For example, most of the people being interviewed were extras except the one lady holding the kid, who played along with the story. As we went through the trail, Ranger Ledbetter gave many interesting facts about the movie. On the way back we traveled to the place where they last set up for camp on the final day of filming at the park. After that, we went to Coffin Rock, the area where Heather told the story of the trappers. Then we hiked through the woods to the red shed that was shown in the film, and the place where they parked their car. One of the fishermen, Ed Swanson, was there and we met him, and he talked to us about his experience filming the movie. The first place was where Heather, Josh, and Mike had their last interview the two fishermen.
Before we started the hike, Ranger Ledbetter gave us the basic information of the movie and the hype of the movie right when it came out. As I was on the tour with the tour guide, Ranger Eric Ledbetter, who started the tour about six years ago, I learned many facts about the movie. I knew there was a tour, but I didn’t think that many people would come since the movie is 19 years old. After a long two hour drive, I arrived, and there were a lot more people than I was expecting. According to many articles, the locals weren’t pleased with all the attention their town got so out of respect I went to Seneca State Park. Other areas where it was filmed included Burkittsville, Wheaton, and Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland. The Blair Witch Project was shot in multiple areas, most of it being filmed at Seneca State Park in Maryland. To better give an analysis of The Blair Witch Project, I decided to go to the woods in Seneca State Park where most of the woods scenes were filmed. The fisherman Ed Swanson standing on Coffin Rock while Ranger Ledbetter tell the tour more about The Blair Witch Project For example, Mike said, “Should we all like cut our fingers open and bleed on it, a little bloodletting on the slate?” The other thing that stuck out was that people found the footage because Heather and Mike saw the house only when the witch wanted them to, so how did other people find the house and get out alive? Thinking about the end gives me goosebumps, a headache, and creeps me out.
She understood the map, and Mike and Josh kept fighting her about the way getting to the car. Throughout the whole film, the guys, Mike and Josh, had an ulterior motive, always fighting with Heather when she knew what to do and was the most prepared. Seeing all the blood scared me but also Mike and Heather heard Josh’s voice the night before, meaning that the witch can take people’s voices even after they are dead.
When Heather saw the blood, nails, teeth, and so forth in Josh’s shirt that scared me a lot. Then the witch attacked Mike, Josh, and Heather’s tent, and they had to run away, and that made me even more anxious. At first, the characters woke up to harmless piles of rocks around their tents. During the witch attacks at night, it got intense and much scarier. After I woke up, I was home alone and it was dark, which made me more scared in the end. Before I fell asleep I was about 48 minutes in the movie. I had to split the film so that I could watch it all: at school I watched about 11 minutes, and then at home I watched the rest. The first half of the movie was not that scary - I even fell asleep in the beginning. The advertising of the movie aided these assumptions because they posted fake missing posters, police reports, interviews, and professors explaining what happened on a website for anyone to see. When it was released, many people believed that the film was based on actual events. The movie was made on a $60,000 budget and earned nearly $250 million.
On July 16, 1999, the R-rated movie was released and took the world by storm with the myth of the Blair Witch. I have avoided horror movies in the past, but at age 16, I decided to watch my first one, The Blair Witch Project, directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. As kids grow up, Halloween becomes a time for scary movies rather than candy and trick-or-treating. The Blair Witch Project is a thrilling horror film perfect for any horror movie fans.