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What they discovered would become a cult classic, as the film is supposedly based upon the lost camera footage found one year later. The followup film to 1999s the blair witch project is here, giving us even more insight into the legendary entity that haunts the black hills forest near burkittsville. The blair witch project is an american psychological thriller, released in 1999, directed and written by daniel myrick and eduardo sanchez. Fanmade trailer using actual footage from the official teasers. The amity affliction the blair snitch project lyrics. Blair witch project missing photo logo movi new sticker. The darling of this years cannes film festival, this low budget work from a pair of soon to be known writerdirectors is generating lots of buzz and for good reason. The brand standard for catching the public off guard. The pov is that of the film students, josh, mike, and heather on their journey to discover more.
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