ho hum

Rating: 1/10 (18 August 1999)

Nothing about this film, seen or unseen, is particularly frightening. As the "actors" were freaking out about the "eerie" noises around them, I kept thinking, "Have these people never gone camping in the woods before?" I'm sorry, but little piles of rocks & dangling twig-people just aren't other-worldly enough to give me the creeps, even if I do find those things beside my tent. And while this is certainly an interesting exercise in improvisational scripting, it's no match for a well-crafted script with a beginning, a middle & an end. Good film-making is decidedly NOT about gratuitous gore or special effects, etc., but it IS about plot & dialogue & the movement of a story. Blair Witch fails to deliver any of these things. It's a much more successful exercise in hype & marketing than film-making.