It wasn't the scariest movie ever made...

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 1999)

I didn't really want to see this movie to begin with. I'll be very honest. I wanted to go see "Runaway Bride." But I did go to see it and was really angry that I had paid money to do so. I thought the actors were quite good, especially Heather Donahue as the obsessive film-maker. I thought the concept was excellent. Even the idea that you couldn't see what got them was cool. My main problem was this: even in old horror movies where you didn't see the advancing killer entity, you could still see the reactions on the faces of the people it was going to get. As far as reactions, all you saw in "Blair Witch" was them running with the camera still on. You heard the screaming and saw them getting freaked out but that was pretty much it. I'm more interested in the reaction rather than the action. And as such, I really can't say I enjoyed this movie. And no way was this movie scarier than "The Exorcist" or "The Shining." If grown men were unable to sleep after seeing this, then they should talk to the psychologist from "The Sixth Sense."