The Legend of The Blair Witch Project

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a hike in the woods and discover some old videotapes from some film students who went missing while shooting a documentary about a fabled witch.

It's Week Two (Witch Week) of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and we are talking about the 1999 sleeper hit that invented modern film marketing, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Earning over 4000 times its shoe-string budget back at the box office, the film brought the found-footage genre into the mainstream; completely blurring the lines of fact and fiction. Audiences were confused if they had just seen a snuff film, debates raged in the early days of the internet, and countless individuals flocked to the town of Burkittsville, Maryland to learn more about the Blair Witch, Rustin Parr, and the fate of the missing film students (all of which were a complete fabrication).

The Blair Witch Project is one of the most successful independent movies of all-time. Numerous films would parody it, and even more tried to duplicate its formula, but it is a one of a kind cultural achievement of the late-1990s. Tune in as we dig into all the legend and lore surrounding this movie, and question how it holds up over two decades later...

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