

It takes only 8 days to shoot the film (but 8 months to edit), at a budget of only $600,000. However, their video equipment was discovered a year later and the “recovered footage” is the film we are watching. We are told the students were never seen again. Williams, and Joshua Leonard) have disappeared while hiking in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. Three student filmmakers ( Heather Donahue, Michael C. the film is presented as if it were discovered video recordings.

The Blair Witch Project, an immersive and terrifying trip, written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez is the first popular film of the “found footage” genre, i.e.
