The After Dark post for The Blair Witch Project, which is the #18 Horror/Thriller.
My reason for wanting to work on this film is simple and obvious. Made with a minimal crew, I would love to know the day-to-day details that went into the trek through the woods. There’s a lot of half-assed internet trivia and even the cast and directors contradict each other at this point. Did the directors communicate to the actors with notes or walkie-talkies? How many ideas were invented in the moment, like shaking the tent or the final shot? Did the cast actually believe the Blair Witch was a real legend? Were they actually given less food as the shooting continued? Were we supposed to see the actual Blair Witch, as some stories report?
I’m coming in early, but Justice for Blair Witch (2016). It was so rejected, it doesn’t even make the Top 1000 of the After Dark project, but it’s Good. I’ll give two reasons why.
One of my favorite elements of the first film is that The Witch always struck at night. During the day the campers would bicker, but when the lights go out, then next image would certainly be our trio waking up to some hideous noise. In Blair Witch, the woods become disorienting, and everyone loses track of time. The days get shorter until it is always nighttime, robbing those moments of safety.
One of the biggest complaints with the first film is that you never see The Blair Witch. Well, here you get the chance to see her, only the film sets it up nicely so that when the time comes you don’t want to see her. In fact, you feel the film building to that moment and instead of excitement that you’re finally going to see The Witch, there’s extreme terror and a strong urge to look away. That’s doing a sequel right.
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