>80 minutes of people arguing in the forest with some "spooky" things happening occasionally
Did millennials really find this scary?
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>80 minutes of people arguing in the forest with some "spooky" things happening occasionally
reminder the plot of this movie only makes sense if you agree with the theory that these guys made up being lost to rape that girl in the woods
Seems like a lot of effort when they could've just gotten it done on the first night
How? I don't remember it that well.
irl she would have been raped by the guys after 2 days lost in the woods
millennials be like
>YOOOOOO GETTING LOST IN THE WOODS BE SCARY AF FR
it was a movie for a Gen X audience
you are confused with zoomers
>getting lost in the woods is scary af
It is, but zoomers who have lived every day in their lives w/gps devices would have no clue how to navigate the woods w/o access to the internet.
>w/
>w/o
have a nice day
>zoomers who have lived every day in their lives w/gps devices would have no clue how to navigate the woods w/o access to the internet
lol with a gps device? son you could give zoomers
>water
>food
>sat' phone
>maps
>a guide
and they're falling off a cliff in 6 minutes. kids haven't been down their block yet.
Back then most of Americans were devout and religious, witch like things were scary back then
This movie was for GenX and yeah it’s scary as frick to get lost in the woods when it’s 1999 and not everyone has a personal GPS device thats also a phone on them.
>t. Zoomzoom that never went to the woods at night
Getting lost in the wilderness is terrifying, do you know how many national park disappearances there are every year
The woods are scary as frick pre-smart phone age. Last time I went camping it was pitch black because of the clouds with heavy mist and the ridiculously loud sound of coyotes ripping apart multiple baby deers. It would've been impossible to navigate back to my truck.
Yeah I can't wait for a Five Nights at Freddy's movie to come out and show millennials how it's really done.
>tfw the MC wins the movie by jerking his head around different directions in a certain order and quickly opening and closing his laptop 20 times per minute and throwing a purple crayon on the floor to appease Purple Pete
Does it still hold up?
I watched this a couple months ago and it was so shit, I also ended up watching the second one and it was way better, this movie was successful because it had a great marketing campaign
I never bothered with the sequels since I didn't like the first one. Maybe I'll give the second a chance.
the second one is a very different movie, no found footage stuff
>this movie was successful because it had a great marketing campaign
This, my dad is still upset that he was tricked into thinking it was their actual found footage.
He wouldn't have believed it if the movie wasn't so convincing
the movie wasn't convincing though, the advertising campaign was what was convincing, they filmed a bunch of fake interviews with locals talking about the Blair witch, created a whole mythology of fake historical events associated with the Blair witch, viral marketing campaign, multiple websites set up, shill posts on forums spreading urban legends about the Blair witch, the film itself is the least interesting part
You say it wasn't convincing then write about the stuff they pulled to make it convincing. kek
This board loves to be contrarian. Most people watched it not knowing if it was real or not. The actors never did any interviews. We all thought it was a documentary.
the movie itself is not convincing, no one above the age of 12 believed that shit was real and alot of people were very disappointed in the actual film after the amount of hype it got
the second one was horrible. and the remake is one of the worst movies i've ever seen
the original isn't perfect by any means but the 11 year old me got sucked in by the hype and the marketing campaign and it's hard to re-create that 24 years after the fact. now, to you, it's just a shaky low budget shitty movie
we actually thought those people died cuz there was a fake website and everything
Zoomers will never have the thrill of watching an unknown film in which you think the people who made it died or went missing. This only be made during the 90s.
Zoomer "horror" is entirely based on this shit though. And it works, because zoomers are mentally moronic enough to believe anything
This. My zoomer girlfriend knows I like Godzilla, and asked me last weekend if it was based on a real animal (she hasn't watched any of the movies). I don't want to think she's dumb, but instead a lot of zoomers have no idea about the basic premises of older films, or are easily duped by sfx in movies that are played straight after growing up on capeshit where everything is CGI'd and tongue in cheek.
>This only be made during the 90s
except it was also done in the 80's for cannibal holocaust
No One watched or cared. Italian trash.
Yah, it was the birth of a new genre and it was exciting as frick. The pay off may have been a wet fart but we didn't know that at the time.
You wouldn't understand. You had to be there when it came out.
100% this. There was genuinely nothing else even remotely like it, despite what some people might tell you. It was fresh and effective.
Nah. It sucked balls even then. Shaky cam was new, I guess, but frick it made me feel ill watching the movie. The last five minutes was good, but not worth the rest of it.
