One benefit from this movie

Rating: 1/10 (27 October 1999)

The only thing I can truly be thankful for is, perhaps, the horror genre will finally move away from the hack & slash gore which has flooded the silver screen for the past 30 years with pale imitators of the original "Night of the Living Dead". As for "The Blair Witch Project" itself, the film is two-dimensional in both character and plot. I couldn't help but to keep looking at my watch everytime a series of whiny exchanges between the three main characters kept repeating ad nauseam. Unfortunately, the public at large seldom allows themselves the opportunity to view older movies for the first time. If you would like to see far superior films to "The Blair Witch Project", I would suggest you rent the original "The Haunting" from 1963 >"Curse of the Demon" from 1957, "Five Million Years to Earth" from 1968, and "Freaks" from 1932. It's interesting to note that "Freaks" was originally panned by the critics and by the public as being depraved yet it is now regarded as a horror classic which was way ahead of its time. I would encourage you to pick up any of the above mentioned videos when you rent "The Blair Witch Project" for Halloween. If you even get the slightest chill from viewing "The Blair Witch Project" you'll break out in goosebumps while seeing any of the older and far superior videos.