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!







