Blair Witch Project Movie review

"In October of '94, three student filmmakers disappear in the woods of Burkittsville, MD, while shooting a documentary... a year later their footage was found." With that introduction, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez launched what was one of the most chilling and most successful horror movies in the last 20 years. The Blair Witch rises above typical horror movie genre and brings about something very rare, a horror film with genuinely frightening moments. This movie tells …

…in the very beginning. If you aren't paying attention, you won't understand when the screen turns black. It is easy to get swept up in this film, and to believe the characters are real people in a real situation. It has done something that no film has since the Excorcist, touching something in everyone, that remain creepy in the process. Horror films this good, this different, and this realistic are too few, and far between.