Crappy description? Yeah, perhaps...no matter. There's been enough hype that everyone knows the basic plotline by now. The invention of a witch legend was well-crafted, but not staggeringly unique. The presentation style was the key. The script was good and convincingly like three college kids goofing off and making a documentary, the filming style (entirely first-person - documentary style, of course) was creative and well-done, and the fact that this movie had no real special effects or CGI makes it all the more impressive.

So in case you can't tell, I liked this movie. A lot. It was funny, it was scary, and it was in general really imaginative and clever. And, with a budget small enough that even I could afford to have made the film, it outgrossed many computer-generation-aided giants bearing inferior plotlines and scripts. My only complaint, since I missed out and saw it on video and not in the theaters, is that there were so many previews I almost wanted to start a petition against it. I've NEVER seen that many previews back to back in my LIFE!

I'm not going to say anything more about the movie. It would ruin it to know too much about it beforehand. Besides, there's not much to say. The actors were good and the characters they portrayed were quite entertaining. Overall, it was very fresh and original, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Sticks and Stones


Okay, this little short video began by flaunting the fact that its rights have been secured by Blockbuster. Already I was unimpressed. However, it was somewhat interesting to watch a news report-ish kinda deal that also acted as though the Blair Witch legend was a reality. That was interesting. The "newly discovered footage," however, was utter crap. Without the suspense, the flow, or even the context of the movie, these scenes were prosaic and bland. In fact, even had they been spliced into the original film, they would have been redundant. I dunno if they were outtakes or filmed later or what, but after having already seen the movie, they really had nothing to add. It's just like one of those conversations where you have something good to say and then some other person says everything you were about to say, but you're just such a stubborn bastard that you say it anyway, and all you get are bovine stares back 'cuz everyone's waiting for you to say something that wasn't said.

Or so I thought.