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The Blair Witch Project

  • 19991999
  • RR
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
255K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,054
132
Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Teaser Trailer for The Blair Witch Project
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  • Horror
  • Mystery
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
255K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,054
132
  • Directors
    • Daniel Myrick
    • Eduardo Sánchez
  • Writers
    • Daniel Myrick
    • Eduardo Sánchez
    • Heather Donahue(documentary material)
  • Stars
    • Heather Donahue
    • Michael C. Williams
    • Joshua Leonard
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Daniel Myrick
    • Eduardo Sánchez
  • Writers
    • Daniel Myrick
    • Eduardo Sánchez
    • Heather Donahue(documentary material)
  • Stars
    • Heather Donahue
    • Michael C. Williams
    • Joshua Leonard
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 3.6KUser reviews
    • 400Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 19 wins & 26 nominations

    Videos3

    The Blair Witch Project
    Trailer 0:31
    The Blair Witch Project
    Pop Trivia: Sundance Film Festival
    Clip 0:53
    Pop Trivia: Sundance Film Festival
    Scariest Movie Moments
    Video 1:34
    Scariest Movie Moments

    Photos184

    Michael C. Williams in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Joshua Leonard in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Daniel Myrick and Neville Elder at an event for The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
    Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    Top cast

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    Heather Donahue
    Heather Donahue
    • Heather Donahueas Heather Donahue
    Michael C. Williams
    Michael C. Williams
    • Michael 'Mike' Williamsas Michael 'Mike' Williams
    • (as Michael Williams)
    Joshua Leonard
    Joshua Leonard
    • Joshua 'Josh' Leonardas Joshua 'Josh' Leonard
    Bob Griffin
    • Short Fishermanas Short Fisherman
    Jim King
    • Intervieweeas Interviewee
    Sandra Sánchez
    • Waitressas Waitress
    • (as Sandra Sanchez)
    Ed Swanson
    • Fisherman With Glassesas Fisherman With Glasses
    Patricia DeCou
    Patricia DeCou
    • Mary Brownas Mary Brown
    Mark Mason
    • Man in Yellow Hatas Man in Yellow Hat
    Susie Gooch
    • Interviewee with Childas Interviewee with Child
    • (as Jackie Hallex)
    • Directors
      • Daniel Myrick
      • Eduardo Sánchez
    • Writers
      • Daniel Myrick
      • Eduardo Sánchez
      • Heather Donahue(documentary material) (uncredited)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      This film was in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Top Budget: Box Office Ratio" (for a mainstream feature film). The film cost $60,000 to make and made back $248 million, a ratio of $1 spent for every $10,931 made.
    • Goofs
      The three are lost in the woods but in one scene, about 25 feet behind them, a field can be seen through a small gap in the trees. The road is also visible as they try to find the trail.
    • Quotes

      Heather Donahue: I just want to apologize to Mike's mom, Josh's mom, and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted that we weren't lost. I insisted that we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way. And this is where we've ended up and it's all because of me that we're here now - hungry, cold, and hunted. I love you mom, dad. I am so sorry. What is that? I'm scared to close my eyes, I'm scared to open them! We're gonna die out here!

    • Crazy credits
      The beginning and end credits are designed in the style of a documentary, e.g. jumping slightly, static instead of rolling credits.
    • Alternate versions
      In October 2001, the FX Network aired this with "never-before-seen footage". This turned out to be a few segments spliced into the closing credits of Heather videotaping Mike saying goodbye to his friends and family, and Heather admitting culpability for the week's occurrences. Mike firmly states that it is not her fault, which is referenced in Heather's later confession to the camera in the theatrical version. Also, all profanities are overdubbed, especially a really bad "let's go" over Heather saying "f**k you" to Josh as he berates her about being lost and hunted on the dusk before he is taken away.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Instinct/The Loss of Sexual Innocence/Limbo (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Rigors
      Written by Klaus Heesch

      Performed by Digginlilies

      Courtesy of Juicy Temples

    User reviews3.6K

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    An Experiment In Fear
    Hmm. Wow. What is there left to say? I've waited for most of the hype to die down to even add my comments for this movie to IMDB, and here they are:

    This is really a movie that has polarized a lot of people. Many love it and consider it the best thing since sliced bread, and plenty more absolutely hate it and call it tripe, drivel, awful, wretched, the worst ever, etc. (NOTE: as far as I'm concerned, the opinions of anyone calling any movie the best- or even more especially, the worst- movie ever are to be immediately disregarded.) Highly innovative in its way, it spawned many parodies and an interesting but inferior sort-of sequel. In the summer of Star Wars: Episode 1, this was the movie that originated several cultural symbols.

    I saw this movie shortly after it opened in wide release. Sitting in a theater surrounded by my friends with popcorn in my lap and watching Mike and Heather run around some creepy old house, I felt for the first and last time in my adult life *real, creeping fear* when I myself was not in danger.

    Many have complained about the shaky-cam, the cussing, how nothing 'really happens', and that it's not scary. By and large, the camera is not *that* shaky, at least to the point where you can't understand why- they're tromping through the woods and they're scared half to death. I must not get queasy very easily, as I had no problem with it. As for the cussing- the lines were ad-libbed, the actors are college-age, and all three sound exactly like every American college student I've ever known. So maybe people have a problem with young peoples' language, but what else is new? That's not a flaw of the movie- it's realism and part of why so many more young people found TBWP scary.

    I think at least some of the dissention in opinions is caused by generational and cultural differences. My mother's friends told me it wasn't scary, but that 'Psycho' terrified them. 'Psycho', while interesting and a classic, is not the least bit scary to me. 'The Excorcist' has only a couple scenes that I find frightening, but my mom breaks out in goosebumps at the mere mention of it. The scariest thing I ever saw until I watched this movie was a reel in a collection of horror shorts: a woman walks into her house carrying groceries, drops her keys down her heating vent, bends down to try to get them, and something grabs her scarf. She struggles, but within a minute or two, she's drug down and strangled. The scarf goes slack, the woman is lying dead on her floor, and that's it.

    TBWP is about what you *can't see*, about how your fear of the unknown is so much worse than what the unknown could probably ever be. The characters were not even necessarily likable, but they were *familiar*- Heather is the girl I sit next to in film class who thinks she has all the answers. Their mundane existence, captured in the beginning of the film, roots them in reality. What happens to them is terrifying because they are so every day, so interchangable with millions of other college kids. And, finally, you never know whether the Witch exists or not. Everything that happens can be explained away by coincidence, pranksters, bats, hunger, exhaustion and imaginations run wild with fear- or you can choose not to explain them away.

    Young Americans are not scared of much- school shootings can roll off us like water, the evil human beings inflict on each other is run-of-the-mill 6 o'clock news, we are raised in a culture that claims to worship a vengeful, elitist god while almost everyone is hypocritical and uses the power of spirituality as a way to abuse others. We are in information overload from birth. What we fear is not knowing. And in the Black Hills Woods of Maryland, just beyond the flashlight's reach, something is making strange and terrible noises- but we don't know what it is.
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    • May 1, 2001

    FAQ16

    • What is 'The Blair Witch Project' about?
    • Is 'The Blair Witch Project' based on a book?
    • What does legend say about the Blair Witch?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 30, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El proyecto Blair Witch
    • Filming locations
      • Patapsco Valley State Park - 8020 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
    • Production company
      • Haxan Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $60,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $140,539,099
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,512,054
      • Jul 18, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $248,639,099
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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