If you somehow have been lost in the woods in Maryland for two decades, The Blair Witch Project tells the story three amateur filmmakers — Josh, Heather, and Mike — who embark into Burkittsville, Maryland to create a documentary on the legend of the Blair Witch. Much of what we learn about the legend and experiences of the town folk are In 1999, a small independent pic called The Blair Witch Project successfully established the novel “found footage” horror genre. The film was shot totally with handheld cameras on a miniscule budget and gave viewers the terrifying sense that they were watching a first-person documentary of real-world horror that had been lost, then found. Our Blair Witch (2016) review sums up the movie as being "What The Blair Witch Project would be if the original had been made today - which is both a compliment and concession." One look around online and it quickly becomes clear that more critics than not agree with that assessment, for good and bad. Because of these innovations, legendary film critic Roger Ebert named The Blair Witch Project one of the most influential films of the century – which, coming out as it did in late 1999, is no mean feat. 1. It is now considered to be one of the greatest horror movies of all time. By Kurt Jensen • Catholic News Service • Posted September 16, 2016 . NEW YORK (CNS) — Turning the 1999 ultra-low-budget “The Blair Witch Project” into a franchise has meant turning the Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is a 2000 American horror film directed and co-written by Joe Berlinger and starring Jeffrey Donovan, Stephen Barker Turner, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen, and Tristine Skyler. Its plot revolves around a group of people fascinated by the mythology surrounding the film The Blair Witch Project; they go into the Black The Blair Witch Project paved the way for dozens of horror movies shot in the “found footage” subgenre, but the 1999 hit produced only one sequel, the best-left-forgotten Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 from 2000, which cashed in on its predecessor’s triumph with a blandly straightforward presentation. With the benefit of hindsight, writing a review of The Blair Witch Project seventeen years after the fact remains a thorny prospect.I can choose to look at the horror movie as a whole, as objectively as possible; or I can simply judge my initial experience seeing the movie in 1999; or I can even consider my subsequent viewings after the rash of “found footage” offshoots it inspired have Almost $250 million worldwide box office bucks later, 1999's "The Blair Witch Project" spawned two not-as-well received sequels (2000's "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" and 2016's "Blair Witch fgm5.

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