Creepy and original

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2000)

The Blair Witch Project is a very interesting movie. It is advertised as an actual event - "In 1994, three student filmmakers disappeard in the woods of Burketsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. Three years later, their footage was found." A lot of people hated Blair Witch because they claimed that "I could of made that movie myself!" or that "It wasn't even scary!" Most people today are used to chop 'em up slasher movies. For fans of those movies, the usual definition of a scary movie is a movie with lots of gore and lots of things jumping out of the shadows and making you jump. Movies like these fail to have a creepiness about them. A scary movie should be subtle in most parts, mysterious, and it should get under your skin. Blair Witch does this. Our stars, Mike, Heather, and Josh, are pursued by something that is unidentifiable and mysterious. Evidence of it is heard at night, when it..or them...lets itself be heard. At one point in the film the characters are in a tent at night and hear a warped, unearthly noise. This sound alone without knowing exactly what made it is creepier than some burly man with an axe. Even the legend of the Blair Witch is unsettling. While in bed at night, I read an Blair Witch ad that had a list of occurrences involving the Blair Witch. One in where 7 men are found in the woods stretched on a big rock, disembowled and bound together by their hands and legs. Reading that gave me the creeps. In my opinion, The Blair Witch Project wasn't as "Scary as Hell" as Rolling Stone claimed it was, but it was indeed very creepy. If you plan on watching Blair Witch, watch it with the mindset that you are watching someone's home video that has gone horribly, horribly wrong. 5 out of 5 stars