A very original scary movie

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 1999)

I loved the concept of this movie: three filmmakers who intend to film a documentary and end up getting lost and tormented by the Blair Witch. And the fact that the entire premise was made up is very cool. The filmmakers of this movie were very clever in coming up with an idea that no one else has. Unfortunately, many clones will probably result because of all of the success the movie has had. All of the hype that surrounded this movie drove me to see it. I am a big fan of scary movies and wanted to see what made this movie so different from the rest of the pack. I appreciate the fright factor in the film. The fact that there is no bad guy is a very different concept and a chilling one at that. In all of the scary movies that I've seen there is a bad guy who invades your thoughts and you end up thinking about that night in your darkened bedroom. But in this movie there was no bad guy... which seemed to me to be ten times scarier. While I was watching the movie, I anticipated much more than was shown to me on the screen. I kept waiting for something to happen... yet hardly anything did. Here I can see why people did not like the movie. The element of the movie is suspense, but in our society we are used to thrills and chills and immediate action. The ending had my friends and me arguing for weeks. Ambiguous endings can be good for a film. In that way, you can put your own spin on what just happened on the screen. When the movie ended, I was initially disappointed. But this is one movie that gets under your skin with its unanswered questions. You think about it more and more and wonder what really happened out there in the woods. Overall, I enjoyed the movie for the most part.