This movie deserved some more recognition

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2006)

Personally I thought The Blair Witch Project comes close to being the scariest movie I have ever seen. The publicity and hype about the film originally got me fooled into believing the entire story and footage was real, and that played a big role in making it even more effective as a scary/horror movie. They kind of got into your head a little bit.
What's more is that this is the only movie I have ever seen that seems to be improvised without a script(at least thats what I've read). The acting is so dramatic and real and makes you feel like you are with the characters.
I actually think these actors and actresses involved deserve Oscars.
Unfortunately, the horror/scary film genre has never truly been properly recognized and respected in Hollywood or the Academy Awards, so one can only hope that someday a scary film will come along that people will finally see as worthy of recognition by nominating it for an award.
This film truly scared me, and the suspense alone makes it such a unique film because not much is really shown as much as heard, which brings to another point that sound effects are also important and crucial to a movie, so the sound engineers and collectors who go out and record spooky things also deserve some recognition. Its not easy to get some of the sounds they often do.
All in all I give this movie a 9 out of 10. I don't believe I've seen the scariest and most gut-wrenching movie of my life yet, but this one comes close (and so does the movie Saw). Definitely worth a rental, if not purchasing it, because it really is a unique film and there's nothing else like it.