>it made me feel ill watching the movie
opinion discarded
Its shot like a bunch of kids in the woods doing a student documentary. How are you this moronic.
It's spooky how much I want to go back in time and give her a toe curling orgasm with my mouth.
>be map
>get kicked into creek
Mapbros..our response?!
Overreact
we all thought it was real
Only morons thought that
what movies do you find scary?
I was but a wee lad when this came out and it indeed was terrifying.
Picture it like people wearing pink to watch Barbie.
it was a cultural phenomenon, the meta around it was spookier than the actual movie
Based and chek'd
Don't cut yourself on that edge. I bet you're the kinda guy that laughs at a funeral.
You think it’s edgy to laugh out loud during a movie? You have to admit that sounds odd anon.
I laughed out loud during the movie and some people were shushing me
true story
Most of you were probably 1 or 2 years old back in '99. The marketing for the Blair Witch made everyone think it was real due to word of mouth and fake news articles on the internet. There even obituaries, fake police interviews, news footage etc.
This right here. This movie was considered overrated already when it came out, but it is remembered for being the first case of using internet to astroturf a piece of media. It's completely forgettable otherwise.
I'd heard it all before with Cannibal Holocaust.
how old are you? 100?
rape rape rape
I appreciate the effort and talent these low budget found footage horror movies have, but do people actually find them scary? The only one I understand the hype for is BWP, and that's based heavily on the context of its release
>but do people actually find them scary?
Most millennials were kids when this movie came out, so yes. The tone of BWP was different from other horror series that were popular at the time like Friday the 13th and Child's Play.
I'm mainly looking at the genre that BWP inspired more than that movie itself. I know why BWP could be scary
BWP wasn't the first found footage film. The McPhearson Tape came out over a decade earlier iirc
It wasn't but it's what started the trend. I haven't heard of the McPhearson Tape before now however, so I'll have to check it out
Cannibal Holocaust is the first found footage movie. The premise is even them literally finding footage from the previous crew.
Fair, always forget it's found footage
The Last Broadcast also came out before BWP but that's more of a faux documentary
I went looking for more found footage based off BWP and they're almost all dogshit. There is a very good one called Exhibit A.
>Exhibit A
I'll check it out, thanks
V/H/S is a good for the found footage creepshow-type feature.
Some are, but found footage is a guilty pleasure of mine. I know that if we're being objective it's such an awful, awful genre - but I can't help but find it fun. It has the same faux-authenticity that creepypastas have, where they're told as if they're true stories and everyone plays along. Most horror movies CAN'T use that as a mechanism, so it scratches a unique itch. It also means that when you do find a good one, it feels REALLY good, like stumbling onto that fresh new creepypasta at 4 am and suddenly having a harder time falling asleep.
Although with the nature of fricking everything these days everything is turned into a meme, homosexual cultures are built entirely by homosexual youtube essayists and the good times are gone faster and faster.
The snuff film knock off was way better.
Way better than Lake Dungo
It was better than scary it felt real, which is the most overlooked thing about it. No other found footage since even comes close to feeling as authentic.
The only way to pull it off again is to make a fake documentary. But it would get revealed to fake by some c**t with a phone.
>Did millennials really find this scary?
honestly yes
i was 12 and watched it on vhs on my shitty 12" crt in my bedroom with the lights off and it was the scariest movie experience i've ever had lol
i saw it again in my 20s and it wasn't scary at all but that first time watching it fricked me up
What, something is only scary if their mouth stretches out while they scream?
Yes.
Watched it for the first time with some classmates when we were like 9 years old, thinking it was genuine found footage and 1 week before we were going on a camping trip with our class into the middle of the woods.
Shit was perfect at the time
I follow the creek and continue walking along it, impossible to walk in circles, also I check for moss on the trees, it grows the most on the side of the tree that faces south. If I still manage to find myself at the beginning, I suspect magical frickery. I follow the creek again, now marking trees as I go onward until I return, now I've concluded the radius the magical dome that transports me to the beginning, I can mark the exact cut off point. Now I walk backwards towards the wall, all the while my friends are walking forward facing me, this concludes whether or not I'm "teleported" away or until everyone has crossed the border. If latter, we one person right at the border, the second one goes as far as the first person can see them, and so on, a chain of visual contact. If former, we see if it's a sphere by digging under the "wall" or climbing the nearest tree to the area of the circle and jumping over the "wall", if both efforts provide to be fruitless, we begin to create an area of controlled fire, after burning some 10mx10m area, we dig 1x2m holes on the ground, prepare to set the whole forest on fire, drench ourselves in water by the creek and set a damp cloth over our heads while the fire rages above. After the fire has settled, two things should've occurred, a smoke signal to indicate distress, and or if the dome doesn't let anything out not even fire, confirms our dome theory absolutely. If the fire hasn't left out the dome, we are effectively trapped with no way out, so in silent protest against the magical forces, I commit suicide by slitting my wrists and laying in the stream, the cold water slows down my pulse, pain receptors go dull, I'm just floating away.
