You're safe. You're not in the woods.

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 1999)

"The Blair Witch Project" is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill horror film. If you are planning to watch this for the sole reason of being scared, you might be disappointed. (Although I doubt it.) If you plan on watching this alone, with the lights out, you might get REALLY scared. (I know I did.) "Blair Witch" is a refreshing, chance-taking movie that offers its viewers a real, but fictional, documentary of a college film project. The student/producer and her two-man, also-college-age crew, start off into the dense, dark Maryland woods almost daring the Blair Witch to show herself. When it seems their wish is just about to come true, the one-time jovial banter, cockiness, and "machismo," soon turns into utter desperation. It is scary. It is eerie. And, it is troubling. It's also different. And I think that is what makes it so good.