Things go wrong, then worse than wrong, though we never see exactly how. We only know that every night brings new terrors. The film turns darkness into its most efficient fear-monger. Like the students, often you can t see. And what you do see crude rock piles and bundles of twigs creates a woozy sense of dread.
Sounds likewise curdle the blood.
Rocks crack together in the distance. Then there s more. In the end, The Blair Witch Project scares your socks off mostly by what it refrains from showing. On a purely political level, it is encouraging to see a movie prove emphatically that money and stars and big deals mean nothing compared to genuine creativity. The movie blows the doors off typical Hollywood fare because it is powered by genuine imagination.