When they wake up and there are rock piles outside their tents, we planted those, obviously. “All the weird kind of noises and stuff is just us running around in the woods. And Myrick and Sanchez made sure things happened. After all, the film’s directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduárdo Sanchez, were planning to drop the trio off in the woods to shoot this all themselves, only being given sparse instructions from their directors via supplies left in milk crates for them to find in their eight days of filming.īut generally, their directions were simple: film everything that happens. They were cast less for their verisimilitude and more for their improv skills and how well they could operate a camera. Williams - were found through Backstage, an industry magazine where actors can find local auditions. The three actors - Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C.
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But it’s Blair Witch’s out-of-the-box creativity that still resonates with ingenuity today.īeyond the scares, the viral marketing, the tie-in TV film (The Sci-Fi Channel’s The Curse of the Blair Witch), and the three prequel PC games, what I continue to find most impressive is how The Blair Witch Project was filmed. The film is a testament to the longevity of horror and the burning spirit of young filmmakers. A film so simple, scares so slight, that it unexpectedly filled us with a feeling of unending dread. The Blair Witch Project has survived for the last 20 years because of this lingering effect. All of these indelible sense memories burrowed into my mind, leaving me a winded and enraptured 11-year-old craving more. As for sleep that night? Suffice to say it was a groggy Monday morning. Was this film real? We rented this at Blockbuster, so these people couldn’t be dead…could they? I remember staring into the woody area surrounding my house after the film was over wondering what horrors lay beyond the tree line. It was a Sunday afternoon, munching on Eggo waffles, while reality around me fell away. I distinctly remember holding a blood red VHS case of Jaws, the terror as I hid under blankets watching Robert Wise’s The Haunting, the shock on my face during the final moment of Night of the Living Dead, and sitting at my kitchen table, white as a sheet, viewing The Blair Witch Project. Perhaps more than with any other genre, watching a horror film for the first time sticks in our minds.
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