The Blair Witch Project came with a mystery that began before the lights went down. Ed Conroy's opening-night recollection offers a way into the question behind the 1999 phenomenon: what made a horror movie pass for recovered evidence?
The premise was simple: somebody found a camera, and the footage became a film. Keeping that possibility alive took more than a convincing performance. The internet itself had a part in the illusion, at a very particular stage of its development.
A successful scare usually invites another. This one raises a different question: could the same trick work twice? Ed's answer puts an unusual condition on the film's place in horror history.
Topics: The Blair Witch Project, recovered footage, horror marketing, early internet, horror history
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