The Wrap | ‘Blair Witch’ Review
The Wrap
Legend has it that the early short film “Arrival of a Train” — which showed a train pulling into the station at La Ciotat — so jolted 1896 audiences who had never seen a movie before that they actually fled the theater to avoid being run over. The closest modern audiences have probably come to that level of interactivity was in 1999, when “The Blair Witch Project” offered, for many filmgoers, their first experience with found-footage horror, and the film’s resemblance to first-person documentary unsettled viewers who felt they were watching real, terrifying events unfold before their eyes.
