The directors returned to the executives and stuck by their original ending; Myrick explained, “what makes us fearful is something that’s out of the ordinary, unexplained.
The endings appear to have made their way online, and it’s pretty clear they don’t come close to the sinister effectiveness of the film’s original ending, with some even looking downright silly.
She screams, her camera falls, the film ends, and audiences leave their seats shaking in terror; The Blair Witch Project always triumphed on its simplicity, but the film nearly took some quite bewildering turns.
The Blair Witch Project almost instantly entered the annals of great horror with its ending; the two final survivors, Heather and Mike, coming upon a dilapidated house in the middle of the woods.