The Blair Witch Project
Textual Analysis: The Blair Witch Project
Horror movies always have one thing in common; the victim(s) and the monster. The monster typically is a human who uses some kind of weapon to demise their victim, and the victim usually finds a weapon to use against the monster, usually killing them. In the movie, The Blair Witch Project, that is not the case. The Blair witch is never seen in the movie, but uses nature to haunt her victims. The victim’s on the other hand only have a 16 mm camera, and video everything that happens through out the movie. The following paragraphs give us an idea what makes the Blair witch monstrous.
The Blair witch is not like any other monster you encounter in the common horror films. The witch is never seen during the film, in fact, she brings horror to the victims by making cracking noises, placing bundle of sticks around their tents and also 3 cairn’s that symbolize that they’re going to be killed. In the beginning, the witch didn’t interrupt the students. It seemed that the witch began to stalk the victims, when they find a cemetery with 7 cairns in it. The cairn’s represent the seven children that the Blair witch forced Rustin Parr to kill.
The witch begins to come into play when Josh knocks over one of the cairns at the cemetery. Josh’s reckless actions begin to foreshadow later events, as when the students tent is attacked later in the night; and on return only Josh’s items have been covered in a blue slime. Everybody else’s has strangely been untouched. This event has effectively marked him as the first victim to go missing, and presumably die. Fear begins to build as the students are unable to find their car, and are stuck in the woods. Throughout the night the victims begin to hear cracking noises from every direction around the tent. They wake up to find 3 cairn’s that are built around their campsite. Notably, these cairn’s were not there in the morning, which gives us are second encounter with the Blair witch.
Horror movies always have one thing in common; the victim(s) and the monster. The monster typically is a human who uses some kind of weapon to demise their victim, and the victim usually finds a weapon to use against the monster, usually killing them. In the movie, The Blair Witch Project, that is not the case. The Blair witch is never seen in the movie, but uses nature to haunt her victims. The victim’s on the other hand only have a 16 mm camera, and video everything that happens through out the movie. The following paragraphs give us an idea what makes the Blair witch monstrous.
The Blair witch is not like any other monster you encounter in the common horror films. The witch is never seen during the film, in fact, she brings horror to the victims by making cracking noises, placing bundle of sticks around their tents and also 3 cairn’s that symbolize that they’re going to be killed. In the beginning, the witch didn’t interrupt the students. It seemed that the witch began to stalk the victims, when they find a cemetery with 7 cairns in it. The cairn’s represent the seven children that the Blair witch forced Rustin Parr to kill.
The witch begins to come into play when Josh knocks over one of the cairns at the cemetery. Josh’s reckless actions begin to foreshadow later events, as when the students tent is attacked later in the night; and on return only Josh’s items have been covered in a blue slime. Everybody else’s has strangely been untouched. This event has effectively marked him as the first victim to go missing, and presumably die. Fear begins to build as the students are unable to find their car, and are stuck in the woods. Throughout the night the victims begin to hear cracking noises from every direction around the tent. They wake up to find 3 cairn’s that are built around their campsite. Notably, these cairn’s were not there in the morning, which gives us are second encounter with the Blair witch.