Feels from Reels is a spoiler-free film review series, where I capture only the emotions I felt and thoughts that came from them, while viewing a movie. This helps me consider the emotional connection an audience has to characters and stories in my own screenplays and short or long-form writing. I hope you enjoy! ❤️
🎬 The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Resources:
🍅 Rotton Tomatoes score: 86%
👥 IMDB ⬅️ see Trailer, Director, Producers, Writers, and Cast here
📖 Adapted from a Novel? No
🎯Logline: “Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.”
🗺️ Where I Was: I believe this is one of the first movies I went to go see by myself (or perhaps with friends — unsure there, but I don’t remember it). That would’ve been in Radcliff, Kentucky in 1999. This time, in my living room in northern California, rented on Apple TV.
🫀Feelings and Emotions
“I felt…” “That left me feeling…”
Nostalgia
Comfort
Familiar
Unfamiliar
Spooked
Impressed
🤔 Thoughts from Feelings
“I am not going to remember most of this, which is why watching this is such a good idea!”
“Oh my gosh—it’s been 27 years 🤯”
“BWP is the birthplace of found footage”
“I’ve never seen more creepy piles of rocks”
“Those night noises though”
“Oh man, I had completely forgotten the conflict”
“Something so creepy about the woods in a New England state”
“Mike!!!! 😱 ”
“Their dynamic is so tense”
“Anybody who has ever backpacked knows some of this”
“I love the way this was filmed”
“Sounds like actual torture”
“No more innocent bundles of sticks in the woods”
“The up the nose shot 👌”
“Those handprints”
“That was SO satisfying”
I loved it at that time. I believe there will be a remake soon
I’ve re-watched it once since it came out and I had forgotten all of it (except the up the nose shots?!) and I think I was even more scared the second time, which is why I haven’t re-watched. But I feel ready.