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The Blair Witch Project

1999 Directed by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez

The scariest movie of all time is a true story.

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

Heather Donahue Michael C. Williams Joshua Leonard Bob Griffith Jim King Sandra Sánchez Ed Swanson Patricia DeCou Mark Mason Jackie Hallex

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Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 1

It's maybe good that these guys got lost and eaten or whatever, because before stuff starts going wrong it seems like their documentary was probably going to suck.
Review by Daryl ★★★★★ 39

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.
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★ 50

What scares you the most? Not necessarily something that make you jump out of your seat or scream in pure terror, but the thing that ALWAYS scares you. Always sends a chill down your spine, makes your heart fill with dread, makes your entire body weak and shake.

It can be the simplest or grandest thing imaginable to the human mind. For some, it's being lost. Others, it's heights. Rejection. Death itself. Drowning. Spiders. Ghosts. Zombies. Vampires. The things that go bump in the night and hide under your bed. Having your identity stolen. A loved one dying. Every different person has a different fear that clogs up their minds.

But there is one fear we always have no matter…
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★★ 4

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.
Review by David Valkenet ★★★★★ 13

Believe it or not I have gone 20 miserable years on this measly planet without ever having seen The Blair Witch Project. I had been put off by the vitriol on both camps, those who love it and hate it. There was the initial hype then the backlash then the anti-backlash and then the backlash all over again. Luckily for me, I am good at divorcing myself from all the things that are not the actual film when watching.
So, I watched it tonight. Alone. In the dark. And it was fucking scary.
I got a strong Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe, in the sense that it felt guerrilla, DIY and 'real'. By real I mean that there was a small…
Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 12

I will never watch this film again.

Anyone who has ever been camping in the middle of nowhere will be scared shitless by this film.

That scene with the whispering and the tent and the pissing of pants.... awful, just awful.

Recent reviews

Review by lovegalore ★★★

a classic of my childhood!! this lowkey traumatised me and made me fear the woods as a kid but whatever
Review by Michael_Elliott ★★★★★

The story is known by everyone as three filmmakers go into the wood to tell the story of the Blair Witch and soon they find themselves lost with something apparently coming for them.

I remember the hype surrounding this film quite well and I remember my two viewings in the theater when the film originally opened. It's been about six years or more since I last watched the film so I was very curious going in as to how the film would hold up. After viewing the film I think it still holds up remarkably well and even though the hype has died down and much hates has been thrown upon the film, it still remains a rather chilling and…
Review by Natalie ★½

boring. i can imagine it being more scary back when it came out with all of the promotion that the directors did trying to pin it off as actual found footage, but now, almost 20 years later, the whole scary aspect of it doesn't really hold up.

the only thing this movie has going for it is some of the interactions between the characters towards the ending which are just ok, i guess.
Review by rachel remeny ★★★★ 1

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

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guys the fact that the makers of this film made it seem like this was all real, and everyone really did think it was REAL when they saw it in theaters scares the absolute shit out of me even more than the actual movie. like yeah the movie is real scary but if i saw this in a theater in 1999 and thought those were real people, and that all actually happened, and they were actually dead, i would be SO much more terrified and probably would not have been able to go outside at night or sleep with the lights off until i knew that it was fake
Review by Ezequiel ★★★★

Horrifying
Review by MarilynDeLoria ★★★★

Truly chilling movie, plus it is jumpscare-free! I should give this five just because of that. I also love the concept of pseudo-documentary. Even if this is considered to be the genre's starter, it is not (check out Man Bites Dog for example). This mostly just made it mainstream. The ending is well done and also build well throughout the movie.
Review by natalia ★★★½

nao era o q eu tava esperando pq o filme e de terror psicologico e eu fiquei c medo de ter algm jumpscare ou algo assim...
Review by Eduardo Arroyo ★★★★

This movie was haunting since the beginning, it really makes you believe the whole thing is real. recommended
Review by jordanbelfort ★★★★

Es hat eine gefühlte Ewigkeit gedauert, bis ich diesen Klassiker jetzt endlich sehen durfte.

Ein Klassiker im Horrorgenre, zurecht! Blair Witch Project ist ein wunderbarer low-budget Horrorfilm mit sehr subtilen Horrorelementen und viel Psychoterror. Das war einer der wenigen Horrorfilme, bei dem ich mich wirklich stellenweise gegruselt habe.
Ich weiß aber auch, dass die Story soweit nicht auf wahren Tatsachen beruht, denn das war damals einfach nur verdammt gutes Marketing.
Blair Witch Project ist denn noch ein grandioser Horrorfilm, den jeder Filmfan mal gesehen haben sollte, allein schon wegen des Found-Footage Genres, welches er revolutionierte.