This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Lets face the facts here, The Blair Witch Project was a groundbreaking film.

A horror classic.

A genre starter. And ultimately, the best of that genre.

Unusually for a horror, It shows you nothing. There is no blood, there is no violence, and it explains absolutely nothing. It's a brilliant watch. A proper psychological horror.

The actors never put a foot wrong, great performances. If we can call them performances, but of course this is real fear we are watching, and it is impossible not to let that fear get to you.

The shaky camera work has never been easy to watch, but just you try looking away.

I could tell you every single detail of this film, and you would still be scared shitless when you watch.

Genius film making.

“i don’t wanna go cheesy, i wanna really avoid any cheese. i wanna present this in a straightforward a way as possible and i think the legend is unsettling enough”

one of the scariest fucking movies ever made, i just had to turn the light on in my room even though i’ve seen it half a dozen times already. in the kindest way possible: fuck this movie

every time i rewatch this i always think... oh damn... it's not as scary as i remember... BUT THEN THEY FIND THE HOUSE.....

93/100

Fifth viewing, though the fourth was a decade ago. Tried and failed to work some thoughts on widespread hatred for Heather Donahue's performance into my Dissolve Movie of the Week piece, which is probably just as well as the comments would likely have degenerated into a Gamergate death spiral. But I really do believe a lot of the vitriol was fueled by misogyny. Guys like their scream queens less assertive, more docile.

It took me twenty additional minutes to finish this because about halfway through my television turned itself off and I just thought they'd put the camera in their pocket or something.

my sleep paralysis demon watched this and took notes.

Just copious levels of snot

Definitely good for its time, The Blair Witch Project is unwatchable by today's standards.

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this was the scariest movie in the fucking world when i was 11 and home alone late at night living in the woods

But... I waited for it to spiral down at some point but it did not... It ended like the documentary it tried to be.

Surprisingly effective not so much as a ghost story, but as a story of ever-increasing madness, infighting and the loss of hope. Impossible to replicate the feeling of seeing it 1999, or even as a teenager in the 2000s in a basement of friends knowing it's not real, or really any semblance of circumstances that would give it the impact its so famed for. Was a big gap I had that I was spurred to fill while reading Brian Rafferty's "Best Movie Year Ever: How 1999 Blew Up The Big Screen." Sad to read about the backlash to Heather Donahue in particular, and the stunted effect this had on the careers of the actors who casting agents and producers were told were uh .... no longer alive at the highest point of their fame, and thus uncastable (or casting agents who told them they weren't actually acting??). Enduringly creepy and well-done for the uniqueness of its production and concept.

the ending is the only remotely interesting part

Love the idea of the movie & how creative it was. Also for when it was released it really was something new. However although the film is pretty short it still feels slow & not that scary at all.