“You felt like something was going to be out there. Magic enough for him to get inside his head. “That first night it was like magic,” he remembers.
Hochman left the Egyptian Theater and wandered through the woods to his condo, terrified and wondering whether he’d just watched a snuff film, or an entirely new genre of horror flick. … A year later their footage was found.” What followed was spliced-together bits of shaky Hi8 video and black-and-white 16mm film footage from the wilderness, punctuated by the three students’ increasingly paranoid arguments, desperate screams, and, eventually, their demise.
It opened with a prologue that read: “In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. It was a typically chilly night in Park City, Utah, where Hochman was covering the Sundance Film Festival for Entertainment Weekly, and the movie he’d just watched was unlike anything he’d ever seen before. That’s what David Hochman told himself on January 24, 1999, after a midnight showing of a little indie film called The Blair Witch Project. It was a viral sensation before the term even existed.Ī follow-up to the film will be released in cinemas on September 15 – and it’ll have it’s work cut out to induce the same kind of terror viewers felt when watching a snotty-nosed Heather Donahue record her last transmission.Avoid the twigs. Here, years before social media took off, was a place where like-minded fans could come together to discuss all things Blair Witch.įilms like Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield have picked up the found footage baton and ran with it, with both trying to conjure up backstories and mystery beyond what was presented on-screen.īlair Witch, though, got there first. Intriguingly, the filmmakers section lists actors Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard, and Heather Donahue, maintaining the ruse that it was all real.Ī trip to the Internet Archive also throws up a page that links to a chat section on the site. It’s a basic black background with the iconic Blair Witch wooden figure and options to explore the film’s mythology, aftermath and legacy.
Blast from the past The Blair Witch Project's original website from 1999.
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