I remember first watching this movie when I was a kid. This scene filled me with dread. That's when you realize it's all hopeless. It doesn't really hold up, by the way.
The film worked so well back then because of the viral hype they built around it.
They created websites filled with bs blairwitch lore because they knew people would go online to research. Then there was that (mock)umentary that was treated as fact about the missing film students and the weird shit that went on in those woods.
It was the first time this had been done using the internet and tv to build hype in such a way. Without all that buildup the effect is diminished. Leading up to the film people thought it was actual found footage.
I never saw any of the online marketing gimmicks. Still loved the film, which is one of the most influential of all time. It literally created the found-footage genre.
>It literally created the found-footage genre.
It didn't thoughbeit, The Connection (1961) was the first.
Blair witch wasn't even the first well known horror movie to do it, Cannibal Holocaust (1980) was
>I never saw any of the online marketing gimmicks.
I did and it added to the effect of the film on people because you could hear people discussing the movie and what they heard about it before it started playing. This usually never happens in a theater.
Since they were lost in a forest with no landmarks, how would a map have helped? Were special trees marked? Was the spooky house on that map? Couldn't they find a river to determine north or use the sun to determine west? If they had the map, would that have stopped them from going on spooky circles?
>Couldn't they find a river to determine north or use the sun to determine west?
They did. Why do homosexuals who haven't watched try to join the conversation?
Since they were lost in a forest with no landmarks, how would a map have helped? Were special trees marked? Was the spooky house on that map? Couldn't they find a river to determine north or use the sun to determine west? If they had the map, would that have stopped them from going on spooky circles?
>It doesn't really hold up, by the way.
why not
I remember first watching this movie when I was a kid. This scene filled me with dread. That's when you realize it's all hopeless. It doesn't really hold up, by the way.
https://i.imgur.com/x4Y89xa.jpeg
>mfw I kicked that stupid map
why would a map matter? they could just use google maps on their phones
Yeah I get it but part of the movies brilliance and authentic feel is it leaves room for them to just be lost. There's nothing in the film that actually confirms anything supernatural going on
No RLM says that the two guys were going to rape and kill Heather from the beginning. There was no supernatural element.
The house they go into at the end shouldn’t exist. The official canon for the movie is that their footage and cameras were found buried in the foundation of the Rustin Parr house one year after they disappeared. It’s explicitly supernatural.
It’s also worth noting that they went back for some reshoots after the movie was picked up by Artisan with some more explicitly paranormal alternate endings filmed. Ultimately they decided that the 'in the corner' ending was still the most effective.
It’s also worth noting that they went back for some reshoots after the movie was picked up by Artisan with some more explicitly paranormal alternate endings filmed. Ultimately they decided that the 'in the corner' ending was still the most effective.
of course it's supernatural but the film works because it never shows it, so it feels real from beginning to end. Point being you never see anything in the film that's incompatible with reality
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well they do hear the ghostly laughs of children and something is pounding on their tent in the one scene. Plus the bloody bundle that was left by their tent when Josh disappears.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
right, but it's still plausible it's just people fricking with them, like irl it was the directors with a boombox playing kid sounds. imo the movie wouldn't be what it is if they didn't frick up the shot that was supposed to show the witch. the tension is never released and you're constantly scanning the environment trying to get a glimpse of something but also hoping you don't it's just great
Not exactly a slam dunk. If you want to go for the murder plot theory the film being her idea doesn't really negate it. Could have easily got the idea after agreeing to it
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah but this
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The house they go into at the end shouldn’t exist. The official canon for the movie is that their footage and cameras were found buried in the foundation of the Rustin Parr house one year after they disappeared. It’s explicitly supernatural.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That was a retcon. RLM talks about it in detail. The house could just be a legend.
He's right though? Those gays were amateurs and it's very easy to think you're going in a straight line in a forest but actually you're going in a curve.
>would that have stopped them from going on spooky circles?
No, but it gave them hope that they'd be able to find their way out eventually. The map getting thrown away is basically accepting that they're trapped there forever.
This actually happened to me in the woods once and I'm not bullshitting, I got on my knees and prayed and the path just opened up like magic where before I was just going in circles. Shit's legit.
