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The Blair Witch Project

1999 · directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez · 81 min · R
26,462 feet · Prominence
171st of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Blair Witch Project’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

How this film scores

Draw70

$249m worldwide in 1999 — $493m in today's money.

As released$249mIn 2026 money$493mRank620 of 8,589In 199914 of 170

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

Critics 83, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 83.

Critics83 → 42Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. 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 · 153 of 3,430 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, which places it at26,462 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.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Rei Hance, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin.