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New Trend For Horror Films


Horror movie fans should know that The Blair Witch Project has raised the standard for all future horror films. The makers of The Blair Witch Project made a hauntingly spooky documentary and before it's release promoted it as being real, which fooled most audiences into thinking it really happened. Taking the standards of the horror film to a new level in most horror movie fans' opinion. The promoters of this film made it look so much like a real documentary that according to Time magazine "the Burkittsville Maryland sheriff's department regularly recieved calls from confused
filmgoers offering to help search for the three missing students that starred in the film." Many film ...

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horror films of the past. The misleading promotion before the film's release and the prologue at the beginning of the film have us beliving what we see is a true account of three student filmakers that disappeared while making a documentary about a legendary witch. What hooks the audience and draws them in, is the excellant storyline and the terror of waiting to see what it is that's keeps these three, wouldbe-filmmakers, from ever retuning again. Also, the fact that the audience gets to see through the eyes of the, scared out of their mind, students is a fresh perspective and that alone makes this film genuinely original.
The prologue in the film's opening scene tells us that three student filmmakers Mike, Josh and Heather went into a Maryland forrest to make a documentary about a legendary local witch and were never seen again. It sounds very believeble. A year later,
their film footage was found. What we see next is the three students' last days as they filmed themselves ...

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