Very original... (possible spoilers)

Rating: 9/10 (21 April 2000)

Before I saw this, I heard that this movie was supposed to be one of the scariest movies ever. So when I sat down with the movie, I was expecting a pretty scary movie.
I think the movie is very original with the actors running around with the camera themselves and with no music of any kind.
If I didn't know this was movie, I would have thought that this was real.
In many ways this is truly a very scary movie. It's not shocking like your average Scream or Elm Street movie, but every minute of the movie has a very eerie feeling about it.
It's just a shame, that some of the things in the movie is down right stupid. Firstly, if they lost the map, why didn't they just look at the filmed material where they actually filmed the map, it was clearly enough so you could navigate around with it. And throwing away the map was pretty stupid too, but that's a whole other thing.
Secondly, the witch's (or whatever it was) "spell" couldn't possibly reach the whole forest. At some point they (if they hadn't changed directions, and stopped all the time) would have been far enough away to avoid the spell and get out of the forest.
And another thing, it's pretty odd that Heather kept filming every time something scary was happening (like when the children attacked their tent). If I were attacked by something in the middle of the night I think I would do something else than film the whole damn thing.
But apart from that, I think that this was a great movie. I really sat on the edge of my seat at many points (which doesn't happen very often).
I highly recommend this movie.
I rate this movie 8 out of 10