"Blair the Witch" was filmed with the novel DV recording technique at the time, giving every viewer a very real feeling, allowing the audience to bring themselves into the world of "Blair the Witch" quite naturally. Every action draws the heartstrings of the audience. The first-person shooting method of "Blair the Witch" is quite successful, and it also created a precedent for later films with the same type of shooting method.
Although the story of "Blair the Witch" is lacklustre, the shaky pictures and ingenious marketing methods make people mistakenly believe that this is a real thing, and it has won a surprising box office at an ultra-low cost. Since then, the shaky picture has become the object of many horror films to follow suit.
"Blair the Witch" because of its novel narrative methods and promotion and marketing, made the audience think that the film is a real documentary rather than a fictional work of art. The appearance of this film not only rewrote the history of American horror films, but also created a new method of film narration.
"Blair the Witch" is called "the ancestor of pseudo-documentary thrillers." Non-mainstream actors and uninnovative scripts are obscured by the sensory excitement of jittery DV pictures and vague live recordings.
"Blair the Witch" uses the trick of "missing videotapes" to shoot movies with scripts like documentaries, confusing the audience's judgment on the authenticity of the film and creating a new category in the industry.
