>ARRGH IS THAT SOMEONE STANDING IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM?! I'M GOING INSAAANE
why the frick did boomers find this shitty movie scary?
>ARRGH IS THAT SOMEONE STANDING IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM?!
>ARRGH IS THAT SOMEONE STANDING IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM?! I'M GOING INSAAANE
why the frick did boomers find this shitty movie scary?
How many posts are you going to make about this?
>nobody cares
People thought this was real found footage at the time. This style of film was a new thing. Nobody thought they would deliberately lie to the audience.
This isn’t really true, but the marketing campaign was effective. Something I’ve always appreciated about Blair Witch is they give a semi-plausible reason for how the audience is actually viewing the footage in the first place
Yeah, no, it literally was fricking true. When it released, I saw it the day after opening night. All I knew was that it was "real," and I only knew that because one of my co-workers who saw it on opening night told me I had to see This New Real Documentary Horror Thing. I had seen precisely zero advertisements, precisely zero internet anything (the internet in 1999 was a radically different thing), knew really, truly, nothing. All I knew is that there was a single showing in a single theater in my city, and I liked weird shit. I went into it totally open, totally ignorant, and it was fricking awesome, and I have not had that kind of film experience since.
You sound gullible as hell but that’s also a cool way to experience it.
You have absolutely no understanding of pre-9/11, pre-ubiquitous-dumb-frick-pleb-internet Earth. It was a simpler time.
I was born in 1985 and saw it in the theater. The movie is actually quite notable for having an early example of a viral online marketing campaign. There was also a companion piece SyFy Channel special leading up to the movie’s release. So no, I don’t think “everyone” thought it was real.
>ackshully
Yeah well I had mostly stopped using the internet for about three years after I saw my first banner ad (out of principle) so I missed your really amazing viral online marketing experience, bro. I went in clean. Sorry you missed out.
were boomers just moronic? Why the frick would this footage be playing in movie theatres and not used by the police to find the missing kids?
It is true, found footage was still a newer concept
It was the first found footage movie since Cannibal Holocaust... I remember when it was released, it was sold as absolutely true and real, then revealed later it was all actors
Anyone with critical thinking skills would probably realize that footage of real missing people wouldn’t be assembled into a narrative structure and released nationwide in theaters, anon.
YEAH, HEY, DUMB FRICK, YOU KEEP CONVENIENTLY IGNORING THE FACT THAT THIS WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY "RELEASED NATIONWIDE IN THEATERS" AND SPENT AT LEAST A COUPLE MONTHS GETTING THE SLOW-BURN SMALL-THEATER TREATMENT. THE SAME KINDS OF THEATERS THAT SHOW DOCUMENTARIES AND SHIT IN FRENCH. K? CAPS LOCK.
Fact check on this post: It was in limited release for only a couple weeks before expanding nationwide.
It was a long time ago, and I am old. 🙂 <3
Okay I just checked the Wikipedia, and evidently it got the slow-burn treatment for a week. Anyways. I saw it then. lol. caps lock.
I was in high school at the time, shit was viral before viral was a thing. The internet was shut for actual real stuff so nobody could prove it wasn't real. Shut man, we all wanted to beleive. I've never seen buzz like that at an opening night to a movie, literally everyone was talking about how crazy the situation was.
Most documentaries are random pieces of footage assembled into a narrative structure.
>it was sold
>"dude I swear this is real we just conveniently had 1.5 hours perfect for a theater release"
Whatever man, it was a different time, the fact that this concept is so beyond you is frightening
Yeah we get it you're the kind of moron that would believe in hell and big foot in the middle of the 20th century
>literally everything released about the movie talks about how it is real footage and a true story, no way to disprove any of it
"How could you ever fall for this"
>no way to disprove any of it
>ghosts, witches, demons, le scary movie
that's your way to disprove it
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Hope you didn't wet your bed too much back then
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All people knew is that it was footage of people going missing while researching an urban legend in the area...
You sound like a really fun person to be around
Then you watch the movie at your theater and after it finishes you conclude like any normal person that you fell for a marketing ploy
(you)
Just like all the people that fell for the original War of the Worlds back in the day. Great marketing campaigns are powerful
He was speaking like an actual emergency announcement, it made more sense for people to believe that
>According to research by A. Brad Schwartz, fewer than 50 Americans seem to have fled outside in the wake of the broadcast, and it is not clear how many of them heard the broadcast directly.
Whatever man, it was a really cool experience even after they released it to all be a fake. It was history in the making for film and at least I can say I was there for it.
It was very effective at the time. Weirdly enough BWP never had a ton of imitators in its day. It was only after Paranormal Activity that we saw a bunch of me too found footage horror.
Listen, you little zoomer frick: You have no idea how good the summer of 99 was, and you never will. You will never live in the last remaining days of a victorious empire, you will never experience a life of unironic happiness, and you will never meet real people, real friends, on your rectangular, radioactive, tracking Tik Tok data-collection device. You were born a joyless slave into a future-free prison-planet holding cell for imagination-less consumers, and you will die alone and miserable, never having touched a woman. Between now and your ignominious death, you will spend the vast majority of your time in this infernal holding cell, baiting strangers with your adolescent hot takes that do nothing more than flaunt your incapacity and unhappiness, borne in a life of squalor, misery, and hopelessness. You are not human in any meaningful sense of the word. Unironically, and without hyperbole, the best, perhaps the only, course of action is for you to have a nice day.
