The Best Witch Movies, Definitively Ranked

The Blair Witch Project is patient zero for found footage as the dominant horror aesthetic. Although the found-footage boom really came years later, in response to the success of the first Paranormal Activity movie, this one popularized the approach; Blair Witch was also an overwhelming hit, grossing several times its initial $60,000 microbudget, thanks to a strong narrative and what we would now call an alternate-reality-game element, featuring a disinformation campaign and an intricate Web…