Things that go bump in the night.

Rating: 8/10 (4 August 1999)

One of the best things about The Blair Witch Project is the fact that you have to use your imagination. You are out in the middle of nowhere, and there are noises moving all around you in the dark. You can't see anything, you only hear things. And that's what scares you the most. If it's something you can see, you'll think of a way to deal with it. If you don't see it, you don't know what to do. So you become scared. Fear starts to overwhelm you and clouds your thinking. That's what this movie does. You have to use your imagination and put yourself in these kids shoes. There aren't any monsters to blow up, no ghosts to run away from, no houses to escape from. Everything around you has turned into something frightening. The Blair Witch Project is a movie that relies on the gradual building of suspense rather than the usual horror movie tricks. If you scoff, try going camping in an unfamiliar place and see if you can figure out what's going bump in the night.