tresm87 5.6/10 This obviously caught the world by storm when it came out due to its fantastic marketing or trolling however you look at it. People thought this was all real footage and these people actually died at the hands of the Blair Witch. As a kid when this came out, this was truly an innovative film that captivated me with its creepy ominous wood setting and the fact i thought it might have been real. I was constantly searching the woods in hopes of finding things similar to in this film and it gave me great imagination in my exploring. However I had always held an almost angry feeling towards it for not actually ever showing the witch in the film. It led us all in this tense frenzy of psychological terror without ever giving us something to see. If they had just shown something in the final house seen or anything throughout it could've easily been a better film. Ive had a love hate relationship with this for a long time and i do appreciate its forboding and ominous setting and use of the documentary style camera work, but i still feel tricked ultimately by the gimmick and tease of the film. But for what it is it works on some levels, and the folklore and backstory of the blair witch is phenomenally well imagined. The new film as Ive said is superior because we finally get to see a visual portrayal of the witch and it was made with a higher budget allowing them to expand vastly on the plotting and effects. I will say the makers of this film are geniuses with the idea and they grossed a ton from it. Book of shadows was an absolute travesty though that shouldn't be viewed by anyone.

Horror This movie is all about what you don't see, which can sometimes be scarier. However you literally see nothing at all throughout the whole movie. There are some tense moments though. Decent but not great!

strike-1995 I'm never going into the woods again. But apart from that it was a good film.

bobnelson-50718 I'm trying Hulu now and I see they have the "new" version of this movie. Not sure if I want to try it but I remember paying actual money back in 1999 to see this total piece of CRAP. Talk about overhyped! It was sooo long ago now and I have not seen it since but one thing I do remember is that it was (and continues to be) one of the worst "horror" movies I have ever seen! I remember the entire craze. How GREAT this movie was and how it cost pennies to make and it was raking in tons at the box office. I went in expecting "good" at least. I had seen horror movies before that ended up being a disappointment. It was awful! I just stayed in my seat thinking "Oh...this has GOT to get better!". Nope. It never happened. I walked out just shaking my head! 90 minutes of hand-held shaky cameras, dark shadows and tons of HEAVY BREATHING! Yes, I do think it would have been possible to make an actual scary film with hand-held cameras on a shoestring budget but this was NOT it! This continues to be one of the cheesiest awful pieces of crap I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot because I have seen plenty of crap movies! It would have to be awful for me to be able to remember just how bad I thought it was after all of this time. Wow this thing sucked. I just can't believe how much $$ this piece of garbage made! $140M (USA) box office in 1999 dollars is insane! I think people must have been hypnotized into thinking it was good with all of the shaking camera shots!