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      • The legend of the Blair Witch was invented by Myrick and Sánchez. The two wrote a bare-bones screenplay with little dialogue and hired three unknown actors— Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard—to play the student filmmakers, using their own names as the names of their characters.
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  3. The Blair Witch is said to be, according to legend, the ghost of Elly Kedward, a woman banished from the Blair Township (latter-day Burkittsville) for witchcraft in 1785. The directors incorporated that part of the legend, along with allusions to the Salem witch trials and Arthur Miller 's 1953 play The Crucible , to play on the themes of ...

  4. Jul 16, 2019 · In one of the most intense filmmaking experiences imaginable, actors Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams played fictionalized versions of themselves, heading out...

  5. Sep 19, 2016 · Produced in 1998, the faux-educational spot detailed the exploits of a witch named Elly Kedward, who was banished from a colonial town of "Blair, Maryland," when she was accused of trying to...

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  6. 4 days ago · Mystery. Release Date. July 14, 1999. Director. Daniel Myrick , Eduardo Sánchez. Cast. Heather Donahue , Joshua Leonard , Michael C. Williams , Bob Griffith , Jim King , Sandra Sánchez. It has ...

  7. Apr 23, 2024 · Directors and writers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, who met as film students at the University of Central Florida, shot Blair Witch in eight days on a shoestring budget of about...

  8. May 1, 2024 · Shortly before the release of The Blair Witch Project, a 44-minute faux documentary was created by Artisan and the filmmakers. Similar in style to the short documentary promo that aired on IFC, the project was called Curse of the Blair Witch. The doc used talking head interviews, a fully fleshed-out fake history of the town in which the film ...