#Blair witch project movie#

The footage were kept in the police's possession until its legal limit of its classification ran out on Octoand turned over to the families of the missing students. The police analyzed the recovered footage whom they deemed the last footage showing the last moments of the missing students to be faked. The footage of the unmade documentary were turned over to the Burkittsville Police as evidence. On October 16, 1995, students from the University of Maryland discovered a bag containing films belonged to the missing students. The three students went missing in the Black Hills Forest and were never found. Joshua Leonard was hired as the director of photography and his friend Michael Williams did sound. The heart of the documentary would be a weekend hike into the Black Hills Forest to visit some of the locations associated with the legend. (at around 46 mins) In a scene where the main actors are sleeping in a tent at night, the tent suddenly shakes violently and they all get scared. 936 of 942 found this interesting Share this. Donahue intended to tell the story of the Blair Witch through interviews with Burkittsville natives, local law enforcement officials on the Rustin Parr case, and folklore experts. The film cost 60,000 to make and made back 248 million, a ratio of 1 spent for every 10,931 made. The Blair Witch Project was a student film thesis by Heather Donahue for her film class with Michael DeCoto.ĭated April 18, 1994, The Blair Witch Project was to be a documentary about the Burkittsville-area legend of the Blair Witch.

#Blair witch project movie#

For information about the movie released by Artisan Entertainment, see The Blair Witch Project (movie). This is an article about Heather Donahue's documentary proposal.