A Tribute to What You Don't See is Scarier Than What You Can See

Rating: 8/10 (12 December 2005)

Far be it from me to criticize the Hollywood hype machine when it helps a small indie movie, but I do feel the need to defend "Blair Witch Project" against people who say they were disappointed in it as a scary horror movie.
That's because it's not really a scary horror movie!
It's a quite clever "Twlight Zone" episode about the power of the imagination to be scarier than life, or the undead.
Even my son came away saying it was a good model of a cheap, fun, creative-made student film.
It's best seen with the hysterically funny faux documentary about "The Curse of the Blair Witch" which is to A & E/History Channel documentaries as a certain genre-inventing rockumentary is to VH-1's "Behind the Music."
(original written 8/22/1999)