![]() ![]() Don’t take no for an answer.’ Or: ‘Josh, somewhere along the way today, you’ve had it with this bull-.’ They had the freedom to decide how to play it: we only intervened if we felt they needed to tone things down. In an interview with The Guardian, Myrick said that they “would say things like: ‘Heather, you’re absolutely sure that to get out of this mess you go south. The directors and producers interacted with the actors as little as possible, usually only to scare them or deliver new film canisters for their cameras. Everything was improvised, giving “The Blair Witch Project” the authentic feel for which it is held in high regard. Their “script” was a 35-page outline with absolutely no dialogue. The three aspiring actors were left mostly alone in the woods of Maryland after only a two-day “film school” on camera work. Williams, and Joshua Leonard – were chosen, production began. When the actors – Heather Donahue, Michael C. Sanchez explains that in order to find the right actors for the job, the audition process was simply one of improvisation the actors and actresses were told they were in front of a parole board, and needed to plead a case for early release from an 18-year prison sentence. It wasn’t until 1997, however, that Sanchez and Myrick began casting the movie. ![]() The movie was shot and aggressively marketed as “found footage.” The actors themselves filmed their fictional interviews with the townspeople and their trek into the Maryland woods with handheld cameras.ĭirectors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick first conceived the idea of a “found-footage” horror movie as film students at the University of Central Florida in 1991. “The Blair Witch Project” tells the (purportedly true) story of three student filmmakers investigating the local legend of the Blair Witch in the Black Hills of Burkittsville, Maryland. It’s one of the most successful independent movies of all time. It was sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1.1 million just hours later and eventually grossed $248 million in the box office worldwide. “The Blair Witch Project,” made by two directors and three unknown actors on a budget of $60,000 premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. I could never see what all the fuss was about myself and it started a vogue for shaky hand held photography that plagues us still.By Madison Cushing, Collegian Correspondent See also Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, which followed a year later. ![]() You can read the screenplay here, or visit the official website. This documentary is featured on the DVD release. Confused? Go watch it and make up your own mind. the disturbing issue with it is with the imagination of what is going on, what you think you see and hear and jumping to your own conclusions. ![]() It's a unique horror movie, with no violence, no gore, no blood, no sex, no nudity. Much has been written and spoken about the effect of having seen the film, and few have dared to admit that it scared the sh*t out of them (I'm one of them!) Filmed entirely in Maryland, USA, three young adults venture out into the Burkittsville woods to make a film documentary about a legendary witch, but their quest is soon thrown into jeapody when they get themselves lost, disorientated and become hostile towards one another.Īt the time it was the biggest grossing movie from the smallest budget in the history of cinema (it held that record for nearly ten years). ![]()
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