![]() The Internet was still relatively free of naysayers at the time, so you couldn't instantly go to any number of sites that would immediately debunk the myth. People were intrigued when they found so much fascinating information about this movie online. The timing couldn't have been better: we hadn't yet been bombarded with reality TV and the Internet was still fairly new. There were fake police reports, interviews, "missing" posters - you name it. The massive influence of the film's Internet marketing campaign cannot be underestimated. ![]() People thought "The Blair Witch Project" was real because that's what they were told. It became a word-of-mouth sensation, eventually pulling in about $248 million worldwide and becoming one of the most profitable movies ever. The momentum - fueled by a creepy website that perpetuated the idea that this was really a documentary - continued to build until the film opened across the country in October. (The closely guarded true story of the movie was that a pair of young directors had basically dropped three actors into the woods and given them minimal background information and even less direction, forcing them to improvise almost every scene. But then people started to realize that the "film students" were actually in attendance at the festival and they were alive as could be.īuzz about "The Blair Witch Project" spread like wildfire through Sundance, with people flocking to screenings and trying to decipher it. It seemed to have been compiled almost entirely from footage that was found at the scene of their deaths and it was absolutely terrifying. It was called "The Blair Witch Project" and it seemed to be a documentary about a trio of film students who were killed in the Maryland woods while making a documentary about a string of killings in those same Maryland woods. In January 1999, a movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival that no one could quite figure out. ![]()
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