A ground-breaking viral campaign used the internet to spread all sorts of rumours to create the impression that the film was indeed based on real events. The publicity for the film made much of the idea that the film was based on found footage after three young people, a student film crew, went missing in the woods. In fact, the ‘found footage’ classic was actually found rather than made and everything that takes place on the video actually happened. HOLLYWOOD – The breakout 1999 horror film The Blair Witch Project is back in the headlines as Studio Exec can exclusively reveal that the film “written and directed” by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez was not actually written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez.
