The Blair Witch Project Reviews

The actors never put a foot wrong; the video diary form allows no artifice, so that as terror mounts, the dread is infectious.

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It's an original and admirable effort.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The Blair Witch Project se veut une %u0153uvre marquante de par son ambiance funèbre et stressante exponentiellement recréée.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

One of the scariest films of the 90s.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

If you can handle its unconventional approach, you won't feel as if you're seeing a film so much as witnessing a living nightmare.

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I'm creeping myself out just writing this!

Full Review | Original Score: A-

They just want to scare us by confusing us, disorienting us, and by playing a simple trick on our inner ear.

| Original Score: C-

I can readily understand why some people, more willing than I to suspend their disbelief, would be frightened out of their wits by the goings on.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Gorehounds and smirking fans of the nudge-nudge, wink-wink school of self-referential horror may be disappointed, but that's their loss.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The most frightening film to come along since The Exorcist.

| Original Score: 3.5/4

What can anyone say about The Blair Witch Project that hasn't been trumpeted from a thousand Web sites already?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The kind of movie that works on your psyche and has you laying awake at 3 a.m. two nights later thinking about it and getting creeped out in your dark bedroom.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Myrick and Sánchez created something that will be remembered not so much for its story or professional quality, but for its novel approach and the impact that resulted.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

It's what you don't see in The Blair Witch Project that scares you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

So masterly is its structure and so rich its details.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

The Blair Witch Project has earned its pop-icon status.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

The movie blows the doors off typical Hollywood fare because it is powered by genuine imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The Blair Witch Project remains a welcome change from studio blockbusters, as it's more preoccupied with human behavior than with special effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The Blair Witch Project taps into primitive beliefs about the supenatural in a way not tried before by traditional filmmakers.

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The movie's unfinished, catch-as-catch-can look, complete with jiggly camerawork and sometimes blurred imagery, is one of the primary reasons it's so disturbing and creepy.

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