Believable and Beautiful

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2010)

Having been a fan of the Blair Witch Project since its release I was very excited to see this movie. After watching it, one thing struck me. All the critics who said its just the same as Blair Witch, or a rip off, or trying to be Blair Witch are wrong. Two similarities occur, a hand held camera and there's humans in it. Get over it! If this is the case then every movie in the world that uses standard film cameras are trying to rip off one another. Beautifully written with a brilliant cast of unknowns, this film really does hit you hard. You never see the 'demon' but the director flirts with the imagination of what it actually looks like and what its mission is. The less detail, the better. Now I'm a 22 year old who used to be scared of horror films and refused to watch them. But then I grew up and wasn't really scared no more. Having watched this once in the company of my girlfriend I found it fascinating and wanted to view it again. So, the next night, I did. But my girlfriend fell asleep after a hard days work. So I turned it off because it became to scary to watch. The only fault I have with this film is that it took 2 years for it to become bigger. Also, I'm not to sure about a sequel, because the irony is I don't want it to end up like Blair Witch 2: The Book of Shadows.
If there's a shadow on my door, I wont sleep.