One of the most effective no-budget films ever

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2009)

The Blair Witch Project consists of footage that was found in the Maryland woods where three college students had disappeared back in 1994. The footage is what they saw. These 80 minutes are the last days of their lives. The footage is horrifying, chilling, disturbing, and haunting. We see these three kids have a lot of fun at first, but then things don't go exactly as planned. They lose their map, they get lost, and they find strange trinkets and symbols around their campsite. As they get more and more lost and the situation gets more and more hopeless, the situations start getting even more disturbing. They are attacked in the middle of the night, they scream, shove, and attack each other, and the sounds they hear in the middle of the night get even more disturbing and horrifying. The last twenty minutes of this film are some of the most hardcore scenes of horror I've seen in a modern horror film. It all leads up to an ending that contains one last creepy image that will likely be ingrained into your mind forever after you have watched the film. The Blair Witch Project is a film that uses atmosphere to create a foreboding sense of dread, suspense, and intensity. The film is scary, not because of what you see, but what you don't see. Most of the horrific scenes in the film are scary because of the power of suggestion and of fear of the unknown. We don't see monsters. We don't see what happens to these kids in the woods with our eyes. We do see what happens in our minds, and that's a lot more terrifying than anything that the film could show us. The fact that there's no logic to the horror adds a level of unease and makes the viewer feel not only completely scared but also helpless. That's how I felt when I watched the film. It is one of the weirdest and most disturbing low(VERY low) budget films I've seen.