[Stingy Jack]

Did Blair Witch give us anything? It gave us bloody teeth in a rag, children's hand prints on the walls of a house that shouldn't have been there, ectoplasmic slime on Josh's canteen ... and some pretty creepy sound effects: the children laughing outside of the tent, and the sound of something growling in the woods. But most of the scares were there for the people who paid attention to the film. The characters never told us what the seven piles of rocks that made up the cemetery were, but if you listened you could make the connection that they stood for the seven kids that Rustin Parr lured into the woods and killed. Then, when the characters find three piles of rocks outside of the tent in the morning, you would know that they were meant to represent the three campers. It was a warning, or a threat, that they were all going to die.

Also, you would not have gotten shocked by the last scene if you had not paid attention to the story of Rustin Parr told at the beginning of the scene. And if you listened to what Rustin Parr did to his victims, you would be able to picture it happening to Heather and Mike. You didn't need to be shown. And since it was in the mind, it was probably far more horrible than anything they could show on screen.