Not scary -- spooky

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2000)

I'm quite surprised here since I liked this film. I'm not saying it's a masterpiece or the "scariest film ever made" because it's not. However, I found it quite spooky. I didn't jump or anything, but when you think about how these people must have felt out in the woods and if you have any imagination at all, it's got to be at least a little bit spooky. I found "The Blair Witch Project" to be quite fascinating and interesting. The madness of it all is what drives the film forward not the question whether there is a witch or not. And thank you very much, for there not being any "scary" witch seen in the film. I hate the skeleton in "Hellraiser", I hate the monsters in "In the Mouth of Madness" and "The Faculty", I hate Jason in "Friday the 13th"Â… What you see is not always what makes a film scary or not, it's where your imagination leads you that makes a film scary or spooky. Now, some of you will have that kind of imagination that makes you not see the spookiness in this film (nothing wrong with that) and others will have the kind of imagination that will make them think this is the scariest fim they have ever seen (and I envy those people). I'm stuck in between, but I have to admit that I enjoyed the film and it was much better than I expected it to be since no one I know have liked it. I would probably give this film a 6 out of 10 because I think it deserved it. What I didn't understand, though, was the ending. I figured that "now it begins -- the *scary* parts" and then it just ended. Spooky, not scary. (I saw "Forces of Nature" as well today, and I have to admit it, after having seen that disgrace of a film even "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" [Sorry, Kevin Spacey, :-)] would have been a great film, so maybe that's why I found BWP quite entertaining.)