We get it you're smart. I was speaking generally knumbnuts.
Fair enough. I was in high school back then and yeah, there was a lot of discussion over whether it was real or not.
Yeah grade school kids thought that, adults knew you can't legally show and make money off a film of people actually dying at the movie theaters around the world
Explain then why the director of Cannibal Holocaust was initially charged with murder in italy when the film was released
i was that grade school kid xd
You're ignorant. That's why you don't get it. There's a difference between watching it 20+ years ex post facto, on your phone, while you flip back and forth between Tik Tok, and seeing it at the 11:30pm at the indie theater not knowing whether it's real or not.
its the same jumpscare shit that zoomers watch their favorite streamers get scared by playing shitty indie horror games, stop acting like you're any better
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>not knowing whether it's real or not.
Did you watch it when you were 8 years old? Ghosts aren't real moron
>t. scared of hallways
My gf would be scared if I was not standing in my cuck corner
this movie always sucked, and it wasnt boomers that bought the hype, it was millenials and gen x. Its a poor quality film, and is not discussed anymore
Op you are absolutely correct that now in retrospect that might seem kind of silly and non-sensical for people to react that way but you have to think about context. Up to then, found-footage or meta-horror had not been done. It had all been edgier 90s horror and the remnants of slasher and ghost films. It introduced a new spin on things that hit people in an unexpected place. Of course now that everyone has been exposed to a thousand incarnations of it, it might seem trite and overdone but you need to consider the time and place for it.
Could a modern equivalent of this be created?
Not a chance, there are too many ways to disprove shit now, back then they really sold that shit, it was like a modern day War of the Worlds
not in a movie format like BW was. VHS was the portable media of that time, so camcorders were the way people documented things independently. Now, it would have to be some weird amalgamation of tiktok/social media/instagram garbage that wouldn't resemble a movie at all.
The only conceivable way I could see it happening is if someone dedicated months or even years to a channel devoted to a certain topic then out of the blue having them disappear, disregarding followers and creating a narrative behind it. It would be a film, once all of the segments, clippings and video articles were stitched together. Would take years though.
>has a great idea
Uhm... anon? Can I... uhm... steal your great idea?
>The only conceivable way I could see it happening is if someone dedicated months or even years to a channel devoted to a certain topic then out of the blue having them disappear, disregarding followers and creating a narrative behind it. It would be a film, once all of the segments, clippings and video articles were stitched together. Would take years though.
I mean regular films already take years to make, this would be cool to see
Didn’t we already have that in the early 2010s with Marble Hornets and other Slenderman related ARG type stuff?
It was a lot of fun for a while
they were on the right track, but it was just executed very poorly. The question is what would create a BW-level reaction these days and only something that seemed like a legitimate channel turned disappearance/strange occurrences thing would work. Like that linus guy who does computer stuff, if he would upload a new video but in that one he is noticeably irritated, quiet or just looks disheveled then things can stack on top of that, etc.
someone steal that idea, I already have a job and income. Just do a good fricking job at it.
Paranormal activity if it kept it's original ending and didn't have a bunch of sequels
People thought it MIGHT BE real
I post this in every BWP thread. Only footage I’ve ever found of the house before it got demolished:
Lol. There is zero chance, literally zero, even knowing what I know, and after 23 years, of ever getting me to step foot in that basement lmao.
supernatural shit aside, there could be bats or rats with rabies, mold, crazy squatters, etc.
The house wasn’t as spooky irl as it looked in the movie naturally. It’s quite small and there really isn’t much to the basement.
>be zoomed
>watch movie while playing on phone
>lose interest after ten minutes
>stop watching
>"this movie sucks"
everyone knew it was fiction when the woman started apologizing and taking responsibility for her actions
What do you guys think of Book of Shadows? I think it has some interesting ideas, but needed to be recut and restructured.
I liked it, the scene where the girl gets snapped in half by the voodoo doll was actually a good scare
You’re thinking of Blair Witch 2016 but that was probably the best scare.
wait they're different things? I thought it was a sequel
Book of Shadows is the original sequel that came out in 2000. It’s mostly filmed like a traditional movie but with some found footage elements. It’s worth a watch.
Every thread TBWPcucks repeat the same two "you had to be there" and "you're a zoomer" statements ad nauseam. Too bad they can't provide a single argument why this movie is supposed to be good at the face value.
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Keep proving me right.
(you)
Autism.
Don't blame me because your generation doesn't know how to enjoy anything or have a good time.
>your generation
Get new material
>said the zoomer frick who will never understand
I think the acting feels much more natural and real compared to the majority of found footage movies to come after.
aye that movie was bussin no cap, that shit made me fear of my own shadow sometimes while i was watching fr fr
ayo dis just like back rooms but outside deadass
was this film kino?
Cinemaphile said it was but I didn't finish it
what mental illness causes people like op to not be able to get immersed into a movie?