Suppose if it had topography on it and the characters weren't moronic they could find their way. And it took place in Maryland. How do you get lost in such a small state? If you have a compass literally just pick a direction and you'll run into civilization within at least a day or two's walk.
You've just listed 2nd most common way lost people die in the wilderness - going down an unknown stream or trying to find one in the first place, running circles and dying out of exposure, getting further and further away from actual help
The first is just exposure, but this one is exposure with (literal) extra steps.
Thanks for reminding me of being the gunner and RTO for my PL that constantly got lost. We were the recon platoon and i had to explain how we were going the exact opposite direction. moron tried to use a compass in the commanders hatch of a stryker. Using a compass when you're on top of a 40 ton chunk of metal? That'll work!.
>Had they just walked in a straight path for 5 miles
Did you miss the part where they do walk in a straight path and they're looping? It's a major part of the movie. >dude, why didn't they just leave the woods?
Tons of people traveling in a "straight" line in the forest end up deviating majorly from their path. Having to constantly navigate around obstacles without a compass for reference will get you off-track eventually
Yeah but shit like just going due east with the rising sun in rural Maryland would be more than enough to eventually get to civilization, much less physically following a river. It was sick shit, Satanic black magic.
>Had they just walked in a straight path for 5 miles in any direction they would've eventually hit a road or a small town.
The VVitch controls space and time in that area. she was maknig them walk in circles
>Had they just walked in a straight path for 5 miles in any direction they would've eventually hit a road or a small town.
I went camping with my dumb ass druggie 2nd cousin last summer. we were by a lake and he went into the woods to look for something. 30 min later all I could hear was >ANON >ANON
he was maybe 200 feet from the lake and I pissed myself laughing as quietly as I could for 20 min letting him think he was lost. and yeah reason I went camping with him was cause he promised he was clean.
>I went to where the movie was filmed (Burkittsville Maryland).
liarrrrrrrrrrrr
>Myrick and Sánchez didn't film the Black Hills Forest portion of the movie in Burkittsville because it doesn't have a Black Hills Forest (those sequences were shot in Patapsco Valley State Park).They didn't even find real Burkittsville residents for the testimonials from "Burkittsville residents" -- those were shot back in Germantown. But even an establishing shot has staying power, as those directly and tangentially tied to The Blair Witch Project would eventually discover.
Your definitely under 25 if you think 22 year-olds are any smarter than teens.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm almost 40. If you didn't do some growing up over those 5 years you did it or are doing it wrong. Fricking infantilised zoomers
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>almost 40 >still here
Doesn't sound like you grew up at all, loser.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Gen x and y made Cinemaphile, kiddo. You'll be "old" sooner than you think.
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Wastes his prime years here instead of going out
Yep you'll be here forever.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You just wait homosexual, this is the last website in the world
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
Kids are dumb af. Doesn't matter if they are 22 or 17
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>af
I can only assume you're talking from the position of a child. 22 year olds really shouldn't be considered "kids"
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
People who don't end sentences with punctuation don't get to have opinions.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
If they aren't kids why do they act like them then? No adult is gonna say 22 year-olds are smart unless their trying to be cool and down with the kids.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Because each generation is more infantilised than the last. Its not about trying to be cool or down with the kids or whatever the frick. Culturally we've developed this prolonged adolescence but that doesn't mean a 22 year old isn't a grown man, sure he's a young man but of he hasn't developed at all from 5 years earlier than there's something wrong.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>than there's
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yep, I made a typo. Now you can disregard my argument and pretend there's no difference between 15 and 25.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
No. A typo is when you mistakenly press the wrong key. You don't know the difference because you think that there book lernin' is fer gays!
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
He got one letter wrong. The E is close to the A on a kayboerd.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Is he your boyfriend? No? Then stop defending him homosexual. Wasn't your dad around to teach you how men act?
I'm sitting here typing on my phone but if that narrative gives you some pleasure, enjoy.
>admitting to being cancer
Yeah, I guess it would be hard to learn to operate a computer when you can't even figure out the difference between "than" and "then". Fricking hillbilly.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Wasn't your dad around to teach you how men act?
You're squabbling on a Laotian Fishnet Trading Forum over a spelling error...
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>...
