An interesting failure.

Rating: 3/10 (2 April 2003)

"The Blair Witch Project" was an interesting idea, and it's easy to admire the ingenuity of the filmmakers and their little experiment.

Sadly, the film is ALMOST as scary as a particularly good segment on "The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror", and offers practically no entertainment value. The improvised dialogue is witless and unimaginative, and the shaky hand-held camera work would give Michael Bay motion sickness. The performances are inconsistent, thought Heather Donahue's believable work is the highlight of the film.
Overall, I cannot stress clearly enough that "The Blair Witch Project" is just not scary. At all. In any way, shape or form. It is, unfortunately, an excercise in sheer boredom.