The Blair Witch Project story
The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. It tells the fictional story of three student filmmakers—Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard—who hike in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The three disappeared, but their equipment and footage is discovered a year later. The purportedly "recovered footage" is the film the viewer sees.
9 total · 3 choice · 4 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with being lost in the forest | choice | three young filmmakers were lost in a forest |
| human vs. spirit | choice | While lost in a forest, three young filmmakers were haunted by the ghost of a witch. |
| what if a killer was after me | choice | three young filmmakers were lost in a forest and tormented by someone or something that, it transpired, sought their eventual death |
| cracking under pressure | major | chased by a witch and lost in the woods, all three people eventually lost their composures |
| group morale | major | we saw a variety of attempts to keep spirits up in the little trio |
| serial murder | major | The legend involved a man who, prompted by the witch, abducted and murdered local children. The story seemed to end in the very basement where the murders had occurred. |
| witch | major | if the antagonist was indeed the Blair Witch, she was likely supernatural |
| hexes and curses | minor | The trio came across a variety of ominous symbols and figures that we imagine were used in witchcraft. |
| working together under stress | minor | the three young filmmakers were increasingly stressed out about getting lost during the trek, but tried to carry on filming nonetheless |