Not scary when seen, but plays with your mind for days after

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 1999)

I've read a lot of reviews for the film, some of the "scariest movie ever made" sort, and some of the "I can't believe I paid $7.00 for this garbage". The truth is that neither sort of review is accurate. What is accurate is that your psychological makeup and the way you perceive the world will determine how you view this film. In other words, you can be as terrified by Blair Witch as you allow yourself to be.
The film is all about the fear of the dark, the fear of the unknown, and the way we deal with the unknown in our mentality. Are you the kind of person who is scared of walking down the steps in the dark after seeing a scary movie on TV? The movie will terrify you. If you're not this kind of person, you may not like it.
The thing really annoying is the reviews here I've read which state things like "why didn't they just light a bonfire", "if you keep walking in one direction you would have gotten out of there", etc. You people are missing the point entirely. In the film, they had walked 15 hours in one direction, and wound up at the same place. There was nothing wrong with the three hikers, there was a supernatural force hanging over the proceedings. They were in a kind of "twilight zone" where time and space no longer had meaning. This was what was terrifying about the film; coming to that point where nothing makes sense anymore, where reality is just a memory. It's that loss of control over your own life and your surroundings that is the most terrifying thing to experience, and that's the message of the film. And you people are waiting for witches or chainsaws or something. Open your mind.