Found footage horror had certainly been tried before. The 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust is often credited with inventing the subgenre. The 1999 movie, however, managed to popularize the style, ...

Well, speaking to LADbible, one of the brains behind the Blair Witch, Dan Myrick, who made the film with pal Eduardo Sanchez, revealed the truth behind why we never actually saw the real witch.

A fan theory has suggesting The Blair Witch Project actually revealed the identity of the witch and everyone missed has surfaced on Reddit.