Join in for over 20 hours of wizarding wonder at POTTERFEST – a Harry Potter marathon, screening at Palace Cinemas. BLAIR WITCH II By Dick Beebe Original Story By Joe Berlinger & Dick Beebe.

Low-budget scifi movies may have had their heyday during Roger Corman’s rise to B-movie greatness in the 1950s, but they’re still going strong today—proving. In his book An Authenticated History of the Bell Witch, author Martin Van Buren Ingram published that the poltergeist's name was Kate, after the entity claimed at one.

A Complete Guide to the Blair Witch Mythology. You may have heard that a new Blair Witch movie – called, appropriately enough, Blair Witch – is now out in theaters. What you may not have known, however, is just how extensive the franchise’s narrative reach has been up until now.

Right from day one, back in the summer of 1. The Blair Witch Project had a massive narrative footprint, with faux documentaries and an online catalogue of “evidence” predating the movie’s arrival, with comic book and print anthologies immediately following it. And once Artisan Entertainment, the studio that ended up purchasing and distributing Blair, saw just how much money was being raked in, it decided to blow the multimedia doors wide open, unleashing a slew of further television specials, novels, comics, and, even, videogames.

Learn the full extent of the new Blair Witch's backstory by reading this exhaustive guide to every mockumentary, book, comic, and videogame released. A group of tourists arrive in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project (1999) to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face. 12. SÁNCHEZ CREATED THE MOVIE’S WEBSITE HIMSELF. The co-director was the logical choice to build the website that helped spread the myth of the Blair Witch to.

Simply put, the year 2. Witch. Until, of course, a little sequel called Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 hit theaters just before that Halloween. Rushed into production, lacking any involvement from the original filmmakers, and offering something of a muddled story, the movie not only killed the film side of the meta- franchise, it also put a near- immediate stop to its “expanded universe.” After a veritable explosion of releases and assorted stories, Blair became deader than a doornail. But what is dead is not forgotten; not only is Lionsgate, who acquired the property 1.

Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett are ardent followers of the expanded mythology, hinting that that the vast assortment of tie- in releases may well play an important role in their Blair Witch – or in the movies beyond. Here is our Complete Guide to the Blair Witch Mythology. Be sure to take it with you, along with your trusty camcorder, the next time you venture into the deep, dark woods. Curse of the Blair Witch. Format: mockumentary. Release date: 0. 7. With the pre- release buzz of The Blair Witch Project reaching record highs (thanks in part to the expertly- crafted website, and in part to the bootleg VHS tapes that were floating around the horror convention circuit), Artisan struck a deal with the Sci- Fi Channel (now branded as Syfy) to do a promotional tie- in.

Haxan Films, the production company behind the movie, for its part, saw this as a chance to double down on the “this really happened, and the Blair Witch really is a long- lived urban legend” premise. It didn’t hurt that the mockumentary could also serve as a primer to all of the backstory and mythological episodes that had been accrued for Blair; as such, Curse of the Blair Witch meticulously recounts the Blair Witch legend, from the execution of Elly Kedward back in 1.

The official San Diego Comic-Con schedule is normally released exactly two weeks before the convention (which would put this year’s release dates on July 6-9), but. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the movie that the director of THE FIFTH ELEMENT makes eight years after he sees AVATAR. One of the first scenes in Luc Besson's. Best Horror Movies 2014. Horns is based on the book by Joe Hill, who is a fantastic writer and the son of Stephen King – recommend his novel NOS4A2, its one of.

Coffin Rock a century later, to Rustin Parr’s killing spree 6. Montgomery College student filmmakers in 1. Directed by Blair Witch Project’s two helmers, Eduardo Sanchez and Dan Myrick, and written by the franchise’s mythology maestro, Ben Rock, the television special is every bit as well- crafted as its theatrical sibling – and is even closer to the creators’ original vision of the film, to boot, serving as both prologue and alternate concept. The Blair Witch Project.

Format: theatrical film. Release date: 0. 7. Yes, the film that spawned the entire expanded universe comes second in the chronology; to watch it otherwise is to do a grave disservice to the overarching flow of the mythology. Blair. Witch. com. Format: website. Release date: April 1. Unlike the standard movie website (including that, ironically enough, for this year’s Blair Witch), The Blair Witch Project’s online home eschewed simply listing release dates and trailers for being a repository of the movie’s mythology, containing references to the historical incidents that would be more fully fleshed out in Curse of the Blair Witch along with a heaping helping of “behind the scenes” material, such as the photographic evidence of the filmmakers’ abandoned car and missing gear or clips from the local Maryland media recounting their disappearance. Users can spend hours poring through the information – which they did for nearly a full year before the movie’s theatrical debut.

