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Podcast Episode 70: Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez On THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’s Enduring Horror Legacy

Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, the directors of the iconic horror film The Blair Witch Project join this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. Released in 1999, The Blair Witch Project not only essentially created the found-footage genre but [...]

November 2, 2024

Blu-ray Review: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT – Still Great 25 Years On

Horror cinema was taken to a whole new level 25 years ago when The Blair Witch Project came out of nowhere, broke box office records – and for better or for worse – single-handedly ushered in the ‘found footage’ sub-genre. The set-up [...]

November 2, 2024

Uncovering Curiosities: Adam Wingard’s BLAIR WITCH

When a movie becomes a huge success, Hollywood often likes to try and replicate that success by making a sequel. Sometimes that can launch a whole franchise and sometimes it can have an impact on the legacy of the original film. Horror cinema was [...]

October 10, 2021

Remembering THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT & How It Changed Cinema

Horror cinema was taken to a whole new sphere in 1999 when The Blair Witch Project came out of nowhere and singlehandedly ushered in the ‘found footage’ sub-genre. Blair Witch is a film which helped to change film marketing forever. It showed [...]

June 11, 2020

DVD Review: Eduardo Sánchez Goes Back Into The Woods And Meets Bigfoot In EXISTS

Movies In Focus usually comes out all guns blazing when a new ‘found footage’ horror movie arrives. That particular visual aesthetic has been done to death since The Blair Witch Project arrived back in 1999 and there’s little left to say [...]

April 18, 2015