The Blair Witch Project: Critic Reviews

58%

MovieWeb: 5 reviews

84%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

If you can handle its unconventional approach, you won't feel as if you're seeing a film so much as witnessing a living nightmare.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

What gives the film much of its force and its mounting sense of queasy uncertainty is its narrative method, which ensures that we know no more about the proceedings than the characters do.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Where is the suspense? Where is the involvement? Where is the identification?
Full Review » 5 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

What can anyone say about The Blair Witch Project that hasn't been trumpeted from a thousand Web sites already?
Full Review » 9 years ago
David Edelstein Slate (Top Critic)

I could tell you the story -- give away every detail -- and The Blair Witch Project would still freeze your blood.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The viewer never glimpses anything more than the shadow of a clever movie.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

In short, the film is a clever, entertaining stunt, no more, no less, and a terrific calling card for its fledgling filmmakers, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

This one could be too scary even for your teen.
Full Review » 1 year ago
R. L. Shaffer IGN DVD

20

A brilliant marketing campaign, to be sure, but this Z-grade con of a film offers no payoff for audiences looking to be scared.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Lucius Gore ESplatter

100

"Blair Witch" should go down in history as proof that it doesn't take a big budget to make a great movie, in fact it may not even take a budget at all.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Garth Franklin Dark Horizons

This is a highly original and well-made film which is one of the best of the year, and a welcome change from the recent slasher genre which most horror films seem to be classified as these days.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

70

It is a horror film that shows nothing -- no blood, no violence -- explains nothing, and seems to mean nothing, but scares you and keeps scaring you long after it is over.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jeff Giles Newsweek

Heather's shaky video work can induce motion sickness -- it looks like combat footage as she bolts through the woods -- but just try turning away.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

40

The lofty talk in the press of its being a new horror masterpiece is nonsense.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound

88

The three actors manage not only to capture some beautiful footage but also to spout believable and consistent dialog without digressing into the standard Scream pop culture references.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

The actors never put a foot wrong; the video diary form allows no artifice, so that as terror mounts, the dread is infectious.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

88

It's an original and admirable effort.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jean-Francois Vandeuren Panorama

80

The Blair Witch Project se veut une %u0153uvre marquante de par son ambiance funebre et stressante exponentiellement recreee.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chris Gore Film Threat

90

One of the scariest films of the 90s.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews

84

I'm creeping myself out just writing this!
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer

34

They just want to scare us by confusing us, disorienting us, and by playing a simple trick on our inner ear.
Full Review » 7 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

60

I can readily understand why some people, more willing than I to suspend their disbelief, would be frightened out of their wits by the goings on.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide

100

Gorehounds and smirking fans of the nudge-nudge, wink-wink school of self-referential horror may be disappointed, but that's their loss.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeanne Aufmuth Palo Alto Weekly

88

The most frightening film to come along since The Exorcist.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Brian Mckay eFilmCritic.com

100

The kind of movie that works on your psyche and has you laying awake at 3 a.m. two nights later thinking about it and getting creeped out in your dark bedroom.
Full Review » 9 years ago