From the final moments of Don’t Look Now to Midsommar to Men, critics pick the endnotes that caused the biggest nightmares
Major spoilers ahead
Has more than two decades of found-footage horror further blunted the impact of The Blair Witch Project, which plenty of folks were already shrugging off as boring and unscary back in 1999? Maybe, but not for me. I can’t claim that I saw Blair Witch early enough to mistake its convincing faux-documentary setup for reality, but I did manage to catch it before it reached a wide enough audience to inspire countless jokes and spoofs (I can only imagine the cheesy memes we’d have to endure if it came out today), and it has stuck with me ever since. I need only to think of its final shot, and I shiver.
