This Project gets an A for effort, but it fails everywhere else

Rating: 1/10 (30 July 1999)

I knew when I got to the theater that the movie I was about to see would be shot on video -- I got that much from magazine articles and commercials on TV. What I wish I had considered was how much I hate watching other people's home movies. That's the problem with this film (other than that pesky it's-just-not-scary thing): rather than making me feel like I was there with the actors, I felt like I was in someone's living room watching their home movies of an outing that gets creepy towards the end, but never delivers any legitimate scares. Most of the film involves character development that is agonizingly slow and annoying to boot. Believable, yes, but not interesting, entertaining, or worth watching. Skip the Blair Witch Project.