Amateurish Home Video

Rating: 1/10 (27 July 1999)

Grossly overhyped, The Blair Witch Project is an astoundingly lethal bore that spends much of its eighty minutes giving viewers motion sickness from its "cinematography." Most of the movie is video that's been transferred to film with occasional clips from a 16 mm B&W camera. Nothing is more painful than watching violently moving, blurred, extreme close ups of the ground. As for the story, three Gen-X "filmmakers" set out to document a local legend, get lost in the woods, scream obscenities at each other, and then die. I have two suggestions for Myrick and Sanchez's next project: a tripod and a subscription to Videomaker Magazine.