Trent Berchtold is a screenwriter with a degree in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University. Highly passionate about film, he has spent years honing his writing skills so that he may contribute to cinema himself.
The horror genre, almost since its inception, has proven to be one of the most varied in terms of the creative and forward-thinking premises that can be executed with a meager budget. Horror movies are usually quite cheap, but they can either be made with a larger investment behind them, like The Conjuring, or with an extremely tiny budget, such as 28 Days Later. The latter of these two groups of films is collectively referred to as B-Movies.
9 'The Blair Witch Project' Directed by Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick The Blair Witch Project is a found-footage horror film first released in 1999. The plot follows filmmakers Heather Donahue, Josh Leonard, and Mike Williams as they become lost in the forest and try to find their way out while making a documentary about the fictional Blair Witch legend.
The film's unprecedented success led to the popularity of the slasher subgenre in the coming decade. Although its status as the first-ever slasher remains debated, Halloween's influence in horror is undeniable, kickstarting the slasher craze of the '80s. Moreover, the film is remarkably well done; the atmosphere is particularly effective, especially in the scenes involving Michael, where the iconic theme music composed by director John Carpenter plays.
Additionally, the gradual escalation of the supernatural incursions is enhanced by the fixed angle of the main camera, thus emulating a similar type of limited perspective that the couple is experiencing. This kind of forced perspective also aids the constant sense of dread; by keeping the attention on the same angle, audiences stay in the dark just as much as the characters, thus maintaining the suspense better than it otherwise would have.
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