Sundance Film Festival audiences came out of The Blair Witch Project shaking with fear. It went on to become one of the most successful independent movies ever released. On a shooting budget of less than $60,000 it made more than $250 million at the box office. A good part of the film’s success was its novelty: this was the first found footage horror film — purporting to be the rushes of a student-made documentary investigating the legend of the Blair Witch in Burkittsville, Maryland, a quest that takes the three filmmakers deep into the Appallachian woods. Easy to get lost in there…
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Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard
USA
1999
English
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Credits
Screenwriter
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Cinematography
Neal Fredericks
Editor
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Original Music
Antonio Cora
Production Design
Ben Rock
Art Director
Ricardo Moreno
90s, Baby!
Ten years. 11 weeks. 90 films from the 1990s. This summer, 90’s Baby! takes a deep dive into a defining decade of cinema.