10 Classic Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die

8. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

At the very brink of the year 2000 cut off, The Blair Witch Project has rightly earned its place on this list. Though nowadays, it's often lambasted for its handheld camera style, as person after person recalls how it didn't scare them when they first watched it. But those people are liars: put The Blair Witch Project on whilst home alone, in the middle of the night, with the lights switched off, and let's see who's not scared - and avoiding corners of the room at all costs.

Aside from its inherently creepy title, the set-up is innately scary too: a bunch of kids head out into the woods in Maryland in hopes of capturing some footage of a local legend, the Blair Witch. The purposely amateur nature of the production brought horror closer to audiences than ever before, many of whom were duped into thinking that the "found footage" they were watching was actually real. The trick is that we don't get to see the Blair Witch; all the "action" happens off camera. And we buy it all because the performances are chillingly real.