The movie’s reported finances has various, with $60,000 being the quantity that will get kicked round probably the most—however similar to enhancing a film to make the consequence look totally spontaneous, it is just a little extra difficult than that.
Sánchez told Entertainment Weekly in 2009 that “the unique finances to get the movie within the can was in all probability between $20,000 and $25,000. Then, as soon as we obtained to Sundance to make a print and do a sound combine, we had been in all probability extra within the neighborhood of $100,000.” Then the studio put round $500,000 into it, ordering a brand new sound combine and asking them to shoot a much less ambiguous ending. “So,” Sanchez concluded, “the finances of what you noticed within the theaters was in all probability $500,000 to $750,000.”
They caught with their authentic ending within the meantime.
Myrick told The Guardian in 2018, nevertheless, that The Blair Witch Challenge value about $35,000 to shoot and ended up costing about $300,000 general to place out.
Whatever the ultimate determine, it went on to make $248.6 million worldwide and stays one of many highest-grossing impartial films of all time, with one of many biggest-ever returns on an preliminary funding.