More female behavior.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Stay mad kid.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>everything is about feelings
More female behavior.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm sitting here typing on my phone but if that narrative gives you some pleasure, enjoy.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
A 22 year old is still dumb enough to kickaway a map. I mean really people in their early 20s look and act like teenagers. Maybe back in the olden days 22 year-olds were married with kids and a house but those olden days are long over and aren't coming back.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
People can do the dumbest shit if they are low on blood sugar and stressed out with a weak psyche. Just look at all the old people who go and get themselves killed in national parks because they get lost a mile from the trail and die. It's not from a lack of age and maturity it's lack of experience, skill and a level head.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
This is getting absurd. I think that the more obvious reason is because he is young and dumb. Saying he did it because of low blood sugar and a bunch of other shit is a stretch.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I guess you've never been out hiking a lot but I've seen people saying they just need to tie their shoes and the rest of us go ahead and then drop down and fall asleep on the ground. Or drop their backpack on the trail and say they'll come back for it later. We just had them eat a candy bar and they were fine both times. It's no joke. People can make extremely irrational decisions if they are tired and starving.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
I go hiking all the time. The only time I made a mistake like that was I went the total opposite way after stopping for 20 minutes. However I was stoned out of my mind. From a narrative and story writing perspective as well as the way it is protrayed in this film. I would presume the guy did it because he was dumb and pissed off. That is the simplest and most logical answer.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah people who are tired and malnourished tend to be irritable and make bad decision. Blood sugar is a major factor in that behavior is all I'm saying. It can make someone act like a completely different person.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
>Blood sugar is a major factor in that behavior is all I'm saying. It can make someone act like a completely different person
I mean I've gone on a 10 mile hike whilst on the 2nd day of a fast but maybe I'm just built different.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
10 miles is basically nothing so that makes sense. That's a 2-3 hour stroll or something. I'm talking about being actually exhausted and deprived of nutrition.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
I don't think the kids in that film had been out there for more than a few days when they lost the map. I mean they wouldn't have hiked much more than 20 - 30 miles in 3 days off trail.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Ok i'm done with this back and forth. I understand your perspective but let's just accept they are some art kids who crumbled under the pressure and their lack of experience and preparation made them act moronic.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
Yeah, yeah I mean i think only on Cinemaphile can such a minor point end up with a conversation this long.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
People of any age can act like morons. >Maybe back in the olden days 22 year-olds were married with kids and a house but those olden days are long over and aren't coming back.
You never know what's going to happen. No one is forcing you to stagnate for a decade. When I was 22 I got my first house and was working as a night shift team leader. There was nothing special about me. I'm sure there are 22 year olds born after me who have achieved far more by that point.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
Most 22 year olds are morons. Doing what society tells you to do isn't a sign of intelligence either. Just a basic ability to follow instructions.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Most 22 year olds are morons.
Because you say so? Including the ones of previous generations who were supporting a wife and family? Or current ones who were driven to achieve something?
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
>Because you say so? Including the ones of previous generations who were supporting a wife and family?
They literally had higher IQs back then. We are like 30 iq points down from where people were in the late 19th century. Its all the result of dysgenic trends caused by the industrial revolution. Also a small exception in a data set quite obviously doesn't disprove a larger trend.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Maybe you are. Like I said before, no one is forcing you to stagnate for a decade. israelites might push for this extended infantilisation but it's ultimately your decision to view yourself as a moronic kid when you're actually a grown man.
3 weeks ago
Annoymous
Someone's clearly 22, lamo.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm almost 40. If you didn't do some growing up over those 5 years you did it or are doing it wrong. Fricking infantilised zoomers
How? The entire idea of the film is that the witch is a supernatural being. In the context of the film it's not a stretch to believe it may have some mind control powers.
Stay put and wait for search and rescue. If you have to move mark where you're going with stacked rocks or sticks or something so you don't get even further lost. Make lots of noise so you don't suddenly come upon animals and get attacked
In real life if you're lost in a vast expanse of wilderness you're supposed to just stay put, because as you move you're exponentially increasing the search area required to find you. It's heavily implied in the movie that they are being influenced by the witch to make dumb decisions which ultimately lead them to the house to be murdered.
BWP was the first bootleg I ever watched and because of the shaky cam being hand-filmed from a theater I only ever watched it once because it made me physically ill. I don't know why I'm posting, I'm going back to my own time tomorrow so I guess I just wanted you to remember me a bit. See ya.
