Has anyone seen this film?
I guess it was designed as a piece of promotional material for the film - but considering all of the interviews, artwork, and faux history- it must have taken some money to make. Did the filmmakers themselves create the documentary? Did the studio do it? It seems like a waste of money if you're not going to include any of the documentary in the actual movie. Was some of it intended to be included in the movie?
It's an extra on my Blair Witch Project DVD. The filmmakers made it the same time they made the film I guess or maybe a bit after.
It's in a documentary style and therefore doesn't fit with the found footage setup of the movie.
They made it and released it before TBWP. It was on TV in 1998.
shareIt was indeed made by the production company Haxan films. It was shown on The Sci Fi channel in the weeks leading up to the release of the film itself.
It was one of the main reasons a lot of people believed the film was real.
The footage in this documentary was initially going to be in the movie.....
The original idea for the film was to have around 20 minutes of Heather, Mike and Josh in the woods with the remainder being about the aftermath and the investigation into their disappearance. When the footage in the woods was turning no out better than the directors thought it would, they changed the structure of the movie. All the leftover footage was cut into this documentary and used to promote the film and convince people it was real.
This doc is almost as good as the movie itself!
I would actually say it was better. I really enjoyed this mockumentary.
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." Mr Darcy
I guess it just makes me wonder what might have been. Some suspect "Cannibal Holocaust" inspired this movie and "Cannibal Holocaust" does indeed have a format that looks like a professional documentary before proceeding to a climax of crude, shaky "found footage"
shareThe documentary was excellent apart from that guy who wore the shades and claimed to be a witch. He felt a bit phony and took me out of it whenever he appeared on camera.
The creators of the TBWP mentioned that their initial inspiration to make their movie came from finding documentaries on paranormal phenomena and urban legends to be much scarier than fictional feature films on the same subjects. So it makes sense that this made-for-TV mock doc would be a companion piece to TBWP.
I think it's wonderful and feels incredibly real. It's a perfect companion piece to the movie. I would even go as far as to say it's absolutely essential to watch both "The Curse of the Blair Witch" and "The Blair Witch Project" to get the full experience.
shareI probably found this to be scarier than the film because this just came on TV one night. Never heard of the Blair Witch Project and, for all I knew at the time, this TV special was a real documentary. So, it definitely had the intended effect.
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