Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 194: Sat Jul 13

The Blair Witch Project (Myrick/Sanchez, 1999): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.50pm


This 35mm presentation, also being screened on July 21st and 23rd, is part of the Nineties season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
A pretty impressive horror film in the form of a documentary, supposedly made up of footage shot by three film students on a trek through Maryland's Black Hills Forest to investigate legends about a witch. What gives the film much of its force and its mounting sense of queasy uncertainty is its narrative method, which ensures that we know no more about the proceedings than the characters do and that our imaginations play as active and ambiguous a role as theirs. Written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez; with Heather Donohue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard, all of whom do fine jobs.
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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