The Burkittsville 7

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The Burkittsville 7
The Burkittsville 7

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6.4 | en | Horror

A film archivist revisits the story of Rustin Parr, a hermit thought to have murdered seven children while under the possession of the Blair Witch.

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Released: October. 03,2000 | Released Producted By: Neptune Salad Entertainment , Pirie Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://blairwitch.com
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A film archivist revisits the story of Rustin Parr, a hermit thought to have murdered seven children while under the possession of the Blair Witch.

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Crime

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Cast

Robert David Hall

Director

Chris Davis

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Neptune Salad Entertainment

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Chris Davis
Chris Davis

Art Direction

Steven P. Duchscherer
Steven P. Duchscherer

Production Design

Joe Solari
Joe Solari

First Assistant Camera

John Grondorf
John Grondorf

Second Assistant Camera

Anna Roth
Anna Roth

Costume Design

Kimberly Eckhout
Kimberly Eckhout

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Neal Fredericks
Neal Fredericks

Cinematography

Ben Rock
Ben Rock

Director

Michael Shea
Michael Shea

First Assistant Director

Carina Tannenberg
Carina Tannenberg

Second Assistant Director

Dale Obert
Dale Obert

Gaffer

Eddie Dunlop
Eddie Dunlop

Casting

David Giella
David Giella

Casting

Pirie Jones
Pirie Jones

Producer

Ben Rock
Ben Rock

Producer

Allison Graham
Allison Graham

Production Coordinator

Matt Compton
Matt Compton

Production Manager

The Burkittsville 7 Audience Reviews 3r306j

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
FieCrier Apart from TV broadcasts, this is available on a "Collector's Edition" video The Burkittsville 7 with a trailer for BW2, and also on a video The Massacre of the Burkittsville 7 which also includes The Shadow of the Blair Witch. It can also be found on the R2 PAL special edition DVD of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. I saw the first video. The video box gives the running time as approximately 52 minutes, but I'm not sure that's correct.This is a pretty interesting fake documentary, like The Curse of the Blair Witch that came before it. This one focuses on Chris Carrazco, a serial killer buff and film archivist who researched Rustin Parr extensively because of his local connections. Carrazco takes more of a look at Kyle Brody, a child Rustin Parr was accused of abducting, and the only such child who lived. He takes a closer look at some of the footage of Brody in a film titled White Enamel, a documentary about Maryland mental institutions - think Titicut Follies (1967). Carrazco also manages to get more footage of Brody from the director of White Enamel that had been cut.In the institution, Kyle Brody chants what sounds like "never given," something Rustin Parr was supposed to have said too. It goes unexplained here, but evidently the computer game Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr (2000) (VG) gets into it a little bit. Additionally, from 2000-2002, the blairwitch website had a page regarding languages in connection with Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, and a pop-up on "Native American Twana" touched on this as well, but while the Internet Archive site has the languages page archived, it does not seem to have that pop-up archived.Brody also appears to write in Transitus Fluvii ("Crossing the River"), a magical Hebraic alphabet that had been found in Parr's home. However, people watching the footage disagree as to whether the characters he was scribbling were Transitus Fluvii or not.I didn't care for The Blair Witch Project, but I liked The Curse of the Blair Witch, and I liked this one too. I didn't recognize any of the actors except for the actor who played the director, since he went on to play the autopsy doctor on CSI. All the actors do a good job, though. The soundtrack is good, somewhat reminiscent at times of the excellent score for BW2.While The Burkittsville 7 doesn't mention Titicut Follies, director (and documentarian) Joe Berlinger mentions it in his commentary track to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) during the first scenes of Jeff Patterson in the institution. In fact, both The Burkittsville 7 and BW2 have a scene of a character being fed a liquid through a rubber hose fed down their nose - perhaps such a scene is in Titicut Follies, which I haven't seen.The Burkittsville 7 is mentioned in, and watched by characters in, the 2000 book The Secret Confession of Rustin Parr by D.A. Stern. The priest Dominick Cazale, who is briefly in The Burkittsville 7 is given much more time in this book. There's also more information about the Brody family, and some about Rustin Parr - but not as much as you'd think, given the title. The photos of the children Rustin Parr was supposed to have abducted are also reproduced in the book.
mermatt This show was broadcast by Showtime after the cable network's first showing of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, not only to help build the Blair Witch myth but also as a reason for audiences to watch after they already knew that the movie was fiction.As in all the other Blair Witch stories, the more the "experts" try to prove that the Blair Witch doesn't exist, the viewer is teased to believe all the more that she does exist. This particular installment in the "saga" tells us more about Rustin Parr, but adds the interesting idea that Parr was not the murderer he was thought to be. Instead, suspicion falls on Kyle Brody, the only survivor of the murders for which Parr was executed.