Real horror

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2005)

Blair Witch Project isn't what you usually call "A Classic", like The Exorcist. But it's scary as hell. The brilliant concept of filming the whole thing with just a small, blurry camera brings you closer to really experiencing a movie than to any other film in the history of film-making. They weren't trying to do any normal, pretty teen-horror-movie, this is an ugly film, and that's the way horror-films should be. Perfectly accurate camera and some overly-supernatural demon aren't going to get you even close to real horror. You know it can never happen to you. But the Blair Witch Project is very,very realistic. That's what drives a person to the brink of insanity. And the brilliant part is, that they never even show "the Witch". The kids just get lost in the woods and then strange things happen to them. There's not a tiny bit of supernatural activity there. Maybe the whole thing's just in their heads. Maybe they're imagining everything. Maybe not. Who knows? And we never find out what happens to them at the very end. All I know is that it's terrifying. It's a raw, psychotic, nerve-breaking film. It's real horror.