NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Scarecrow-88 Brilliantly conceived fake documentary of the Blair Witch mythos, Burkittsville's past origins(..how the township of Blair became Burkittsville) regarding a witch banished to the woods by superstitious locals in Colonial times who is reported to haunt those very woods at least every 60 years, children disappearing, others dying. Also, this explores the footage found of three missing student filmmakers and their descent into the woods on the outskirts of Burkittsville. We get a series of interviews from actors portraying professors, a historian, sheriff, & detective. We get an eerie narrative voice summarizing the spooky recorded documents regarding past haunts of Elly, the Blair Witch and those who mention seeing, communicating, and obeying her(..such as the infamous child murdering hermit Rustin Parr, who proclaimed that voices directed his methods of execution). What I found stunningly believable were the interviews with those who either knew or were related to the three missing filmmakers. I remember watching this on the Sci-fi channel way back in '99 before The Blair Witch Project, and must say that "Curse.." and the movie are almost an essential package together. "Curse.." really adds to the marketing juggernaut that was The Blair Witch Project, giving the "lost footage" a rack to hang it's hat on. I applaud directors Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez for creating a complete phenomenon, forming a history and origin of a fictitious witch, using the medium of television and movie-making to birth this whole "missing students" and their supposed "lost footage." Sure, these guys were inspired by such as "Haxan"(..and I'm sure Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust" was as well), but The Blair Witch Project, even if it doesn't give you a definite answer as to what happened to those college students who went into the Maryland woods never to return, still lives and breathes thanks to imaginative efforts like "Curse of the Blair Witch." Heck, the guys even had an old interview with Parr on B&W film stock(..looks like something culled from old crime footage), and this 70's archival interview with a hippie cultist with an astute knowledge of witchcraft. A Blair Witch tome, photos of the student filmmakers working with equipment. Old child and family photos of the lost filmmakers. These guys went out of their way to create the success that was The Blair Witch Project. Too bad neither filmmaker has quite lived up to The Blair Witch Project, making little genre films, but never quite achieving the same experience as The Blair Witch Project & Curse of the Blair Witch. Maybe it is a product of it's time, but it's influence is seen to this very day..it's undeniable. As a promotional tool, "Curse of the Blair Witch" excels, and, heck, some might say is as creepy if not in fact creepier that the film it's supposed to sell!

Doc Allen I liked "The Blair Witch Project"--didn't scare me, but the young woman who was the star did a fine acting job."Curse of the Blair Witch" however was, I thought, rather poorly done. It didn't work for me as a even briefly convincing "documentary." The "70s Hippy witch" was unintentionally funny and contradicted himself, the Murderer was not much of an actor and there were so many discrepancies that it just wasn't convincing at all. For example: early on in the film there is a short interview with a middle-age guy in Burkettsville, supposedly done by the Lost Teens, in black and white then an interview with the same guy, supposed done a year later--he was wearing the same shirt and his hair had not changed a bit. One of the faked letters, supposedly written in the 1830s by a not-very-literate person of Burkettsvile contained the word "fetish." The word was not generally known in the English language at the time.

Jigglypoof I only saw the film that this mockumentary is about today (see the comments in the comments page of the actual film). I believe I watched this on our Canadian equivalent of the Sci Fi channel, called Space... in the summer. I was tired that day so I fell asleep during some of it. At that point in the hype of the film, I was trying to find out if it was indeed fact or fiction, and I wasn't certain yet, so it did disturb me somewhat while I watched it, thinking, my God, what if this was real? I quickly learned after the credits rolled that there was no disclaimer to say that it was fact or fiction. The only thing I had to comfort me is that I don't live anywhere near there, so it couldn't happen to me. Although... we do have lots of woods here so it did bother me slightly. Later, I learned that the whole movie and mockumentary was untrue, so it set my mind at ease. Once I found out there was minimal gore, I decided I might give it a shot when it came out on VHS, but only during the day on a smaller screen, so as to lose that "thrust into it/real feeling"... though I chickened out the first time when I went to rent the last one at Blockbuster... I despise horror films... but someone bought it and decided to show it to some friends and I, so I thought, what the hell. (See my comments in the comments section of the film for more.) I can't tell you in which order to watch the film and this. You have to decide for yourself. Maybe you should see this first for a background story. After watching the film, I am still left with questions. I guess I wasn't paying as much attention to this, or the beginning of the film, as I should have. However I wouldn't recommend finding out exactly how either this or the film was made or it could somewhat spoil it for you. Just be glad that it isn't true and watch these, and enjoy them... if you can.

mermatt This TV "documentary" is better than the movie -- and made by the same people. These are very talented people -- they have the folklore of witches down cold and they also have the patter and pattern of documentaries down equally cold. The use of interviews and the extended story of the witch and her curse all add up to the sense of a realistic story.I haven't seen this kind of verisimilitude since Orson Welles' made people believe that Martians were landing in NJ. As a teacher and writer, I plan to use this show and the film in my drama classes to illustrate verisimilitude, atmosphere, and style. The fact that all of this is done so realistically has started a national debate as to whether this myth and the movie are real. What fun!