The Blair Witch Project
Everything you've heard is true.
Country
Production
Budget
$22 000
Box office
$248 639 099
Website
Director
Actors
Rei Hance, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King, Sandra Sánchez, Ed Swanson, Patricia DeCou, Mark Mason, Susie Gooch
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, Bob Eick, Kevin J. Foxe
Camera operator
Neal Fredericks
Composer
Tony Cora
Artist
Audition
Short description
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
What's left behind the scenes
- The word "fuck" is uttered 133 times in the film.
- The waitress who talks about the Blair town high school was played by the director Eduardo Sanchez’s sister, Sandra.
- In February 1999, the firm "Artisan" purchased the film rights for $1 million. They launched a website dedicated to the film at www.blairwitch.com, which received approximately 110,000 visits in its first weekend. By September, the number of visits had grown to 75 million.
- The film entered the Guinness Book of Records for the best return on investment ratio. Every dollar invested in the film's production generated $10,931 in revenue.
- Joshua Leonard eventually broke the camera he was carrying on his shoulder. As he slipped and tumbled down a hill, the camera's lenses flew out.
- The close-up of Heather Donahue's face in the scene where she records a farewell message, which eventually ended up on the official movie poster, happened by accident: Donahue intended for her entire face to be in the frame, but accidentally zoomed in too far. Nevertheless, the directors felt that this added a sense of realism to the film.
- The scene where Heather finds Josh's tongue and teeth is borrowed from Washington Irving's story "The Devil and Tom Walker".
- The scene in which Heather finds Josh's tongue and teeth is borrowed from Washington Irving's story 'The Devil and Tom Walker'.
- The film employs the technique of false archetypization – in reality, the "witch" is a classic "wendigo," an Indian evil spirit of winter and hunger.
- Before the film's release, the lead actors were marked on IMDB.com as "missing, presumed dead".
- Joshua Leonard eventually broke the camera he had been carrying on his shoulder. When he slipped and tumbled down a hill, the lenses flew out of the camera.
- The frightening crunching sounds during the heroes' nighttime gatherings in the tent were made by the director and his friends, who walked around the perimeter of the campsite, breaking twigs and throwing branch fragments in different directions.
- Filming took about eight days. To make the actors’ fatigue and irritation look natural, they were given less food each day of filming. The main actors, knowing they were shooting a fictional film, believed that the legend of the Blair Witch was real. The script only described the main plot points, and almost all of the dialogue was improvised by the actors.
- According to one of the film’s creators, he was impressed by the story of the Salem witch trials.
- The close-up of Heather Donahue's face in the scene where she records a farewell message, which ultimately ended up on the film's official poster, happened by accident: Donahue had planned for her entire face to be in the frame, but accidentally zoomed in too much. Nevertheless, the directors felt that this would add realism to the film.
- The waitress who talks about the middle school in the town of Blair was played by director Eduardo Sanchez's sister, Sandra.
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