Project and The X-Files. As a film, it's..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paranormal Activity

Should you believe the viral marketing hype about this techno-era haunted-house movie that's been playing sold-out midnight runs? Or Marc Savlov?

"...have your shit and eat it too?) Like The Blair Witch Project, its far creepier antecedent, Paranormal Activity purports..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cloverfield

Cloverfield is a pure-blood, grade A, exultantly exhilarating monster movie in the grand tradition.

"..."official" Department of Defense Eyes Only time stamp. It's Blair Witch meets Godzilla, with the audience allowed only as..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cavite

This rocketing thriller that pits an unseen Filipino terrorist against an unwitting Filipino-American dupe is one of the purest examples of no-budget, seat-of-the-pants, gloriously DIY filmmaking since The Blair Witch Project.

"...examples of no-budget, seat-of-the-pants, gloriously DIY filmmaking since The Blair Witch Project in 1999. To paraphrase the marketing campaign..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cabin Fever

A festival breakout shocker that twists genre conventions into a jarring battery of scares.

"...may well end up the second coming of The Blair Witch Project. Like that indie watershed, Cabin Fever takes..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time Code

"...audacious experiment that, like last year's indie upstart The Blair Witch Project, may very well threaten the established rules..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Woods

World Witch Web

"...nobody has even seen yet. I'm talking about The Blair Witch Project, Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick's ultra-low-budget spook..."

July 16, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Around the World of Weird

The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008

"...was borrowed the conceit of faux "found footage"). The Blair Witch Project demolished box-office records for independent cinema, making..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Skyman

Alien abduction faux documentary puts tragedy ahead of effects

"...footage film, but because writer/director Daniel Myrick made The Blair Witch Project it's been stuck in that box. Instead,..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

1999 Film Critics Poll

"...4. The Blair Witch Project (pre-hype)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

"...What do The Blair Witch Project and sex, lies and videotape have in..."

July 23, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...Wide Shut and Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's The Blair Witch Project. Any Kubrick movie is highly anticipated because..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Top 10 Horror Films of 2016

Ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and ... turkey basters?

"...1) The Witch Robert Eggers' remarkable historical horror is both commentary on..."

Dec. 31, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American Nightmare

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

"...The audience I really intended this for is the Blair Witch kids. And I don't mean the guys who..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...The Bush Witch Project..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

The Outwaters

A trip to the desert becomes a found footage nightmare collage

"...Banfitch's approach to tension is definitely taken from The Blair Witch Project, as videographer Robbie heads out into a..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Portals

SF anthology brings in genre heavy hitters but still whiffs

"...the sequel's seven directors on board. Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project) and Gregg Hale codirected that film's "A..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Homegrown Horror

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett on 'V/H/S/2'

"...the shocker quartet, they brought on Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project) and Gregg Hale to go for “A..."

July 26, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Apollo 18

This secretive film's premise is that it reveals suppressed footage of the U.S. government's secret mission to the moon.

"...short-handing Apollo 18, there is the obvious comparison, The Blair Witch Project; the one that film genealogists might lightly..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Future of Film on the Web

Part I: The means

"...be this: Go meta. The defining model was The Blair Witch Project, which built buzz by extending the movie..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Ring

An urban myth about a videotape that causes the death of anyone who watches it is given a good workout in this American remake of the Japanese horror sensation.

"...the hell -- oh my god!” sequences in The Blair Witch Project. Apart from its well-sustained sense of creeping..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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