Original, Creepy and Brilliant

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 2000)

The movie 'Blair Witch Project' is a fantastic display of a box-office smash not needing to be a high budget action film or a soppy drama story. This film is a fantastic thrill ride for lovers of horror like myself.
Although I have heard people argue that the acting was sloppy, the storyline was brief and choppy at best and the camera work was complete crap; but I say thats what makes the film so creepy and entertaining.
The acting was obviously pretty bad but HELLO!, they weren't actually acting. It was intended to be a real life account of their search through the woods for the Witch, so when they found themselves lost and obviously not alone they started to panic; as anyone would in that situation. I myself thought it strange that they would continue to film even though things started to go wrong but the pieces of footage after the second or third night were done with Heather's camcorder on which she recorded a personal diary of the project, plus being committed to her work she probably wanted to capture every moment on film no matter how scared she was.
Speaking of the camera work, i believe that it was what really made the film so scary with the scenes at night where the camera was pointing toward the ground so you couldn't actually see anything but you still could hear the sounds from the woods and its then that you get the same feeling that they have, you cant see what is going on you can only hear it, which is much more frightening.
When I heard of the upcoming Blair Witch 2, I was disappointed that the makers had chosen to film it in the standard 3rd person perspective as all films are. Although they can't have another group of kids in the woods with their own camera again as it would simply be a redo of the original, I would have preferred if they leave it be and let the legacy that was created with the first live on instead of trying to commercialise it into a big budget film.
As you can tell i speak highly of this film and believe that it was what the horror genre needed, a truly creepy film that can shock you every time it is watched.