The Real Horror is in Your Mind

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 1999)

Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard. Dir., Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Three student filmmakers get lost, hungry, and desperate in the chilly Burkittsville, Maryland woods trying to complete their 16mm, DAT, and video documentary. The creepiest thing about this film is not the barely audible crackles and voices surrounding their camp, not the frenetically hand-held chase scenes, not the bizarre hanging effigies, rock piles, and twig bundle, but the film you might play in your mind hours after itÕs over, trying to fill in gaps and spots of darkness. Every evening show has been jammed with underaged Ôteens who canÕt wait to see what all the fuss is about.