Recently, watching The Blair Witch Project at midnight, alone was not a good idea. Haha. Scared my wits man! But really must thank Mesh for lending me the VCD. I liked the concept of Blair Witch which uses two types of "shots". Or rather shot sequences. There are those done with the home video camera in colour and those that were filmed for the documentary the three students were producing.

The show's premise is that three film students set out to Burkitsville, Maryland to film a documentary on the legendary Blair Witch. They set off happily into the woods where the rumoured Blair Witch resides to investigate and film their documentary. During the first night, they hear some mysterious sounds which freak them out horribly. The next morning they come across piles of stones, which explained earlier during an interview with a local, meant that they were targeted by the Blair Witch. Continuing on, they seem lost and camp again for the night.

That night, the sounds return, louder than before. The students are getting uneasy. Over the course of the next few days, they get hopelessly lost and come across more weird things. One of them vanishes one day and the next day a "package" is deposited outside the students' tent. Heather, one of the students, opens the package to find a cloth soaked with blood. Fresh blood.

During the night, they find a house. Creepily, they hear someone shouting for help. Assuming it is their lost friend, they search the house from top to bottom when suddenly we see one of the cameras simply drop to the ground. Has the Blair Witch got him? Heather runs around screaming her head off, trying in vain to find her friend. She comes across the camera lying on the floor and we see an eery figure against the wall. She freezes and soon her camera too is knocked down, leading viewers to believe that all three students are attacked by the unseen Blair Witch.

The movie uses footage from the two cameras to narate the film. Blair Witch uses the unknown and unseen to scare the viewer although the part with the voodoo dolls is disturbing. The camera shots on the other hand are unproffesional - they're expected to be. Lots of sudden pans and dropping as though the actors were really students doing a home video and then shooting some parts of the documentary. I found the film disturbing and took at least 2 hours to watch 80 minutes of film. Good horror flick. Shivers.