

One of those tagalongs, Lisa, films the whole outing for her documentary-film class.

A new video discovered in the woods emboldens James, who thinks he sees his sister in the footage-so he ventures into the vast forest with three friends. He’s spent most of his life wondering if his sister, Heather Donahue, might still be alive. The style’s enduring popularity is a testament to the original movie’s innovation, but it’s also the new project’s biggest roadblock.īlair Witch follows James, the younger brother of one of the original Blair Witch victims. Going into Blair Witch, my question was the same as everyone else’s: How do you make a 17-year-old phenomenon feel fresh? When it was first released in 1999, The Blair Witch Project was like nothing most audiences had seen before-but now, shaky-cam fare is hardly a rare commodity.
