This made genXennials shit their pants in 1999.......
As a zoomlennial this was the scariest movie ever until I actually saw it. I watch all the panels and interviews with Edwardo Sanchez, Heather Donahue, etc. and respect the movie overall, but it hasn't aged well
>>215326015Kek
>>215326128>but it hasn't aged wellyes it has retard
>>215326128Zoomlennials get a bigger scare every time open their bank account than this candy ass peak of civilization 1999 "a stable office jobs is hell" heaven on Earth shit.
They got killed by the witch because they smoked weed (the devils lettuce) thus sealing their fate.
What you zoomie fucks dont get is that this was the first real viral shilled movie, that had a massive ad campaign on the internet, which was still in its infancy, where is was shilled as some /x/ tier actual IRL found footageThe whole mystique around the movie was what sold the movie rather than the quality of the movie itself.You will never understand this, or experience a movie experience like that because you are a zoomie retard fuck who was not even born when this flick releaed
>>215326015>Me when I get home from work
>>215326015What was the message of this film
>>215326263Crazy old catholic women clutching their rosaries are usually correct.
>>215326015Me when I
>>215326296>my face when I face my way
>>215326152>>but it hasn't aged well>yes it has retardThey took a zero budget mid horror movie and created a marketing campaign that made people think it was real footage.It's not famous for being a good movie its famous for pioneering viral marketing.
>>215326128>it hasn't aged wellIt was just as shit when it came out.The knuckle dragging NPCs who fell for the viral marketing lathered themselves up into a frenzy, and effectively saw a completely different film to everyone else because it was happening in their heads. Don't trust them.
>>215326015No other movie has captured that feeling of getting lost in the woods as well as this has. I love the atmosphere, the 90s feel to it, and the characters. It feels made specifically for me in a certain sense. For me, it is an all time great.
>>215326365you're just explaining things that happened that have nothing to do with the quality of the filmyou're a stupid autistic faggot who has no fucking idea what your talking about >>215326263its a movie, you watch it and it ends, there's literally no message in any film ever you literal dull faggot
If I got lost in the woods I would just walk without freaking out until I reached civilization or had no choice but to sit down and die. If I got desperate I would talk to myself and pray. I would never really be terrified because my thought process is if you find any kind of settlement you're never truly lost.
I couldn't tell the difference between the movie and the trailer
>>215327557>he has never seen shadows stalking him in the corner of his eyesI don't go to the forest anymore because I feel constantly watched.
>>215327715That wouldn't freak me out. Fox encounters ironically freak me out more than the idea of being watched.
>OMG is he standing in the corner facing the wall>I'm going insaaneeeeeeeeeeeDo boomers really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAe5oZpDMgs
I liked it. I might not like it as much now since I've seen it too many times.It had a nice progression.
There should be more horror movies about early american folklore but I'm sick of witches.
>>215327851You've added nothing.
>>215327439>you're just explaining things that happened that have nothing to do with the quality of the filmbingo. people fell for the hype and the hype is long gone
>>215327833This is a really good parody and I'm impressed it's "official".
>>215326015It was some exposition about what happened earlier. They didn't show too much instead leaving it to your imagination. Something not done much in movies today.Not that I'm a huge fan of this movie, not a fan of found footage in general.
>>215326183Yeah I remember, the fake site, the fake news clips and stories, it was presented as real lost found footage.
>>215326263that a high trust society can not exist if you allow subversive parasites to undermine it for personal gain.
>>215327557>>215327715I purposely mostly walk in the woods at night to capture that feeling of looming dread and anxiety like in horror movies
>>215328044Kek. I used to do that. I'd smoke a joint first to really get my nerves jangling.
>>215326263people were already retards without the most basic knowledge of navigation before the internet
>>215328044>>215328174same.i've seen thing you people wouldn't believe.>Meth heads whispering their heart song to rivers>Hundreds of rabbits dancing as if it was a fairy tale>Bats the size of dogs >Cranes singing their croak song to each other to signal if it is safeI once came across a woman who just decided to piss on the main park trail and as I walked by, she started screaming, and ran off into the woods.Legitimately the only time I was ever afraid, because I'm not quite sure if she was real.Just kept walking because my grandpa had a saying>If something in the woods makes a sound, don't talk to it. It might talk back.
>>215328261There's nothing scarier than random encounters with derelicts and half-insane people who waddle alone in the dark, hearing a strange sound or seeing a track that could be a wolf's.
I don't have a woods.
Always some fucking contrarian 19 year old telling me what I should and should not like>Oh boy, can’t wait for The Conjuring: Annabelle presents The Nun Part 3!
>>215326015It made most of us go "why was he standing there at the end" because they weren't paying attention to the part where the woman literally explains it at the beginning of the movie.t. 45 year old who saw it when it first came out.
>>215326263Dont stand so close to me
>>215329057What did that woman say?
