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Going down to the woods How “The Blair Witch Project” changed horror films Released 25 years ago, it was a masterclass in doing more with less IF YOU WANT to scare people, it helps if they believe the tale is real. Mary Shelley opened her novel “Frankenstein” (1818) with a series of letters. Bram Stoker put diary entries and newspaper clippings into “Dracula” (1897) to increase its authenticity. But it was “The Blair Witch Project”, released 25 years ago in July 1999, which most convincingly muddled fact and fiction. In the process, it became one of the most important horror films of all time. Was it a drama or a documentary? Audiences were not quite sure. Posters asserted: “In October of 1994, three student film-makers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary” about a local myth. “A year later their footage was found.” At the Sundance Film Festival flyers asked for help finding Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Micha
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