Woods that go on endlessly repeating themselves no matter which direction you travel in. Creepy little stick figure totems that mysteriously appear outside of your tent the morning after a sleepless night. Shaky handheld footage of a dilapidated house, the walls covered in the bloody handprints of children... For my inaugural series, join me as we make our way through the Blair Witch franchise. Today we'll be starting with the first film in the series and the film that really popularised the found footage sub-genre: The Blair Witch Project . The Blair Witch Project tells the story of three student filmmakers who hike into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, to film a documentary on the local legend of the Blair Witch. They mysteriously disappear. A year later their equipment, and the footage they shot, is found. This film is an absolute classic and its impact on the horror genre can still be felt. The filmmakers managed to achieve a lot with very little. By never showing us
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