The hopelessness of their situation is panic-inducing and painfully intimate, told in ragged breaths, distorted screams, and little else. Williams), and Josh are too slow to realize their fate on this weekend camping trip to film a documentary about the mythic Blair Witch (not a historical figure, but rather a lean and inventive fiction created by the film's directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, and embellished by its creative team). Famously, its actors were dropped into the woods and encouraged to improvise while being regularly fucked with by the filmmakers, which led to scenes of terror so authentic and pulse-pounding that Blair Witch sits among the greatest showbiz hoaxes of the 21st century, from Orson Welles' War of the Worlds to cult flicks like 1980's still-shocking Cannibal Holocaust.Īs anyone who's seen the original knows, Heather, Mike (Michael C. That scene, and so many others in this movie that's celebrating its 20th anniversary on July 14, speak to not only Donahue's pushy, arrogant documentarian and the emotional tourists it indicted, but the behind-the-scenes making of a widely influential, low-budget horror classic. Think of the joy of being in a really good film.' 'Think about how cool the fucking cemetery is going to be when we get there. 'Just breathe and don’t look down,' she barks from behind her always-on VHS camera. A few days before the shit truly hits the fan in The Blair Witch Project, Heather (Heather Donahue) films one of her doomed compatriots, Josh (Joshua Leonard), as he struggles to cross a log over a frigid, brown expanse of creek in the woods around Burkittsville, Maryland.

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