The genre blew up after the original, and now 17 years later, the sequel - shortened to simply, Blair Witch - is dealing with not only the original’s legacy, but nearly two decades’ worth of imitators. Viewers were fooled into thinking the movie was actually assembled from discovered tapes and film canisters only to learn later that it was a hoax. They filmed the entire movie themselves with a 16mm camera and an RCA Hi8 Camcorder. And it was shot in an authentic way: directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez actually had their actors go out into the woods and find their way around using maps. The amateur-style footage was allegedly recovered from documentarians who disappeared in in the Black Hills of Maryland while researching the local legend of the Blair Witch, which gave it an air of authenticity. In 1999, viewers didn’t know what to make of the grainy, black-and-white footage and pixelated camcorder shots. The main reason the classic 1999 movie The Blair Witch Project was so effective is because it looked terrible, even then.
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