>>215329057>womanMan. The woman was the one who said the witch was hairy? And has a rosary or something.
>>215327557>IF I got lost in the woodsMaybe you should try it for real sometime.
>>215326015If you have an attention span and watch the movie properly by yourself in a dark room, it will creep you out. You just have to get immersed in it
>>215326431Same. I've watched it over 10 times and it always creeps me out. Perfect for Halloween
People groaned at the ending in the theater
>>215326015Lake Mungo is the only time I can remember a found footage movie actually use it's premise done well, cuz what's been documented is horrifying as an idea if you were in said situation.Blair Witch sort of meanders, but I get the point of the "face the corner" ending
>>215326015No it didn't. The Ring did.
>>215329779That scared the shit out of me
>old witch woman fucks around with students and covers their stuff in slime
>>215327931>it was presented as real lost found footage.That was how they shilled it. Was one of the movies that you heard a story from a friend about it. i.e everyone was talking about it.While I didnt watch it in the cinema, I know people who did and they said the cinema was rammed (and the flick is shit)
>>215329779>the point of the "face the corner" ending>>215326015I just thought he was taking a piss and didn't know what was going on
>>215326015No actually it was one of the few things that people kind of criticized about the movie. Like I'm sure there's people that got spooked by it but it was like the one thing that people were like so it was a very scary movie and then they shit the bed with the ending and what the hell is with the guy pissing in the cornerNo actually it was one of the few things that people kind of criticized about the movie. Like I'm sure there's people that got spooked by it but it was like the one thing that people were like so it was a very scary movie and then they shit the bed with the ending and what the hell's with the guy pissing in the corner
>>215327439Low iq
>>215326263Don't go in the woods. Looking for fucking witches and ghosts
>>215326263Not everything needs to have a point you midwit
>>215326015that kino feel when i watch the BWP on my 1999 tube tv on vhs, as god intended
>>215326365It is a good movie and there is a reason it invented a genre.
>>215326015Yeah it's pretty great.
>>215326352>>215326462>>215327833HAH
>>215326015nobody shit their pants, but some people did get motion sickness from the shaky cam shitalso, nobody thought this movie was real footagethe shit about it being one of the first movies to really benefit from viral marketing is true though
>>215331332Funny how found footage wasn't really a thing until 2007, so 8 years later. There were no Blair Witch clones until people started having HD handheld cams. Unlike Scream, which had rip-offs immediately after. I always wondered why the 8 year gap with almost no high profile found footage being made
>>215330102I though it was pretty obvious of a pay off to the story about the children being murdered one at a time, and being forced to face the corner
I dont get it. So was there like an actual witch monster there that killed them? Why did it kill them?
>>215326128>this was the scariest movie ever until I actually saw itthe fuck does this even mean?
>>215326015Watching this boring moving gave me a head ache and made my gut feel ill.
>>215326173The motel room scene really is meant to set them up as rather immoral and scummy few people, even though they're really just acting like normal young people. It's "shit" and "fuck" every third word. The woman just randomly hopes/expects that one of these guys is cool and just happens to have some weed available.I still like it fine. The directors' wisest choice was to keep it a very short feature, under 90 minutes, so it doesn't wear out its welcome. Everything is timed very well. They start to get into trouble about 20 minutes in, the big blow-up about the map happens exactly halfway through (40 minutes) and the drama ramps up 3/4s of the way through (one hour in) as Josh goes missing. I also really really really like the short piece of dark ambient "music" that plays during the end credits, "The Cellar", by Tony Cora. Really nice little piece of dread that puts a nice quiet button on things after Heather's screaming is stopped.Fun fact: there's precise timing on the eight days and eight nights that the film takes place, with each section averaging five minutes apiece (some run a bit longer, one is tiny, just a few seconds). This day/night back-and-forth is so central and natural to how the story is structured that the DVD chapter stops use these divides to bracket scenes/chapters. DVDs themselves were pretty new at the time. IIRC the events run from October 20 through October 27/28 or thereabouts, 1994. Mike has a line about Cal Ripkin which also helps to pinpoint timing of events. Oddly, 1994 was the time when Baseball went on strike.
>>215326183>>215327931i watched this on dvd in 2001 and my mom pulled this shit on me. she told me it was real footage and everything really happened. of course i fell for it because i was 8. though she finally told me it was fake after the movie ended, but still- it scared the out of me.
>>215326015i thought he was peeing or marking his territory.
>>215333876Based mom sets you up to take the film the way it was meant to be taken. IIRC I wasn't perfectly sure during the initial marketing campaign but once I watched the ending credits for the Sci-Fi special which clearly stated THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION then I kenw the score. The film itself contains the standard fiction disclaimer toward the back of the ending credit sequence which I enjoy (Patricia DeCou pulled double duty both in her role and also in costume dept, billed separately for both).
