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The Blair Witch Project

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In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found. From TMDB

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  • Mike Monello @mikemonello.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2024

    25 years after its release, our little movie, 'The Blair Witch Project,' is FINALLY being released on home video, as we always intended. Here are the details for those who are curious.

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  • male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2024

    The Blair Witch Project is an incredible movie that no equivalent effort has touched. The three people who made it what it is were screwed out of the money and recognition, and it was non-union, so basically no recourse. It's a bad memory for them. That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

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  • Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2024

    The Blair Witch Project is real. The movie is real. It really happened.

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  • Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    You can tell The Blair Witch Project wasn’t really found footage or the whole film would be in portrait and have a thumb in it.

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  • Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    Seeing The Blair Witch Project at a theater near my high school with an almost entirely black audience of teenagers roasting it was the funniest comedy movie experience of my entire life.

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2024

    A lot of talk about the best 1999 movie but the *most* 1999 movie is THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT partially because it has one of these halogen floor lamps in literally the first shot of the movie

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  • Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    A similar situation happened with the people who did The Blair Witch Project. A revolutionary movie that made money hand over fist that the people who put the work in for barely saw a fraction of

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  • Not Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 @theterroirist.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    No, it is. There really was a movie called the Blair Witch Project.

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  • ceej @ceej.onlineBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    it just feels impossible to ignore the effect that the internet had on “millennial culture,” especially the way it upended traditional marketing, distribution, engagement patterns, etc. the “first millennial movie” might be like, the Blair Witch Project

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  • Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    On this day in Horror History, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 1999.

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  • Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    Oh, just Heather Donahue, the soul of my all-time favorite horror movie, The Blair Witch Project, holding my novel. This book about the joy and darkness of fandom, a book about my heart, a book born partly in that Burkittsville wilderness. There's a reason it names Heather, Mike, and Josh on p. 41.

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  • Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, & one song you can’t stand: —Bananas —The Blair Witch Project, or anything like it —“Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”

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  • Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2024

    NPR is airing a piece on The Blair Witch Project (1999) and why it was such a successful film and how all my friends wanted to go into the woods after seeing it and at least it got us outside lol

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  • Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.comBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is getting a brand new VHS release from Lionsgate Limited on October 13. The VHS release features the filmmaker-approved 2024 restored theatrical cut from the original Hi8 videotapes and 16mm film elements, available in the U.S. for the first time!

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  • Rocky @viperwave.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    People were so dismissive of The Blair Witch Project and I think when it came out people felt they were duped but it's a really remarkable movie watching it now. I'm very interested in the sequel though everyone says it sucks.

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  • Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2024

    Tonight’s film for @momoshaty.bsky.social & me is the restored THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT! Finally rescued from its brown, artificially grainy original transfer, and fully rebuilt from original 16mm & Hi8 elements. Shout out to @mikemonello.bsky.social & @phillipescott.bsky.social! #HorrorSky #Filmsky

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  • DVD Menus @dvdmenus.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2024

    The Blair Witch Project (Film / DVD: 1999)

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  • ekZepp @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 10, 2025

    🐙 👻 Horror Communities 💀 🕸️ . >⚠️ Disclaimer: These **aren't the best or only** horror communities on Lemmy; they're just the ones I and others moderate. For more groups, use this [link](https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=Horror) or the search bar. (Also, post below)⚠️ [email protected] - ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/055ee57a-f424-49a5-ae68-10ecf5042d25.jpeg) H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe far larger and more terrifying than that of…

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    An absolute gamechanger in movie marketing... OTD 7/14/1999: Found footage classic THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT opened in limited release. Guerrilla ad campaign used websites & online message boards convincing many viewers that story was real! Low-budget indie became worldwide phenomenon. #filmsky 📽

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  • Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.comBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    From the creators of The Blair Witch Project, found footage movie THE INFLUENCER PROJECT releases October 2 in theaters. Influencer Chiara King travels with a documentary crew. But as the cameras and her devoted fans follow her every move, someone else is watching too.

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  • Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    5. I think the book collecting all of the faux evidence that was disseminated by the Blair Witch Project folks to juice up prospective audiences is a stronger piece of horror than is the movie itself.

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  • STARLOG Da7e Gonzales @da7e.comBluesky · Feb 17, 2025

    I mostly want to retweet this because me and my 40+ friends just watched THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT last night knowing it's just a movie and it totally holds up for independent cinema.

