The Blair Witch Project
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez / US, 1999 / 81 min.
A huge hype: it’s 25 years since The Blair Witch Project hit cinema screens. Was this found footage real? What happened to the three film academy students who set off into the woods with their camcorder? A one-off screening of this historic box-office sensation, on 35mm.
“We’re used to it now”, former BBC film critic Mark Kermode recalls, “but in 1999 it was really unusual to see a feature-length film, shot on video, in the cinema.”
25 years after Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s The Blair Witch Project was released, it is indeed hard to imagine the shock that went through audiences when seeing the ‘found footage’ shot in those sinister woods for the first time.
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Director
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Production year
1999
Country
US
Original title
The Blair Witch Project
Length
81 min.
Language
none
Subtitles
NONE
Format
35mm
Part of
Eye Classics
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