Blair Witch

This article is about the horror media franchise. For the film, see Blair Witch (film). For the video game, see Blair Witch (video game).

Blair Witch
Created byDaniel Myrick
Eduardo Sánchez
Original workThe Blair Witch Project (1999)
OwnerLionsgate
Print publications
Book(s)
  • The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier
  • Blair Witch: Book of Shadows
Novel(s)
  • The Blair Witch Project: The Fotonovel
  • Blair Witch: The Secret Confessions of Rustin Parr
  • Blair Witch: Graveyard Shift
  • The Blair Witch Files
Comics
  • The Blair Witch Project
  • The Blair Witch Chronicles
  • Blair Witch: Dark Testaments
Films and television
Film(s)
Television special(s)
  • Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
  • Sticks and Stones: An Exploration of the Blair Witch Legend (1999)
  • The Massacre of The Burkittsville 7: The Blair Witch Legacy (2000)
  • Shadow of the Blair Witch (2000)
Games
Traditional
  • Hunt a Killer Horror: Blair Witch (2020)
Video game(s)

Blair Witch is an American horror media franchise created by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, distributed by Artisan Entertainment (now Lionsgate) and produced by Haxan Films that consists of three feature films and various additional media. The development of the franchise's first installment, The Blair Witch Project, started in 1993. Myrick and Sánchez wrote a 35-page outline of a story with the dialogue to be improvised. Filming began in 1997 and lasted eight days. The film follows the disappearance of three student filmmakers in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary on the local legend known as the "Blair Witch".

After premiering at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, the film was released on July 30, 1999, after months of publicity during a controversial promotional campaign. The film went on to be a massive commercial success, and a sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was released on October 27, 2000. A second official sequel, Blair Witch, was released on September 16, 2016. Series of video games, books, novels and comic books were released to accompany the films. A "reimagining" of The Blair Witch Project was announced in April 2024 as a collaboration between Lionsgate and Blumhouse.[1]

  1. ^ D'Alessandro, Nancy Tartaglione,Anthony; Tartaglione, Nancy; D'Alessandro, Anthony (2024-04-10). "Blumhouse Inks Pact With Lionsgate To Reimagine Studio's Horror Classics Starting With 'The Blair Witch Project' – CinemaCon". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-04-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)