Horror in its most pure origin.

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 1999)

***** out of *****
The Blair Witch Project is a movie worth watching. Being already a cinematographic phenomenon I think deep analysis should be made. Miryck and Sanchez have accomplished something only Hitchcock in Psycho, Carpenter in Halloween, Kubrick in The Shining, dePalma in Carrie and Spielberg in Jaws had before.
I know that a lot of people are (and will be) disapointed, because this film is not a "fright" film. You don´t see the murderer running behind his victim or listen a creepy frightening violin chord every time the director wants you to get scared. It is not a movie filled with popular teen TV stars dressed in the latest fashion clothes geting butchered.

This movie is about what really scares us. I think movies like Scream, Scream 2, I Know..., I Still Know..., Urban Legend, etc are good horror movies, but the kind of fright they make you feel is the kind of terror you feel when someone is holding a gun to your face to robe you. The Blair Witch...manages that kind of pain you feel when you´re alone at night in your house and suddenly you hear a creak or a noise and you don´t know its origin, where it came from... It could be anything...And that is more frightening.
Heather, Josh and Mike are such excellent actors and the movie is filmed and edited in such a way that the desperation, the nervousness and the fear they feel are transmitted to you automatically. The creepy and eerie aspect of the trees in the night (and even by day) contribute to the excellent atmosphere created here and its necesary to make you feel there... with them, being the fourth student on the project. This is not a fast paced movie. In an intelligent move, it takes its time and starts slowly, increasing speed in the second act and finally ending in a way that you´ll feel someone has crashed you against a glass window at 500 miles per hour. Believe me, it´ll leave your heart pounding a lot of time after you leave the theater. Just remember terror lies not in what you see, but in what you hear and don´t kow where it comes from...and can´t see...
Warning: Watch the Documentary "Curse of the Blair Witch" and visit the official site before you watch the movie...you´ll enjoy it more...