Heather Donahue of "The Blair Witch Project" changed her name to Rei Hance and is now a "spiritual guide"

No, it was a terrible movie. I found it utterly boring. I went to see it in theaters, and I remember a large part of the hype of the film was the promotion of the idea that this really was genuine, found footage, made by real people, who had really disappeared. That didn't last, of course, but there were plenty of people who initially believed it. (They shouldn't have, naturally, since the families of actual victims might have released the recording to 20/20 or 60 Minutes, or some news outlet, but they'd have to be ghouls to approve the release of film of their loved ones' last moments on earth as a for-profit motion picture.)

I think the film succeeded financially so well because of a combination of hype, curiosity, and novelty -- "found footage" was a rarely used format up that time. As a film, on its own merits... I'm sorry, I think it's deadly dull.