THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

Heather Donahue, Michael Williams,

Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffith

Columbia Pictures;

Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez

Rated R; 88 minutes; 1999

Three student filmmakers disappear after venturing into the remote Black Hills Forest to investigate the legend of a witch responsible for the early 1900s murders of several children from Maryland. Their footage, found a year later, documents the terrifying events preceding their eerie demise.

 

 

REVIEWS

"Scary as hell."

- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

"One of the creepiest films since THE EXORCIST."

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"Chills you right to the core."

- PAPER MAGAZINE

"I have seen the new face of movie horror and its name is THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, a groundbreaker in fright that reinvents scary for the new millennium."

- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

"Creative, inventive and ingenious."

- Roger Ebert, SISKEL & EBERT

"An instant classic."

- Andrew Johnston, TIME OUT NEW YORK

"The creepiest and most original horror film since John Carpenter’s classic HALLOWEEN."

- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST

"Breathtakingly original, relentlessly frightening."

- John Wooley, TULSA WORLD

"Does for the woods, what JAWS did for the water."

- Dave Larsen DAYTON DAILY NEWS

PROMO IDEA

Show this highly anticipated film as a midnight showing—but leave the lights on . . .

 

ONE SHEET LINER

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.