Creepy but not overwhelmingly scary

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 1999)

Having read and heard about "The Blair Witch Project" before seeing it to some extent spoiled the full impact of this movie on me. I did not find it particularly frightening, but it was still very disturbing. Unlike most movies, scary or not, I found myself thinking and talking about it for weeks afterwards. The film has a number of unresolved and unexplained elements to it; while some people find these exasperating, I enjoy revisiting these little puzzles. This is perhaps one of the most true-to-life characteristics of "Blair Witch" - it is not artificially tidy and neat, but has that perplexing raggedness in the details that we recognize in real life.