8 Films & TV Shows Based On Internet Horror Stories

2016's Blair Witch, the sequel to the 1999 found footage phenomenon The Blair Witch Project, is an interesting take on the creepypasta format. A follow up that has left the original movie time to breathe, the years between each film's release have created some weird meta-myth about the titular Blair Witch that the sequel successfully capitalises on.

The Blair Witch Project set up its antagonist as a pre-made legend, and due to the film's runaway success, plenty more stories cropped up over the internet playing into the mythology of the Black Hills Forest. Half the fun is passing on the scary stories and adding your own experience, which the people of the web have taken on with fervent glee.

Theories on her powers, what she wants from stray campers, and the history of who the witch was before her supernatural form took over have long since occupied corners of the web, turning the experience of the Blair Witch into its very own, bona fide creepypasta. If only they gave out a Golden Tagliatelle award.

The sequel uses the first film as its catalyst in such a way that Blair Witch reads as a home-made fan homage to the original, playing out its legends in terrifying new ways. Not only did the franchise build its own cult interest in a fake monster, but its a genuinely great horror movie with some real clout in its innovative approach to the source material.