
As it's pieced together by the townspeople in The Blair Witch Project and in the companion documentary, Curse of the Blair Witch: In 1785, a woman named Elly Kedward was accused of witchcraft in Blair, Md.-later Burkittsville-after she was discovered pricking the fingers of children to let their blood. The back story is briefly touched upon before things get weird for Heather, Josh and Mike in the woods, but Myrick and Sánchez have said they wouldn't mind fleshing out the lore in another film. "There's a common misunderstanding that not a lot went into it," Myrick told The Guardian in 2018, "but it took two years of effort to make it look like it was just shot by three students over a long weekend."Ĭourtesy Artisan Entertainment The Legend Williams and Joshua Leonard hiked into the Black Hills of Burkittsville and never came out.


Meanwhile, 1994 is the stated year in which "student filmmakers" Heather Donahue, Michael C.
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The movie was shot over eight days, in Germantown, Md., Seneca Creek State Park and the Griggs House, in Patapsco Valley State Park. Over the next several years, they came up with the Blair Witch lore, hired a few unknown actors who could do improv, scraped some money together and production got underway in October of 1997. In and around 1993, they were talking about horror movies-and the recent drought of truly great ones-when they thought about the potentially terrifying consequences of a group stumbling upon a house in the woods and not being able to resist going inside, despite knowing that something appalling was happening. 'The Blair Witch Project': The Main Cast Was Only Paid $1,000 a Day.Richard Young/Shutterstock Years in the Makingĭirectors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez met as students at the University of Central Florida School of Film. How much did Blair Witch actors get paid?

Paranormal Activity is another low budget film ($15, 000) that grossed at almost $197 million. What was the cheapest movie ever made? The Blair Witch Projects budget was $35, 000, and gossed $248.3 million. There also a secret ending, which we'll also detail later on in this article. There are two main endings in Blair Witch, and some variations on each of them.

The player character throws away the gun, but Bullet is injured off screen (heavily implied to be by the player having a hallucination).īlair Witch Endings. We recommend you just keep walking, as Ellis will eventually lose consciousness and Bullet will live.īlair Witch involved an initial outlay of $35,000 - but that was just for the shoot once postproduction was completed, the real budget was over $200,000 (and may have been as much as $500,000), including a sound remix and a transfer to 35mm.ĭoes bullet survive Blair Witch? While all endings have Bullet survive, towards the end of the game the main villain orders the player to kill their dog with a handgun. What happens if you don't let go of bullet Blair Witch?īlair Witch Game: Let the Dog Die/Leave Bullet The Witch will write 'Let Dying Dogs Die' on the walls, and you'll have the option to leave Bullet by holding LT. The Blair Witch Project doesn't follow a normal story structure and leaves its audience hanging at the end, but arguably it's that erratic storytelling progression and the unexplained ending which reinforces the found-footage authenticity, creating a chilling psychological horror atmosphere. That being said, the rights for the Blair Witch franchise now lie in the hands of Lionsgate and not its original creators. In the director commentary of Blair Witch, Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard discuss their motivations for creating the movie, the audience reception to the film, and why they'll never make a sequel.
