This is my first time watching this movie “The Bell Witch.” At the beginning of the movie, I thought that was just a ghost movie. I didn’t afraid it at all. Instead of that, I love scaring movie very much from my childhood. When the movie was starting, I got to know that it was a documentary. It was recorded a team which consist of one woman and two men wanting to find out the fact about the legendary Bell Witch. In fact, I don not really like this movie, but I really want to give it a big hand for its display format. I thought it was a real record, real thing that truly happened until I asked the teacher. And I searched some information in the net about “The Bell Witch”, originally, before screening at the theater, none of the movie office want to play when the editors go to find them. To everyone’s surprise, this movie got a very popular response. The characters said that they didn’t know the whole story of the play. Each of them only got their personal drama content; it was a special way, isn’t it? The editors wanted to catch the real reaction, facial expression and emotional expression about the actors.
There are some parts I love from the movie. First, it is totally different from the other American horror movies. The movies I ever saw, like The Haunting in Connecticut, VACANCY 2: The First Cut, Waz, Pathology, and so on, instead of scaring, these movies are much sanguinary not frightful. Second, it is very authentic. It makes audience feel close, more possibly happened in our life. Because of the curiosity, we want to find some clues or information about the mystery, and expose it although we may feel afraid or back down. Third, we can observe human nature from the movie. The woman, Heather Donahue, was eager for knowing the fact about Bell Witch. She deeply trusted that they could be aware of it. Even they lost in the forest, she still didn’t admit. She told her partners she knew it. I really think it is an extremely terrible behavior to do that. Although her motive of the plan is great, that is cool adventure; she can’t cheat her partners and make them get lost seriously. One of the men, Michael C. Williams, is a crazy guy in the movie. He becomes hysterical and to our surprise, he throws the map into the river! He destroys their all hopes. I don’t like him at first because his uncontrollable emotion and act. At the end, I change my ground, he is much calm down than the other two people. Joshua Leonard is totally opposite from Michael C. Williams. He didn’t hold his horse, so he was killed in the forest; it was too ghastly to look at. The only one reason I don’t like is the shot of the movie. It is so shake that makes me feel uncomfortable and want to throw out.
This movie shows us many things. When human become lonely, helpless, insecure, we will start to lose our mind, everything that we learned before was gone, and maybe our act just like a barbarian.
I like to see the scaring movie and listen to the terrible story at night and go the challenge “Ghost House” but I don’t wish the real thing happened at me!
