Low Budget/High Impact: The Blair Witch Project

Cert: 15

Dir: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez 1999 USA 81 mins

Cast: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams

screening on:
Sun 21 Feb

 

The most profitable film of all time and independent cinema's first true blockbuster, The Blair Witch Project stunned audiences in 1999 with its suffocating sense of terror. The making (on disorientating handheld cameras) and marketing (its early online viral campaign was genius) of the film is the stuff of legend: a genuinely realistic tour de force. The film purports to be footage shot by three missing film students during a trip to Maryland woods to make a documentary on the local legends surrounding an eighteenth century witch. Hounded by an evil presence in the woods, the hysteria mounts, the filmmakers begin to crack and they are never seen again.

Screening Date & Time

Low Budget/High Impact Sunday Matinee Season

Sun 07 - Sun 28 Feb

Low Budget/High Impact: The Blair Witch Project is part of Low Budget/High Impact Sunday Matinee Season

Sunday brunch screenings of films which were made for modest sums but reaped critical and sometimes financial success.

Also part of Low Budget/High Impact Sunday Matinee Season:

• Low Budget/High Impact: Following Sun 07 Feb
• Low Budget/High Impact: Once Sun 14 Feb
• Low Budget/High Impact: El Mariachi Sun 28 Feb

Further information about Low Budget/High Impact Sunday Matinee Season