The Guinness Book of World Records lists The Blair Witch Project as the all-time winner in the category of “Top Budget: Box Office Ratio.” Having cost only $60,000 to make and reaping box-office receipts of $248 million, it made nearly $11,000 for every dollar spent in filming.Ģ. Here are 40 tidbits about the film, most of them largely unknown, that make it even more intriguing.ġ. But Blair Witch was probably the most influential in that it completely revived the genre and lead to a spate of copycats seeking to capitalize on its unprecedented success.
The general consensus is that the first was 1980’s extraordinarily gruesome Cannibal Holocaust. The Blair Witch Project (1999), in which three aspiring filmmakers-two males and a female-get lost in the woods while investigating a legend, was not the first “ found footage” horror film.
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