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2025

    Like whenever I bring up The Blair Witch Project, I get replies insisting that there was mass frenzy about the "missing" filmmakers and it spread because there was "no internet" (Despite the fictionalized found footage angle being openly discussed in every TV and print review of the film.)

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  • Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    CRONE book launch. Sept 29. Hollywood Theatre. Showing THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on 35mm with a Q&A beforehand and book signing after. So stoked. hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-bla...

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  • Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.comBluesky · May 12, 2026

    The creators of The Blair Witch Project join forces with the creator of Scare Tactics for EXPERIMENT 11. The film is set inside a medical research facility where a group of participants are forced into an experiment with consequences tied to the future of humanity.

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  • Sophie BoooOoOoOOoOoOooo! @pogform.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2024

    Watched The Blair Witch Project tonight (rewatch for me, my wife’s first time) and it’s so crazy that movie came out in 1999. It feels much more modern than that, both in the found footage aspect and the digital cinema aspect. Cool movie!

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    My version of the Criterion Closet was interning at Troma in 1999. I brought home a lesbian softcore film starring Lynn Lowry and Mary Woronov, an unlabeled copy of The Blair Witch Project given to Lloyd pre-release by the directors, Bloodsucking Freaks, Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, and an anxiety disorder.

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  • cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    The Blair Witch Project. "Why are people raving about this film so much? Those kids were such SHITTY CAMPERS" lol

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  • Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2025

    11. The Blair Witch Project Growing up in the 90's was watching a thousand parodies of this scene and then actually watching the movie and seeing one of the most heart wrenching depictions of a person who truly believes they've gotten themselves and their friends killed ever put to film

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    An absolute gamechanger in movie marketing... OTD 7/14/1999: Found footage classic THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT opened in limited release. Guerrilla ad campaign used websites & online message boards convincing many viewers that story was real! Low-budget indie became worldwide phenomenon. #filmsky 📽

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  • Eric @uwebollocks.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    Tomorrow I'm recording maybe the most odd movie for Soundtracker_ yet. Did you know THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT had an actual physical release soundtrack that came out when it did? It's supposed to be the tape Josh is listening to and I've always been so fascinated by its existence

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  • Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    What movie did you see way too young. 11-years-old and my mom took me to see the Blair Witch Project. We lived across the street from a forest... I had trouble sleeping for a year.

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  • ekZepp @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 24, 2025

    🐙 👻 Horror Communities 💀 🕸️. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25393337 > >⚠️ Disclaimer: These **aren't the best or only** horror communities on Lemmy; they're just the ones I and others moderate. For more groups, use this [link](https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=Horror) or the search bar. (Also, post below)⚠️ > > [email protected] > - > > ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/055ee57a-f424-49a5-ae68-10ecf5042d25.jpeg) > > H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos is…

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  • nullgirl ₊⊹. ݁ @nllgrl.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2023

    this was a reference to the 1999 hit movie "The Blair Witch Project", in which the characters wake up to find stones piled near their tents, and then [ REDACTED ] happily ever after 🥰

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  • MattW03 @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 2, 2025

    Analog Horror - Found Footage. Analog horror can be seen as a descendant of creepypasta and found footage films. It draws inspiration from earlier works like The Blair Witch Project and The Ring, which utilized similar themes of manipulated media and unsettling narratives. The genre gained traction with the success of Local 58, No Through Road, and Gemini Home Entertainment. It is characterized by its use of low-fidelity visuals, cryptic messages, and a nostalgic aesthetic reminiscent of late…

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  • J-Bone @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 16, 2025

    Thoughts on Weapons (2025) [Spoliers]. [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26581740/) (7.6) | [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_(2025_film)) | [RottenTomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/weapons) (94% | 85%) I went into this one blind. Just read the synopsis about children going missing and I thought the poster was intriguing (thankfully I didn't notice the "From the Director of Barbarian"). Overall, I thought this was a good horror/thriller. I liked the multiple…

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  • Brotherrat @brotherrat.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2024

    Watched the Blair Witch Project (my fave horror film) while we carved pumpkins last night!

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Mar 7, 2024

    1999 was the year that inspired my whole deal basically. Eyes Wide Shut, The Blair Witch Project, and The Sixth Sense got me thinking about gaps in horror film scholarship, which led to the first monumental horror-image essay, which led to pretty much all the rest of it.

