After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. He tells them of a young girl named Robin Weaver, who went missing in 1888; when she returned three days later, she talked about "an old woman whose feet never touched the ground." [49] Best Buy and Lionsgate had an exclusive release of the Blu-ray made available on August 29, 2010. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. A casting call advertisement was placed in Backstage by the directors in June 1996, asking for actors with strong improvisational abilities. There is no story arc. Then, James stumbles upon the video, and--believing that he saw an image of his missing sister, Heather, who disappeared in 1994 in the same woods while investigating the legend of the Blair Witch--he assembles a team of friends in search of answers. Heather and Mike try in vain to find him before proceeding. to which she had to respond. Mike reveals he kicked the map into a creek out of frustration, which prompts the other two to attack him in rage as they realize they are now lost. The film is heavily credited with reviving the found-footage technique which was later used by similarly successful horror films such as Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield. Well, that was disappointing.I should have known better. [101] For this documentary, director Russ Gomm interviewed the original film's producer, Gregg Hale, and directors Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick. [7] Influenced by producer Gregg Hale's memories of his military training, in which "enemy soldiers" would hunt a trainee through wild terrain for three days, the directors moved the characters a long way during the day, harassing them by night, and depriving them of food. Pre-production began on October 5, 1997 and Michael Monello became a co-producer. 3 The Blair Witch Crew With a little ingenuity (and a couple of twigs), two greenhorns scared up the year's biggest film Read More [94], In July 1999, Oni Press released a one-shot comic promoting the film, titled The Blair Witch Project #1. Mike eating a dry leaf. He noted that "In an age where anyone can film whatever they like, horror needn't be a cinematic expression of what terrifies the cinema-goer, it can simply be the medium through which terrors captured by the average American can be showcased". [17][30], The Blair Witch Project is thought to be the first widely released film marketed primarily by the Internet. 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[100] The game was released on August 30, 2019. From the stars of "The Good Place" to a pair of "Pretty Little Liars," check out our gallery of celebrity besties. Directed by Adam Wingard. Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind. With Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin. An array of other films have relied on the found-footage concept and shown influence by The Blair Witch Project. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. [112] In September 2016, screenwriter Simon Barrett explained that in writing the new film, he only considered material that was produced with the involvement of the original film's creative team (directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, producer Gregg Hale, and production designer Ben Rock) to be "canon", and that he did not take any material produced without their direct involvement—such as the first sequel Book of Shadows or The Blair Witch Files, a series of young adult novels—into consideration when writing the new sequel. In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home. After unearthing a DV tape containing intriguing raw footage in Burkittsville's Black Hills Forest, Lane and Talia upload the video on YouTube. [1], USA Today reported that The Blair Witch Project was the first film to go viral despite having been produced before many of the technologies that facilitate such phenomena existed. In the morning, they find that three cairns have been built around their tent. Shot on an original budget of $35,000–60,000, the film had a final cost of $200,000–750,000 after post-production edits. Then, James stumbles upon the video, and--believing that he saw an image of his missing sister, Heather, who disappeared in 1994 in the same woods while investigating the legend of the Blair Witch--he assembles a team of friends in search of answers. [6][15] Most of the film was shot in Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County, Maryland. The Blair Witch Project (1999). [61], The Blair Witch Project's found-footage technique received near-universal praise. They again hear twigs snapping. The Blair Witch. Heather enters the basement screaming, and her camera captures Mike standing in a corner. The first ending kept the audience off balance; it challenged our real world conventions and that's what really made it scary. A sleeper hit, The Blair Witch Project grossed nearly $250 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful independent films of all time, as well as the 37th most profitable horror film. Blair Witch is a 2016 American found footage supernatural horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. [5] While film students at the University of Central Florida, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez were inspired to make the film after realizing that they found documentaries on paranormal phenomena scarier than traditional horror films. [62][63] Although Cannibal Holocaust director Ruggero Deodato has acknowledged the similarities of The Blair Witch Project to his film, he criticized the publicity that it received for being an original production;[81] advertisements for The Blair Witch Project also promoted the idea that the footage is genuine. The following day, they try to hike back to the car but cannot find it before dark and make camp. With James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott. [104][105], A sequel entitled Book of Shadows was released on October 27, 2000; it was poorly received by most critics. [89] In 2013, the film also made the top-ten list of The Hollywood Reporter's highest-grossing independent films of all time, ranking number six. "[69], Some critics were less enthusiastic. They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvised. The directors incorporated that part of the legend, along with allusions to the Salem witch trials and Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible, to play on the themes of injustice done to those who were classified as witches. [52] The film dropped out of the top-ten list in its 10th weekend and by the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed $140.5 million in the US and Canada and grossed $108.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $248.6 million (over 4,000 times its original budget). Some critics have also noted that the film's basic plot premise and narrative style are strikingly similar to Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The Last Broadcast (1998). [7][1] The informal improvisational audition process narrowed the pool of 2,000 actors. 90% of that is just darkness and trees. The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 horror movie and famous paranormal hoax.Purporting to be the "recovered footage" of three documentary filmmakers who vanished in the forests of western Maryland, it was accompanied by one of the first major internet viral marketing campaigns, which served to spread its fakelore far and wide in the months before its release. A full 20 minutes could have been left on the editing room floor. The film had a limited release on July 14, 1999, before expanding to a wider release starting July 30. It is based on the purportedly true story of three student filmmakers—Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard—who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The students explore the woods in north Burkittsville to research the legend. Neither deleted scene has ever been officially released. Michael DeCoto, the film professor, consider… That night, they hear the sound of twigs snapping. [108], On July 22, 2016, a surprise trailer for Blair Witch was revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con. Written by [97] The following volumes, The Legend of Coffin Rock and The Elly Kedward Tale, were less well received, with PC Gamer saying that Volume 2's "only saving grace was its cheap price",[98] and calling Volume 3 "amazingly mediocre".[99]. [51] The film expanded further to 2,142 theaters and again finished in second place with a gross of $24.3 million in its fourth weekend, behind another horror film The Sixth Sense. They again hear Josh's agonized cries and follow them to an abandoned house containing demonic symbols and children's bloody hand-prints on the walls. The three disappear, but their equipment and footage are discovered a year later. The film, distributed by Lionsgate, was slated for a September 16 release and stars James Allen McCune as the brother of the original film's Heather Donahue. Andrew Sarris of The New York Observer deemed it "overrated," as well as a rendition of "the ultimate triumph of the Sundance scam: Make a heartless home movie, get enough critics to blurb in near unison 'scary,' and watch the suckers flock to be fleeced". When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for. [66] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a total of four stars, and called it "an extraordinarily effective horror film". [14] The documentary was aired on the television series Split Screen hosted by John Pierson on August 6, 1998. [4] The film expanded nationwide in its third weekend and grossed $29.2 million from 1,101 locations, placing at number two in the United States box office, surpassing the science fiction horror film Deep Blue Sea but behind Runaway Bride. [90], Director Eli Roth has cited the film as a marketing influence to promote his 2002 horror film Cabin Fever with the Internet. Myrick said, "What makes us fearful is something that's out of the ordinary, unexplained. [86] In 2016, it was ranked by IGN as number 21 on their list of Top 25 Horror Movies of All Time,[87] number 16 on Cosmopolitan's 25 Scariest Movies of All Time,[88] and number three on The Hollywood Reporter's 10 Scariest Movies of All Time. [79] Some critics have also noted that the film's basic plot premise and narrative style are strikingly similar to Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The Last Broadcast (1998). 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