A quarter of a century has passed since Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’s bombshell surprise box office smash The Blair Witch Project. It’s fair to say the movie’s legacy has been monumental, even ...

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In July 1999, The Blair Witch Project hit theaters, forever changing the landscape of horror films. The story of three filmmakers — Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams — who went ...

In the summer of 1999, Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard were trapped in a strange sort of limbo. “The Blair Witch Project,” their debut feature, had exploded out of the Sundance ...

This week 1999’s seminal found-footage horror film The Blair Witch Project turns 20. To celebrate the milestone anniversary, we look back at the movie’s legendary viral-marketing campaign that sold ...

When he learned this year that The Blair Witch Project was getting a reboot, Joshua Leonard—one of the original actors in the groundbreaking 1999 indie horror film—was laid up in bed, battling Covid ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, a film that popularised the found-footage horror sub-genre and captivated a generation of horror fans. Made on a shoestring budget of ...

In 1999, the biggest surprise of the year was easily the ultra-low-budget The Blair Witch Project. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick's little movie about three documentarians who get lost in ...

In the beginning was the Word — or, as they call it in Hollywood, word of mouth. For as long as there have been movies, studio marketers have relentlessly pursued ways to get people to talk about them ...

In 1999, the horror landscape was changed forever by The Blair Witch Project. Thanks to its ingenious marketing campaign, Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick's film with a no-name cast of Heather ...

Ask most people what The Blair Witch Project’s about, and you’ll get some variation on “a group of student filmmakers get lost in the woods and get hunted by a witch.” And if that’s what you go in ...

In 1999, The Blair Witch Project shocked and confused cinema-goers – many who believed its ‘found footage’ was real. Nicholas Barber finds out what made it so frightening. The makers of the Paranormal ...