Well Deserved Praise

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

If I didn't know the whole Blair Witch Legend was fake, I would have entirely believed this. Actually, until I found out the legend was fake, I did believe this was all real. It all looks so real. The news footage, the historical documents, everything. It is all very professionally done. Ed Sanchez and Dan Myrick created one of the most ingenius ideas of our time. Their movie, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is bound to become a horror legend for many, many years to come. And then there will be this documentary to commemorate it, and to make all those future fools believe the whole movie was real.CURSE OF THE BLAIR WITCH gets 5/5.

Originally airing on the Sci-Fi Channel the week before the release of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), this fascinating look at the supposedly "true" legends of the Blair Witch, from the banishment of Elle Kedward, the drowning of little Eileen Treacle, and the massacre at Coffin Rock, to the 1941 murders committed by Rustin Parr, right up to the 1994 disappearances of Heather, Mike, and Josh, cleverly reels in viewers to this fictional mythology. Many who watched this later swore it was on The Learning Channel or Discovery, not Sci-Fi! In many respects, this short piece is far better than the actual feature film it was meant to promote.

For my money, this SciFi show packed more entertainment than the film and it was 30 mins shorter. I watched this 2 or 3 times on SciFi before seeing the movie. I can only say the movie was more of disappointment than "Phantom Menace". I think the SciFi show set the standards higher than the film was able to achieve. Even if you dont see the movie, this documentary stands alone as entertaining. I kinda wish I had never seen the movie in hindsight and kept my BWP experience to just this show.

I thought the documentary was okay except for the fact that the interviews with the murderer were totally unconvincing. They just taped some guy then made it black and white and tried to add scratches, it's too bad aside from the fake scratches that the picture was totally crisp. Other then that it was ok.