The Blair Witch Project

At 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.

At 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.

Many 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.

An intensely imaginative piece of conceptual filmmaking that also delivers the goods as a dread-drenched horror movie.

A 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.

The Blair Witch Project is terrifying. It's also an exuberant prank of genius.

A 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.

The Blair Witch Project is terrifying. It's also an exuberant prank of genius.

Caused a major stir with Sundance, and for good reason -- it was perhaps the most offbeat, energetic, and eye-opening motion picture to screen there.

The suspense becomes so unbearable that it's easy to overlook questions about whether anyone in such circumstances would continue filming.