The chamber of commerce president there told Brown there's no way to stop souvenir-seekers. Mayor Brown, seeking advice on handling unsolicited celebrity, placed a call to another infamous town - Amityville, N.Y., the site of a mass murder that inspired the "Amityville Horror" movies.
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And someone stole a "Welcome to Historic Burkittsville" road sign seen in the movie luckily, the town has three other such signs. Both cemetery signs were promptly heisted. One hundred and seventy-five years after Burkittsville was founded, the town was found again in 1999 by four and more scores of tourists and journalists, all wanting a piece of the village, which might as well have been renamed Blair Witch, Md. In Baltimore, "Blair Witch" ran for seven weeks at the Charles and grossed a record $222,000 for the theater.
The low-budget movie has posted $140 million at the box office (and produced the requisite backlash it's hard to find anyone now who'll say they liked the movie). The mock documentary of three filmmakers searching for the fabled Blair Witch in the forest near Burkittsville became the monster hit of the summer. The village made the pop-culture atlas when "The Blair Witch Project" opened this summer. And a rafting and outdoors outfit from Tennessee plans a Halloween "Blair Witch Hike" and overnight camping in Burkittsville - a place once simply and innocently known for its Civil War heritage and "rich farm lands, mountains and quaint village," as the recording says. That's really wild," says Ginnie Sulcer, Borders' community relations coordinator.īurkittsville's postmaster, Larry Ott, has been asked by a video store to round up a hundred postcards for the video's release.
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