The real script came, on eerie blood-red paper to prevent copying, just before boarding for the location. "I was writing a film called The Woods, my contract even said The Woods, and not telling anyone what I was really doing."Īctors were kept in the dark during auditions with faux scripts. Blair Witch Monster Species: Unclassified monster Type: Supernatural Height: 8 ft (2.4 m, est) Weight: 350 lb (159 kg. Shop affordable wall art to hang in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls arent welcome. She pushes down trees, pulls tents into the air, infects feet with slithering creatures, and gruesomely contorts a girl to death. Unique The Blair Witch Project Posters designed and sold by artists. Williams, and Joshua Leonard who hike in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The film tells the story of three student filmmakers Heather Donahue, Michael C. "It was weird keeping it a secret," Barrett says. 2016: Blair Witch eschews the subtle interactions of the first movie, making the witch a powerful, distinctly physical presence. When ‘The Blair Witch Project’ was released in 1999, it brought in a wave of change in the horror genre. The filmmakers, devoted fans of the original, jumped. Lionsgate, which owned the Blair Witch rights, approached the duo in 2013 with a top secret found-footage sequel concept involving the younger brother leading friends to find his missing sister Heather Donahue in the cursed woods. Then there were years of silence as inexpensive found-footage franchises dominated horror, from Paranormal Activity to Wingard and Barrett's V/H/S. A traditionally shot, critically panned 2000 sequel Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, helmed by Joe Berlinger, maxed out at $47.7 million globally. Known as the pioneer of the 'found footage' horror genre (even though Cannibal Holocaust did it almost 15 years before this movie), The Blai. With Internet hype, directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's $60,000 film turned into an $248.6 million cultural monster at the worldwide box office.īut Blair Witch as a franchise got lost in the woods. The "found-footage" approach, shot on handheld video cameras by unknown actors seemingly terrorized in the Maryland woods, seemed all too real.
It was an appropriate surprise for the terrifyingly realistic Blair Witch Project, which sneaked up and spooked the nation in 1999.
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