Although it is still likely that the witch was indirectly responsible because she was the one who killed these victims to begin with. It’s up for debate who this spirit could be, but between the townspeople and children who vanished, the kids kidnapped and murdered by serial killer Rustin Parr, and the five men killed and sliced open on Coffin Rock, there is no shortage of potential ghostly suspects. The film has since been reevaluated, and some viewers think that the vengeful spirit, or spirits, attacking the filmmakers could have been someone else who, like Elly, had been murdered in the Black Forest in the fictional Blair Witch legend. Initially, audiences are led to believe that there is a vengeful spirit responsible for what happens to the characters, but they assume it is the witch. The paranormal phenomenon could’ve also been a result of revenge-seeking victims who had previously died in the woods. The students fear they have come under the curse of the Blair Witch, and Heather makes an apology tape saying that it is all her fault for going into the woods in the first place. They begin finding dolls – which are also an important plot point in 2016’s Blair Witch – made of sticks and what are meant to be grave markers outside of their tents one morning with no explanation as to how they got there. Time and location begin to make no sense as they follow Mike’s compass in one direction only to come across the same stream they had already been to. They become hopelessly lost on what was meant to be a fairly short backpacking trip. The students experienced paranormal phenomena such as being trapped in the forest with no explanation as they wander around for days. When the characters are killed, the Blair Witch is the most evident suspect. A few town residents even claimed to have seen the witch. With editorial contributions from Tambay Obenson and Eric Kohn.The Blair Witch is the obvious answer to who was the killer in the film project that tricked audiences into believing its "true story." Several of the townspeople in Burkittsville still believed in the curse of the Blair Witch and cited several stories of deaths and strange phenomena that had been linked to her. Without further ado, here are the 15 very best found footage movies ever made, from the standard-bearers like “Blair Witch” and “Cannibal Holocaust” to under-seen low-budget wonders like “Lake Mungo” and “Be My Cat: A Film for Anne” to bonafide blockbusters like “Paranormal Activity” and “Cloverfield.” Plus, there’s all sorts of other very, very “real” treats in between. From an ill-fated movie that “ended” in a haunted forest to a suburban couple lost forever to dark forces, found footage is at its arguable best when toeing the line between fantasy and reality, bending it until it disappears. That’s the great trick of found footage: sometimes, just sometimes, if the films are really good and the people behind them are really adept at getting into the gag, they can convince audiences theirs truly is the “real world” being watching on the big screen. In the three decades since “The Blair Witch Project” changed the game, has anything become more scary and more omnipresent than devices that can record every inch of our world? What’s more, the famously reactive genre thrives when it feels most relevant. Horror filmmakers are notoriously canny creators, of course, having used whatever was available to craft all manner of scares long before technology caught up. And yet, the found footage technique has become so prevalent within the horror genre that it’s almost impossible to extricate the form from the fear it has inspired. Some film historians posit that the first found footage film was “The Connection”: an experimental joint by Shirley Clarke from 1961 about drug addicts (which is arguably horrific but definitely not a horror movie). The naturalistic approach to cinema doesn’t belong exclusively to the horror arena, believe it or not. From the collected clips of “V/H/S” to the harrowing ordeal captured in “Unfriended,” these frightening flicks feel at once like pieces of entertainment and physical proof of hell on Earth. Whether it’s film “recovered” from a crime scene/disaster site or continuous “live video” watched in real time, found footage movies are among the most terrifying titles available to horror lovers.
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