Grad students Tristen Ryler ( Tristine Skyler) and Stephen Ryan Parker ( Stephen Barker Turner) are writing a book about the Blair Witch, but disagree completely about the story's basis in fact, with folklorist Tristen arguing that it must contain some grain of truth while Stephen insists it's a textbook case of mass hysteria. Erica Geerson ( Erica Leerhsen) is a practicing Wiccan who has immersed herself in Blair Witch mythology, even though she decries the film's portrayal of her fellow witches. Jeff's clients are also fixated on the film, for reasons they themselves may not fully comprehend. Jeff Patterson ( Jeffrey Donovan), a black-sheep "townie" only recently released from a mental institution, has turned his obsession with the Blair Witch into a business and has lured four young people to Burkittsville for a tour of the Witch's purported Black Hills' haunts. Main article: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2īook of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 returns to Maryland's Black Hills region in the wake of The Blair Witch Project and the prodigious media coverage devoted to its conflation of documentary style and supernatural legend, fans and curiosity-seekers have descended upon the movie's real-life setting of Burkittsville, Maryland. The film runs for a few seconds, then dies.īook of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) Suddenly Heather's camera is knocked down and she too is rendered silent. Hysterical, Heather follows and sees Mike in the corner of the room, faced against a wall. Suddenly, Mike is rendered silent and the camera falls. Mike then realizes that the voice is now coming from the basement, and rushes down the steps. Josh's voice seems to be coming from somewhere inside the house, and Mike rushes upstairs. While searching for Josh, Heather and Mike find a derelict house in a clearing and go inside, where they see runic symbols on the wall next to child-sized handprints. One night, days after they should have been back home, Josh disappears. Eerie sounds at night and more piles of stones in places where they have not been before cause the already desperate group to panic. First, they find little piles of stone that must have been arranged artificially, later, they find themselves lost in the woods. The party sets out to look for facts that prove the legend, equipped only with two cameras and a little hiking gear. In the Black Hills forest near Burkittsville, Maryland, many children had vanished in the 1940s and people still avoid going too deep into the woods. Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard, student filmmakers, set out to shoot a documentary about the Blair Witch. The mockumentary presents the legend as real, complete with manufactured newspaper articles, newsreels, television news reports, and staged interviews in an attempt to convenience viewers of it's legitimacy. According to the legend, residents always blame these occurrences on the ghost of Elly Kedward (also a fictitious person), a Blair resident executed in 1785 by exposure for practicing witchcraft. The fictional tale describes the murders and disappearances of some of the residents of Blair, Maryland, the fictitious former name of Burkittsville, Maryland, from the 18th century to the 20th century.
Sanchez and Myrick also maintained a website at which added further details to the legend.
#The blair witch project 1999 movie#
The backstory for the movie is a fictional legend created by Myrick and Sanchez which is detailed in The Curse of the Blair Witch, a mockumentary broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1999 prior to the release of The Blair Witch Project. 3.3 The Massacre of The Burkittsville 7: The Blair Witch Legacy (2000).3.2 Sticks and Stones: An Exploration of the Blair Witch Legend (1999).2.2 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000).
#The blair witch project 1999 series#
Series of video games, books, novels and comic books were released to accompany the films. A second official sequel, Blair Witch, was released on September 16, 2016. The film went on to be a massive commercial success, and a sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was released on October 27, 2000. The film follows the disappearance of three student filmmakers in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary on the local legend known as the "Blair Witch".Īfter premiering at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, the film was released on July 30, 1999, after months of publicity during a controversial promotional campaign. Filming began in 1997 and lasted eight days. Myrick and Sanchez wrote a 35-page outline of a story with the dialogue to be improvised. The development of the franchise's first installment, The Blair Witch Project, started in 1993.
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