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.