Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez wrote, directed, and edited the low-budget film which hugely influenced viral movie marketing. The marketing for the film is so well-known that many audiences incorrectly label it as the first-ever found footage film. They become hopelessly lost and are stalked by a seemingly paranormal force. After interviewing several of the town’s residents, the students set off to camp in the Black Hills Forest to continue filming their documentary. The movie sees three college students attempting to film a documentary about the town of Burkittsville, Maryland and the so-called " Blair Witch" many of the town’s residents believe resides in the Black Hills Forest just outside of town. In an interview, writer and horror movie aficionado Stephen King revealed he couldn’t finish The Blair Witch Project. The invisible aggressor however soon only serves as a generic evil which must be unconditionally feared, leaving the audience to see it as twisted two dimensional entertainment instead of the carefully plotted psychological experiment it is.The Blair Witch Project centers on the titular Blair Witch stalking and finally killing three student filmmakers, but was the witch actually the real killer responsible for the students' deaths? The Blair Witch Project went down in history as one of the scariest horror films of all time immediately upon its release. It is assumed by the plot that the aggressor doesn't require a reason and merely functions on bestial instinct, although this can be made the case and work incredibly well. There are key points throughout the film, however, that have been carefully thought out, with the tormented nights engineered to such a degree that it feels like a sinister game orchestrated around the students. This mystery of course lends itself to making the feature all the more frightening as the invisible and unknown aggressor is the scariest of all, but the reason for the torturous events that hound the three students is forgotten, tossed aside or blatantly never explained properly. The antagonist in the film is not entirely clear, it is hinted to be the witches through the strange dolls, rock piles and then the final scene in the old basement, but it is never clearly defined. The films plot is extremely elusive throughout the entire feature, with screen time dominated by the character's improvised dialogue and the tormenting actions of the directors, the goal of the three students soon becomes bogged down under all of its excess weight. Her words " I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them" becomes a singularly memorable line as it encapsulates the entire experience's emotional conclusion as it leaves each member of the audience in a similar state of terror, dread and paranoia.
The film gains from this unique style by capturing realist emotions of the cast as their harrowing journey slowly comes to a close Heather Donahue, the female lead, can be noted for really pulling on the audience's heart strings as she becomes more and more unhinged and completely desperate to escape the situation, something that can be said for all three of the students however she evokes their sympathy the most through her heart wrenching video as she claims responsiblity for the events and begins to carry the heavy guilt associated with this. The night time scenes are frightening and mind boggling for not just the audience, as the actor's and their characters are harassed continuously to varying degrees in the dark woods, only to be unsettled and unhinged ever so slowly through out the day with stick puppets, stone piles and the surplus of unexplained noises echoing around them. This gave emotional realism as the actors blindly followed these directions, improvising their dialogue as they went, and become both physically and emotionally drained. As Travers highlights above, the film was 'directed' loosely with the actors receiving their directions to the next location via milk crate dead drops. The way in which the films was recorded and produced was unique and made incredibly tough for the actors.
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