So What Did The Blair Witch Look Like?

Recently, a friend and I started discussing The Blair Witch. Like it or not, when I first watched The Blair Witch Project, I was genuinely freaked out. Over time, of course, I didn't find it so scary, but at first, it was freaky as hell.

After watching the final moments of the movie again, I began to wonder: what did the Blair Witch look like? It's an obviously natural question and one that the filmmakers avoided for obvious reasons. It's also what made the film so scary in the first place because, no matter how scary their vision of the Blair Witch might have been, no doubt, what we saw in our own heads was much worse. It's a vision made up of what we find the most frightening. A custom monster made by our own worst fears.

Still, I knew that at least some enterprising person out there had made their vision of the monster public. So, I went on a Blair Witch hunt and this is what I found.

Rendering from The Curse of the Blair Witch

You know, I think if it hadn't been for this Sci-Fi documentary that premiered before the movie's release, I wouldn't have been so freaked out. But I did and it was this image that completely freaked me out:

What the hell people? What the hell? That thing is scary and I don't even know why. Just looking at it makes me want to rip up the carpet, tear out the foundation and see if I can hide underground. I hate that thing! I'm going to move on before I do serious damage to myself.

McFarlane's Movie Maniac's Action Figure

This is the way the sculptors at McFarlane envisioned the Blair Witch. And while, by God, that's some scary creature, for some reason, I still find the first one scarier.

And after hours of searching, this is what I've come up with. So, I'm curious to know - when you watched The Blair Witch, what did you imagine the witched looked like. Answers such as "Mickey Mouse" or "John McCain" do not count!

Comments

[Creechman]

Glad you mentioned "Blair Witch." I found it not scary at all, but just an interesting slant on willing disbelief none of those kids had a cell phone. Just the human interaction, and getting spooked in the dark, like campers. The Witch herself are a bunch of extras with styrofoam clubs, twigs, and cackling with the baby cry.

Made ten years earlier, would have been much more believable. I just like watching presumptuous college kids.

[corey]

they are so fake you guys are stupid all those pics are fake and not scary the blair witch project was real but all you guys just destroyed

[Kelly]

Wow Corey. Thanks for setting us straight. Can you please let me know if Santa Claus is really real? What about the Easter Bunny? Oh boy!

I realize I could have just called you a dumbass, but I figure you probably get that all the time anyways and could use some variety in your life.

[matt]

My friends did an excellent job convincing me that the entire Blair Witch Project was real. It probably didn't hurt that I'm also gullible like a fox.

Strangely enough, I never actually thought about what the Blair Witch looked like. I was confused and terrified enough by what was hinted at on-screen that my imagination didn't need to come up with anything more to keep me up all night. Which it did.

[Kelly]

Matt,

Luckily enough, our family had a computer and I was inquisitive enough (and geeky enough) that I spent a bunch of hours on the net reading everything I could about the production and the filmmakers.

They did a good job at selling it though. If you ever look at any of the youtube videos of the film, you'll see there are people that *still* believe it was real.

[Ria]

I liked the Blair Witch movie, however I was also taken aback by the fact that kids would go off in the woods or forest without a cellphone. But I wonder, would they have been able to get a signal out there?

[Emma Sarah & Shelby]

Waht Did The Blair Whitch Do??
&& What Happend to Her ?
&&What Happens if You Talk About Her When Your Campin ?

[Anjelic]

When I first watched the second Blair witch
project I thought It was cool but Freaky.
I`ve been Looking for info on what she looked like and how she was really killed, but the most hardest I want to find out is was she real? I think so but You really cant tell without Looking for the answer!

[Brittany]

I've watched the BLAIR WITCH project and I do addmit it was scary! I hate it when they base movies on true stories,but this being actual footage! WOW-EEE that is awsome. And once you get done watching the movie, you think of the things that those people went through....god the torture!!!!

[Jessie]

No one had a cell phone because this movie was filmed before cell phones were really popular.

[Michelle]

this movie was made just before everyone started REALLY having cell phones. i was 22 or 23 (and did not have one, nor did anyone i know have one that they used "all the time" like they do now) at the time and am 33 now. people don't realize that only over the last decade has the cell phone 'boom' really happened. now everywhere you go, everywhere you look the person next to you has a cell in their hand. but 10 years ago, it was just starting to creep up. sadly, i found out just a few days before i saw the movie that it was hype and not something that had actually happened. however, i still felt that it was a great movie and the first horror movie i had seen in a while that actually freaked me out. of course it didn't help that i lived in a heavily wooded rural area at the time ;oP

[fat burners]

I've watched the BLAIR WITCH project and I do admit it was scary!

[Rebecca]

This is a little late, but I like McFarlane's version, and wish that they would have used it at least in the 2nd film, which completely stunk. As for cells, sometimes they take away the imagination. Maybe the Blair Witch could render them inoperable?

[Chloe Maher]

I in picture a woman that Is dressed in white and no eyes and sorta like bloody mary! Follow me on twitter! chloejeanmaher