Apparently some youths refuse to believe that people panicked when Blair Witch dropped, believing it real.
I assure you that was VERY MUCH A THING. Particularly as pirated versions of the movie were circulating on grainy af DVDs so it looked even more legit like amateur recording.
I assure you that was VERY MUCH A THING. Particularly as pirated versions of the movie were circulating on grainy af DVDs so it looked even more legit like amateur recording.
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It even cause a death
It did indeed result in a very sad suicide.
It was just perfect.
Scary great 💥
The actors deserve justice.
also i think the people ur talking abt maybe forgot that found footage movies werent really a big thing back in 1999 so it was more likely assumed to be real i guess
https://bsky.app/profile/kbax.bsky.social/post/3l3lq4yra6v2g
The initial SuperGreg dot com, that got passed around in a "can you believe this guy?" way.
i dont think he fulky believed us.
It was just silly kids running in a forest with a flashlight. Dudes, we have more stuff going on at the back of our house towards the river. There are foxes there.
There was like this SciFi channel documentary on the witch and who she was. They really played hard into it being real.
It was a popular film for a few weeks, but certainly this side of the Atlantic, it wasn’t some massive cultural phenomenon.
The jumpy-cam trope got REAL old REAL fast since then.
I’m wondering how one deals with such a panic
ugh
That was just dumb, kicked me right out of the ambiance
"None of the people were likable" before she vomited in a bush due to handycam induced motion sickness.
The same "this is real!" myth accompanied the multigen bootleg of TCM I excitedly watched far too young.
Could've been trying to be funny, but I was in Michigan so I doubt it
You know that feeling you get at the base of the stairs at midnight when the whole house is dark, and suddenly you know you HAVE to be upstairs right this instant, or else?
Blair Witch perfectly captures that feeling.
No git off'n mah lawn!!! (2/2)
they also usually weren't accurate.
What tipped me off it might not be was the (excellent) Scooby Doo parody by Cartoon Network that played at the start of commercials.
It was really effective horror because of how focused it was on the characters’ responses — great looming and accelerating dread.
Blair Witch went MAINSTREAM so your regular viewing audience did not have a backlog knowledge of found footage at that point.
Anyway, here's your horror nerdery courtesy of Goth Aunty today.
Yeah a production company is releasing a movie where people were killed in a forest for profit, with complete disregard for their families, and without condemnation from the authorities investigating their disappearances
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/blair-witch-project-cast-robbed-financial-success-1236033647/
You have to pay to submit for consideration.
Having been both submitted for consideration and been on a jury, the vast majority of productions don't have capacity to submit, let alone reward a winner.
it fuckin sucks that they got screwed.
Choose your own adventure for my reply:
GOOD FOR YOU.
HERE IS YOUR COOKIE. YOU EARNED IT FOR BEING A BIG BRAIN.
APPLAUSE.
I AM SO IMPRESSED.
*GASP* NO WAY.
Alternatively, don't be that guy.
It would have been so much better if he had just STFU and left so the rest of us could be scared by the creepy movie like we paid to be.
Had just seen the first two "Paranormal Activity" movies, and was very unimpressed.
Threw on "The Blair Witch Project" to see what the hype was about, and it had me at the edge of my seat the entire time.
Great film.
Still terrified me to my core.
I couldn’t sleep that night.
And it's been 25 years and I still remember the website. The marketing was amazing.
The way they did the sound really ratcheted up the tension, especially since standard horror had been using music to do that work.
It was Too Tempting for someone who has been building and acting in haunted houses since the age of 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5HQXQoqtdw
(Reason number 9,764 I am so so much happier away from those freakin weirdo evangelicals.)
Castle was homaged in an underrated Joe Dante movie, where Not-Technically-William-Castle is played by John Goodman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_(1993_film)
gotta think magical to understand the rationale behind magical thinking!
whether it was true or it being true was fiction.
In a small cinema.
At night
In the woods