On This Day: July 30, 1999 — The Blair Witch Project Terrified a Generation
The summer of 1999 was already crowded with blockbusters — The Phantom Menace, Austin Powers, The Sixth Sense — but nothing that summer, or arguably that entire decade, landed quite the way a $60,000 hand-held horror movie did when it went wide on July 30, 1999. The Blair Witch Project would gross $248.6 million worldwide,…