When you see something that feels a little bit contrived, or a piece of dialogue that feels scripted, it turns on in us. But we were like, "We still need to explain to people, because people will be lost without any kind of back story on what the mythology is about."ĭan Myrick: There's a little unconscious voice, or subconscious voice, in everybody's head. It had to go.Įduardo Sanchez: It started becoming obvious that the footage in the woods was really the best stuff. The biggest shift was abandoning what was originally thought to be 50 percent of the movie.ĭan Myrick (writer/director): Our underlying mandate for the edit was that anything that felt like a movie, or contrived in any way - even if the shot completely rocked - if it felt like the camera was premeditated, we had to cut it. There weren't any major shifts in the story. Gregg Hale: From a story perspective, it all stayed pretty true to the original idea. We did a fake In Search Of… type of show from the '70s that we shot on old 16-millimeter stock. We hired a "detective" who was supposedly hired by Heather's mom to do an investigation. We hired an actress who looked a lot like Heather, who could be Heather's mom. We thought it would be a little bit of the footage of the kids in the woods - but framed by people analyzing it, finding things in the footage, that kind of stuff.Įduardo Sanchez: We started shooting the documentary part. Dan, Ed, and I were all really influenced by that TV show. It actually took us quite a while to land on that and be comfortable with that idea, because it was so different than what we had originally planned on doing. The original idea was that it was going to be structured more like an old In Search Of… episode. We started to mess around with the idea of the kids, alone, being the movie. That's when we really started to realize that there was something special about the footage of the kids themselves. Gregg Hale (producer): The most important piece of filming the movie was the edit. I didn't have a girlfriend at the time, and I had a lot more time on my hands. Dan and Eduardo spent much of the next eight months in the editing room, cutting hours and hours of footage into a coherent story.Įduardo Sanchez (writer/director): I would edit at night. Williams - describe in their own words the instrumental roles they played in bringing one of the most successful and influential horror films of all time to life.Īfter the guerilla filming process, the actors returned to their normal lives. Nearly two decades later, how do the people responsible for The Blair Witch Project feel about the film? In the following four-part oral history, six people involved in the creation of The Blair Witch Project - writers/directors Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, producer Gregg Hale, and stars Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C.
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