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The Blair Witch Project

1999

Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez

Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Patricia DeCou

5.1

98,276

Horror. Mystery A trio of college students disappear after spending the night in the woods where there once was a town named Blair infamous for its history of weird disappearances and cult-related murders. The only trace of the students is the film they've left behind that gives some idea of the horror that awaits those who would dare to enter the Blair woods.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An extraordinarily effective horror film (...) 'The Blair Witch Project' is a reminder that what really scares us is the stuff we can't see (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'The Blair Witch Project' is a nifty example of how to make something out of nothing. Nothing but imagination"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A groundbreaker in fright that reinvents scary for the new millennium (...) Sanchez and Myrick have made a sly virtue of limited resources and made a film that will creep you out of your skin."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"The footage and the three performances have an authentic feel to them (...) I can't say I look forward with great interest to these directors' next movie"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A pretty impressive horror film in the form of a documentary"	POS
United States	Jami Bernard New York Daily News	"Truly creepy (...) It has genetically altered the genre and produced a scary new strain of nailbiting entertainment."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[Myrick and Sanchez] were fiendishly clever on two levels: They came up with a found-footage gimmick (...) and they made a movie that the audience actively participates in creating"	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"As an object lesson of how little you need for terror beyond pitch darkness, 'The Blair Witch Project' deserves all its success (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The video diary form allows no artifice, so that as terror mounts, the dread is infectious."	POS

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