A Psycho-thriller better than any other!

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 1999)

"The Blair Witch Project" is not so much a horror movie, but a film that delves into your mind and hits at those fears that haven't been envoked from you in a very long time. The dark woods will never be the same. That sound off in the distance can not be disregarded as the wind. You can't tell yourself you're just hearing things. And what you see is real, and not a misinterpreted, idle object.
This movie is so amazing. With films like this, the shlock that Kevin Williamson pumps out should be banned. Williamson's "grip on teens" doesn't do jack for the audiences watching The Blair Witch Project. The characters--which are simply some of the best and most able to be cared for--aren't 20 somethings with great vocabulary and total perfection. No, they're REAL. They are just like you and me. They're like friends you know at school. Or, they are you. And you are them. In the woods. Lost. Hearing those sounds in the far distance, and coming across those sights that will be burned into your mind forever.
I hate "trendy horror." Movies like Scream, Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty--along with many others--are some of the lowest forms of horror around. And so many other films with such potential follow them. The Mummy, for example, tried to be funny, taking after some of these films. The Mummy was a horrible movie. All these movies are so bad, but so many people like them. I can't see why. Now we've got another sickening teen-horror-comedy coming out called "Teaching Miss Tingle." First of all, it is a rip off of the amazingly gripping novel "Killing Mr. Griffin," by Lois Duncan. Second of all, it's predictable already. You know what's going to happen. And you know what the characters are going to be like. You will never connect with them. And the movie will be terrible.
My point is that The Blair Witch Project is real. All of it is reality, in a fiction movie. The characters are real, the story is real, and the fear is real. Though the whole movie is fiction, you can't say that, or, "It's only a movie" with this one. It's like reality, on film. And by the time Heather and Mike get to that old house--which is one of the most horrific scenes ever in horror history--you will feel their fear, and you will wish that you could save them. This is definitely the next Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was a lot like The Blair Witch Project. It scared you because you felt the realism in it. And like these movies, the next true horror movie will come many years later.
I completely and totally recommend The Blair Witch Project. But don't watch it for the expected scares, but for it's psychological terror. And if you're going to see Blair Witch, PLEASE rent Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It is just as good, if not better.