![]() ![]() In addition to the endings, they shot one more thing. All the endings gave Mike a much more horrible ending including having him hanging from a noose, crucifying him on one of the film's signature stick men, and just having a bloodied chest. Since the directing duo didn't have the money to shoot the endings they initially thought of, Artisan gave them they money they needed to shoot them. Myrick says, "When asked if they were scared, 19 out of 20 hands went up." Even so, Artisan Entertainment was a little worried about audience confusion, and they wanted Myrick and Sanchez to shoot something more definitive. It turns out that audiences were confused by that ending, but they weren't any less scared. Suddenly Heather ( Heather Donahue), who was holding the camera through which we see Mike in the corner, screams crazily before being hit in the head, knocking the camera down and giving the movie quite the grim ending. The ending of the movie shows Mike ( Michael Williams) standing in the corner (seen above), a reference to a story they'd heard from a resident they interviewed while shooting their documentary. We thought it was great - kind of unexplained, but it gave you the idea that something supernatural was happening." We came up with the idea three days before we shot it. Sanchez adds that their extremely low budget made it difficult to create a satisfying payoff at the end, and that's why it ends in a way that is somewhat anti-climactic, but no less scary: "We didn't have any money, so we couldn't do any special effects so we had to figure out how to end it without ruining the rest of the film. ![]() Myrick explains: "We didn't want to lead the audience on this entire build-up and then just cut to black there needed to be some kind of what-the-f–k moment at the end, but at the same time we didn't want to see a person in a bad witch costume come out and grab them." ![]() Find out about The Blair Witch Project alternate endings below.Įntertainment Weekly recently talked with Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez about the ending of the movie, which was always something they struggled with. ![]()
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