she keeps leaving shit outside your door
Three years after student filmmakers Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard disappeared in the forests of Maryland's Black Hills, law enforcement authorities finally released all of the evidence they had discovered in the case to the students' families. Among the items returned were several reels of black-and-white film and close to a dozen videocassettes that had never before been made public. (Stern, 1999, p. ix) So goes the premise behind The Blair Witch Project . I've already quoted Segal by way of Martin (2009) before regarding one of the best aspects of The Blair Witch Project --i.e. that it "relies on the mind to conjure its own demons" (p. 41). (I quoted that line regarding Ringu / The Ring , I'm pretty sure.) You don't see the witch or any other killer in the film. Hell, after the first 15 minutes or so, you don't see anybody except for Heather, Mike and Josh. The film is, weirdly, both entirely streamlined because of thi...