The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 136
Fresh: 118 | Rotten: 18
Full of creepy campfire scares, mock-doc The Blair Witch Project keeps audiences in the dark about its titular villain -- thus proving that imagination can be as scary as anything onscreen.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 3
Full of creepy campfire scares, mock-doc The Blair Witch Project keeps audiences in the dark about its titular villain -- thus proving that imagination can be as scary as anything onscreen.
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Combining Hi-8 video with black-and-white 16 mm film, this film presents a raw look at what can happen when college students forego common sense and enter the world of voodoo and witchcraft. Presented as a straightforward documentary, the film opens with a title card explaining that in 1994, three students went into the Maryland back woods to do a film project on the Blair Witch incidents. These kids were never seen again, and the film you are about to see is from their recovered equipment,
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All Critics (136) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (120) | Rotten (19) | DVD (25)
I have seen the new face of movie horror and its name is The Blair Witch Project, a groundbreaker in fright that reinvents scary for the new millennium.
Top CriticA cunningly conceived and crafted exercise in suggestibility and terror.
[A] creepy tale of witchcraft, murders and ghost sightings.
Heather's shaky video work can induce motion sickness -- it looks like combat footage as she bolts through the woods -- but just try turning away.
I could tell you the story -- give away every detail -- and The Blair Witch Project would still freeze your blood.
The viewer never glimpses anything more than the shadow of a clever movie.
This terrifying ghost story is guaranteed to haunt filmgoers long after they've persuaded themselves that it's only a movie.
This hyper-realistic mockumentary will scare you witless -- without grossing you out. One of those rare films with the power to haunt long after the final frame.
Somewhere, P. T. Barnum is smiling.
Sanchez and Myrick's film knows that what's not seen frightens more easily that what is, and that the imagination's thoughts of what might have happened generally horrify on a deeper level than knowing what did.
This one could be too scary even for your teen.
A brilliant marketing campaign, to be sure, but this Z-grade con of a film offers no payoff for audiences looking to be scared.
...still engaging and effective.
Certain people might hate it, certain people might love it. I love it for it's ingenuity, cutting edge style and very tense situations. It's a gem.
"Blair Witch" should go down in history as proof that it doesn't take a big budget to make a great movie, in fact it may not even take a budget at all.
This is a highly original and well-made film which is one of the best of the year, and a welcome change from the recent slasher genre which most horror films seem to be classified as these days.
It is a horror film that shows nothing -- no blood, no violence -- explains nothing, and seems to mean nothing, but scares you and keeps scaring you long after it is over.
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Possibly one of the most innovative horror films ever made. The Blair Witch Project is not only consistently scary but also a recreation of modern horror in the sense that it explores how not knowing the source of what is frightening you is a far worse experience than actually staring the threat in the eyes. It's a film that benefits from it's micro budget restraints, and is much better than what it could have been as a result. Namely a generic stalk horror movie. The acting is also much better than I first expected, I sincerely hope the cast get a chance to take part in some great things any time soon. I have to say that despite it's lack of developed characters you believe in them and care for the horrible situation that they're in. A situation that you also don't fully understand. It is wonderfully directed, and probably the only found footage horror i've ever seen where I genuinely believed the events that took place were part of reality. The only mistake made was a slight repetition of plot points. Nevertheless this is really worth watching, it isolates you, makes you ponder, stays with you, and distresses your psychology almost effortlessly. Some people might give The Blair Witch Project a bad time, but those same viewers probably require serial killers and monsters handed to them on a silver platter to feel alarmed, rather than allowing the power of atmosphere and imagination to slip underneath their skin.
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Foreign Titles
- Le Projet Blair Witch (FR)
- El proyecto de la Bruja de Blair (ES)
