You either love it or you hate it: I loved it.

Rating: 9/10 (14 October 2000)

If you have read the other user comments for this film, you have noticed that people either love it, or they hate it. There is a reason for this. There are two types of horror movies: There is the kind that tries to scare you by showing you something scary, and there is the kind which suggests something scary, but lets you imagine it yourself. The people that hated Blair Witch were wanting scary images and blood and guts to be fed to them. That is not what they got.
Blair Witch sets out to scare you by forcing you to imagine something. It lets your mind "personalize" what is really scaring you. The people that don't like this movie must not understand this. Either that, or they just don't care and they can't appreciate a horror movie which strays away from tradition. Either way, they did not fully take in what this movie was offering to them.
If you are debating whether to watch/rent/buy this movie, you must first think about what really scares you. Are you frightened by a scary monster jumping out and eating someone? Or are you scared when you wake up in the middle of the night and hear something outside your window, letting your imagination create the most horrifying possibilities of what it is? That is what The Blair Witch Project tries to do, and in my opinion, it succeeds entirely.