Yeah, I passed my pants. True story.
For me, it was scary the first time I watched it. Only because of the hype around it, and that I was on edge waiting for a jump scare that never happened. The ending is kind of a weird mix of "what the frick were the film makers thinking?" and "wow that's kind of unsettling. I guess?"
Definitely DOES NOT hold up today, but still a neat concept, that wasn't executed all that well outside of the marketing and hype surrounding the movie. Supposedly the sequel is a hugely underrated hidden gem with deep deep symbolism, but I honestly can't be bothered.
which one?
> curse of
> shadow of
what the frick are those? I meant Book of Shadows. I did watch the reboot, and didn't fricking hate it, but I wouldn't watch it again or recommend
they were like supplementary films to promote both movies, curse of the Blair witch is like a fake documentary about the history of the Blair witch with fake interviews with towns people, I think the other one is sorta the same thing but to promote the second film
For me it's the orginal video game.
I always liked the explentaion that a native american demon is behind it all orchestrating everything to look like it was all related to the colonists.
What?
I didn't know there was more than two of this shit.
Qrd so I don't have to wiki?
i have no idea, i just remember there being at least 2 sequels so i googled it
I watched the second one and I thought it was much much better, it's a very different movie
I don't know, I'm a millennial and never seen it. Never looked interesting.
>Did millennials really find this scary?
I did, i actually believed it was found footage so after i learned it wasnt, i kinda lost respect for it. Just a boring horror b-flick
>released in 1999
>"millennials"
I don't think infants saw it.
there are many itt who did, you fricking moron
Millennials were born roughly 1981 to 1996. I was 15 when it came out and my school couldn't shut the frick about it and how scary it was. Never been so disappointed in my life.
Do you have to pedantically try to find "logic" on every single moronic shit you watch so you can later post about it online for e-peen points?
>how dare you want to discuss a movie on a movie and TV board
I saw it at the time, didn't think it was real, but it did get to me. I remember being pretty paranoid unlocking my car in a dark parking lot afterward. I remember the ending had no impact on me at all and it pretty much just made me feel better by breaking the tension. I'm not surprised younger people completely see through the artifice and the movie just bonks off of their media armor, the vein has been completely mined out since then.
While it's popularity stems from the marketing campaign, it is still a decent film. This and Lake Mungo are still the only found footage films that managed to actually keep the atmosphere throughout and neither goes full moron.
We didn't have cell phones to distract us during movies, so yes they would get our fully undivided attention and the movie did have enough suspense to carry itself as a "very real documentary"
This. Plus you couldnt just pause the movie and google whether it was real or not like people do now. A ton of people, especially young/naive people, genuinely thought that it was a true story and that made it terrifying. Remember it was marketed as real found footage.
The only thing to comes close since then is probably Paranormal Activity, but by then everyone already had smartphones and google at their fingertips, so most people were able to quickly figure out that it was fiction
I was a moronic teenager at the time and no one I knew among other moronic teenagers actually thought it was real. It was just immersive enough that it didn't matter when compared to the hyper-artificial horror movies we'd all gotten used to at that point.
I'm a zoomer who watched it recently to see what the hype's been about, and while I didn't find it scary, I was impressed by the authenticity/believablity of it. Actors, despite being apparently literally whos, were very convincing, and the dialogue felt real. Overall I'd say I like it, though it dragged a bit.
I actually found it really comfy.
>That mid 90s atmosphere
We have to go back
Paranormal Activity's credits straight up say that it's a fictitious story, as if the moronation of the characters didn't give it away
>It's just the murder demon, honey. Go back to sleep
its based on the bell witch haunting which was a real documented event in the 1820s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch
Tennessee really is one of the most kino states.
