real or fake? who cares?

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 1999)

I must add a comment to all those who are involved in the big to-do over whether this film is fact or fiction. I have read too many posts from people who are only interested in BWP if it is "true" and insist that they will feel cheated or hoaxed if it turns out to be otherwise. To any such person I say: forget it. Put all that aside and just experience the film as it is presented to you, without worrying whether or not you're watching a "real documentary". What you *are* watching is one of the finest exercises in relentless fear and unspeakable mystery ever set on film, and whether or not it really happened or these kids were truly lost in the Maryland woods just doesn't matter to that experience. X my heart it doesn't.