Boring and not scary

Rating: 1/10 (24 August 1999)

It seems that many people, including most reviewers, consider "The Blair Witch Project" to be one of the scariest horror movies ever and just a darn good movie in general. Having seen it, I can't for the life of me figure out why.
Not only is it not even remotely scary even in the parts where it should be the scariest, but it's unbearably boring and the camera work nauseates.
I'll grant that a film that is supposedly pieced together from random footage shot in the woods is going to have camera work that looks like that, and that without all the aimless walking around and yelling, the movie would only be about 20 minutes long. But I'm sorry, I just couldn't take it. It was hands down one of the few movies I've ever seen where I actually contemplated walking out of the theater. And the only reason I didn't was because I was curious as to what the ending was. But it was almost not worth staying.
Bottom line: not scary, not thrilling, not exciting, not even interesting. Only the acting, quite good for the fact that it was totally improvised, deserves to be commended. F