When the audience took its cinema in 1999, it had no idea which horror she was expecting. Because Blair Witch Project let Not only the adrenaline flow.
Blair Witch Project not only led to fear, but also to nausea
In July 2024, Collider listed horror films, who managed to hunt their audience out of the hall as quickly as possible. Including Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, which follows a simple and ingenious idea.
Take three students with Heather Donahue (today Rei Hance), Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams: Inside and send them (as they themselves) into a dark forest, where they want to put the (fictional) eerie legend of Blair with a documentary.
But said witch has other plans, which is why The supposed documentation becomes an experimental horror trip. The actors filmed themselves: on the inside themselves in a wobbly camera style to look more authentic.
The result triggered a violent reaction in the cinemas. Many spectators: inside became seasick and had to flee to the toilet. In 1999, a cinema employee from Atlanta reported in an interview with Tampa Bay Times:
On the first weekend handed over
Someone in the women’s toilet, in the men’s toilet and in the hallway.
For many, this was the attraction of the film. Producer Robin Cowie already found at the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival:
Some simply get a little bad when they feel the tension and pace of the film. We hear that it is a kind of challenge To see if you can hold it out.
Even large newspapers like the British Guardian felt appointed in 1999 Health risk to report the film: “In the film, the audience will be bad!”
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Blair Witch Project not only stands out through an innovative concept. The film is allowed to boast of initially lured horror fans into the cinema halls-and then promoted again at the record pace.