The advance word called it raw buyers called it annoying. Shot entirely on jumpy handheld cameras, for a budget that would barely buy a new car, the movie offered a grabby premise: three film students disappear while shooting a documentary about the legend of a local witch a year later, here is their footage.
Executives from Miramax, Fox Searchlight and other distributors waited in the Park City, Utah, snow to get in. Now, the film industry's elite gatekeepers would get their chance to see, and perhaps buy, for themselves. For weeks there'd been buzz about a grainy little horror movie called " The Blair Witch Project," by two unknown guys from central Florida who were looking for a distributor. 24, the Sundance Film Festival crowd was ready for a good scare.
By the time the lights went down, a few minutes into the morning of Jan.
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