Egyptian Theatre (Venue Partner)
6712 Hollywood Blvd
323.466.3456
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The Blair Witch Project
- When
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Thursday Aug 20, 2009 (7:30–9:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: The Egyptian Theatre is just east of Highland Avenue between Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place. Metro Stop: Hollywood & Highland
- Price
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$10 General / $8 Students
- Links
Ten Year Anniversary Screening
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, 1999,
Lionsgate, 86 min. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick started a new cycle in horror films with this daringly unusual debut feature. Shot in pseudo-documentary style, the zeitgeist of the film impacted not only the direction of cinematic chillers to come but the just-beginning onslaught of reality TV as well. Three college film students (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams) have gone missing while taking a trek into the Burkittsville, Maryland, woods, in hopes of documenting the area’s ancient Blair Witch legend. The film-within-a-film is related as found footage in the wilderness. Things start off innocuously enough with talking-heads interviews of townspeople. But when the trio enter the forest, they soon become hopelessly lost, disoriented and, at last, terrified as an unknown presence stalks them. Discussion following with directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick, producers Gregg Hale, Mike Monello and Robin Cowie, Actress Heather Donohue and other cast members (TBA).
