The “Blair Witch Project” (1999 film) as Inspiration for Revisiting a Painting I Did on Halloween in 2017
It is Halloween week and all late night movies compete to be the most horrific and phantasmagoric. So, it is not my favorite week to watch movies, and I quickly search for tennis channels. However, there is one horror movie that I liked when it was launched in 1999. It is a movie made in Maryland, “The Blair Witch Project”, where a low budget approach convinced viewers that it was a genuine because of the “found footage” documentary. No special effects were used and by amateur cinematographers and kept the viewers at the edge of their seats, even knowing that there was no real witch hunt in the Maryland woods. The groundbreaking film making style relies on capturing the screams, fear and vocalizations of the actors. As for a photographer who uses B&W film and vintage mechanical cameras, the final scene was the most impressive, when the main character, Blaire Donahue, runs in the woods at night. The cameraman ran behind her with an amateur movie camera, making the...