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  • Mark Edwards @markedwardsauthor.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Introduce yourself with: One book: The Secret History, Donna Tartt One movie: The Blair Witch Project One album: Disintegration, The Cure One TV show: Breaking Bad

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2024

    I find it fascinating that the myth that everyone was taken in by THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in 1999, considering it was only twenty-five years ago. The film debuted on the festival circuit in January and received wide release in late July. By that time, the truth was common knowledge.

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  • Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    You can tell The Blair Witch Project wasn’t really found footage or the whole film would be in portrait and have a thumb in it.

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    To film THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, the directors sent the three actors into the woods alone with cameras, feeding them dwindling food and staging scares at night. Much of their fear and exhaustion on screen is real. Follow us for more behind-the-scenes facts.

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  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.comBluesky · Apr 21, 2024

    If you even remotely enjoyed the Blair Witch Project I urge you to read about Rei Hance's journey. She gave us one of the most iconic film performances of her generation + she suffered immeasurably. Her story is one of grace + perseverence + she deserves better reihance.wordpress.com/rei-hance-2/...

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  • The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2024

    I feel like movie marketers spent a decade-plus trying to duplicate the marketing around THE MATRIX and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and then just gave up because no one could get close. Hell of a year for genre movies, man

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  • Waterworks Warrior @wiimotionplussy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    on a scale from The Blair Witch Project to Backrooms, how visible and conspicuous is your movie monster?

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  • Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Can’t pick a favourite but I love the fact that the cast of the Blair Witch Project signed a contract that said they couldn’t make any public appearances for six months after the film came out to maintain the illusion they were dead.

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  • Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    Just published, here's an interview I did a couple of weeks ago with the directors of 'The Blair Witch Project', on how the film evolved as it was being made and why they have some sympathy for the actors who were told to fake their disappearance.

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  • ❗ KUU ❗ @kuueater.comBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    NEXT WEEK ON MOVIE NIGHT THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

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  • Brian W. Collins @brianwcollins.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    Kind of amused that the Blair Witch Project restoration, bringing the film back to the way it was originally supposed to look, kicks off with a modern Lionsgate logo instead of the appropriate Artisan's.

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  • ChiliDishGambino @chilidishgambino.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    Apparently this found footage film actually predates the Blair Witch Project so & was made on $900 so I guess I gotta watch it

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    Brand new podcast alert! I was delighted to join top cultural luminaries on the 1st podcast from So Disappointed, looking at artworks whic left us feeling deeply inimpressed. This episode is about The Blair Witch Project; congrats to Paul and Wendy for a great listen! audioboom.com/posts/875302...

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  • Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.comBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    6. The Blair Witch Project is a perfect horror movie.

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  • Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    A proper release of Jaganrei Psychic Vision! The 49-minute 1988 “search-the-frame” “ghost-in-the-background” found footage J-Horror with dance horror elements! This film prefigured Ghostwatch, The Blair Witch Project and more or less all other J-Horror (so far as I’m aware). Truly we are blessed.

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  • aubrey all along ♉️ @aubreytwo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    Spell your name with movie titles 📽️ (Horror Movie Edition) A - Antlers U - Underworld B - The Blair Witch Project R - Repo: The Genetic Opera E - Elvira: Mistress of the Dark Y - You’re Next

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  • Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    Scream (1996) is very much a comfort watch for me at this point but The Blair Witch Project is also a hugely important film for me. I rewatch them both regularly.

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  • Alex West @alexwest.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2024

    Love this! I would give my life for these three characters in film: - Mary Brown, The Blair Witch Project (1999) - Bitch in the bathroom, Scream (1996) - Jones, Alien (1979)

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  • Subscatter @subscatter.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2024

    The Blair Witch Project Not that it is really rated...but it's the only horror film I can't watch cuz the camerawork makes my head hurt. Love horror films so this is the only one I can even trash

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  • Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    Drop the title of a horror movie, but make it sound cute. The Blair Witch Project → Campfire Cuddles & Crayon Maps

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  • Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blogBluesky · Aug 13, 2024

    Today's film is DACHRA (2018), a Tunisian folk horror. Never watched a Tunisian film before, so this should be a treat. The box describes this as "Equal parts MIDSOMMAR and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT."

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  • Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    "… A year later, their footage was found." Michael Stock digs up the practically ancient 20th century website for THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT to see whether this "dead media" continues to haunt. Read his new essay in New Rvw Film & TV Studies @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1740...

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