The Biggest, Most Publicized Disappointment of the Year

Rating: 1/10 (12 September 1999)

I had to go see Blair Witch. The newspapers said so. They told me I would be in for the thrill ride of my life. Scarier than "The Exorcist". "The Most Frightening Movie Of The Year". What scares me about this movie is that there are people who think it is so good. Most of them seem to be critics. I certainly do not know anyone who has seen this movie who liked it. Of the eight people in the theater when I went in, three left before the end. I wish I had been so smart. In short, the movie was dull. Nothing happened. Three kids get lost and drop their cameras. The end.
The concept was good. Nothing else was. Terrible script. Terrible camera work. Terrible lighting. Terrible actors. The best thing that could happen to the entire crew on this film is to be lost in the woods and never return. This movie would have been the most dismal failure in all of film history had the media not played it up to be something spectacular. The only good thing about Blair Witch is that Ed Wood can finally say there is someone worse than him at film making.