About this episode

The episode features a discussion on 'The Blair Witch Project' with film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.

This week, Josh and Drusilla are excited to be joined by film critic and documentarian, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Alexandra has written the book on film footage (literally) and thus brings the show the big mama jama of the sub genre: The Blair Witch Project. From wiki: “The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American found footage psychological folk horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. One of the most successful independent films of all time, it is a "fo...

People in this episode

Hosts: Joshua Conkel, Drusilla Adeline

Guest: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Topics covered

• found footage
• horror film
• film critique
• independent cinema
• psychological horror

Keywords

• Blair Witch Project
• found footage
• horror
• film critique
• independent film

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez

Books & works: The Blair Witch Project

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