It's like Video Nation gone horribly astray -- rawly dealt, poorly paced, yet with a definite voyeuristic appeal.

| Dec 20, 2024

Switching back and forth adds to the feeling someone actually did find both the cameras and their contents a few years later...

| Sep 30, 2024

The movie's ambiguous open-ending is one of the best in the genre.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 31, 2024

People deride the shaky camera and not seeing anything happen, which is a valid complaint, but it is also revisionist history. The lack of clarity was part of the charm of the movie.

| Jul 23, 2024

So convincing was this clever, chilling fake documentary that Donahue’s mother received sympathy cards from people who believed that her daughter was actually dead or missing.

| Apr 4, 2024

The Blair Witch Project isn’t a horror film experience on par with ‘The Exorcist’ or ‘The Shining,’ but that’s not a fair comparison. It’s an experience all its own.

| Jun 5, 2023

[The Blair Witch Project is] the most effective and unsettling horror movie in quite a long time. Just to clarify: after seeing this, you will not sleep well. Invest in a night-light.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 15, 2022

The intimacy of video and the believability of the three students close the gap between film and viewer, truly allowing us to suspend disbelief, something horror films seldom do.

| May 26, 2022

The Blair Witch Project lost me the first time, after the screen cut to black; during subsequent viewings, I have been even less engaged.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2022

It sticks with you, as much for its old ideas as for its new ideas. "Blair Witch" may represent the cutting-edge of independent filmmaking, but its heart is as ancient and familiar as a Grimm's fairy tale.

| Feb 4, 2022

...a typically erratic found-footage thriller that ultimately fares best in its opening and closing portions...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2021

The Blair Witch Project is pretty tame in regards to what it chooses to show you - or, more accurately, withhold from showing you - but for its time, it was a significant achievement.

| Apr 14, 2021

Watching the movie gave me the same bewildered feeling I got when I finally watched A Clockwork Orange in college. 'This is what all the fuss was about?'

| Mar 19, 2021

A testimony to the power of marketing a film.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 3, 2020

The most remarkable thing about Donahue's work in this movie is that she is rarely seen on camera. She brings depth and emotional nuance to Heather's character through just her voicework and breathing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2020

Sanchez and Myrick are also smart enough not to undercut the potency of their tale by attempting to explain the unexplainable. They leave us with a mystery capable of haunting our dreams.

| Feb 26, 2020

One of its great strengths is that it breaks the teenage bloodbath formula. There is not a Jason or a Freddy to be found. Instead, Blair Witch is a thinking person's horror movie that exploits the imagination's power to terrify.

| Oct 14, 2019

The scenario unfolds with so much real and raw emotion that it feels claustrophobic.

| Aug 7, 2019

A revelation in storytelling, cinematography, and marketing.

| Mar 26, 2019

Your friends lied to you when they said you needed to watch this film once before you die. Considered a horror classic, but this found footage movie has been severely overhyped.

| Nov 18, 2018