The Blair Witch Project/Fridge
- Fridge Horror: Reading the back story of the Blair witch legend and then rewatching the movie will give you many of those moments. Remember the students finding three odd, innocuous piles of stones around their tent? Those become as creepy as hell when you know what that means.
- Who is that guy in the corner? What happened? If you recall to the beginning of the movie though, a woman told the story of the child murderer who lived in the woods in the '40s, and how he would take children by pairs into his basement and make one face the corner while he tortured and murdered the other before killing them. Gives you the chills.
- It gets even worse when you read the book covering the 'investigation' of Heather's disappearance. Remember that wall covered with weird writing inside the old house that she runs past close to the end of the film. That was the wall of child killer Rustin Parr's house, as photographed in crime scene photos taken after his arrest. As the investigator is told:
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"It's the same writing." |
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- Also, the three students used two cameras, but their film material is apparently cut together in one piece. If they vanished and just their film material is found, who did this? (Might only be a case of Fridge Logic though, YMMV.)
- Perhaps the people who found the footage put the two reels together for the convenience of the viewer?
- In the "universe" of the film, the viewer is led to conclude that's exactly what happened.
- Canon says all the footage was put together after it was found to create a narrative of what happened by the police or whoever found the footage.
- In the "universe" of the film, the viewer is led to conclude that's exactly what happened.
- Perhaps the people who found the footage put the two reels together for the convenience of the viewer?
- During the last 20 minutes of the film, there are a few instances where Heather and Mike are talking to each other, and they have the color camera or none at all, yet we still get a few gray shots of the scenery picking up on the conversation. This is either the editor of the "found film's" doing, or a scarier idea would be that the Witch was within earshot and was borrowing the 16 lens for a few nature shots.
- OR -- members of the Blair Witch Cult was filming them while they were in the woods.
- Also, the three students used two cameras, but their film material is apparently cut together in one piece. If they vanished and just their film material is found, who did this? (Might only be a case of Fridge Logic though, YMMV.)