very different kind of horror movie

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 1999)

The Blair Witch Project® is a very different kind of horror movie. It is an innovative "mock documentary" of three film students who are doing a project on a local witch legend. Since the students record their terrifying experience on camcorder video and 16-mm black and white film, the entire movie switches back and forth between these two media. I've read stories that viewers in theaters around the country have become sick while watching this movie. Perhaps this is due to the unsteady and excessive motion of the camcorder video. The film is genuinely frightening, however, and from now on this viewer will have second thoughts about camping deep in the woods. Thumbs up, but perhaps not for everyone.