So real, I'm shocked that Hollywood would buy it.

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 1999)

If you can't handle looking at the cold darkness through a jerky lens, don't see this movie. (One of the people in my group became ill enough to leave the theater.) The rest of us watched the relationships first evolve and then disintegrate. We felt the initial comaraderie and the subsequent paranoia and terror. Even carrying movie cameras around the woods while scared to death seemed plausible. Both the students in the film and the audience in the theater "knew the story," yet, both still managed to be confused and frightened. Why go to the woods? Why go to this movie? Same answer. Different fate. I haven't disappeared. (Yet.)