Some potential, no results

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2002)

Does the word boredom vibe with only some specific cords? Because if it does, that would explain how some people have come to worship this (second) hand made movie.
"Ooo, it's so scary! Alone in the woods with strange noises! Was that a branch cracking or was it a three headed unicorn with blood dripping teeth?" It's neither sublime, nor psychologically frightening, nor visually captivating, so I simply can not comprehend for which reasons someone may have enjoyed this production. There's one thing worth admiring and that's got nothing to do with the art of film-making, but with the art of money making. I suppose you can turn any piece of junk into an underground myth as long as people will go along with it.
Evil Dead, so many years older and so much more fresh than Blair Witch, is the main source of inspiration and I'm not saying it just because it's another movie that takes place in a forest. Maybe, but just maybe, BW could've been something more. Maybe it had some potential, but given that I've seen good movies with terrible premises and disastrous movies with brilliant premises you have to concur that, in the end, this just doesn't matter. Blair Witch is a scare less, brainless, talentless (a bit authentic, I'll admit) excuse for a film.