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100At a time when digital techniques can show us almost anything, The Blair Witch Project is a reminder that what really scares us is the stuff we can't see.
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100Many of us may have thought that with the world offering so much vivid horribleness every day, movies had lost the power to give us a good cathartic scare. It's a shock -- and a pleasure -- to discover we were wrong.
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100Ingenious in its simplicity.
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91It breaks so sharply from the practice of contemporary horror film that it requires us to return to the most basic understanding of what it is to be frightened by a movie.
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90It might be the scariest movie ever made.
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Easily the scariest horror picture of the '90s, a movie that can take a place among the most potent and inexorable of modern shockers.
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90Man, I just can't recommend this enough.
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90A nifty example of how to make something out of nothing. Nothing but imagination, and a game plan so enterprising it should elevate its creators to pinup status at film schools everywhere.
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90An intensely imaginative piece of conceptual filmmaking that also delivers the goods as a dread-drenched horror movie.
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The Blair Witch Project is terrifying. It's also an exuberant prank of genius.
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90The what-you-don't-see element makes this an excellent film for people with overactive imaginations, and if that's you, it will scare the living crap out of you.
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88The inexplicably terrifying ending is good for a month's worth of nightmares -- no small thing for a movie in such a saturated field.
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88May be the creepiest and most original horror film since John Carpenter's classic "Halloween."
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88Blair Witch forgoes a literal boogeyman in favor of the unseen, which, in this case, is as scarily bone-chilling as anything they could show you.
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88The suspense becomes so unbearable that it's easy to overlook questions about whether anyone in such circumstances would continue filming.
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88Caused a major stir with Sundance, and for good reason -- it was perhaps the most offbeat, energetic, and eye-opening motion picture to screen there.
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80It's as chilling as Algernon Blackwood's elegantly unnerving "The Willows," played absolutely, unsettlingly straight.
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80The most inventive and genuinely frightening horror movie to appear in years.
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80It's a small film whose power is derived from its stripped-down scale.
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80A truly scary horror film, something akin to a lost art these days.
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80Paranoid, hysterical, and programmatically subjective, the movie is in every sense a psychological thriller. Although the payoff is ambiguous, the experience remains in the mind. It's an absolutely restrained and truly frightening movie.
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80No part of us is allowed to relax. Ever.
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75Certain to nauseate a portion of its audience.
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75An ultra-cheap movie, ingeniously promoted through the Internet -- is notable primarily as a model of guerrilla-style niche-marketing.
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75As a horror picture, Blair Witch may not be much more than a cheeky game, a novelty with the cool, blurry look of an avant-garde artifact. But as a manifestation of multimedia synergy, it's pretty spooky.
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75As amateurish and fumbling as it is in every department, the sum total of the movie is pretty darn scary.
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70The great power of the film lies in its simplicity, in the slow-building tension and psychological melt-downs that are the result of stark, bare-bones film-making.
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70A fairy tale reminding us that childhood fears are deep and tangled as tree roots.
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70Low-tech inventiveness at its best.
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70A pretty impressive horror film.
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60A clever, entertaining stunt, no more, no less.
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50The movie would be better as a 30-minute short, though, since its shaky camera work and fuzzy images get monotonous after a while, and there's not much room for character development within the very limited plot.
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50While it has its scary moments, and while its central conceit is refreshingly imaginative, there's ultimately not much there there.
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