Debate: The Blair Witch Project is a Lovecraftian horror film
Consider:
Quest for knowledge they mistakenly assume they are prepared to uncover is the cause of the protagonists’ demise
An overwhelming sense of helplessness made only worse by human folly intensifies the rate of their downfall
Antagonist is seemingly always present in some capacity while also being completely unknowable and unexplainable to both the protagonists and the audience
An implicit message of the dangers of the unnatural (campers with equipment) interfering with the natural and assuming they are in a position of dominance over it, thus vastly and fatally overestimating their significance and importance
The fashion in which only more and more questions are opened as the film progresses, almost none of them ever answered, and ending with a long series of permanently unexplainable events
Attempts to answer these questions only increase the frustration of those attempting to do so, driving them further into a state of insanity
We don’t talk about Book of Shadows in this house.
Story is told in the form of records kept by the now-missing protagonists.
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