And thanks to the insistence of Lionsgate and the tireless efforts of webmaster Dan Karcher, fans can still do so to this day, as Blair. Witch. com has been lovingly restored to its 1. Guinness Book of World Records for the longest- running movie site. You can find the original site here for the time being, as the new film has temporarily taken over the main domain name.)If Blair. Witch. com were up so long before Blair Witch Project’s release, why put it as third on our chronology? The answer comes in two parts.

Firstly, only those crazy, diehard fans would find each and every scrap of the most background of information interesting enough to catalogue without having the emotional investment in the film proper (continuing the Star Wars riff, it would be like a casual fan reading all dozen or so prequel books before actually watching The Force Awakens). And secondly, there is a small but potent bombshell revelation contained on the site that puts the film in a whole new context (more on which in just a moment). The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier. Format: book. Release date: 0. When a tie- in book was called for by Artisan and publisher Onyx, author Dave Stern came up with a brilliant idea: rather than doing the standard novelization, they would further the deceitful marketing premise by providing a collection of every last bit of information out there on the student filmmakers, on the city of Burkittsville, and, of course, on the Blair Witch herself. The result is The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier, which takes all of the information from the website, combines it with a number of the personalities from Curse of the Blair Witch (along with a smorgasbord of new info), and cements it in print form. The comprehensiveness of this book cannot be overstated – think of it more as an encyclopedia, indexing progress reports from private investigator Buck Buchanan to Angie Donahue (Heather’s mother, and his client) and collecting photographs of the various crime scenes.

It’s like having a Blair Witch- specific Wikipedia right there on your book shelf. The real treat here, however, is the reproduction of Heather’s journal from the website, a running commentary actually written by the actress herself during the film shoot that contains the aforementioned bombshell twist: Heather was sending energy out to the Blair Witch well before she and her student colleagues set foot in the woods, hoping to coax the ghost out in order to document her on film. This not only adds an extra dimension to the film, it also turns the now- iconic “I’m sorry” scene on its head. The Blair Witch Project #1. Format: one- shot comic book.

Release date: July 1. How does one would do a found- footage comic book? The answer, it turns out, is rather easy – just as Haxan Films posited that it was simply the curator of all this material it had acquired, editing it into a viewable theatrical format, Oni Press’s angle was that they, too, were responsible for taking material they had come into contact with and professionally updating and (re- )releasing it. Released in conjunction with the original film, Oni’s editor- in- chief spins the tale in a brief introduction that he had come across Wood Witch Said, a self- published mini- comic written and illustrated by Cece Malvey, a Johns Hopkins student who went missing for the better part of a day while on a Botany class trip – during which time, he claims, voices filled him in on all the important episodes throughout the Blair Witch’s time haunting the Black Hills Forest.

When Haxan asked to collaborate with the comics publisher on a tie- in book, the EIC immediately suggested doing Malvey’s twisted, difficult- to- read work justice. Watch Cosmopolis Online (2017) there. Watch Super Capers Dailymotion.

Top 2. 0 Best Horror Movies Of 2. Let’s take a look at the best horror movies of 2. The scary list features the usual mix of sequels (‘Wolf Creek 2’), adaptations (‘Horns’) and original fare (‘Oculus’).

Although oddly there hasn’t been a single prominent remake this year. It has been a good one for indies. Open Grave. Starring: Sharlto Copley, Joseph Morgan, Thomas Kretschmann. Director: Gonzalo López- Gallego. Released: January 3, 2.

US Dates) A man (Copley) wakes up in a huge pit of dead bodies with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Fleeing the scene, he breaks into a nearby house and is met at gunpoint by a group of strangers all suffering from the same memory loss. The group tries to piece together clues about their identities, but when they encounter a deadly threat they’ll have to figure out the whole picture before it’s too late… Think Agatha Christie meets ‘The Last of Us’, in fairly uninspired hands. It does a good job of creating mystery by posing intriguing questions, the first 4. But as the characters are there only to serve the mystery plotting they come off flat and lifeless. When you don’t know who anyone is until virtually the last five minutes, it’s hard to care too much about their fates.

As Above, So Below. Starring: Ben Feldman, Perdita Weeks, Edwin Hodge, Josh Kervarec. Director: John Erick Dowdle. Released: August 1. Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris. When a team of explorers venture into the uncharted maze of bones they uncover the deadly secret of the city of the dead. Descending into madness and terror they will be forced confront their sins head on or be extinguished.

