A meta-movie

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2000)

We all now the two legends: the one about the three students doing a documentary project on Blair Witch , and the one about the two wannabe billionaires doing a documentary project on three students doing a documentary project on Blair Witch. The first one doesn't have a happy end, the other one does. The idea of "showing the students' filmed material" as is is very effective in terms of creating terror among the spectators, and the result is purposedly shaky and non-professional, but unfortunately creates a lot of empty space, minutes of breathing into the microphone, panning of a forest without any signs of life (the trees included, due to the season). In Finland we have a theater/TV director called Jouko Turkka. His methods of making his actors act include (or rather: consist of) having them drool, make faces, sweat, shake their bodies and cry for extended periods of time, the story being of minimum importance. So, the BWP looks somewhat familiar to me. So familiar that I had to cut down some points.
But: the movie really is scary. Until having seen it I wouldn't believe that a horror pic could be made this good in absence of Industrial Light & Magic.