#BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 2 SERIES#

The party sets out to look for facts that prove the legend, equipped only with two cameras and a little hiking gear. In the Black Hills forest near Burkittsville, Maryland, many children had vanished in the 1940s and people still avoid going too deep into the woods. Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard, student filmmakers, set out to shoot a documentary about the Blair Witch. Her body was later discovered frozen to a rock in the forest. Sometime in the winter of 1697, Dyer was accused of witchcraft, tried, and subsequently banished from Leonardtown, Maryland.

Īccording to Ben Rock, the man who created the backstory for Haxan, he took inspiration from the real Maryland legend of the woman Moll Dyer. The mockumentary presents the legend as real, complete with manufactured newspaper articles, newsreels, television news reports, and staged interviews in an attempt to convince viewers of its legitimacy. According to the legend, residents always blame these occurrences on the ghost of Elly Kedward (also a fictitious person), a Blair resident executed in 1785 by exposure for practicing witchcraft. The fictional tale describes the murders and disappearances of some of the residents of Blair, Maryland, the fictitious former name of Burkittsville, Maryland, from the 18th to the 20th century. Sanchez and Myrick also maintained a website at which added further details to the legend. The backstory for the film is a legend created by Myrick and Sanchez which is detailed in The Curse of the Blair Witch, a mockumentary broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1999 prior to the release of The Blair Witch Project.

#BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 2 SERIES#

Series of video games, books, novels and comic books were released to accompany the films. A second official sequel, Blair Witch, was released on September 16, 2016. The film went on to be a massive commercial success, and a sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was released on October 27, 2000. The film follows the disappearance of three student filmmakers in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary on the local legend known as the 'Blair Witch'.Īfter premiering at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, the film was released on July 30, 1999, after months of publicity during a controversial promotional campaign. Filming began in 1997 and lasted eight days. Myrick and Sanchez wrote a 35-page outline of a story with the dialogue to be improvised. The development of the franchise's first installment, The Blair Witch Project, started in 1993.

Blair Witch Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale (2000)īlair Witch is an American horror media franchise created by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, distributed by Artisan Entertainment (now Lionsgate) and produced by Haxan Films that consists of three feature films and various additional media.

Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock (2000).

Blair Witch Volume I: Rustin Parr (2000).

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