From the writer and director of the not- great ‘Quarantine’. The director took a step up with the underrated ‘Devil’. Here they are back to found- footage and fighting to avoid the cliches that go with it.

Lifting heavily from ‘The Descent’ and 2. Catacombs’, mixed with a bit of ‘Tomb Raider’, this does well on atmosphere and scares. Your enjoyment probably depends on whether ‘REC’ underground sounds appealing or tired at this stage. Wolf Creek 2. Starring: John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn. Director: Greg Mclean.

Released: May 1. 6, 2. Lured by the promise of an authentic Australian holiday, three backpackers visit the notorious Wolf Creek crater. But their dream Outback adventure becomes a nightmare when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, Mick Taylor (imagine a murderous Mick Dundee). As they flee, he pursues them on an epic, white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland, and at least one will be dragged back to his lair to witness the true magnitude of his monstrosity. To survive, they must become as ruthless as him.

The writer/director of the first ‘Wolf Creek’ returns, as does its star (who’s still a compelling presence). The 2. 00. 5 original was creepy and disturbing but also a sadistic and depressing movie that dwelt on torture. This shifts focus more toward black humour and suspense- action with a second half that’s part road- chase thriller ala ‘Duel’. However it remains sadistic, with the German backpacker sequence in particular exhibiting a very disturbed psyche. The final scene is implausible and unsatisfying too. Still the movie’s neatly crafted, nicely acted and a well- paced gory ride. Worth seeing – if you enjoyed the first.

Sins. Starring: Mark Webber, Ron Perlman, Rutina Wesley, Pruitt Taylor Vince. Director: Daniel Stamm.

Released: April 1. A meek social services coordinator who’s drowning in debt and about to marry his love receives a call informing him that he’s on a hidden camera game show where he will receive $6 million for completing 1.

After he agrees, for task one/two, to kill and eat the fly that is bothering him, thousands of dollars appear in his bank account. From there is he led through progressively challenging, degrading, and dangerous stunts by the mysterious caller, to a devastating point of no return. From the director of ‘The Last Exorcist’, this is a remake of the quirky 2. Thai horror/thriller ’1.

Game of Death’. It’s a surprisingly entertaining film that continues to throw satisfying plot twists and interesting scenarios into the mix as it esculates. Watching the protagonist grow in confidence is fun. It has a very similar premise to this year’s equally good but smaller- scale ‘Cheap Thrills’ (although that one’s more thriller than horror). The Sacrament. Starring: Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Gene Jones. Director: Ti West.

Released: May 1, 2. Two journalists (for VICE magazine’s video documentaries) film their friend’s visit to the Eden Parish, a religious commune where his troubled sister has been living since her drug rehabilitation program. The sister seems healthy and the inhabitants they interview speak of the commune utopia in glowing terms. However they gradually discover there is a sinister edge to the cult that belies the seemingly peaceful setting… From producer Eli Roth and writer- director Ti West (‘House of the Devil’, ‘The Innkeepers’), this is based quite closely on the harrowing Jonestown Massacre of 1. Jim Jones’s glasses). The slow- build- up opening hour features great writing, performances and direction, with effective use of the ‘found footage/documentary’ style.

Things turn deadly a bit too abruptly, and while those events are intense, their horror should have been pushed even further – the real life story was far more grand- scale and shocking (1. Watching this unofficial adaptation could have left audiences mentally scarred, but instead it’s simply a solid, cleverly- made horror- thriller with a (cinematically) original premise. Stage Fright. Starring: Allie Mac. Donald, Douglas Smith, Minnie Driver, Meat Loaf. Director: Jerome Sable.

Released: May 9, 2. Musical whodunit 8. Think ‘Friday the 1.

Glee’. Starry- eyed teenager Camilla wants to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a Broadway diva, but she’s stuck working in the kitchen of a snobby performing arts camp. Determined to change her destiny, she sneaks in to audition for the summer showcase and lands the lead role in the play, but just as rehearsals gets underway, the bodies start to drop. A masked killer who despises musical theater is on the prowl (complete with screaming heavy metal voice, and occasionally electric guitar)… There aren’t many who like both horror and musicals (outside of ‘Rocky Horror’) so the public reaction has been unfairly brutal to this. It’s actually very funny and if you love slasher films, and understand going in that all the deaths will be tongue in cheek, you’ll have a great time. Horror Movies 2. 01. Place) > Horror Movies 2. Pages: 1 2. 34. 5.