#BLAIR WITCH 1999 SERIES#

When Peter inspects Ashley's wounded foot, he notices what he thinks may be a parasite inside the wound. Ashley becomes sick due to a wound on her foot, forcing the group to camp again. Lisa pilots a drone to obtain their location, but from its vantage point they can see no way out of the forest. James and his friends banish Lane and Talia from the group and head out of the woods.Īfter hours of walking, the four surprisingly arrive back at their original campsite. When Lisa notices twine in Lane's backpack, he and Talia admit to creating the figures in order to convince the group to believe, but also point out that there is no explanation for the strange noises during the night and sleeping through the day. to find strange stick figures hanging from the trees. They hear noises during the night, then awaken at 2 p.m. Specifically, Lane explains that the witch was not just left tied to a tree to die, instead tied high up in the tree with weights on her arms and legs to act as a makeshift torture rack. While walking through the woods and upon setting up camp for the night, Lane and Talia discuss the disappearance of Heather and her film crew, the 1940-41 murders by Rustin Parr, and other mysterious occurrences, which they ascribe to the Blair Witch. Locals Talia and Lane, who found and uploaded the video, say they will show the group the location that they found the tape, on the condition they can join them. He decides to travel to the woods to find out the truth, accompanied by his friend Peter Jones, Peter's girlfriend Ashley Bennett, and film student Lisa Arlington, who wants to film James's search as a documentary, The Absence of Closure. In 2014, James Donahue finds a video on YouTube containing an image of a woman he believes to be his sister Heather, who disappeared in 1994 near Burkittsville, Maryland while investigating the legend of the Blair Witch. 3.3 Connections to The Blair Witch Project.

While the film grossed $45 million against a budget of $5 million, it was considered a box office disappointment, given that the original film had grossed nearly $250 million in 1999 against a budget of $60,000. Blair Witch received mixed reviews, with critics noting it as an improvement on Book of Shadows while criticizing the writing and special effects. The film premiered at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22, and was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, before being theatrically released in the United States on September 16, by Lionsgate. In July 2016, it was revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con that the film marketed with the faux-title The Woods actually turned out to be the sequel Blair Witch. Initially, the film's connection to the Blair Witch franchise was kept secret, with the film having been shot under the fake title The Woods. In 2013, a third Blair Witch film was again in talks, with Wingard and Barrett being hired to work on a new script.

The film went into development hell, and later the script was thrown aside. In 2011, Sánchez remarked that further development on a sequel depended on getting Lionsgate to approve the idea and for his and Myrick's schedule to match up. The film was a sequel to the first film, would potentially contain the actors from the first film in some context, and would not refer to any of the events from Book of Shadows. The film, shot in a found footage style, follows a group of college students and their local guides who venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mysteries surrounding the prior disappearance of Heather Donahue, the sister of one of the characters.ĭevelopment of the film began in September 2009, when creators of the franchise Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez announced their intent to produce a third Blair Witch film. Blair Witch stars James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Valorie Curry, and Wes Robinson.

#BLAIR WITCH 1999 SERIES#

It is the third film in the Blair Witch series and a direct sequel to the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project, while ignoring the events of its 2000 follow-up film Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, given the events of that film being a film within a film. Blair Witch is a 2016 found footage supernatural horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett.

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