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Martinez strikes again!, 19 August 2000
Author:
Giuliano Testa from The woods in West Virginia
Honestly, what the hell kind of premise is this? A group of FIVE people
(is
this a Vietnam movie) go on an "expedition" into the "untamed heart" of
West
Virginia to find a "Tony Blair Witch" of which they have no evidence even
exists! Of course one of the group members is played by the director Mike
Martinez, the Alaskan equivalent of Ed Wood, wearing a really dumb looking
scanned picture of Tony Blair as a mask. The other four include Alexander
Walker, a 70-something British film critic, played by some 20 year old kid
with bleached hair! Of course there's the grizzled guide who seems to
have
no idea what's going on, the quiet guy, and the gay guy (Calan). Now I
think it's a tie who exactly is the most annoying character in the film
either Calan (who looks like he was actually intoxicated for the majority
of
the film, or a trailer-trash retarded guy who keeps following them around.
At least when their deaths come, it's much more satisfying (and graphic)
than in the actual Blair Witch Project with plenty of odes to Deliverance
and Cannibal Holocaust (?).
Martinez and his crew go insane breaking dozens of windows on their
cheap-looking prop houses in their "ghost town" and drunkenly shouting
insults at one another whilst stumbling through the woods. This scene
seems
to last a million years, but reportedly the film is being trimmed down for
pacing reasons - thank god. The prop weapons and animated gunfire later
on
look really cool though, and the climactic showdown with a posse of local
rednecks is action-packed and violent enough to really get the blood
going.
But who is filming all this? How does the guide film himself getting
killed from fairly good distance? This film is full of holes, many of
them
quite hilarious, such as characters disappearing and reappearing all the
time, haircuts and clothing changing between shots, and British accents
that
seem to come and go as the actors get lazy. This all is quite
hilarious.
Of all the Blair Witch parodies I've seen, this is definitely one of best.
I just wish I understood their fascination with breaking windows, and how
this figures into the plot.
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