The Blair Witch Project celebrates its 15th anniversary in the UK today (October 22).
The frightening, low-budget, found-footage horror movie was written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, and featured an unknown cast who used their own names in the film.
The Blair Witch Project 15 years on: The horror movie that changed everything
It became the first of its kind in Hollywood due to its commercial success and viral online campaign, which was created to make the production look like a real documentary. The Blair Witch website with details on the made-up mythology still exists.
And the clever campaign worked on some gullible and vulnerable viewers. We remember witnessing real tears of fear being shed by some audience members in the cinema (and definitely not ours...).
It purports to be a documentary shot by three inquisitive, daring, and at times daft students investigating the local Blair Witch legend in the Maryland forest.
The frightening, low-budget, found-footage horror movie was written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, and featured an unknown cast who used their own names in the film.
The Blair Witch Project 15 years on: The horror movie that changed everything
It became the first of its kind in Hollywood due to its commercial success and viral online campaign, which was created to make the production look like a real documentary. The Blair Witch website with details on the made-up mythology still exists.
And the clever campaign worked on some gullible and vulnerable viewers. We remember witnessing real tears of fear being shed by some audience members in the cinema (and definitely not ours...).
It purports to be a documentary shot by three inquisitive, daring, and at times daft students investigating the local Blair Witch legend in the Maryland forest.
- 10/22/2014
- Digital Spy
NEW YORK -- Indie film exhibitor Madstone Theaters said Wednesday that it plans to roll out a series of independent films exclusively in its theater locations as part of a new screening series, called Film Forward, running May 1-June 11. Films selected to screen as part of Film Forward will include Mia Trachinger's Bunny, Derek Simonds' Seven and a Match, Tony Gerber's Side Streets, JT Petty's Soft for Digging, Richard W. Bean's Tattoo, A Love Story and Sergio Castilla's Te Amo. Madstone owns and operates seven theaters, with a total of 43 screens. Film Forward will be rolled out in San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Cleveland, Albuquerque, N.M., and Ann Arbor, Mich.
- 4/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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