oh wait, it was a horror movie

Rating: 1/10 (3 September 1999)

This has really been the summer of the overhyped-but-failed-to-deliver film. And the Blair Witch Project is a fine example. With almost no budget, two student filmmakers turn a neat idea into a painfully hard to watch film, in the process wasting some amazing acting talent. (I'm actually a little curious as to how they spent $35 000 on it!) I'm not surprised that people caught on to it as they did, but just because something is indie doesn't make it good. (And how indie is it when you're on the cover of Time, People, etc??) The rants and the raves came too much too quickly, and no movie could be expected to fulfill that hype, but still, Blair Witch is contrived, boring, and not at all scary. I've heard too many comments like "this is what Hollywood needs to learn" yada yada yada. Whatever happened to judging films by what they are not what they aren't. Blair Witch is just a bad example of two promising fimmakers making an early mistake. Hopefully, they'll scare us next time.