The realistic documentary style is what made it horrifying

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2000)

Yep - I'm one of the people who were truly and deeply frightened watching this movie. The setup of the "real" people talking about the myth, and the three students casually (at first) trying to film a documentary were so easy to take as real. Even before things started happening, I started to have an instinctive uneasy feeling that I tried to shrug off, like the students did, but it didn't go away and the tension slowly built. And as far as sticks and stones not being scary - come now! If you were out in the woods with your friends and you saw a pile of rocks outside your tent that you know you and your buddies didn't put there, wouldn't that freak you out just a little. In the movies, maybe you need a demon posessing a little girl, or blood gushing through hallways, but in reality (like this seemed) a strategically placed rock pile out of nowhere is quite enough. I don't know - to each his own - but this movie scared me more deep down than any other movie. It's excellent.