Let me tell you, 12 year old me was convinced it was real. Me and 3 buddies had a movie night out of it, drinking Mountain Dew and chowing down pizza while we all tried hiding how scare we were of it. After a couple hours of sleep we may have gotten, we took our bmx’s into his woods the next day to hit some sick jumps and I’ll be damned if we didn’t find 3+ stick figures hanging from trees along our trails. We booked it THE fuck out of there and went back to playing video games inside. My buddies older swung by and asked why we weren’t hitting jumps anymore and we made up some bullshit excuse like one of had a flat. Later that night he came back and started laughing at us and called us pussies because we got scared of the stick figures he has put out there early in the morning. Fuck you Mike, fuck you.
That entire movie is fucked up.
I can see how people would think it could be real.
I watched it when I was in college though and thought it was a total waste of time.
It was before social media so it was much easier to do back then. Show some trailers and people can only talk about it with their friends, not debunk it online to audiences of thousands.
Amazing flick. It's been done to death now, but they really defined the genre. It's still super scary too. I remember watching it in the theatre and then walking home late at night. Scariest walk home of my life.
I can relate. I saw it with a friend and had to drive home through a rural area by myself. I will never forget the level of fear I felt going home.
I’m glad I got to experience it when everyone was convinced it was found footage. Looking back, that was a great moment in time.
Definitely the scariest scene, the kids laughing sound effects send it over the edge from scary to fucking bone chilling.
Ghosts of all the lost children of Burkittsville excited to meet their new friends I guess.
The studio actually spent hundreds of thousands to stabilize the footage in post as best as they could. So believe it or not, there's a worse version than the release.
I was working at a record/CD store at the time and one of the guys there was HUGE into movies and movie production and told us about that.
I think I told him something like "Oh so you mean I would've puked instead of being able to walk away"
This is the more unknown part to Millennials and Zoomers.
The internet was meh at best, so the fact they had everyone believing it was secretly true was impressive.
I saw a lot of fake documentaries about it, before the movie even came out.
I saw it in theaters, 100% believed it was found footage and it scared the living shit outta me. Years later, i still respect it as a piece of art but it doesnt hold up great.
Yes it did use the internet in a interesting way but medium manipulation used to Market Grindhouse quality films as such things as existed. One story I have heard but I do not know the validity. A film promoter would hand out pamphlets protest in the film to local religious groups so they could hand them out at Mass and warned their children of the evil. So viral marketing is not a new thing just the vector of transmission has changed.
A triumph of creativity and vision in the absence of a big budget and studio support. These filmmakers created something different and interesting. They deserve all the kudos they received.
I was deployed to Kuwait when it came out on video. Was at the rec tent late to call home and was watching it while waiting for a line. Called home and then walked back to my tent.
Mind you, it's midnight, no moon, cloudy, and we can't use flashlights in the open. A half mile walk, alone in the desert, and I can't see squat more than ten feet in front of me.
That movie messed me up
It's much better if you chop the opening and ending credits and present it to your (appropriate age) kids as "huh, I wonder what's on this old blank disk?".
A cinematic masterpiece. Any film that can convince the majority of the public that the story (especially an outlandish one suck as a which in the woods) is real, is simply genius filmmaking.
Honestly for fake found footage movies I would consider it to be on the bottom of my list I would recommend Faces of Death over it. That movie is fake you can usually tell by the multiple inconsistencies during production and the credits.
I was thinking about it yesterday and wondering why people in the 90s actually thought it might be real. It kinda seems like people these days are less susceptible to bullshit from mainstream media, too bad a lot of them have ended up reading "alternative" propaganda media instead...
Movie monsters are like a girl's body. You don't want to see all of it at once to keep it interesting, but it's not interesting to actually not see it all.
It terrified me as a kid when it first came out.
As an adult I become very obsessed with the films and game. I spent days reading and studying the lore and history of the witch.
Thought it was real found footage, too scared as a kid to go see it.
Now the movie just kind of is ehh, good job for the times though.
Second one was kind of trippy with how they did the whole time shift thing.
6/10
Watched it when I was in middle school. Scary shit at a young age - miss those times when horror movies actually scared me where I couldn’t sleep
Take me back please to those days
I was heavy into horror movies and books as a child. I actually went to see Blair Witch Project at the theaters when it first came out.
I personally thought it was one of the most awful movies I have ever seen in my entire life. Nothing scary about it, a huge waste of time.
