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Will there every be anything like the Blair witch again?
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:22 pm
The original Blair witch terrified me, I really thought it was real. Nowadays With the internet I doubt anything like it will happen again, what do you guys think?
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Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:23 pm to lawlcow318008
No I mean it wouldn’t work today at all, it was definitely a cultural phenomenon don’t see how they’d do it.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:35 pm to lawlcow318008
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With the internet I doubt anything like it will happen again
The internet was the reason why it happened.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:39 pm to shutterspeed
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The internet was the reason why it happened.
There was a mystique that people thought it was real. In today’s internet age everyone knows it’s fake so no, it isn’t reproducible
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:39 pm to lawlcow318008
Found footage films have come out since then.
I haven’t seen them all so I can’t comment on any that are better.
But some people rate others higher than Blair witch.
I haven’t seen them all so I can’t comment on any that are better.
But some people rate others higher than Blair witch.
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One of the most profitable movies of all time, Paranormal Activity went on to spawn seven sequels with an eighth set to be released next year. The original is still a favorite amongst fans, and it re-popularized found footage horror movies a decade after The Blair WItch Project.
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:44 pm to lawlcow318008
Walking to the deer stand before sunrise became a whole lot more interesting for a 12 year old after I watched it.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:47 pm to TheChicotKid
The sequels were so bad
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:53 pm to nicholastiger
When I watched in the theater I got motion sicknes and that took any scary creepy out of the movie for me.
People were really freaked out abut that movie.
People were really freaked out abut that movie.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 5:54 pm to Split2874
Also paranormal activity did the found footage from home security cams. So it took it in a different direction
Posted on 9/21/23 at 6:01 pm to lawlcow318008
I found TBW tedious.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 6:03 pm to Proximo
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There was a mystique that people thought it was real. In today’s internet age everyone knows it’s fake so no, it isn’t reproducible
Well, that's moving the goalpost from the OP, isn't it? Of course everyone knows about "Blair Witch" now since becoming a cultural phenomenon. Part of what drove the original zeitgeist for it was the novel, at the time, guerilla internet marketing. If recent history has proven anything, there are still a metric shite ton of people easily susceptible to marketing and fake news.
So, "1999 Blair Witch"? No. A "2023 Blair Witch"? No doubt.
Original Blair Witch Website
Posted on 9/21/23 at 6:15 pm to lawlcow318008
Blair Witch Project is truly a masterpiece that I still find unsettling. A lot of people don’t get the ending but it’s pretty much hinted at in the very beginning with the town folk interviews talking about the serial killer.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 6:15 pm to shutterspeed
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The internet was the reason why it happened.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 6:25 pm to dgnx6
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Found footage films have come out since then.
Tubi has a and entire Found Footage Horror category with about 150 of them.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 6:42 pm to shutterspeed
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Part of what drove the original zeitgeist for it was the novel, at the time, guerilla internet marketing
About five years later something similar was done w/Napoleon Dynamite
You could not fricking escape people (?) pimping that online
Posted on 9/21/23 at 7:13 pm to TheChicotKid
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Walking to the deer stand before sunrise became a whole lot more interesting for a 12 year old after I watched it.
What about a 35 year old?
Posted on 9/21/23 at 7:14 pm to lawlcow318008
Naw. It was literally the perfect timing for just enough internet to create a meme/story, but not enough internet to figure it out immediately via social media.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 7:25 pm to pevetohead
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A lot of people don’t get the ending but it’s pretty much hinted at in the very beginning with the town folk interviews talking about the serial killer.
Who is confused by the ending? It fits perfectly within the narrative of the witch throughout the movie. And almost couldn’t have ended any better than it did. I remember being disappointed at first when we never saw the witch, but the more I thought about it the more real it felt with how it ended with Heather being attacked and then the camera seeing Mike in the corner.
This movie hit me hard when I saw it. What’s funny is I never believed in shite like that but there was just enough “evidence” (at the time) to make me curious enough to go into it at least open to believing it. I found out a day or two after I saw it that it was fake. But I remember at the time thinking that if it was indeed fake it was a phenomenal fake. And it was. And honestly it still is today. And it still holds up really well.
The marketing was brilliant for it. And I remember it being a pretty huge deal when the three main actors in it appeared to present an award at the MTV movie (I think) awards. Because that was the first time it was publicly proven to be a fictional movie with actors (who were still alive
). I’m sure a lot of younger people these days will laugh at people believing it was real, but they’ll never understand just how big this movie and the hype surrounding it truly was. It was a very big deal culturally. And they’ll also never understand what/how the internet was in its relative infancy and before it was ubiquitous, and why that made people believe it was real.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 8:19 pm to shutterspeed
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The internet was the reason why it happened.
Not even close
The faux documentary on Sci Fi Channel (Curse of the Blair Witch) was a far bigger factor than any online chatter.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 8:21 pm to lawlcow318008
The Blair Witch scared the shite out of me as kid. I was one of the people who thought it was real. I enjoyed the sequel as well
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