Is this all there is?!!

Rating: 1/10 (12 August 1999)

I don't watch horror movies. Haven't since being scared out of my wits by Alien on TV and turning it off halfway through. But I decided to see BWP because of all the incredible hype surrounding the movie, and because I wanted to see what a couple of college film school graduates had come up with. My husband and I went (he likes good horror movies), and we were both left wondering what on earth all the hype was about. Neither of us (nor the folks sitting next to us) were scared for one minute. I honestly don't get all the buzz around this film -- it's just three college students running around with hand-held cameras, getting scared by piles of rocks and stick figures. The noises that were supposedly scaring them out of their wits at night couldn't even be heard clearly in our theater. And Heather really got on my nerves -- during the interviews in the beginning, she kept interrupting the people she was interviewing or otherwise interjecting comments, which was annoying. And -- correct me if I'm wrong, because I've never read a lost-in-the- woods-survival book in my life -- but can't you follow a stream and usually find civilization?! To those who are saying that anyone who doesn't like this film has to have huge special effects to enjoy a horror movie, think again -- I did watch a few of Hitchcock's masterpieces and was scared out of my wits, with almost zero special effects. I am just mystified at the critics who are giving this 4 stars and saying it's one of the scariest movies ever made. What a joke!! Thank goodness we went to a matinee and only wasted $8.50.