IT’S the horror film that put a generation of campers off the idea of sleeping in the woods.

Three student filmmakers hike into the hills to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch.

They go missing and a year later their disturbing video footage is recovered showing them mercilessly hunted before being murdered by a supernatural force.

Tonight Hampshire horror film lovers will watch the American classic in a suitably scary woods in the heart of county’s countryside. As part of the Winchester Film Festival a special bus will take 70 people to Spinney Hollow near Fair Oak where the screening will take place at 10.30pm.

On arrival they will have to trek for a kilometre through the woods before reaching a projector screen, which has been specially erected for the film showing.

Christian Francis, events manager for the Winchester Film Festival, said he hoped the screening would “freak people out”.

“I want people to be completely scared and love it, “ said the 34- year-old art administrator from Winchester University.

“The idea came from showing films with matched locations. At last year’s festival we screened the 1960s horror The Haunting at Avington Park and that worked really well. So I thought what film could we match this year? I got it into my head that The Blair Witch Project shown in the woods would be awesome.”

If that’s not enough to scare the audience rigid, a group of professional actors will also be lurking in the trees after the film has finished to frighten them.