>Gen X seriously thought this was a real documentary
Zoomers are literally afraid of empty rooms
>>219539779ong frfr this sh*t is terrifying
>>219539763No. No one did.t. Saw it in the theaters.
Do you have any evidence that's its not?
it is though
>>219539763They were lucky enough to grow up in a world where everything was not fake by default.
>>219539779This would be better with grey carpeting and some trim on the walls near the floor. It doesn’t even look liminal it looks like a TF2 map before adding textures
>>219539763as a young millenial I thought it was, then as I aged I realized it was the start of a good film genre
>>219539763The one with the dead girl in the barrel was worse
>>219539763I mean they had a whole website made so that when you google the movie you get bamboozled further.
>>219539872The first 15 min is really interesting but then it nose dives and becomes shit. I really need to see the extended cut but can't find it anywhere.
>>219539763Xennial here.only the few people who watched it at the Sundance Festival or during its initial limited release probably thought it was real.By the time the film got big everyone knew it was a fake found footage documentary.
>>219540159Correct. It was just the marketing that said people thought it was real.
>>219539872>it was the start of a good film genreCannibal Holocaust used the same technique and it came out 20 years earlier.>>219540134the ending is good too
>>219540229The genpop never saw CH.
It was a different time and way ahead of it's time, it spread by word of mouth. I thought it was real as like a 14 year old watching it in a small indie theater, one of my most memorable kinoplex experiences ever.
No one thought it was real, outside of a few people at Sundance where it premiered. That's a myth. Everyone was well aware that it was just a movie by the summer when it was in every movie theater in the country
>>219539779pwnd
>>219540336the "it's actually real found footage" marketing gimmick helped the movie becoming popular via word of mouth during the initial Sundance run (reminder that it was a cheap indie film made by literally whos). Then at some point everyone started talking about it, even the mainstream media, and the mistery behind it quickly vanished.I'd say 95% of the people who watched it in theaters in 1999 knew it was fake.
>>219539763>He fell for the obvious advertising ployNo one believed it was real outside the usual nutters which exist in every generation
>>219540861>cheap>750K budget in 1999>1,471,120.95 today
>>219539763No that was boomers.
>>219540910>The Blair Witch Project (1999) was produced for an estimated $35,000–$60,000What's with the obvious lies?
>>219539763>boomers seriously thought this was a real documentary>they forced kids to watch this piece of propaganda
>>219540910$750k was after post-production and marketing costs, when Artisan Entertainment had already bought the distribution rights. The directors even travelled back to the original locations to film additional interviews and different endings.the original production budget was much lower, about $30k
>boomers believe an invisible man in the sky is going to save them>zoomers believe men can get pregnantYeah, gen-xer and millennials are the fools.
>>219541166>they made the original movie, 2 or 3 sci-fi channel programs to bolster the myth and marketed all of it for less than the intimacy coordinator and on-set therapist budget of modern movies
Not Blair Witch but I stumbled upon Series 7: The Contenders on TV as a kid and I thought it was an episode of an actual reality show.
>>219539779Why? I’ve never been afraid of those liminal spaces as a Zoomer. Seems like a paradise with no one else around
>>219539763This thing aged like old milk.
>>219539763I considered the idea that it might be real footage. I was intrigued. The interweb was very crude back then, and you couldn't easily verify stuff back then. Once I watched the film, I figured it all out from the credits. There's always fine print; the last thing before the MPAA seal. "This is a work of fiction" etc. Regardless, it was a very creepy film, and I enjoyed every moment of it.
>>219539763as a millennial I thought it was real because they had a fake history channel documentary made for the movie lol
>>219540159>Xennial here. I hate that term. I was once referred to as that and I was sick to my stomach that I would be coupled with Millennials. What years do you consider "Xennial"? >t. 1978
>>219543882>What years do you consider "Xennial"?the xennial microgeneration is usually 1977-1983.I was born near the end of 1979, so almost exactly on the cusp between two generations.I feel more connected to gen-Xers, but I'm ok with the xennial term.
>>219539763Test
>>219543145I like it too. I went to a large high school and used to love staying late then walking through the empty corridors and looking into the empty classrooms while it was dark outside but all of the lights were still on in the buildings. It just felt so surreal.
