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The Blair Witch Project

1999 · directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez · 81 min · R
26,477 feet · Prominence
168th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw70

Lifetime worldwide gross $249m, re-releases included; about $493m in 2026 money.

Rank633 of 11,051In 199914 of 196

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise83

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics83 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy78

Judged directly: Invented found-footage and viral marketing.

Verdict78 of 100IMDb6.5 from 310kWikipedia93k views a monthAge27 years

Scored beside it · 158 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 70 praise 83 legacy 78averages 77, placing it at26,477 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Joshua Leonard▲ Rei Hance▲ Michael C. Williams▲ Bob Griffin

In these careers — elevation for this film

Joshua Leonard18,923 ftRei Hance18,795 ftMichael C. Williams18,406 ftBob Griffin17,668 ft