Whose afraid of the Big "Blair Witch"?

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 1999)

First of all, "The Blair Witch Project" is NOT a horror movie in the way all these teen slasher movies are these days. It's way worse than that. After watching these 3 "actors" in the woods for nearly an hour and a half, me and many like me in the theater kinda went, "So?" It was different and kind of neat with the first person perspective. And that's pretty much all it had going for it.
The most disturbing thing about the movie is that people think that it's real. Why would a true story shot with real footage have directors? Can you imagine the legal implications of releasing this movie if it were real? I heard a comment leaving the theater from a girl who said, "If it wasn't real, they did a very good job making it look real!" Of course it looked real! It was shot with a 16mm camera by people running through the woods. But it's not a true story, and the Blair Witch doesn't exist, not even as a legend. It was made up by the directors and fueled by internet sites that the staff of the movie created.
As a suspensful artsy flick it was great. The only problem is not too many people like artsy movies that look this bad. As "the scariest movie ever" it sucked and fell way, way short of expectations. If not for all the profanity (of which there is quite a bit) this movie could have been rated PG, with no gore, no sex, no drug use, no violence to boost it any higher.
In August of 1999, I dissapeared into a theater near Escanaba, Michigan while going to see a "documentary." One and a half hours later, my money was wasted.