A mockumentary exploring the life of the Blair Witch and the three missing student filmmakers.A mockumentary exploring the life of the Blair Witch and the three missing student filmmakers.A mockumentary exploring the life of the Blair Witch and the three missing student filmmakers.
Peg O'Keef
- Narrator
- (voice)
Heather Donahue
- Heather Donahue
- (archive footage)
Jim King
- Burkittsville resident Interviewee
- (archive footage)
Joshua Leonard
- Joshua 'Josh' Leonard
- (archive footage)
Michael C. Williams
- Michael 'Mike' Williams
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaThis mockumentary was produced for airing on The Sci-Fi Channel as a promotional prelude to the release of The Blair Witch Project (1999). It was subsequently given a separate home video release. It was also included as a bonus feature on the special edition of "The Blair Witch Project" DVD.
- Goofs(at around 19 mins) In the history of the township of Blair, it is related that surveyors found the abandoned village of Blair in 1825 while surveying the area for a railroad. Although small railroads were built in 1826, the first commercial railroad was not built in the USA until 1828.
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Narrator: In 1785, several children in the township of Blair, Maryland, accused Elly Kedward of witchcraft. She was found guilty and banished in the middle of winter. It was assumed she died from exposure. The following year, all of her accusers and half the town's children had vanished. Fearing a curse, the entire township fled as soon as the weather broke and vowed never to utter the name Elly Kedward again.
- ConnectionsFeatures The City of the Dead (1960)
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The set-up for the Blair witch hysteria of 1999
Released to TV in the summer of 1999 three weeks before the premiere of the found-footage film "The Blair Witch Project," "Curse of the Blair Witch" is a mockumentary (fake documentary) that goes over the mythology of the Blair witch and interviews people who knew the three amateur filmmakers who supposedly went missing in 1994.
How do you review a documentary that's phony? I suppose by how real it makes its topic appear. As far as that goes, this is a quality mockumentary that inspires interest in the non-subject. I say "non-subject" because there never was a Blair witch; there wasn't even a town of Blair; nor are any of the people in the film real. It's all fake. But "Curse of the Blair Witch" was an ingenious set-up to fool people into believing (or, at least, MAYBE believing) the found-footage of "The Blair Witch Project." With the hysteria of that movie far behind us "Curse of the Blair Witch" is still entertaining for what it is and you can't help but respect its cleverness.
I helps that the "documentary" only runs 44 minutes.
GRADE: B
How do you review a documentary that's phony? I suppose by how real it makes its topic appear. As far as that goes, this is a quality mockumentary that inspires interest in the non-subject. I say "non-subject" because there never was a Blair witch; there wasn't even a town of Blair; nor are any of the people in the film real. It's all fake. But "Curse of the Blair Witch" was an ingenious set-up to fool people into believing (or, at least, MAYBE believing) the found-footage of "The Blair Witch Project." With the hysteria of that movie far behind us "Curse of the Blair Witch" is still entertaining for what it is and you can't help but respect its cleverness.
I helps that the "documentary" only runs 44 minutes.
GRADE: B
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By what name was Curse of the Blair Witch (1999) officially released in Canada in English?
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