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.
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01/15/08
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
85 %
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Reviews Counted: 128
Fresh: 109
Rotten:19
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use... [More]
Starring: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael Williams
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
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Reviews for The Blair Witch Project
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06/18/02
Top Critic See this brilliantly staged exercise in malevolence and discover for yourself.
01/01/00
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10/18/08
Top Critic "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.
08/04/08
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.
09/24/07
Top Critic 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.
09/24/07
I could tell you the story -- give away every detail -- and The Blair Witch Project would still freeze your blood.
09/24/07
The viewer never glimpses anything more than the shadow of a clever movie.
09/24/07
What gives the film much of its force and its mounting sense of queasy uncertainty is its narrative method, which ensures that we know no more about the proceedings than the characters do.
09/24/07
The lofty talk in the press of its being a new horror masterpiece is nonsense.
07/23/07
The three actors manage not only to capture some beautiful footage but also to spout believable and consistent dialog without digressing into the standard Scream pop culture references.
07/14/07
Where is the suspense? Where is the involvement? Where is the identification?
04/27/07
The actors never put a foot wrong; the video diary form allows no artifice, so that as terror mounts, the dread is infectious.
06/24/06
Top Critic
The Blair Witch Project se veut une %u0153uvre marquante de par son ambiance funèbre et stressante exponentiellement recréée.
02/18/06
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.
07/21/05
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