name a 'found footage' film blair witch didn't influence...that genre is more popular than ever nowadays and for better or for worse you can thank the blair witch for that. the blair witch wasn't the first 'found footage' film, but it was the best, no doubt, and the one that influenced everything that came after it
place yourself back in '99..if you allow yourself to become involved and put yourself in the shoes of the characters, there is no scarier horror movie imo and thats without the overpowering F/X and music score most movies rely on to 'scare' you, if you still have an imagination left what is implied becomes a hundred times scarier than anything offered up by hollywood in the last 30 years. the viral marketing for this movie was so brilliant people actually believed it was real at the time..(do you remember that?). think about it, for a horror film, there is simply no better way to market yourself than to have people believing this was really a thing that happened. leading up to the theatrical release there were faux documentaries on tv about the blair witch legend. I remember watching those and being intrigued. If you searched for the blair witch online back in '99 you would discover all this planted information to corroborate all the things the people in the docs were saying, so you genuinely weren't sure leading up to the film if this was all bullshyt or not. therein lies the true terror; its not the fact that you would have believed it to be 100% true..its the fact you didn't know for sure. you were being fukked with before the movie even came out. afterwards you couldn't help but think 'am I being bamboozled?' in that sense I can see why the movie is hated as much as it is. people don't like to feel stupid or tricked.
it was something unprecedented..we will probably never see anything like that again in this post-photoshop age of cynicism & skepticism. the movie still holds up brilliantly. a true american classic
place yourself back in '99..if you allow yourself to become involved and put yourself in the shoes of the characters, there is no scarier horror movie imo and thats without the overpowering F/X and music score most movies rely on to 'scare' you, if you still have an imagination left what is implied becomes a hundred times scarier than anything offered up by hollywood in the last 30 years. the viral marketing for this movie was so brilliant people actually believed it was real at the time..(do you remember that?). think about it, for a horror film, there is simply no better way to market yourself than to have people believing this was really a thing that happened. leading up to the theatrical release there were faux documentaries on tv about the blair witch legend. I remember watching those and being intrigued. If you searched for the blair witch online back in '99 you would discover all this planted information to corroborate all the things the people in the docs were saying, so you genuinely weren't sure leading up to the film if this was all bullshyt or not. therein lies the true terror; its not the fact that you would have believed it to be 100% true..its the fact you didn't know for sure. you were being fukked with before the movie even came out. afterwards you couldn't help but think 'am I being bamboozled?' in that sense I can see why the movie is hated as much as it is. people don't like to feel stupid or tricked.
it was something unprecedented..we will probably never see anything like that again in this post-photoshop age of cynicism & skepticism. the movie still holds up brilliantly. a true american classic
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