What's it about? A group of young student documentary filmmakers set off into the woods on the search for the legendary Blair Witch after interviewing a selection of locals in the nearby town of Burkitsville. Before long they find themselves completely lost, as if forces outside their control have stranded them in the woods, and a series of disturbing nocturnal encounters lead to the realisation that the witch they're looking for is more real than they imagined.What makes it groundbreaking? It's debatable whether or not we should be thanking Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez for The Blair Witch Project, since the horror subgenre it popularised - the found footage genre - has offered up more than a few turkeys and not much in the way of classics. Still, at least they got it right here - few horror movies before or since have so successfully managed to deliver intense chills on such a miniscule budget.
