The Blair Witch Project.

The Blair Witch Project

   We’ve recently watched the movie called The Blair Witch Project. It is one of the lowest, low budget movies that has been created so far that has made approximately $248 million worldwide when it only cost about $20,000 to make. It was brought out as a true horror story where a few students wanted to document what had happened. It made people worldwide want to watch even more. Unlike most movies there were only three real actors present in the recording. The other seven shown in the film were real life people, some had never heard of it and some went along with the idea of it.

There’s many aspects of the movie that show how they managed to pull off the scenes. The most expensive thing about the movie would probably have been the cameras. But at the end of the shoot the filmmakers managed to recoup some of their expenses by returning some of the equipment they used to shoot the film. The film was only shot in eight days whereas the majority of films are much, much longer.

I enjoyed the movie because it was very dramatic, there were many scary moments in the horror movie/documentary even though it was easy to create. I was quite shocked to hear that during the movie when the tent got shaken (my favourite scene). The actors were oblivious to who was actually doing it. Terrified they thought it was a dangerous animal – rather than the witch or the directors. The directors managed to pull off jumpy scenes and scare their actors too as well as the audience. Overall, a great low budget movie.