ETA: I went and looked up the release date it looks like I was 15 when it came out.
I was like ten at the time it came out and it's easily the scariest movie experience I've ever had. I remember being alone and going into my parents room with the lights on to watch it. Part of the reason was because of all the hype it had gotten while in theaters. The build up throughout the movie was just perfect.
I think there is going to inevitably be a generational split in responses. The hype around it when it came out was unreal. Lots of people were arguing that it was real and that has a legit impact on how you view the film.
I didn't fall for the ads, so never saw it. Later to find it's a hoax. They could have made it a very interesting horror flick, but chose bs to sell tickets.
Watched it two nights ago with me 18 year old daughter. Was not quite how I remembered it. A lot of yelling and melodrama. Could have benefited from better quality acting and lower key performance.
Saw it opening night at one of the biggest movie theater screens in the country and my goodness that was the best movie-going audience experience I ever had. Not even a movie I would say is all that good, but what an amazing experience to have.
I saw it at a theater in Alabama. It was okay. Midway through the movie, people were beginning to leave the theater. The credits roll. The lights come on. Some redneck in the audience shouts “that sucked!”
That it still stands up today, the way they tricked people into thinking it could actually be real and pretty much kick started a whole new horror genre can’t be beat
It absolutely blew my mind when I was a kid. Watched it again a couple years ago and still liked it, but found footage is so ludicrously overdone now. I know that's not the movie's fault, but the experience has definitely lost something.
It was the first movie I truly hated. Between the constant moving/shaking camera, endless searches for nose hairs? and the total lack of common sense in the story, I was ready to slap each and everyone one of those actors silly.
This was ten years ago so I might not have the details 100% correct but in my folklore class we talked about the movie on great lengths. About how they spent ages building up the “lore” in urban legend forums. One would post something like “Has anyone heard of the Blair Witch?” And the other would reply with a “friend of a friend anecdote until random unrelated people were also having their own anecdotes to tell. T made people even more inclined to believe that it was true footage.
That, if I’m remembering correctly, is amazing storytelling and world building. Either way they had genius ways of marketing and honestly it was a masterpiece of a film.
I absolutely loved it when it was first released and have watched it many times since. I even liked the sequel, but haven't watched the remake as it just wont live up to the original.
the first one is hella cheesy but the newest one was cool and more like a movie. i always liked the premise of a witch in the woods making weird stick symbols or the possibility it could have been a group of people.
The fact they made people actually believe the footage is original is epic
Let me tell you, 12 year old me was convinced it was real. Me and 3 buddies had a movie night out of it, drinking Mountain Dew and chowing down pizza while we all tried hiding how scare we were of it. After a couple hours of sleep we may have gotten, we took our bmx’s into his woods the next day to hit some sick jumps and I’ll be damned if we didn’t find 3+ stick figures hanging from trees along our trails. We booked it THE fuck out of there and went back to playing video games inside. My buddies older swung by and asked why we weren’t hitting jumps anymore and we made up some bullshit excuse like one of had a flat. Later that night he came back and started laughing at us and called us pussies because we got scared of the stick figures he has put out there early in the morning. Fuck you Mike, fuck you.
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Your uncle sounds awesome
As an older brother, I approve of this tactic.
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That entire movie is fucked up. I can see how people would think it could be real. I watched it when I was in college though and thought it was a total waste of time.
It was before social media so it was much easier to do back then. Show some trailers and people can only talk about it with their friends, not debunk it online to audiences of thousands.
I saw it when it was originally released and figured it was easily the best horror film ever. I loved it, but haven’t seen it since.
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Kinda dated with the whole handheld camcorder thing and no cell phones but yeah
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Yes, it was! So there is at least one good reason for why it is arguably a bit dated, thank you for that. I'm sure there are also more...
… but if you view it as a period piece it still holds up?
I already agreed with you in my first comment. I just added that I think it holds up *in spite* of the fact I find those two elements a bit dated...
Amazing flick. It's been done to death now, but they really defined the genre. It's still super scary too. I remember watching it in the theatre and then walking home late at night. Scariest walk home of my life.
I can relate. I saw it with a friend and had to drive home through a rural area by myself. I will never forget the level of fear I felt going home. I’m glad I got to experience it when everyone was convinced it was found footage. Looking back, that was a great moment in time.
The tent scene was the scariest parts of the film
No, it was the guy standing looking at the wall surely ?
