She runs into Lane, now under the command of the Witch, who she ultimately kills, then runs upstairs, in doing so capturing the instigating video. James is tricked and locked in a room by a mysteriousĪpparition while Lisa is stalked by the Witch until she enters. Then, as terror mounts, James and Lisa find the house. Ashley is thrown out of a tree by some unseen figure and dragged away. Talia's back is snapped when Ashley breaks one of the wooden figures. Things only get weirder from here, with flying tents, shock returns and strange infections. However, the film crew don't fare too well without them their GPS stops working and after a day's walking they wind up back at the previous night's campsite. Along the way they pick up local obsessives Lane and Talia, the couple who actually found the new tape.Īfter the first night, the gang wake up to find themselves surrounding by the iconic stick figures, which later turn out to be fakes made by the loc, who are forced away from the group. Heather's brother, James, and his friends - Lisa, Peter and Ashley - believe it may be the clue to his sister's disappearance and as part of a film school project start shooting a documentary. So, What Is The Plot? LionsgateĮighteen years after the events of The Blair Witch Project, a new tape surfaces from the Burkittsville woods. Let's break it down (but first, a quick recap). The movie provides a major expansion of the Blair Witch mythology, carefully answering key dangling threads from the original, while also uses the seventeen year gap to pass comment on how much society has changed since the original. A part remake, part ante-upping follow-on, Adam Wingard's film taps into that same fear - of the dark, of the woods, of what we sense but can't see - and it does it edge-of-seat-freezing effect.īut there's more to it that just that. The film went on to gross $248.6 million worldwide - roughly 4,000 times its initial budget - and become one of the most iconic horror movies of the nineties, so yeah, think they made the right call.On a basic level, that's what Blair Witch, the stealth legacy-quel nobody even knew was coming until a few months ago, is also about. Ultimately, they were allowed go with the ending they wanted, with one studio executive warning them: "Okay, but it’s going to cost us millions at the box office." The first ending kept the audience off balance it challenged our real world conventions and that's what really made it scary," Myrick said. However, Myrick and Sancheze were determined that the original ending still worked better "What makes us fearful is something that's out of the ordinary, unexplained. That included: "Mike hanging from a noose, crucified on a wooden stick man, and with a bloodied chest." "We went back to that house with a skeleton crew and basically just shot all the endings that Ed and I threw out when we were dreaming up the script," said Myrick. However, when the movie was shown to test audiences, many were confused at the ending, so the filmmakers were given more money by the studio to shoot it differently. We thought it was great - kind of unexplained, but it gave you the idea that something supernatural was happening." "We came up with the idea three days before we shot it. "We didn’t have any money, so we couldn’t do any special effects so we had to figure out how to end it without ruining the rest of the film," Sanchez added. Speaking to EW co-directors Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sancheze explained how the original ending almost didn't happen: "There needed to be some kind of what-the-f–k moment at the end, but at the same time we didn’t want to see a person in a bad witch costume come out and grab them," said Myrick. The ambiguity of it made it all the more scary, however, there was almost a completely different, much more gruesome ending. Why was he there? What was happening? Queue ALL of the nightmares. The movie is known for two iconic scenes, the first of course being that image of Heather with the camera right under her nose, and the other of Mike, standing in the corner of the room facing the wall in the final scene. Everyone remembers The Blair Witch Project, right? That 1999 horror movie recorded on a video camera that scared the living hell out of people because we all believed it was real for a while, and barely had the internet to tell us otherwise.
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