“Like Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, The Blair Witch Project is an art film that was sold to the public as mainstream entertainment.”īlair Witch’s ability to not hand-hold the viewer and allow ambiguity to seep into the narrative definitely pissed off a lot of people. Whenever someone brings up that scene, I can vividly remember it and how I felt at the time.ĭ’Angelo of the Dissolve wrote a piece on the Blair Witch, and there’s a sentence that grabs me on why it was so decisive: The final shot of Mike standing in a corner has been embedded in my brain. The mythology of the witch, the eeriness of the woods, the unseeable assailant–which reminds me of Blackwood’s The Willows –and the found footage made me have a visceral reaction to it it scared the ever living shit out of me, and for a whole year I was afraid of the woods near my parents’ house. – God, I remember watching this as a child and having such an impact on me.
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