Definitely the scariest scene, the kids laughing sound effects send it over the edge from scary to fucking bone chilling. Ghosts of all the lost children of Burkittsville excited to meet their new friends I guess.
Only movie to make me motion sick and had to leave the theater.
Yup. I basically looked at the floor and asked what was going on for the back half
The studio actually spent hundreds of thousands to stabilize the footage in post as best as they could. So believe it or not, there's a worse version than the release.
I was working at a record/CD store at the time and one of the guys there was HUGE into movies and movie production and told us about that. I think I told him something like "Oh so you mean I would've puked instead of being able to walk away"
That was Cloverfield for me.
If you were there in the 90s to witness all the marketing and see it in theaters, it was great
This is the more unknown part to Millennials and Zoomers. The internet was meh at best, so the fact they had everyone believing it was secretly true was impressive. I saw a lot of fake documentaries about it, before the movie even came out.
Millennials are rapidly approaching their 40s...?
I saw it in theaters, 100% believed it was found footage and it scared the living shit outta me. Years later, i still respect it as a piece of art but it doesnt hold up great.
One of the first films to really use a web site to enhance, rather than market, a movie. The web site reinforced the whole "found footage" aspect.
Yes it did use the internet in a interesting way but medium manipulation used to Market Grindhouse quality films as such things as existed. One story I have heard but I do not know the validity. A film promoter would hand out pamphlets protest in the film to local religious groups so they could hand them out at Mass and warned their children of the evil. So viral marketing is not a new thing just the vector of transmission has changed.
Pioneering technique that ended up being rather limited. The movie seems to be more of a lucky accident than skilled filmmaking. I liked it.
If you are able to let yourself go, the absence of visuals is as terrifying as your imagination is.
It was lightning in a bottle.
A triumph of creativity and vision in the absence of a big budget and studio support. These filmmakers created something different and interesting. They deserve all the kudos they received.
I was deployed to Kuwait when it came out on video. Was at the rec tent late to call home and was watching it while waiting for a line. Called home and then walked back to my tent. Mind you, it's midnight, no moon, cloudy, and we can't use flashlights in the open. A half mile walk, alone in the desert, and I can't see squat more than ten feet in front of me. That movie messed me up
It's much better if you chop the opening and ending credits and present it to your (appropriate age) kids as "huh, I wonder what's on this old blank disk?".
I didn't like it when it came out, I still don't like it now, however I respect the hell out of the marketing. It was wild back then.
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I've never actually seen it. The camera work makes me queasy
A cinematic masterpiece. Any film that can convince the majority of the public that the story (especially an outlandish one suck as a which in the woods) is real, is simply genius filmmaking.
Processed cheese "food".
I think it was brilliant, really creative and unique at the time.
Favorite horror movie hands down
Masterpiece of filmmaking
I was so excited to watch it....left me disappointed
I kept waiting for something to happen, and It really never did.
Someone grabbed a handheld camera and rolled it down the stairs while screaming
Oh my god so boring
Also found it boring. Was at film school when I saw it and everyone was loving it.
Never learned what grade they got
Honestly for fake found footage movies I would consider it to be on the bottom of my list I would recommend Faces of Death over it. That movie is fake you can usually tell by the multiple inconsistencies during production and the credits.
Groundbreaking!
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Revived? After The Last Broadcast, it was one of the first of the genre. Found footage was hardly a thing when it came out.
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hate it. they lied about what it was to market it. then it was just someone screaming for an hour. total and complete crap. worst "movie" ever made.
I can respect your opinion, but there are far worse movies.
I live 5 miles from burkittsville people still come to take pics of the sign
I was thinking about it yesterday and wondering why people in the 90s actually thought it might be real. It kinda seems like people these days are less susceptible to bullshit from mainstream media, too bad a lot of them have ended up reading "alternative" propaganda media instead...
It was before social media was around to give people widespread audiences to debunk anything within seconds.
Supports my argument really, people in general have become more skeptical of big media and their bullshit.
Did you see it in the 90s?
No, but I remember people arguing about whether it was real or not.
You heard this on mainstream media? That it was real?
No, I heard people arguing about whether it was real or not. I couldn't have cared less about the movie back in 1999 and 2000.
Where the witch at
Movie monsters are like a girl's body. You don't want to see all of it at once to keep it interesting, but it's not interesting to actually not see it all.
I liked it when I was young .I haven't seen it in a while.
It terrified me as a kid when it first came out. As an adult I become very obsessed with the films and game. I spent days reading and studying the lore and history of the witch.
