This is the only official upload from the studio on YouTube.Īs its now-memorable poster summarizes, The Blair Witch Project is a faux-documentary made up of recovered footage “recorded” by students who went missing on Halloween 1994. Writer’s note: Despite being billed as the original trailer, the embed above was created for its 15th anniversary in 2014.
BLAIR WITCH TRIALS MOVIE
The Blair Witch Project, still one of the best found-footage horror movies of all time, is the movie you need to stream on Netflix before it leaves on May 31. And so, they came up with a novel concept that would define the next two decades of horror cinema: the found footage movie. The two met as film students at the University of Central Florida in 1993 where they bonded over a fondness for documentaries on paranormal subject matter. They simply believed that truth can be scarier than fiction. The rise of digital engendered a new, rawer language to cinema that slowly spilled to the big screen.īut filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez weren’t trying to tap into the zeitgeist with their hit freshman feature, at least not on purpose. In parallel was the widespread adoption of digital video, a cheaper and easier way to make movies. There was also the meteoric rise of the reality show format, made popular by the gritty, exploitative Cops and the grungy, messy, influential MTV smash hit The Real World. In the years after Reagan and Bush, the 1990s were a decade characterized by a need for truth, perhaps best epitomized in the runaway success of The X-Files, a show all about unexplained phenomena and the cover-ups that conceal them.
This is one well-worth taking the opportunity to see on the big screen.It came at the right time. The Blair Witch Project plays Terror Tuesday tonight at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn. Williams, and Heather Donahue, frequently parodied at the time (especially Donahue’s), convey the desperation of people who know they are about to become lost to history. The performances of Joshua Leonard, Michael C. If anything, the black-and-white time capsule footage of characters wandering the forest at the turn of the millennium with a map and compass increases their distance from us in a rather tragic way. Twenty years later, it is far easier to appreciate its effectiveness as a horror film, especially one that has aged surprisingly well in the digital age. The final product, The Blair Witch Project would go on to terrify and dupe less factcheck-savvy viewers and popularize the found-footage plot device in modern horror films.Īt the time of the film’s release (and for a long time after) the marketing, which depending on who one asks was either a cheap gimmick or William Castle brilliance for the Internet age, eclipsed the craft of The Blair Witch Project in mainstream discourse. One week before Halloween 1997, filmmakers Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick sent three amateur actors into the woods of Montgomery County, Maryland equipped with little more than camping equipment, vague directions and clues to direct their movement, and video cameras (plus one film camera) to document their journey.
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