If “Terrifier 3” does lead to major changes, it will follow the lead of John Carpenter’s “Halloween” (1978) and Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s “The Blair Witch Project” (1999).

When The Blair Witch Project debuted to genuine screams and shudders in the midnight program at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, it fit precisely no one’s idea of a blockbuster movie.

On April 10, Lionsgate — which acquired Artisan in 2003 — revealed at CinemaCon that it was rebooting “The Blair Witch Project” with prolific horror-film factory Blumhouse to, in the words of studio ...

The Blair Witch Project made over $250 million US, a record for independent films at the time. The lead actors' initial payday, however, was $1,000 US per actor for two weeks of filming.

In July 1999, The Blair Witch Project hit theaters, forever changing the landscape of horror films. The story of three filmmakers — Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams — who went ...

Watching The Blair Witch Project 25 years on, we see a cautionary tale about tech Anne T. Donahue considers how the found footage phenom foreshadowed our thorny relations with fact and fiction ...

Presented as an in-production documentary, The Blair Witch Project shot on 16mm film and Hi8 tape and that low-fidelity footage serves as its own source of tension when the sun goes down.

One of the reasons The Blair Witch Project was such a huge success was because of its marketing campaign. Much of the advertising implied that the footage in the movie was 100% real.

The Blair Witch Project has the simplest of premises. Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard, all going by their real names, play college film students who go deep into the Maryland ...

Inspired by the style and technique of documentary, The Blair Witch Project employs found video footage to tell the tale of three film students (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C ...

The Blair Witch Project is finally being released in the format its filmmakers intended. Read More: The Blair Witch project at 20 – director Daniel Myrick on the game-changing horror movie, and ...

When The Blair Witch Project debuted to genuine screams and shudders in the midnight program at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, it fit precisely no one’s idea of a blockbuster movie ...