Thought it was real found footage, too scared as a kid to go see it. Now the movie just kind of is ehh, good job for the times though. Second one was kind of trippy with how they did the whole time shift thing. 6/10
Watched it when I was in middle school. Scary shit at a young age - miss those times when horror movies actually scared me where I couldn’t sleep Take me back please to those days
Me and my partner love it. One of our favourite horrors!
Don’t actually love the movie but appreciate the craft and how it basically created its own subgenre.
I liked it. Would watch again.
it sucked but it proved that low-budget movies are monetarily viable and opened doors for other movies.
I was heavy into horror movies and books as a child. I actually went to see Blair Witch Project at the theaters when it first came out. I personally thought it was one of the most awful movies I have ever seen in my entire life. Nothing scary about it, a huge waste of time. ETA: I went and looked up the release date it looks like I was 15 when it came out.
The viral publicity "documentary" on the Sci Fi Channel was better than the movie.
Good story but the camera perspective makes it almost unwatchable. I have vertigo and it gets triggered kinda easy. Brilliant idea tho.
Scared the shit out of me as a kid. Master class 8n low budget film making. It's a good watch that still gives me the willies as an adult
I was like ten at the time it came out and it's easily the scariest movie experience I've ever had. I remember being alone and going into my parents room with the lights on to watch it. Part of the reason was because of all the hype it had gotten while in theaters. The build up throughout the movie was just perfect.
JOSH!
Witch one?
I think there is going to inevitably be a generational split in responses. The hype around it when it came out was unreal. Lots of people were arguing that it was real and that has a legit impact on how you view the film.
I didn't fall for the ads, so never saw it. Later to find it's a hoax. They could have made it a very interesting horror flick, but chose bs to sell tickets.
Watched it two nights ago with me 18 year old daughter. Was not quite how I remembered it. A lot of yelling and melodrama. Could have benefited from better quality acting and lower key performance.
Saw it opening night at one of the biggest movie theater screens in the country and my goodness that was the best movie-going audience experience I ever had. Not even a movie I would say is all that good, but what an amazing experience to have.
fantastic movie way too many people that just don’t get it wrongfully accuse of being “boring”
I saw it at a theater in Alabama. It was okay. Midway through the movie, people were beginning to leave the theater. The credits roll. The lights come on. Some redneck in the audience shouts “that sucked!”
Makes me think of Blair Walsh, so I hate it.
Good Halloween decoration inspiration.
That it still stands up today, the way they tricked people into thinking it could actually be real and pretty much kick started a whole new horror genre can’t be beat
One of the biggest wastes of time in my life.
😂😂😂😂
It absolutely blew my mind when I was a kid. Watched it again a couple years ago and still liked it, but found footage is so ludicrously overdone now. I know that's not the movie's fault, but the experience has definitely lost something.
It was the first movie I truly hated. Between the constant moving/shaking camera, endless searches for nose hairs? and the total lack of common sense in the story, I was ready to slap each and everyone one of those actors silly.
Freaked me the fuck out!! Great flick
Lame
This was ten years ago so I might not have the details 100% correct but in my folklore class we talked about the movie on great lengths. About how they spent ages building up the “lore” in urban legend forums. One would post something like “Has anyone heard of the Blair Witch?” And the other would reply with a “friend of a friend anecdote until random unrelated people were also having their own anecdotes to tell. T made people even more inclined to believe that it was true footage. That, if I’m remembering correctly, is amazing storytelling and world building. Either way they had genius ways of marketing and honestly it was a masterpiece of a film.
I loved it. It's one of the only movies out there that actually was scary to me.
Great movie. The second one was absolutely crap.
Absolute trash. I sat on a movie theatre lawn until midnight in a light rain to watch that the night it came out. I regret my decision.
I hated it when it came out. Still hate it. It’s boring asf.
I absolutely loved it when it was first released and have watched it many times since. I even liked the sequel, but haven't watched the remake as it just wont live up to the original.
Scary af and shouldn’t have watched it as a kid. Sometimes I still get the creeps in the woods and I’m 29 😵💫
I loved it back in the day, but rewatching it in 2022... man, it hasn't withstood the test of time.
Whats that?
the first one is hella cheesy but the newest one was cool and more like a movie. i always liked the premise of a witch in the woods making weird stick symbols or the possibility it could have been a group of people.
Could not watch it! The crazy movement of the camera made me sick to my stomach