One of the scarriest films ever

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2000)

This film is not like those usual killer with weapon slasher movies in which everyone in the theater screams when something scary happens. This is the type of film where you watch the proceedings and are so afraid when you leave the theater you feel paralized. Why, because this film is so realistic, it looks like this is actually the footage found in Maryland. But no, it isn't, and that is what makes Eduardo Sanchez and Dan Myrick such good directors. They just give the cameras to the cast and let them run rampant. This film shows what happens when 3 student film-makers (Heather Donahue is excellent in the best female lead of the year, Michael Williams is convincing as a scarred and insane sound man, and Joshua Leonard is exceptional as a mad cameraman) who get lost in the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland. What follows is scarrier than anything I've seen in a really long time, and it is enjoyable (especially in the dark). One of the best films of the year. A++