[ Spolier Alert : If you haven't seen the Blair Witch Project and don't want to know what happens in the end, stop reading this thread now ]

I saw the BWP last night - and thought it was actually very good. Plenty of eerieness and a genuine feeling of unease that builds up after every night they spent lost in those woods.

What I didn't really understand however was the ending. At the point where they enter the derelict house I thought that the "Blair Witch" would shortly be revealed, only to be presented with a rather confusing ending that left me trying to work out what had just happened.

In the very end scene, we can hear Heather screaming in terror at something, and then she walks into a room holding the camera, only to see the other guy standing in the corner. Why was he standing in the corner ? I had gotten the impression that he had just been knocked out by something from behind, shortly after which Heather ends up dropping the camera on the floor and the film ends.

I'm not convinced that there is an actual explanation - I think that the idea is to try and work out for yourself what happened.

Anyone got any good theories as to what the ending was all about ? :sd

I had the feeling that he had been taken over by the witch and was killing everyone, which was why she ran from him at the end

[blue]You obviously weren't paying attention at the very start of the film, SaRuMaN... lol.

When they are doing the vox pop interviews at the start, the legend of the Blair Witch is explained as understood by the locals. One story is of a man living in the woods who became controlled by the evil influence of the witch and ended up kidnapping children and taking them back to his house in the woods.
He killed the kids, but he didn't want their eyes watching him when he did it, so he made one stand in the corner with their back to him while he killed another....

Rustin Parr was his name, I think, and the mystery of the film is: Rustin Parr is dead - so who killed the three interviewers?
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Ah, now I'm beginning to understand. ;D

If that was the case however, where were those baby screams coming from ?

[blue]Another mystery of the mystery.

If the researchers were killed by someone impersonating either Rustin Parr or just a nut, then why the odd piles of stones and the wicker figurines and the baby screams?

If the researchers were killed by the Blair Witch, then why did she not kill the children herself instead of getting Rustin Parr to do it?

For my part, I enjoyed the finding of the stones, the figurines and the creepy noises, and most of all the way the characters spiralled down into fear/anger/confusion.

Took me months to go back into the woods, and I like trees, dammit!!
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actually, i think the guy in the corner had his eyes 'removed'. didn't they get some finger or something bloody in a little package?

that movie is creepy as hell.

And wasn't he floating a couple of inches off the floor. :o

And i think that was a tooth in the stick bundle..........i think.

Yeah it was a creepy one!

One the way back at night, as I'm living near the woods, I was hoping my car not to break down! :s4

Let me tell you about a supposition that friends of mine saw on the web. Some believed that all this Witch Story was a plot for the young men to bring Heather to the woods and kill her, and I think that some of the events could match with this theory, huh?

O.K. I watched a lot of horror movies as a teenager .Infact I think I could just about recite word for word all the Nightmare on Elm st. movies , and could hum the musical score for the Halloween movies (definetly the worlds best horror movie music). But that Blair Witch thing I couldn't watch that again even if you payed me .I couldn't go outside at night for 3 months , beleive me I don't generally scare easilly. But the screams from the first victim where so realistic , and I beleive we where meant to think that the witch had taken controll of the first victim in the same way she had taken controll of Rustin Parr.
BTW it was a liver in the parcell ......eeewwww

the guy was in the corner because he's dead. he's standing up because he's hanging on a hook. you obiviously can't see the hook but his feet aren't touching the ground or at least it looks like he's on his tippy-toes and you wouldn't be on your tippy-toes if someone was screaming their head off at the back of you.
my brother came up with the idea that he was on a hook but i just said to him "he's taking a piss" because i couldn't come up with anything else but he confirmed his idea with a website on the internet.


on another note I JUST FINISHED MY LAST DAY OF YEAR 12 TODAY...WHICH MEANS NO MORE SCHOOL, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOO!!!!!!

Congratulations Dowdy :sk

Congrats Dowdy!

Yeah Kismit, that was one of the most scarying, because everything is suggested!

WELL DONE DOWDY! YOU MADE IT!! :sk

Ok, i'm going to clear this up because i'm a blair witch freak.

It was TEETH in the package. And perhaps a tounge, you can't tell. But it was definately TEETH!


Ok? Good. Just to clear that up.

i personally thought it was BOmb of a movie as in awful.......all it did was give me a headache from watching them run w/ a camera....was very disappointed.....i do agree w/ loonboy though on the ending.

--MP

I remember this movie now, damn!

Friends and I went to see it when it
first came out, none of us knew what
to expect.

Up unitl about half way throu the movie
I was laughing at everything, saying
things like "yeah right" and "oh sure"
"this is stupid"

Then when things got intense and insane
I got quiet, found myself looking at
others in the theater, I started asking
"is this for real?" "what is this sh__"
then I became angry because I had never
had a movie scare me before!

I got up, walked out in the middle,
left the theater, and lit a cigarette
in the parking lot and noticed that
I was actually shaking.

I remember spending the rest of the
time sitting on the hood of the car
thinking about what I had just seen.
I realized that I had just been made
a fool by a stupid movie! I was really
pissed!

I started laughing and said "I can't
believe I fell for that sh__"
after almost turning blue from laughing
and calming down, seeing everyone
exiting the theater I remember thinking
to myself, I hope I am not the only one
who fell for this crap!

I had almost forgotten about this movie
Thanks for bringing back the memories!

PS, I am kinda new here and I love this
web site and, almost every discussion
here is amazing, I have not spent this
much time on the web reading, since
my first day on the internet!

Gazz

I really like BWP, I saw it when it was in it's first limited release in Los Angeles. I don't scare easily either, but this one got to me.

I love the fact that you actually never see anything. My imagination is far better than any monster that you could ever create...

I didn't get the ending right away either. I was walking out of the theater before it hit me that he was standing in the corner like the story of the little kids that were murdered.

Meanwhile I come home to my house in the middle of the woods. Miles from the nearest neighbor. Dark woods...

I read that the way that they got the performance from the actors was that they never really had a script to go by. The director would take them out into the middle of woods and give them a general idea of what he wanted them to do, and a direction they should go in as far as moving the plot forward. They didn't have trailers to stay in, or hotels. They stayed in tents, on the ground. When the tent was being attacked, they had no idea that was going to happen...scared the heck out of them for real...Same goes for the little kids sounds, the actors had no idea that was coming.

When I saw this in the cinema, people started walking out.
There was a couple behind me. The girl said "C'mon, lets go...this isnt very good"
And he said "no. we stay. I wont want to leave until all three of thse b******* have died"

i may get some crap for this but i really hated the Blair Witch i thought it was a horrible movie that should never had been made no matter what the fact that they came out with a 2nd movie means that hollywood is really dumb

Cliche it may be, but it still holds true....

What you don't know or see is infinitely more scary. That is why Blair Witch, Alien, and The Haunting are so effective. They keep your imagination rolling and usually the demons we conjure up in our minds are more frightening than anything Hollywood has to offer.

That is why I was very disappointed in Stephen King's novels The Shining. 'Salem's Lot, and Christine. In every case the evil was revealed and identified in the end right out.

Luckily the screen versions avoids such stupid revelatory letdowns. In the Shining we never know if Jack Torrance went crazy on his own or it was the Hotel. In 'Salem's Lot, we got a horrific Nosferatu that do not communicate and appears in quick flashes as opposed to the smooth talking European vampire in the book. In Christine, it was never revealed if the car itself was evil, or possessed by the spirit of her previous owner.

As for Blair Witch, it would be better if none of what we saw would ever be explained. Because otherwise, the impact of the movie would be lessen.