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Myrick and Sánchez didn't film the Black Hills Forest portion of the movie in Burkittsville because it doesn't have a Black Hills Forest (those sequences were shot in Patapsco Valley State Park).They didn't even find real Burkittsville residents for the testimonials from "Burkittsville residents" - those were shot back in Germantown. Paul's Lutheran Church, where the "witch's first victims were buried." There wasn't much more of the town to show - it only takes 15 minutes to walk from one end of town to the other, and according to the most recent census data, its population is a mere 150. In The Blair Witch Project, the real Burkittsville only appears twice: a "Welcome to Burkittsville" sign and several shots in the cemetery behind St. The only remotely "creepy" aspects of Burkittsville were "Spook Hill," an incline just outside of town where Civil War soldier ghosts supposedly pushed idling cars uphill late at night, and "the Snallygaster," a mythical dragon that once laid an egg in the nearby hills.
Just 50 minutes from The Blair Witch Project crew's Germantown, MD base, the town was the site of the September 1862 Battle of Crampton's Gap, one of the minor skirmishes leading up to the Battle of Antietam, fought three days later. The Blair Witch legend blossomed in Burkittsville because of a cemetery. Locals call Main St "a testament to a simpler way of life." One would barely find a crossed look in Burkittsville, MD, let alone a terrorizing ghoul. And little did residents realize that Blair Witch hoopla would haunt them for the better part of two decades, all the way through to this year's mysterious new sequel.īurkittsville proclaims itself "a town rich in history and surrounded by beauty." In 1999, there were only 75 houses, a post office, and a church within the town limits. Burkittsville, "home" of the movie's demonic spirit, was an unassuming Maryland town. The thing was, part of the myth was real. The ingenious marketing plan for The Blair Witch Project's theatrical release made fact and fiction even blurrier, turning a $30,000 indie into a $140 million blockbuster phenomenon, giving rise to an entire "found"-footage subgenre in the process, and convincing a portion of the movie-going population that the myth was real. Festival guides made it very clear that the movie, The Blair Witch Project, was, in fact, a work of fiction, but the masquerade made writer-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez the talk of the festival.
He continues to reside and work from Alabama and is represented in Los Angeles by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and Spectacle Entertainment.Missing-person posters and confused whispers swirled around the 1999 Sundance Film Festival screening of a movie claiming to be a compilation of real video footage shot by three hikers who'd been killed under mysterious circumstances. He has completed production of the feature film What Fun We Were Having (2011), starring Joe Swanberg, in January 2010 that film was in post-production. In additional to Home Sick and Pop Skull, Wingard has written, shot, produced, directed and edited several short films, including "Cerebella," "Laura Panic," and "Paradox Mary," which have screened at festivals such as Fantasia and the Leeds International Film Festival. Weekly singled the film out as one of their top picks of the fest. Reviewing the AFI screening of Pop Skull, both Variety and L.A.
The film had its international premiere at the Rome Film Festival and its domestic premiere at the AFI Film Festival in 2007. Prior to the release of Home Sick (2007), Wingard had already commenced work on his second feature, the indie thriller Pop Skull (2007), which he shot in high definition video for a total budget of $2,000. Club wrote, "Equal parts Rob Zombie, Takashi Miike and John Waters, Home Sick is easily one of the boldest gorefests to show up in video stores this decade." That film, the horror-comedy Home Sick (2007), starring Bill Moseley, Tiffany Shepis, 'Tom Towles' qv, and 'Brandon Carroll', premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2007 and was released by Synapse Films in August 2008. Slowly, they begin to realize the legend is all too real and more sinister than they could have imagined.Īlabama-based filmmaker Adam Wingard (You’re Next, The Guest) got an early start in his field, as he shot and directed his first feature film at the age of nineteen while still enrolled in film school. At first the group is hopeful, especially when a pair of locals offer to act as guides through the dark and winding woods, but as the endless night wears on, the group is visited by a menacing presence. A group of college students venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of James’ sister who many believe is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch.
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