The Blair Witch Project (1999)

My rating - 6.5/10

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After traveling to a forest to film a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch 3 film students vanish. What we see is the footage they left behind.

This is one of those films you're either going to love or hate, there's very little middle ground here. Often classed of the birth of the "found footage" genre, it wasn't as Cannibal Holocaust got there about 20 years before, this is still, for me at least, a good little indie movie that genuinely gave me a couple of chills along the way. The almost constant shakey camerawork can induce motion sickness in some people so be wary of that and the constant swearing did get on my nerves after a while, but I also get why it was there considering what they were going through. The acting is decent and the dialogue is mostly improvised and adds an air of realism to it. The ending is genuinely creepy and stayed with me for a couple of days. Overall I do like this film, but I can also understand why some don't.

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