production. Thanks to his experience as a web designer he was  able to create an official website for the film ("forcor.com") to  spark interest among the Internet community. A year later the  director had received $90,000 in investments from complete strangers  (including fans of principal star Melanie Lynskey) and a further  $60,000 from friends and acquaintances, enabling the film to finally  be completed. The makers of The Blair Witch Project later employed a  similar technique of using the Internet to market their film.