I thought it was a comedy

Rating: 2/10 (17 November 2002)

No joke, I spent more time laughing at this movie than anything else. When Josh is crying and going, "Why was it messing with my stuff?" or something, I was rolling! Scary? Nah.
I know that we're talking about three suburban slackers who have led such pampered lives (they're going to film school, i.e. they don't want to work for a living) that they don't know their collective asses from a hole in the ground, but anyone with a GRAIN of sense who is lost in the woods might decide to FOLLOW THE RIVER, especially since they walked in a circle one day. B-DUUUUHHHH!
Heather Donohue is one of the worst actresses in recent memory and rivals Tony Montana and Vincent Vega for most uses of a certain expletive within a 90 minute span. I'm sure her mother is quite proud that her vocabulary is so broad. And you can't blame this on a scriptwriter, because there apparently wasn't one.
This movie is a laugh riot! It's really funny to see three doofi (plural of doofus) get turned around in the woods and yell at each other because there are no more cigarettes, but it ain't scary...not by a long shot.