You can tell from the title that this is going to be something special. This parody of
The Blair Witch Project was made on a budget of a couple blunts and features a bunch of musicians most famously Eminem, Ja Rule (known for good films), and the "Graduation" singer Vitamin C. It does have a slight semblance of plot but mostly it consists of interviews with famous rappers who supposedly encountered The Black Witch or Hip Hop Witch. Apparently she is a beautiful woman naked under a trenchcoat but she's also evil and as Eminem tells us many times, she will stick things in your butt. The two "plots" include a group of five white kids from Framingham, MA who want to find the witch and a woman in a news office who is getting sexually harassed by the big boss while her requests to do a story on the Witch are ignored by her direct supervisor. Neither of these really goes anywhere. The real joy is in the random shots. Eminem is acting his extremely high ass off while the editor tries unsuccessfully to blur the blunt and the Bud Light. A guy on a bicycle drives around ominously shouting "she's coming!" and bringing me great joy. The camera angles are all up in people's business, probably to hide the lack of shooting permits. This movie is trying so hard to be funny, and it succeeds incorrectly: a perfect bad movie. And in spite of a track record of films about musicians having terrible sound editing, you actually could hear most of the film. Win!
Honestly, we laughed a lot. It's a solid recommend from us.
Spoon Rating: 7
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