The Blair Witch Project
I have a love-hate relationship with The Blair Witch Project, it’s not a masterpiece but it’s a seminal work of low-budget horror, allowing bigger studios to both understand and maximize the genre’s potential. This of course has resulted in a surplus of found footage horror films that have created even more tropes and cliches for the genre. This of course doesn’t take anything away from The Blair Witch Project, a film that eschews the out-and-out style of most American horror movies, and utilizes a realistic documentary-style and backyard Americana folklore to imply, resulting in some truly minimalist, effective low-budget horror.
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