The original Blair Witch Project employed mystery and surprise to great effect, and this belated sequel works in much the same way.
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News articles posted to the page confirm that Lisa went missing with Peter Jones and Ashley Bennett and one as-yet-unidentified member of their expedition, likely “DarkNet666”.First-things-first – the best way to see this movie is to go in blind.
Finally, over a year later Lisa’s friend Kaylee Morgan managed to locate Lisa’s login credentials, confirming Lisa’s disappearance and highlighting the Finding Lisa Arlington Facebook Page as a resource for people looking to help. Heartfelt prayers for Lisa’s safety are juxtaposed against frustrated comments bemoaning the lack of backer updates and the likely death of the project. The comments section reacted slowly to the silence, as people who chipped in to support a campaign about people struggling to deal with loved ones who vanished without a trace began to suspect that its creator also vanished without a trace. The two get in contact, head out to film on location in Northwest Maryland, and then…radio silence. But then, production takes an unexpected turn when Lisa stumbles across a video posted by “DarkNet666” to his website. She even set up a production blog to try and drum up support. The campaign’s backer updates contain everything you’d expect to see about Lisa Arlington buying new equipment, kicking off production, and interviewing the documentary’s subjects. And James’ older sister went missing in the woods on a camping trip with two friends. Beverly’s son was pronounced MIA during Vietnam. Adamya’s wife went missing after a boating accident. Focusing on coping with loss, the documentary planned on highlighting how three people coped with the disappearance of their loved ones. Initially billed as an Adam Wingard film named The Woods, Lionsgate waited until two months before the film’s release to reveal it was actually Blair Witch, a new installment to the franchise.Īt face value, The Absence of Closure Kickstarter account is a perfectly legitimate campaign for a niche documentary film that never got made. The Blair Witch Project is getting a modern reboot, and is looking to honor the spirit of The Blair Witch Project by playing around with the often murky line between fact and fiction.
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Ben Rock’s five-part series for Dread Central on helping create The Blair Witch Project should be required reading for those interested in all the sordid details that led to the film’s Sundance premiere. The film’s mythos expanded with the release of an in-universe website alongside Curse of the Blair Witch, an expanded feature-length “documentary” that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel. The film’s efforts at blurring the lines between fiction and reality even extended to the filming itself – the actors were taken out into the woods with minimal information of what was to come, subjected to Haxan Films’ “scenario”. While the film was in development, the team at Haxan Films aired a segment for IFC’s Split Screen that presented the core mythos of the film as an earnest historical documentary, presenting the fictional disappearance of the film’s main characters as well as the equally fictional myth of the Blair Witch as if they really happened. It’s all an homage to the original viral campaign for The Blair Witch Project, in preparation for the sequel’s imminent release.įor those unfamiliar with their film history, The Blair Witch Project is a low budget horror film that helped propel the found footage genre into the mainstream back in the 90’s. This might sound like yet another story of Kickstarter creators embezzling funds…except the campaign never existed. The campaign ended up reaching its modest $10K goal, before Lisa herself turned up missing during production of the film. Two years ago Lisa Arlington launched The Absence of Closure, a Kickstarter-funded documentary for her MFA thesis about people coping with ambiguous loss – the grieving process for people who go missing.
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