A quarter of a century has passed since Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’s bombshell surprise box office smash The Blair Witch Project. It’s fair to say the movie’s legacy has been monumental, even ...

When he learned this year that The Blair Witch Project was getting a reboot, Joshua Leonard—one of the original actors in the groundbreaking 1999 indie horror film—was laid up in bed, battling Covid ...

Katherine is a Horror Features author for Collider, but loves movies in (almost) all shapes and genres. She went to school in Virginia for English and Film Studies before heading out to Las Vegas. She ...

In 1999, the horror landscape was changed forever by The Blair Witch Project. Thanks to its ingenious marketing campaign, Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick's film with a no-name cast of Heather ...

In the beginning was the Word — or, as they call it in Hollywood, word of mouth. For as long as there have been movies, studio marketers have relentlessly pursued ways to get people to talk about them ...

Even though The Blair Witch Projectis one of the most profitable movies ever made, it remains an intellectual property associated with questionable sequels and "reprehensible behavior" toward the ...

In 1999, the biggest surprise of the year was easily the ultra-low-budget The Blair Witch Project. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick's little movie about three documentarians who get lost in ...

More than a year before “The Blair Witch Project” hit theaters and became a cultural phenomenon, its central mystery had already gone viral. According to the movie’s fledgling promotional website, ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

Ask most people what The Blair Witch Project’s about, and you’ll get some variation on “a group of student filmmakers get lost in the woods and get hunted by a witch.” And if that’s what you go in ...

Directors Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick’s high concept was to create a movie about the creation of a movie. The film is supposedly composed of footage discovered in the Maryland woods, shot by ...