Everyone I've ever met from Tennessee was a dipshit lowlife drunk.
t. city dwelling bugman
>t. city
I don't know where that is, anon.
"t"?
>"t"?
so you're a bugman gay and a newbie
kwab
>>"t"?
>so you're a bugman gay and a newbie
kwab
Did you misspell intentionally "crab", or is it some sort of forced meme you're trying to push?
>doesnt know what kwab means
holy shit how new are you?
>you dont know my heckin' polgay exclusive term xD
exposed yourself polhomosexual
>pol
has nothing to do with that board
which is /misc/ not pol
quadrupling down on being a newbie and a moron
>which is /misc/ not pol
chud moment
>knowing things about Cinemaphile makes you a chud
embarrassing shit newbie
Extended chud moment, back to your containment board
hasn't school started already?
>chud starts projecting
embarassing
>doesn't know what "t." means
>doesn't know what "kwab" means
>doesn't know how to reference boards
>says 'chud'
yup, that's a newbie
>>says 'chud'
t. confirmed newbie
>electiontourist calling others new
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>tfw ywn marry a e-girl
How do I cope with this
>How do I cope with this
With AI chatbots
It's not the same.
It's better.
i'm a ghost. ask me anything
Ayo, ghost.
Why you gotta be all spooky an shit?
You don't get it. It was her project, and now they're gonna die out here
Die out here
..ie out here..
*slam*
*low rumbling sounds*
I know this will be difficult for your little zoomer mind to comprehend, but you're supposed to want to be scared in order to enjoy it. It's called suspension of disbelief. You can't just expect the movie to do all the work for you.
"Did millennials really find this scary?"
>Be me
>5th grade
>The school's doing science camp for our grade
>Everyone's seen The Blair Witch Project by now, released months earlier
>Me and two others sneak off after camp introductions
>Find the start trail for where we'll be hiking later on
>There's a fork in the path
>We all grab the biggest, thickest sticks we can find
>Set up pic related in the middle of the fork, basically held up be the tree since we didn't have time to find stuff to tie it with
>Looks so fricking good
>My disposable camera's back in the cabin
>Run off proud of ourselves
>Come back, one of them reminded me to bring my camera this time
>Hand it to him
>We're come to the fork clearing
>A group of girls screams, making everyone else panic
>We're trying so hard to hold back our laughter
>Bro's snapping pics left and right
>Camera confiscated
>We got in trouble
>Got in trouble again later that night for streaking and making evil witch spirit noises outside the girl's cabin
Yep, we found it scary, and fun. Do zoomers have a single life experience to their name?
delightfully devilish
i fricked and nutted inside my gf when she passed out drunk. she never found out.
why would they experience when they can live through social media apps and generationally targetted propaganda media?
shit has black boys dressing up like 2000s scee girls, white boys spending 3 hours in the mirror every morning making sure their $100 haircut isn't messed up trying to look like fricking Prince and talking like mumble rappers, and somehow young women are even more confused and aimlessly lost in life than normal due to lack of masculinity in their age group, raised by the generation whose parents were useless Gen X losers.
Covid literally sissy hypno mind broke hundreds of thousands of these poor kids during what was supposed to be the most important 2 years of their social development, then dropped them into college after basically not having junior or senior years in HS, empty mind broken husks to be molded as the left sees fit.
it's kinda hot honestly, I'm in school at 31 and some of these kids are so easy to gaslight and get reactions out of it's scary, they're literally crawling out of holes for the first time in 2 years some of them
We all thought it was real and the actors died. Shit was great. Can never do something like this again.
I used to think this was really cool and now I can't make it 20 minutes in to it and think that the Sci-Fi fake documentary about the legend is more entertaining.
I think youtube sort of killed the novelty of found footage.
Blair Witch Project is the best found footage movie. I've watched it at least a dozen times I'm sure.
No. It was possibly the first internet meme marketing. It was like some big gay event.
Blair Witch was so effective because they somehow successfully tricked people into thinking it was real. You'd think that would be easier to pull of now but I'm not aware of anyone successfully doing it.
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No, it was premium meme material before memes exploded on the internet.
>t. confirmed newbie
glad to teach you how to use "t."
lurk more, homosexual
>glad to teach you how to use "t."
>lurk more, homosexual
did your discord give you those to use?
>did your discord give you those to use?
that's a yes
ywnbaw
>that's a yes
>ywnbaw
ahead of its time. nowdays its 3 hour movies with nothing but people talking