a waste of matinee movie money

Rating: 1/10 (3 August 1999)

I never thought a movie with this much hype and such a low budget would ever be worse than "Star Wars, Episode 1," but "The Blair Witch Project" leaves much to be desired.
The fictional story of the three college film students who attempt to make a documentary of the phony Blair Witch would have had a bigger hit on their hands had they decided to fool the country into believing it was all real. Instead, you have a movie filmed on home cameras with batteries that never die, and the realism is lost to the constant scary points being interjected by requests on how the cameras are running. Hypothetically speaking, "Don't kill me... is this in view?" is not good acting.
The movie wasn't the least bit scary once the directors let the cat out of the bag on the public. The movie should be divided into three parts: The beginning, with cheerfulness, the 90 percent middle, chock full of leaves, leaves, and more leaves, and the ending. The best part of the film was the end. The credits rolled and the crowds roared that this was a hoax.

I was displeased with this movie. The constant running and moving, with most of what we saw being foliage on the ground, gave me queasiness. I welcomed the end of the movie for this reason as well as for my utter disappointment in the flick. The premise is great; however, it was the actors, actresses, and filmmakers themselves that ruined it in my eyes. If the IMDb offered a "0" as a rating, I would still have asked for negative numbers.