The Blair Witch Project was awesome, especially the ending as the kids early on hear stories about how the witch would put them in a corner before killing them. The last thing you see is one of them in a corner and then the film goes dead…… That for some people I guess is the lasting image they have as they leave the cinema. For some reason a friend of mine missed all the hype, went to see it and thought it was real – she couldnt sleep for a week.
I am a bit suspicious of the Speilbertg stories – another one says he watched it then he found a door in his house locked from the inside. Probably a great bit of viral hype, but the marketing seems to have worked and good on him for being able to produce a big hit on such a low budget. For me CGI just doesnt work as it always seems to look like computer graphics, maybe with one or two exceptions, but the blockbuster effects just jar with me.