(This review was written after seeing BLAIR WITCH PROJECT at the theater. I have not seen it on video.)

I highly recommend this movie. Go see it, and bring a friend, preferably one that doesn't know anything about it.

It's a horror film, but not one you will be screaming at, nothing jumps through the window, no shock cuts. For those of you who don't already know, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is a about three student filmmakers shooting a documentary about the Blair Witch legend. The filmmakers mysteriously disappear. Several years later their footage is found. This film and video footage is what makes up THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.

BWP provides several natural, real laughs during the set-up and slowly sucks you into the horror. Two scenes in particular, when the tent is "attacked" and our 3 filmmakers run out looking for whatever it was, and the final house footage. unbelievably effective!

Two suggestions to the real filmmakers would be:

1) The final shot, allow the film in the camera to run out naturally, two-, three-, five-minutes, whatever amount of film that was left in the camera. Do not cut out of it.

2) Remove all closing credits. Keep the mystery alive. With such a killer PR campaign, the general movie-going public will buy into the hype, the dead filmmakers, because this movie is so well done. The closing credits kind of ruined the illusion for me. Just a thought.

But GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

I have since learned there is a similar movie called THE LAST BROADCAST that was produced before BLAIR WITCH. And other people I have spoken with recommend a 70s movie titled CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST.



Recommended: Yes