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videodante wrote: The Blair Witch Project (1999) - ★★★★★ I was surprised at how much this felt... genuine, even now. The acting is superb -- the kids really feel like kids, in the same sort of over-the-top stilted way that the kids in Texas Chainsaw Massacre are, and if you know me you know how much TCM means to me. It's extremely high praise. So much of the horror in here is in the audio, in the tension implied by the audio. The woods remind me of the house in TCM -- forever and nowhere all at once. Also similar to TCM is the tension between the natural and the constructed. "You going to write us a happy ending, Heather?" Horror movies are in many ways an interactive experience between the viewer and the film. I'm not the first one to say that, obviously, but there are some horror movies that take that to another level, and this is one of them, I think. If the conditions are right, you become part of the movie too -- you are hunting through the static film, you are searching through…

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