"Have you ever heard of the Blair Witch?"

Rating: Null/10 (24 February 2003)

"In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found."
That is the making of a scary, intense, and sometimes even funny film. The Blair Witch Project's notorious reputation precedes it and makes it quite possibly the most infamous movie ever produced. It's also one of the most cheaply made, highest grossing, most parodied films of all time. Most of those statements are made because of pure marketing genius. The concept isn't quite as original as you'd like to believe. It has been done before, but I don't think it has worked before. Blair Witch "borrows" the mockumentary concept of The Last Broadcast and improves upon it three-fold. It's a great story with real characters in a real situation and how they deal with it. It's all about realism. To this very day, some people believe this actually happened. I think that's where the hatred comes from; people don't like to be tricked. Love it or hate it, you can't forget it. The Blair Witch Project IS a landmark horror film.