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Posted on 9/21/23 at 8:43 pm to lawlcow318008
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Will there every be anything like the Blair witch again?
An overrated movie that movie critics jack off to for no apparent reason? Of course there will be something like that again.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 8:43 pm to lawlcow318008
Maybe I’m not remembering correctly but wasn’t some of the reactions in the movie supposed to be real,
The directors told the cast a rough outline of where to go, and they knew they’d be fricked with, but had no idea exactly what was gonna happen. So while it was a movie project, and the cast knew it,it still was akin to going into a haunted house and allowing yourself to be scared.
The bigger miracle in that movie is how something shot for 25,000 made 10+ millions. That will probably never happen again.
The directors told the cast a rough outline of where to go, and they knew they’d be fricked with, but had no idea exactly what was gonna happen. So while it was a movie project, and the cast knew it,it still was akin to going into a haunted house and allowing yourself to be scared.
The bigger miracle in that movie is how something shot for 25,000 made 10+ millions. That will probably never happen again.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 8:56 pm to CocomoLSU
I had also heard it was real and while skeptical, there was at least a chance that it was real for the group we went to watch it with. My girlfriend at the time came to meet us at the movie theater after work so we were in separate cars. When she got back to my apartment and opened the door the lights were off and I was standing in the corner. She was not amused.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 9:33 pm to lawlcow318008
It really is wild to imagine that we could be in a place where it was being asked “is this real?” But that was what was happening. Looking back it’s pretty silly. We were all acting like Regal Cinemas was showing a snuff film on 4 screens.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 9:43 pm to McGruff21
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The bigger miracle in that movie is how something shot for 25,000 made 10+ millions. That will probably never happen again.
It happened again, using a similar concept, with Paranormal Activity in 2007.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:32 pm to shutterspeed
Blair Witch rattled me pretty good the first time I saw it. I went alone, wife was out of town. Coming home alone that night to our house in the woods I was like.....shite.
I would not have left that house that night for all the money in the world!
Saw it a second time, and it was really disappointing, it seemed rather silly.
They got me pretty good the first time though.
I would not have left that house that night for all the money in the world!
Saw it a second time, and it was really disappointing, it seemed rather silly.
They got me pretty good the first time though.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:08 am to lawlcow318008
One that I have watched that reminded of Blair Witch is "Hell House LLC" on Netflix.
Decent popcorn found footage movie. Worth wasting some downtime on if you like the genre.
Decent popcorn found footage movie. Worth wasting some downtime on if you like the genre.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:25 am to lawlcow318008
God I hope not.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:03 am to shutterspeed
The Sci-fi channel documentary was originally scheduled for the History Channel, but the History Channel backed out because they thought it would be too confusing and people would think that it was real. So Sci-fi picked it up.
That original website was amazing. The creators were constantly putting new content out through hidden links that were really hard to fine. One time I emailed them and said if they didn’t tell me where the link was I was going to get fired because I had spent all day at work searching for the dumb link. Haha. They emailed me back with the link. I thought that was super cool of them. That was before the movie had come out. That website build a huge anticipation for the film.
That original website was amazing. The creators were constantly putting new content out through hidden links that were really hard to fine. One time I emailed them and said if they didn’t tell me where the link was I was going to get fired because I had spent all day at work searching for the dumb link. Haha. They emailed me back with the link. I thought that was super cool of them. That was before the movie had come out. That website build a huge anticipation for the film.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:11 am to lawlcow318008
What's amazing is that the Sixth Sense came out at the same time so you had two movies playing with "wow" spoilers endings. Good time going to movies that year.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:19 am to Ziippy
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I found TBW tedious.
And if you were scared by the Blair Witch Project b/c you thought it was real, you are one naive idiot.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:27 am to TeddyPadillac
I thought they did it right. You could believe in a serial killer from 100 years ago that became local legend, and found footage from some lost kids. Whether or not you believed in the supernatural aspect is what made it interesting. If you were a skeptic, it was designed to make you doubt…even if just a bit.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:34 am to ProudNegaTiger
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If you were a skeptic, it was designed to make you doubt
well that's sort of the point of just about any movie with a mysterious supernatural element to it.
You could say that about the Ring. And you'd probably tell me that The Ring is not that believable at all, but i view Blair Witch like I would The Ring. It's silly to think that's real, so i'm not going to believe it, even if just a bit.
But hey, kudos to the film makers of The Blair Witch Project. They without a doubt made something special and unique, so i applaud them for that.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:43 am to CaptSpaulding
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We were all acting like Regal Cinemas was showing a snuff film on 4 screens.
I was the perfect Blair Witch viewer in the early summer of 1999. I had never heard of it, and my friend told me about this creepy documentary that was playing in only one theater in Houston (it originally aired only in the River Oaks Theater, which was a little single screen artsy type place). As far as he and I knew, it was 100% real footage. we literally had no inkling that it was anything but genuine. I was creeped the frick out, even as an 18 year old. The next day I did an internet deep dive to see what I could find out, and by the end of the day, I knew it was all a gimmick. But I really love that I got to see that movie in exactly the right time window before everyone knew the whole story.
And FWIW, while not a great movie by any means, I think the sequel, Book of Shadows, actually punches above its weight and is 1) better than it had any right to be and 2) better than people say it is
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:57 am to lawlcow318008
quote:Just so people who weren't there know... It wasn't just that there was a huge buzz after the film was released. The pre-release marketing for the film was almost entirely on the internet and consisted of fake interviews, fake police reports, fake news reports, etc. (Before "fake news" was a thing.) The actual viewing of the film was the last piece of the puzzle. Which is why viewing it now, on its own, is no where near the experience that we got when we went through the viral build-up (before viral was a thing) and then couldn't wait to see the final chapter in the theater.
Nowadays With the internet I doubt anything like it will happen again
It was the 90's and we all thought we were Mulder and Scully, "discovering" this stuff through our Netscape browsers and WebCrawler search engines and GeoCities web pages.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:01 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Just so people who weren't there know
it's true, you really had to be there to understand that time period, it was a really weird in-between time.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:14 am to CocomoLSU
It’s been years since I’ve seen it, but doesn’t the original deal with both a serial killer and a witch (he was supposedly under her influence)? The reboot finally gave the audience a brief look at the witch, but honestly the original was scarier because they never showed her.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:19 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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but doesn’t the original deal with both a serial killer and a witch
yeah but it's a little unclear. there is a serial killer that killed his victims in pairs (like the scene in the end implies), but then there was also a witch who had been supposedly seen in the woods, and some ritualized killings on that big rock or whatever. the movie never really ties it all together.
This post was edited on 9/22/23 at 9:21 am
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:34 am to Sam Quint
I'm struggling to come up with anything released in my lifetime--movie, TV show, video game, anything--that was marketed as effectively as Blair Witch was. Not even Disney had campaigns as good as this. (Maaaaaaybe Lion King.) Maybe Phantom Menace too but that was gonna make a bajillion dollars regardless.
BW's viral stuff was convincing as all hell. I knew several folks who absolutely believed it to be true. And several others who probably saw through the gimmick but nonetheless let their curiosity wander because of how effective the viral stuff was. It was like buying a lottery ticket--you know it's probably a waste of money, but you ponder the possibility of it really happening.
Masterfully done. And the movie's pretty good too.
BW's viral stuff was convincing as all hell. I knew several folks who absolutely believed it to be true. And several others who probably saw through the gimmick but nonetheless let their curiosity wander because of how effective the viral stuff was. It was like buying a lottery ticket--you know it's probably a waste of money, but you ponder the possibility of it really happening.
Masterfully done. And the movie's pretty good too.
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