Is the Blair Witch Project real?

Question

I always wondered if that movie is actually real. It looks pretty real to me how they record it and everything..SO IZ IT?!

Answer 1

No

Answer 2

The movie was filmed to LOOK like a documentary. The actors have appeard on talk shows and discussed the process. They really were camping in the woods all that time .Each day, they would find a note left by the director of the movie describing what was supposed to happen to them that day, and they would improvise the scenes themselves . There was no script. So the actors did not know from day to day how the plot would develop. These things helped to give the film the "raw" feel that it had.

but it was fiction.

the people were actors.

I thought the concept was interesting, but the results were dissapointing.

Answer 3

To MCNZ -- I saw that Curse of the Blair Witch special that came out on TV before the movie. It was terrifying and great. The movie was much less frightening. It was good, but a disappointment after the previous show.

Answer 4

The story in the movie about Rustin Parr was a true story of the three the woods was false. The appeared at the MTV movie award later that year and presented a award.

Answer 5

Nope. Imagine how many batteries they would have to carry with them to do all of the filming in the woods. Also, go and look up the movie. They have been in movies since then. That is kind of hard to do if a witch killed them in the middle of the woods somewhere.

Answer 6

It was marketed as real to get people interested, but no, the characters in it were actors, not victims. Nor was it based on a true story - just a bunch of spooky legends.

Yes, the realism is impressive, but that's the beauty of a low-tech, low-budget movie; it looks like what it is.

Answer 7

The Blair Witch movie included allusions to the Salem Witch Trials and The Bell Witch legend.

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk and Middlesex Counties of colonial Massachusetts, in 1692 and 1693. Between February 1692 and May 1693, over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned. The two courts convicted 29 people of the capital felony of witchcraft, 19 of whom (fourteen women, five men) were hanged. One other man, having refused to enter a plea, died under judicial torture to extract one from him, and at least five more of the accused died in prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Witch_Trials

The Bell Witch is a ghost story from American Southern Folklore. The legend of the Bell Witch, also called the Bell Witch Haunting, revolves around strange events allegedly experienced by the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee, in 1817–1821.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_witch

Answer 8

No - my husband and I caught a "mock"umentary (which I thought was better and more believable than the film) before it came out - we were admittedly intrigued. It was a slick PR move and definitely got people interested in a reality based way. Mind you this was before reality TV took over so the concept was still very raw and believable.

Answer 9

Actually, the actors themselves got to film the movie. One of the video cameras that one of the actors used was bought from Circuit City. The film was unscripted, so the actors reactions were very real, i.e. the shaking of the tent.

Answer 10

No it is not! All ya seen in the film is a bunch of idiots running around with a camera

Answer 11

not the movie. but the blair witch was real.