![]() This article was originally published on ew. ![]() Sanchez directs for the series Lucifer (Fox) and Queen of the South (USA). Myrick’s film Under the Bed premiered on Lifetime in January. Sanchez remembers an exec telling them, “Okay, but it’s going to cost us millions at the box office.’’ The film grossed $248.6 million worldwide, roughly 4,000 times its initial budget. “The first ending kept the audience off balance it challenged our real world conventions and that’s what really made it scary.” “What makes us fearful is something that’s out of the ordinary, unexplained,” says Myrick. When they took footage back to executives, the directors expressed their preference for the original ending. We felt that if we stuck it in early in the movie there was going to be some audience members that would connect it to the ending.” “We shot an interview with a guy where he explains a little bit of the mythology of the killer Rustin Parr how he would make one kid stand in the corner while he killed the others. “There was one additional pick up,” says Sanchez. While they were at it, the directors also shot an interview to explain Mike’s wall stare-down. 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. “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. “Our big struggle with the movie was always how to end it,” agrees co-director Eduardo Sanchez. “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-fk 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.” “When we came up with that ending we had been agonizing over making sure there was a pay-off,” says The Blair Witch Projectco-director Dan Myrick. Its climax scared some, but confused others. ![]() Michael faces the corner of an abandoned house while Heather screams hysterically and drops the camera. The Blair Witch Project Ending Explained: Is There Anything There In 1999, this found footage film became a phenomenon. The 1999 horror faux-doc about three college students - Heather, Michael, and Joshua - searching for the fabled Blair Witch in the Maryland woods was always supposed to end unexpectedly. Good job on Artisan for allowing the original ending to remain! I don’t know how horror would’ve been different had The Blair Witch Project not been as influential as it is today but I think, without a doubt, it’d be in a lesser place.To read more Untold Stories, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands now, or buy it here - and subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. The first ending kept the audience off balance it challenged our real world conventions and that’s what really made it scary.” Myrick states, “ What makes us fearful is something that’s out of the ordinary, unexplained. Luckily, Sanchez and Myrick persuaded Artisan to keep the original ending with this new pick up. We felt that if we stuck it in early in the movie there was going to be some audience members that would connect it to the ending,” explains Sanchez We shot an interview with a guy where he explains a little bit of the mythology of the killer Rustin Parr how he would make one kid stand in the corner while he killed the others. Then, inspiration struck and the duo filmed a new interview segment that spoke of Rustin Parr and his method of killing.
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