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The Blair Witch Project

Genre
Horror
Rating
R
Released
14 July, 1999
The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. It is a fictional story of three student filmmakers—Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard—who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The three disappear, but their equipment and footage are discovered a year later. The purportedly "recovered footage" is the film the viewer sees. Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend of the Blair Witch in 1993. They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvised. A casting call advertisement in Backstage magazine was prepared by the directors; Donahue, Williams and Leonard were cast. The film entered production in October 1997, with the principal photography taking place in Maryland for eight days. About 20 hours of footage was shot, which was edited down to 82 minutes.

Direktor Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Produced by Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale
Writer(s) Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard
Music Antonio Cora
Cinematography Neal Fredericks
Edited by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Production, company Haxan Films
Distributed by Artisan Entertainment
Released January 23, 1999 (Sundance), July 14, 1999 (New York City)
Running time 81 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $200,000–500,000
Box office $248.6 million
Netflix ID 18957965

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Three film students vanish after heading to a Maryland forest to film a documentary about the Blair Witch legend.

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The film popularized the found footage technique and became one of the most successful independent films of all time. It earned  nearly $250 million worldwide on a budget of $60,000.

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