The blair witch project 1999 newsweek cover

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The movie was shot over eight days, in Germantown, Md., Seneca Creek State Park and the Griggs House, in Patapsco Valley State Park. Over the next several years, they came up with the Blair Witch lore, hired a few unknown actors who could do improv, scraped some money together and production got underway in October of 1997. InВ and around 1993,В they were talking about horror movies-and the recent drought of truly great ones-when they thought about the potentially terrifying consequences of a group stumbling upon a house in the woods and not being able to resist going inside, despite knowing that something appalling was happening.

Not to mention, no oneВ wasВ racing toВ Facebook or Twitter to spoil the fun.Дirectors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo SГЎnchezВ met as students at the University of Central Florida School of Film. Same with that shaky, hand-held camera technique.В That took some getting used to as well, and there were reported occurrences of nausea and vomiting.)Д«oosted by a rather ingenious marketing campaign that teased the film entirely as the product of tapesВ discoveredВ in the woods of Burkittsville, Md., afterВ an unknown but presumably horrible fate had befallen three student filmmakers, The Blair Witch ProjectВ benefited from the kind ofВ organically grownВ anticipation that's hard to duplicate these days. (The idea wasn't conjured out of thin air, but it certainly didn't become a full-fledged thing until 1999. Now it's beenВ 22 years since The Blair Witch ProjectВ in all its haunting, low-budgetВ glory landed in theatersВ and launched a new genre of horror movie: found footage.

Two years later, their footage scared up almost $249 million. In 1997, two directors and three unknown actors disappeared into the woods, toting handheld cameras and a concept.

The blair witch project 1999 newsweek cover