Irritation arises, then anger, then panic. As the three film students travel deeper into the woods, the threesome gets lost and lose their map. This large rock is the supposed murder ground of a search party hunting for a missing child in 1886, 100 years after the first alleged murders by an accused witch who was banished into the woods and presumed dead. These three enter the woods and come across a large rock in a stream. Joining Heather is cameraman Joshua Leonard (who carries both video and 16 mm cameras) and sound man Michael Williams.
Opinions range from denial to firm belief. Led by Heather Donahue, they first get reaction from surrounding townsfolk on the Blair Witch. The premise is this: in 1994, three ambitious student filmmakers enter Maryland’s Blair Hills Forest to make a documentary on the legendary Blair Witch, a seldom seen, ghostly presence that has a history of brutal murder.
With no depicted murder or violence, no sex or nudity, and only a brief image of small bloody body parts that look like teeth, the scares in this movie come from an increasingly sense of loss of control and panic, ultimately resulting in sheer terror. The 1968 horror classic, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, is perhaps its only close relative, in that it exhibits a stark, music-less cinema verite feeling which, to varying degrees, puts the viewer in a you-are-there sense of fright. Incredible positive word of mouth buzz is launching a $10,000 budget, mainly video captured horror movie called THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.
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