![]() The digital audio tape only records distorted noises when obvious sounds of yelling, footsteps, and laughing children are heard. After this, the compass fails them when they use it to attempt to walk south all day, only by evening to find that they walked in a complete circle.Īs the group fails to utilize their navigational equipment, they fail to utilize their audio-visual equipment by being unable to capture the menacing presence surrounding them. The possession of the map and compass signify the character’s potential to navigate their surroundings, and in one of the film’s most intense scenes, the group’s cohesiveness takes a major blow when it’s revealed that Mike kicked the map into a creek when he found it useless. ![]() Technology, specifically the failing of it. In addition to certain filmmaking techniques, the stripping away of another modern convention adds to our sense of unease. Wingard) The crude hand-held camerawork and lack of even rudimentary set designs places fear ‘in our own hands’ rather than waiting for it to be evoked by visual or aural cues. What happens when we do want to see these things? We get a horrible-ass piece of fucking shit. We don’t see the abduction of Josh, we don’t see the morbid ends to the other two characters, and we don’t see the Witch. Real horror is the evocation of our own fears, and this movie has our imagination working overtime to do so. Three filmmakers, lost in the woods, which happen to be a historical site of child abduction, and ritual killings. Two decades of slasher films wore us down, and The Blair Witch Project captured lightning-in-a-bottle by nailing bare-bones psychological horror. After awhile, being spoonfed murder after murder and endless bloodshed, watching Jason kill camp counselors wasn’t scary anymore. We just become desensitized to the point of being disinterested. In a sense, we’re spoiled with what we’re being shown on screen, and in my opinion, this can be a detriment to our enjoyment of a film. Multi-million dollar films have a constant presence of special effects, and other tools to ensure that we’re completely liberated from our sense of imagination. If we take a step back and ignore the pop culture phenomenon it became, we simply see this: a shoestring budget documentary-style film, with no stars, no musical score, no special effects, and no blood and gore. The Blair Witch Project has always been a film I’ve really admired.
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