Viewed at the Enzian Theater and Cafe in Orlando, Florida. Support your local independent movie house!

"In October of 1994," the white letters read over a black screen, "three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found." Wanna see something really scary?

When the film and video belonging to three missing filmmakers is discovered a year later in the woods where they vanished, Haxan Films is contacted to make sense of the surviving media. In the completed documentary, Heather Donahue and her film team, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard, venture deep into the woodlands where the events surrounding the legend of the Blair Witch supposedly took place. After shooting footage in the town of Burkittsville and interviewing a few of the locals, the intrepid filmmakers find one of the sites they were looking for deep in the woods and camp out for the night, albeit a restless one with all manner of unidentified sounds made by things lurking just beyond the limits of their camera lights. After taking longer than expected to find their second site and spending another sleepless night in the woods, the way back to the car is suddenly in doubt as the filmmakers vainly attempt to escape their fate. As the eerie sounds close in, what follows is the breaking down of three friends as their supplies, their trust, and their luck finally run out. The last frames of The Blair Witch Project will haunt viewers for a long time.

The names of the three filmmakers have not been changed. The myth, originating in 1785 when the Township of Blair banished Elly Kedward as a witch, is well documented. According to the Sci-Fi Channel documentary Curse of the Blair Witch and to the Blairwitch.com website, something happens every sixty years in that area that is eventually blamed on the Blair Witch. If none of the documentary is real and all of it were just a first attempt by young filmmakers to do something original and frightening, it has propelled itself to the forefront of the indies as a shining example of maverick filmmaking and whispered advertising. No digital characters, simple if any special effects, and a premise that works wonderfully within the limits of their time, money and ability. If all of it IS real, if these children really vanished in the woods near Burkittsville, and if what's on the film and tapes really happened... be afraid. Be very afraid. And enjoy.

What's your favorite scary movie?

(4 out of 4)