The hype over BWP defies the very principle the movie follows - fear of the unknown.

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 1999)

I found this movie really intriguing quite some time before everyone started throwing a fit about it and hyping it up and stuff. I was so anxious to see it, but I couldn't get anyone to see it with me. To satisfy my curiousity, I read everything I could get my hands on about it, particularly the user comments here on IMDb. More than once, I was advised not to learn anything more about it, to see the movie with as little knowledge about it as possible. I didn't listen to these warnings, and now that I've seen the movie, I regret learning about it first! I knew about almost everything that was going to happen, and I think it was for that reason that I wasn't as scared as I thought I would be (though that's not saying much - it still scared me more than any other horror movie I've seen to date - I tried to put my glasses back in their case and I had to wait a few minutes, because my hands were shaking so badly). So take my advice, if you're anything like me - DON'T READ THE SPOILERS. If you're willing to resist reading all the information out there, be as ignorant about The Blair Witch Project as you possibly can. It will make seeing it many times better, and scarier.