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Artisan had hoped to develop the series into an “anthology” franchise, where each film had a different plot and cast.
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The movie had little to nothing in common with the original it held on to the title and that’s about it. Books and video games were hurried into development, designed to explore the mythology of the film, and barely a year later a sequel was rushed to theaters: Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows. Knowing they had a hit on their hands, Artisan Entertainment quickly tried to cash-in. Those who stayed-those who endured-were treated to a satisfying payoff to the teasers and hints the movie opened with.īecause it was such a talk of the town, everyone-fans and skeptics alike-went to see it, again and again. People walked out halfway through because they thought it was all an elaborate prank. People vomited in the theater because they were unprepared for the jerky camera movements. Today “found footage” movies are an entire sub-genre BWP essentially launched it. Eventually it got out that the film was shot for the purposes of making a movie, but when you’re a kid at school, such a revelation is quickly spun into: “They just shot a remake of the actual footage they found.” It was plausible, which is why people quickly bought into it.
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The Sci-Fi channel aired a mockumentary promoting the movie, entitled “Curse of the Blair Witch.” It was no different in tone than any of the other TV shows that aired occasionally, highlighting some urban legend in some small New England town. There were newspaper articles, online videos of (staged) interviews and more all devoted to discussing what “really” happened in those Maryland woods. Instead, because instant access to things like Snopes, Wikipedia or even Google (which was a year old but no one used it), were nonexistent, a sizeable number of people really did believe the footage was real. Just a few years later it would have been a “very good” horror film that made sixty million or so and then disappeared.
The Blair Witch Project (henceforth BWP) could only have worked in the late-90’s. High Speed internet was still in development which meant that if you wanted to watch a video on the internet you were going to be waiting a loooooong time for it to load. The internet was not as pervasive 24/7 in our culture as it is now. If you weren’t around in 1999 you really can’t appreciate it. Now that it’s out does it live up to the legacy of the first? Instead we’ve only had about three months to digest the idea of seeing the first true sequel to the “found footage” hit (one of the most profitable movies ever, with a budget of less than a million and a box office haul of 250 million). Lionsgate may have been nervous about a year and a half of “Blair Witch” marketing, knowing that too often hype for long-anticipated sequels fails to match the quality of the film.
Once the advance screenings took place this summer, however, the jig was up and the announcement was made. The dummy title “The Woods” was just a way to hold off on the big reveal for as long as possible. It turns out, however, that this movie was-from conception to release-always going to be a Blair Witch film. Such a move is surprisingly easy to do: A little sly editing and a few key reshoots and you can turn one movie into another without the audience ever noticing the change was made (this year’s biggest animated hit, Zootopia, saw an 11th hour adjustment where even the main character and focus of the movie was changed). This led to confusion and speculation that perhaps the movie was co-opted by producers and turned into a Blair Witch sequel late into development. After a year or more being marketed as “The Woods,” Lionsgate suddenly revealed a few months ago that their terrifying-looking film was actually a surprise sequel to 1999’s genre-defining classic: The Blair Witch Project.
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