Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the woods...

Rating: Null/10 (9 October 2002)

"The Blair Witch Project" can best be summed up as "The Breakfast Club" moved into the woods for a week-end. Incidents throughout the movie not only ignore practical logic, they throw it out the window. If one of the campers had taken along a cell phone, they could have called out for help. But, if they had, there wouldn't have been a movie.
Most of the terror happens at night. Instead of sleeping during the day and moving away from the danger after dark, these poor helpless souls keep walking right into it. Piles of rocks mysteriously appear at the campsite, suggesting that all three of them slept soundly while the rocks were being piled up within inches of their tent. The map gets kicked into the creek for no apparent reason other then a practical joke. Instead of gathering rocks or tree limbs to use as weapons, they spend the majority of their time screaming at each other about how hungry and lost they are.
Yet, the one true joy about TBWP is that it resembles one of those spooky ghost stories you hear around the campfire. You know it's hoky, yet it's still fun, and that is the genuine quality of this film. I enjoyed it thoroughly.