>>215333765>The motel room scene really is meant to set them up as rather immoral and scummy few people, even though they're really just acting like normal young people.Just because of the swear words and the weed? Are you sure that is what they are going for?
>>215326015Like most people I got to the end and asked myself, “did I miss something”?
>>215326015I guess there were some retards who thought it was real. This was the first found footage movie, and the internet wasn't as big back then. Lots of things spread by rumor alone.It's like the story of people who thought the War of the Worlds radio broadcast was a real alien invasion and killed themselves. Though I doubt that story is real.Blair Witch Project is complete dogshit though. Nothing fucking happens.
>>215334231Yes, I believe so. I did qualify my remarks by saying that they're just behaving like normal young people who want to party a bit, but you're choosing to ignore that. My point is that in horror movie logic (and in old fairy tale/folklore logic), little signs of immorality just like cursing, drug use, fornication (in other horror movies, not this one) etc are a sort of pretext that they're about to get what's coming to them. In American puritan-descended culture, this is taken to a schizophrenic place where sex is bad and violence is good, that's just how it works in standard slashers, but the idea is slightly ported here.Also, they privately mock the humble townspeople, despite taking their folklore as their research topic. Then they go innawoods. They fuck around, and find out. Also it's the late 90s and society hasn't completely gone to shit just yet so there's still a faint decorum about these sorts of things (watch yo' profanity) which is basically all gone now except in professional settings/interactions.
>>215334566I wasn't intentionally leaving that part out. I was just questioning whether that was filmmaker intent. You are right there is a history of that. But I think the bigger issue is how they mocked the legend. That comes ahead in Heather's monologue near the end.
>>215334684I see your question (did the filmmakers intend that the motel room scene be taken as "these people are immoral". I think that the filmmakers must have had a little display of immorality even by simple/normal things at least in mind. They were certainly aware of slashers and other horror tropes, and the base story itself is that they are investigating and documenting a narrative in folkloric history. The production company is called HAXAN FILMS, after the old pseudo-documentary which details history of folklore, witchcraft etc, and how immorality was imagined and dealt with in the past. Blair Witch Project is basically a very soft, watered-down version of Cannibal Holocaust, on which it is clearly based. The plot for the found footage sequences is fundamentally the same: a group of cocky young documentary filmmakers investigate a dangerous force inna woods (or jungle), they go in, fuck around and find out. Cannibal Holocaust focuses on the aftermath and how others choose to retrieve the footage, what to do with it etc, but the footage itself is still the center of the story. Blair Witch Project got around this complex narrative problem by presenting the "investigation" material as a tie-in book, website and featurette, allowing the film itself to simply be entirely the found footage section. It was a very cleverly structured rip-off, really.
>>215334846Interesting. Thank you for that. I think your evidence certainly points strongly to it.
>>215328044>>215328135>be 22 NEETing it up >go on 2 AM night walk >go into the unlit trail flanked by dense vegetation>start drinking vodka and smoking>feels good to not be afraid>laugh to self imagining some normal person seeing me coming in the dark>get a good ways down the trail>this part dips down surrounded by hills so it's completely black >turn on phone light to avoid tripping over>drop my smokes>turn around to pick them up>weak phone light catches someone suddenly move off the trail >hear the bushes rustle but phone light doesn't illuminate that far>stand frozen still trying to listen>hear the bushes rustle now and again >decide to kill the phone light and GUN it further into the trail (it eventually loops around)>run a good half mile and quietly get off the trail, go prone in the ravine>hear someone running down the trail>can't see but it's definitely a person running as fast as they can>when the footsteps get close I can hear him growling with rage>he runs right past me>lay there frozen, hear the steps and growling start to fade away but then suddenly stop >it's silent for a couple of minutes but then I hear him scream in rage somewhere down the trail>he lets out a few screams for about 5 minutes, can't tell how far down the trail he is>silent again>lay frozen just listening to silence forever>can't look at my phone or move in case he's close by>basically spend the whole night in the ravine>by 5:00 AM the sun started coming up>didn't see or hear anything>wait another hour for daylight>finally get out when a dog walker walked by and go home
>>215332532They thought it was as scary as its reputation implied but after watching it didn't live up to it
>>215333765>The motel room scene really is meant to set them up as rather immoral and scummy few people, even though they're really just acting like normal young people"Normal young people" today are significantly worse than this
>>215334468>animated face, a derivative of exaggerated facial expressions made by children who grew up seeing too many imitations of exaggerated animated facial expressions for social media We have to go deeper...
>>215330155All art is political
Getting lost in the woods with a chick would be horrible. Even worse if it's a "friend" you don't get to fuck. My friend's girlfriend got lost in the most basic ass state park for like three hours when she went to pee. Like walk 20 feet and get lost lol. He said when he finally found her she was freaking out and wet because she crossed a stream trying to find him. Like if you didn't cross fucking water going to piss why the fuck would you cross it trying to find your way back
