![]() ![]() This causes them to hike in circles, leading them to a time when Parr's house is still standing, and it was Parr who killed Heather there while ordering Mike to stand in the corner. So how did it get there? The time warp theory contends that Heather, Mike and Josh hiked into an area of the woods where time is altered. David Mercer, the archaeology professor who led his class to the site, explains that "even a forensic expert" could not have placed those items without leaving signs of disturbance. There's also the strange fact that the filmmakers' equipment and footage was found in the colonial-era foundations of a burned-down house. ![]() They also draw attention to Heather referring to a portion of the Bible Brown quoted offscreen, "which warns against crossing a boundary demarcated by stones." Others contend that Mary Brown, the strange woman interviewed at the start of the film, is one of these people, as the wooden gate to her mobile home looks similar to both the stick figures and the bundle of Josh's teeth. In a deleted scene included on the Blair Witch DVD release, Josh proposes that locals they encountered in town during filming are making a "game" of stalking the team, and that this is the cause of the strange incidents.įans of this theory suggest Mike is standing in the corner at the film's end because he's being held at gunpoint by an unseen person, while Heather is knocked out and murdered. Josh replies: "You ever seen Deliverance?" He's referring to the 1972 film in which a group of men are stalked in the woods by deranged locals. "Nobody knows we're out here," she tells him. After two nights in the woods, Heather and Josh discuss the unexplained sounds they've been hearing at night. One theory suggests the filmmakers are actually victims of the Burkittsville townspeople. The footage comes from the 1969 "documentary" White Enamel, also fictional, that documents abuses committed at the institute. She briefly describes what happened there, and mentions that the faces of the murdered search party were inscribed with "indecipherable writing, cut into their flesh with an eerie precision." The writing is also seen in The Burkittsville 7, written by an adult Kyle Brody while incarcerated at the Maryland State Institute for the Criminally Insane. They'd been looking for Robin Weaver, who claims she was lured away by a supernatural woman to a house she managed to escape from.Ĭoffin Rock is one of Heather's filming locations. "They had been disemboweled, and on their faces, their hands and feet, were carved these strange pagan symbols," according to Charles Moorehouse, credited as professor of folklore from Maryland State University. In Blair Witch mythology, Coffin Rock is the site where a search party sent out after a missing girl in 1886 were brutally murdered. She published her memoir, Growgirl, in 2012.Ĭatch new episodes of That Literally Happened! Mondays on Facebook Watch.The letters also pop up in the special The Curse of the Blair Witch, during the tale of Coffin Rock. Heather Donahue no longer acts and found a new career growing medical marijuana in 2008. Joshua Leonard has continued to act steadily, appearing in shows like True Detective and Bates Motel. Williams still works as an actor, but is focused primarily on his work as a middle school guidance counselor. ![]() The film made nearly $250 million in its run despite being shot on a paltry $60,000 budget, and its influence on popular horror movies can still be seen 20 years later. The tough on-set experience of the actors paid off in the end, capturing raw emotion that terrified audiences. “And I remember just feeling this sense of relief, and he’s whispering in my ear, ‘Get up! Go stand in the corner! Go stand in the corner!’” he explained of one of the most iconic and lasting scenes of the movie. Michael Williams explained how horrible he felt knowing that his direction was to run from his costar Heather inside the haunted house, leaving her terrified and screaming.Īs Williams reached the basement of the house, he recalled being thrown to the ground by one of the film’s producers. But the actors were still kept in the dark until they set foot in the creepy abandoned building. Ultimately, Myrick and Sánchez landed on the unsettling ending in the Blair Witch house, with the characters being attacked by an unseen force off-camera. “We knew we didn’t want like a frickin’ alien to come out of the woodwork or some bad witch costume or something like that.” “We had no idea how we were going to end the movie, and what we knew is what we didn’t want,” Myrick told BuzzFeed News. ![]()
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