Blair Witch got a hasty sequel without the involvement of creators Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez.
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Movie studios weren’t going to lay a horror hit to rest during the Scream era. The scary little tape became a phenomenon-and nothing undoes a phenomenon quite like itself. Joe Jing, designer of the first Blair Witch game, told me that one of his advertising buddies was fooled by the film’s promotion. There’s as much lore about the film’s Sundance debut as there is about the Blair Witch herself, that even producers and distributors were duped and demanded answers about the footage. An unusual production, great care was taken to selling the illusion that its three documentarians had vanished in the Black Hills through online supplements, TV specials, and the decision to cast of amateur actors. The original Blair Witch Project was a micro-budget sensation. EGM spoke with the developers and publisher behind these largely forgotten titles to find out how an existential horror film became three gun-slinging action games. All three games were in players’ hands by November of the following year. The Blair Witch Project first hit theaters in July of 1999.
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The speed at which these games- Rustin Parr, The Legend of Coffin Rock and The Elly Kedward Tale-came together is spooky, even by the standards of PC gaming’s ’90s heyday. Gathering of Developers-the original publisher of Max Payne, Tropico, Serious Sam, and Mafia-launched three Blair Witch Project tie-in games in the span of two months, each made by a different studio. Even the developers of the original Blair Witch games seemed excited to see their take on the material.Īfter all, this isn’t the first time the infamous film has been adapted into a video game. The studio’s knack for misdirection feels like a good fit. Bloober Team, the developer behind Layers of Fear and Observer, is releasing The Blair Witch Project on August 30th for Xbox One and PC, taking inspiration from the original film’s found-footage style for its own torrid walk through the woods.
Now, in 2019, the Blair Witch has returned-just not on videotape. The less we saw, the more we became intimidated by our own conclusions. The Blair Witch, never shown and known only through the dread she instilled, made the cassette feel like a cursed object. While the studios weren’t hiding its fictional status, people still weren’t convinced that the Black Hills of Maryland were safe. A sterile plastic cassette that was still conjuring a national panic. I remember glaring at it through a math lesson. One day in grade six, I spotted a copy of The Blair Witch Project on Eric’s desk.
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