"I'm scared to close my eyes... I'm scared to open them... We're gonna die out here..."
The movie that made found footage such a big thing, 'The Blair Witch Project' is a frightening, low budget, shaky, real feeling horror. There aren't any effects of demons or people getting sucked into hell, there's no gore, there's no real payoff for all the suspense, which is really why it feels like it is real found footage.
Plenty of morons apparently believed that it was real, thanks in part to it's groundbreaking internet campaign (yeah, that's how old it is). The movie follows three vaguely irritating students who go out to a wood to do a documentary and are then toyed with and picked off, possibly by the mysterious Blair Witch.
We never see the antagonist, so the movie is almost all suspense dotted with false jumps. This kind of format means that if you're not watching with a girl it can become tedious, and in that case I'd suggest bringing a book or something to pass the time while the students run around and film themselves crying, then finding one another's bloodied teeth, then crying and running around.
While it is a bore if you're not into it, the end is genius, especially the guy standing in the corner. The way it is handled is truly frightening (typical that this was the first thing that the studio that bought it wanted to change - and thank the gods they didn't). Overall 'The Blair Witch Project' is an effectively eerie film, though it is a shame how many crappy found footage movies were later made off the back of it.
The Blair Witch Project: 34.7