A late '90s relic, which doesn't hold up well

Rating: 4/10 (16 September 2016)

While this film not only single handedly created an entire genre (found footage) and largely ushered viral marketing, and while I was happy that an ultra low-budget horror was getting as much attention as this did upon its release, in retrospect, the film has little to recommend it.
There is a degree of fear and dread, as we learn of this supposed mystery of a backwoods witch, before seemingly becoming lost in those very same woods, but the film can never give us any character or situation to invest in, as I found the trio of leads to be unlikeable, and as their own fear grows as they turn on each other, they became even more unlikeable and unsympathetic.
I'm not going to recommend this for those reasons, but if you're a fan of found footage, and you can tolerant the characters, give it a go, because it does have an effectively lonely, slightly creepy (at times) feel, but I just couldn't stand the characters, or the film itself, after a while.