The true fear, is within ourselves

Rating: 10/10 (3 December 2001)

"The Blair Witch Project" is not about drenching the audience with blood and gore, of terrorizing them through the film. Well, okay, maybe the second one, but it's much more than a horror movie. It is a crude but tolerable display of an emotion that each one of us holds dear in our hearts...fear. Everyone fears something, no matter how big or small or important or insignificant it may be. This movie toys on that emotion to the fullest extent. You do not watch "The Blair Witch Project", you feel it. We live in a world that is fully dominated by technology, and money. With "The Blair Witch Project", that is not the case. It was made on a shoestring budget, and used some of the simplest filmaking techniques around. Yet, it shows us that no matter what we may see when it comes to horror, the greatest creator of fear is our own imaginations. And in a day and age where technology is king, queen, prince, and the rest of the dynasty, "The Blair Witch Project" proves that the stuff out there that really scares the pants off of us is what we don't see.