An ensemble of three newcomers -- Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard -- play the real deal "Real World" crew in this incredibly inventive skew on the horror genre.  The trio play student filmmakers actually armed with camera and sound equipment,  striking out into the woods of rural Maryland to document what evidence they might find of the mythical Blair Witch.  To swipe the film's tag line, "A year later their footage was found." 

Whoa.  There's no plot to spoil, just mounting, palpable terror dumped on the audience through 16mm and video camera lenses.  From the beginning, Heather naively misguides this treacherous tour through the woods.  Early on she states, "It's very hard to get lost in America these days, and it's even harder to stay lost."  She spoke too soon.  Within a chilling half hour she's wide-eyed through freezing tears, staring into her shaking camera saying, "I'm scared to close my eyes.  I'm scared to open them.  I'm going to die out here."