Vampires bore me silly. Werewolves are okay subjects of fiction, but not terribly scary. I don't watch many horror movies, but The Blair Witch Project scared me a lot. It was filmed in a state park here in Maryland, and I knew those trees, that underbrush, that land. And it had some starkly memorable images--the tree hung with stick figures, the mysterious cairns, the bloody bit of stuff wrapped in flannel, the decrepit house in the middle of the woods. It was really about Panic in its most primal sense--the encounter with Pan, the city dweller's terror of the wild.