Blair Witch

While I'm not surprised at the bad word of mouth this movie is receiving, I found Blair Witch to be an effective and genuinely chilling horror flick. While the found footage genre that was made more mainstream by the original Blair Witch Project has been beaten into the ground over the past 17 years, director Adam Wingard knows how to take the medium and craft more than a few effective scares out of it. While I found the pacing of the first 30 minutes to be slow, and I found it difficult to really care about any of the characters, I was nonetheless on the edge of my seat during a good portion of the film. Blair Witch makes great use of the surround sound most theatres are equipped with, and it understands that sometimes what you don't see or understand can be all the more frightening. All in all, this is a very simple movie that will likely be forgotten in a few weeks time (or until Haloween season comes around every year), but it incorporates enough tension and suspense that I can say it deserves better than the 3.8/10 that it has received on this site so far.