Let’s talk those eighty-one minutes of shaky camera footage. I goddamn love this movie, so prepare for many pages of discussion and dissection. I’m going to argue that The Blair Witch Project is one of the most – if not the most – effective horror film ever made.
Few reviews/analyses on this site will mean as much to me as the one coming up. This might have been the most important night of my horror-appreciating life, since the film has grown to become my all-time favourite. Seeing the mortal dread of my viewing partner vicariously awoke my own terror. It wasn’t until a few years later during a rewatch with my younger stepbrother that my life-long, fear-fuelled fascination with The Blair Witch Project was born. We found nothing scary about the film, instead making fun of Heather Donahue’s swinging snot, the silly twig stickmen over which they seemed to get in such a fluster, and the general feeling that nothing whatsoever had happened during those eighty-one minutes of shaky camera footage. Upon its release in 1999, at age thirteen, I went to a screening with my mum (yeah, she rocks) but we didn’t get it. My earliest memory of The Blair Witch Project is boredom.
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