It might be the missing link between Cannibal Holocaust and REC, but The Blair Witch Project misses its shot at greatness by expecting us to empathize with 3 people shooting a documentary about a witch that leaves piles of stones in the woods. Setting off on their quest without a phone between them, they proceed to get lost, throw away their map and argue a lot. When the going gets weird, nobody thinks to climb a tree to get their bearings or to find a stream (which will lead to a bridge, which will lead to a footpath, which will lead to a road etc. What is this, Friday The 13th?) If nothing else, the movie provided the blueprint for very found footage movie: theres the night vision footage, off-camera noises, a character recording their own confession plus the camera being jerked around while someone shouts what the f**k was that? It ends with the camera being dropped at a critical moment, but if youve ever seen a found footage movie, you already knew that.