Scaring Yourself

Rating: 1/10 (5 July 2011)

Allow me to offend some people by theorizing about the reason for the huge disparity in how people respond to the Blair Witch Project. Personally, I fell on the side that found it less scary, less interesting, and less exciting than watching grass grow.
People who have actually been in the woods before, and have some shred of self control, mental stability, and the ability to think rationally, will find it impossible to relate to the characters, and impossible to share in their terror. If, on the other hand, you were raised as a spoiled, emotional moron, whose experience of nature consists of occasionally flipping past the nature channel with your cable remote, the movie might scare you ... not because it's actually scary, or because anything actually happens in the movie, but because your own imagination might manage to scare you all by itself. To be blunt, I really cannot fathom any other reason for anyone to think this was a scary movie ... unless they have an extreme phobia of twigs tied together. Sorry.