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The Blair Witch Projectis one of the best horror/mysteries of all time, even credited by many for changing the face of terror into something unimaginable. Not only do the terrifying events shown in Eduardo Sánchez, Gregg Hale, and Daniel Myrick’s film have the audience trepid in horror, but even bringing those events to life was a helluva task for the cast and crew.
That being said, the crew behind the lens actually had some of the most fearsome approaches to shooting the movie. This included the filmmakersliterallyplaying the Blair Witchfor the three main leads of the film who end up going missing (in the movie) — something that must have been unarguably brutally scary even for the main actors!
Scare Tactics forThe Blair Witch ProjectWere Beyond Brutal
If you think thatThe Blair Witch Projectis actually one of the most horrorsome movies ever created, then you need to know that it was much more brutal for the three main leads of the film, i.e. Heather Donahue (Rei Hance), Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams. Why? Because of the scare tactics the filmmakers used to make the movie.
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Turns out, the film was full of improvisationon the turn of the actors. They only had to follow the instructions for the day given through a series of film canisters by the behind-the-lens crew, which they were led to through GPS. But while the actors felt they were all on their own while shooting, they weren’t really, because the filmmaking team was always hidden around them.
As filmmaker Gregg Hale shared during an interview withThe Week:
“We were out in the woods, but [the actors] didn’t know it. We were camouflaged, and we built little hiding places where we could be close to them and see them. We were out there, but they really weren’t aware we were out there.”
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But what’s surprising is that not only did the filmmakers hang around to make sure the footage was shot accurately through the 16 mm cameras, but they also decided to use this to their advantage bydoing everything to make the shoot more scary for the actors. How? By pulling all the strands that the Blair Witch would have done behind their backs!
The Directors Basically “Played the Blair Witch” During Shoot
Since they were cautiously hidden in a way that the actorsweren’t really aware we were out there, the filmmakers decided to use this as a golden opportunity to make the film as realistically scary for the actors as possible. That being said, in a way,they pretty muchplayed the Blair Witchfor the actors while shooting.
As filmmaker Daniel Myrick shared in an interview withBroadly:
“All the weird kind of noises and stuff is just us running around in the woods. When they wake up and there are rock piles outside their tents, we planted those, obviously. The stick figures—we hung them.”
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Continuing, he explained how it quite literally felt like they were leading the actors aroundon a 24-hour-a-day stage play, saying:“We set up all the set pieces beforehand, and they would just follow ourdirections.” Myrick then elaborated on the regularlypre-programmedGPS unit and how it“just let them know where they were supposed to go [and] the time they were supposed to be there.”
Yet,the most scary partwas when they actually did stuff in real life to shake the actors’ confidence to the core. As the filmmaker revealed:
“We shook their tent, we played sounds of little kids playing outside their tent, we made noises in the middle of the night, we led them to this crazy house at the end—we basically just played the Blair Witch.”
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Needless to say, this all means that the end result holding the expressions and reactions seen on the big screens was actually for real, considering how the actors weren’t reallyactingbut going through all of that process in reality! (Except the fact that they didn’t initially know it was all human-induced.) Well, no wonder the movie seems as realistic as ever!
The Blair Witch Projectis available on Prime Video.
Mahin Sultan
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Mahin Sultan is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, where she brings a fresh perspective to entertainment news. Having been in the field for over 3 years now, she has already written more than 2,000 articles across a variety of niches, from entertainment to health and fashion. This diverse experience has allowed her to quickly build a solid foundation and a deep understanding of the industry.
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The Blair Witch Project
