
The audience lives everything through their eyes and the cameras they carry, giving the film a suffocating intimacy that makes its psychological terror work perfectly. To carry out their task, they go into the forest where various strange events are supposed to have happened, and many people have disappeared.Īs the days and nights go by, the protagonists begin to lose their sanity and find themselves surrounded by a dark energy that plunges them into a terror they have never experienced before. Williams, and Joshua Leonard, who travel to Maryland to investigate the legend of a witch who lives there. The story follows three film students, Heather Donahue, Michael C. Not only because of its terrifying story and the filming format, inaugurating what is known as found footage, but also because of its marketing strategy that propelled the film to make history. The Blair Witch Project premiered in 1999 and marked a before and after within the genre.
