“When the characters discover spooky stuff hanging from a tree, that’s when the actors discover it, too. “Blair Witch has a strange blend of acting and actuality,” Mark Kermode, film critic and a world-renowned horror expert. You don’t get that in Paranormal Activity. Myrick and Sánchez left notes around the area, instructing them what to do and where to walk, but they never knew what was going to happen next, so their stress and fatigue are tangibly unfeigned.
Not only did the actors improvise their dialogue and use their own names – Heather Donahue, Michael C Williams and Joshua Leonard – but they shot the film themselves while hiking. Famously, the Last House on the Left had the slogan, “To avoid fainting, keep repeating, It’s only a movie.” But the writer-directors of Blair Witch, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, had the opposite message in mind: they wanted viewers to imagine that Blair Witch wasn’t a movie, but a documentary. What shocked viewers at the Sundance Festival, where the film premiered in January 1999, was how real it seemed. well, it’s not clear what happens at the end, but the idea is that the unlucky trio never returned from the woods, and all that was ever recovered was their footage of the ordeal.
As days and nights pass, they hear unsettling noises and stumble on ominous arrangements of stones and twigs.
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