The World's Biggest Con-Trick

Rating: 1/10 (8 December 1999)

I watched 'The Blair Witch Project' in a crowded cinema. At the end of the movie the audience sat for a moment in stunned silence not because they were scared to move but simply in the sudden realization that they had been victims of a massive marketing con-trick. In years to come people will remember how they were taken in by all the hype while the reviewers who hailed the movie as 'genuinely frightening and disturbing' will hang their heads in shameful embarrassment at the memory of how they were so easily duped. OK so the movie was 'original' but even an 'original' horror film should make you jump or at least leave you feeling uneasy. Does anyone really care what happens to these obnoxious, foul-mouthed young people. I was hoping the girl who led the expedition would be bumped off as quickly as possible, so that my ears could be spared her ranting. And are we seriously expected to believe that she would just carry on filming despite being scared to death and in a state of complete panic? The makers of this movie must be laughing all the way to the bank. If ever there was a case of 'The Emperor's New Clothes', this was it!!