The problem with the six Blair Witch spoofs is that the parody quickly becomes repetitive. Each short comes interspersed with some not very funny ads – a lawyer who represents werewolves for worker compensations and alien impregnation victims, infomercials for Blair Witch stick figures, an unfunny series of America’s Goriest Home Videos, a series of horror storyteller promos featuring Jason and the like, and one slightly amusing mock trailer for a film called Stalking on Elm Street that features a Stephen Hawking lookalike as the slasher. This makes The Bogus Witch Project seem like a horror movie version of Amazon Women on the Moon (1987).
The Bogus Witch Project uses the central framework of these pieces airing on a tv show called The Woods. Indeed, The Bogus Witch Project gives the impression of someone having cannily purchased a whole stack of student shorts and edited them together into a compilation package. The Bogus Witch Project for example is an entire anthology of Blair Witch spoofs – six of them. So far we have had – The Bare Wench Project (1999), The Blair Bitch Project (1999), The Blair Witch Rejects (1999), The Erotic Witch Project (1999), Da Hip Hop Witch (2000), The Bare Hick Project (2000), Scary Movie (2000) and The Tony Blair Witch Project (2000). Although the peculiarity that is noticeable about these imitations is that they have so far produced more films spoofing The Blair Witch Project than they have films imitating it. The rough-and-ready no-budget shot-on-video simplicity of the film made it much more easily imitable than other films – all one needed to do to imitate Blair Witch was take three people, a video camera and go hiking in the woods. One of the most notable things about the amazing success of The Blair Witch Project (1999) was the number of imitators it suddenly spawned. The Willie Witch Projects:- Three Black filmmakers try to make a fortune by filming their attempts to find the ghetto tenement known as The Willie Witch Projects. The Bel-Air Witch Project:- Three student filmmakers go in search of the witch that haunts the L.A. The Blair Underwood Project:- Three student actors become lost while trying to find actor Blair Underwood and give him a script. The Bogus Witch Project:- While camping in a cinema, Pauly Shore recounts how he nearly obtained a part in ‘The Blair Witch Project’. However, the expedition falls apart due to internal bickering as the director tries to build a case out of slim-to-no evidence. The Griffith Park Witch Project:- Three filmmakers go hiking in Griffith Park in search of a murdered extra who has supposedly returned as a ghost. ghetto of Watts in search of the murdered Watts Bitch but become lost. The Watts Bitch Project:- Three filmmakers go into the L.A. The tv show ‘The Woods’ screens various films.
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