This movie is fricking stupid.
It was fricking stupid then and it's fricking stupid now.
You're fricking stupid if you like this movie.
Don't @ me, fricking stupid idiot.
Are the sequels worth watching? I usually hate horror but I loved this movie. Well, I wouldn't even classify this as horror. It was such a unique film. I don't know anything about the sequels but I get the vibe they are less special.
Book of shadows was completely different but had some cool ideas and wasn't bad for what it is. Some meta before it was common. That zoomer Blair witch was homosexual shit.
Despite being universally panned Blair Witch 2 is probably one of my favorite psychological horror films. I heard that the producers were constantly interfering with what the director was trying to achieve. Blair Witch 3 was unimaginative garbage, literally just a remake of the first movie but you get to see the witch at the end.
Watch all the mocumentaries about the film. The Burketsville 7 is the only one I can remember. If you search it on IMDB you should be able to find the rest of them.
Blair Witch is the most entertaining and effective the first time you watch it. It's a real fun movie to introduce people to if they haven't seen it and don't know anything about it.
Man I just checked out some clips all the way to the ending, I cannot believe how affecting the ending still is. Hair raising, felt my blood pressure rise and heartbeat quicken. What a movie.
first saw it on ifc in 2014 when it was 15 and I was almost 12 and it did creep me out some but thought it was more cool. I like that it just seems like a video recorded in real life. Paranormal activity comes close but for some reason Blair witch just has that realness. The promoting for it was pretty cool and part 2 is pretty bad but fun and is pretty 2000. 3 was ok but like most other found footage ones.
>"OK, we're going to hold a raging kegger here. Don't worry."
Based. I bet the witch would have come out to get slammed both alcoholically and physically.
ZOG propaganda to make goyim afraid of nature >NOOOOOO GOY DONT GET IN TUNE WITH YOUR ARYAN HERITAGE STAY AWAY FROM THE HECKIN FOREST ITS WHERE HECKIN SATAN DWELLS! STAY IN THE ~~*BIG CITY*~~ THATS THE ONLY PLACE YOU CAN FEEL SAFE!
Bit of a stretch. Witches are western cultural folklore, this movie only starts Whites, it's White culture. You would only believe that message to be the takeaway if you thought witches were real and magical. You don't believe that right?
>You would only believe that message to be the takeaway if you thought witches were real and magical. You don't believe that right?
We can't be too careful
every girl I watched this with hated the woman in the movie
also not sure if it's related but I got laid every time I watched this with a girl
loved this movie
A homie like me would have built my own symbols and put them in a straight path and just walk straight for as long as possible because the only way Im not getting out of the forest eventually is 1. I get off the path and 2. Im being looped by some magical prostitute. In the second case Ill see the landmarks that I made
I saw this movie when I was 12. my older cousins had a ratty ass tape covered in dirt and told me they found it in the woods. shit scared the hell out of me and I couldn't sleep for the rest of the week until my mom got my cousins to come tell me that's it just a movie and that they're all actors and they're all still alive. it was truly a different time.
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I would have gotten violently angry if I was in Heather's position and he revealed he threw away the map.
If you were Heather I would have already violently attacked you for being a controlling c**t.
I remember first watching this movie when I was a kid. This scene filled me with dread. That's when you realize it's all hopeless. It doesn't really hold up, by the way.
Your opinion doesn't hold up, homosexual.
>It doesn't really hold up, by the way.
why not
motion sickness for one
>he gets motion sickness from a movie
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The film worked so well back then because of the viral hype they built around it.
They created websites filled with bs blairwitch lore because they knew people would go online to research. Then there was that (mock)umentary that was treated as fact about the missing film students and the weird shit that went on in those woods.
It was the first time this had been done using the internet and tv to build hype in such a way. Without all that buildup the effect is diminished. Leading up to the film people thought it was actual found footage.
I never saw any of the online marketing gimmicks. Still loved the film, which is one of the most influential of all time. It literally created the found-footage genre.
>It literally created the found-footage genre.
It didn't thoughbeit, The Connection (1961) was the first.
Blair witch wasn't even the first well known horror movie to do it, Cannibal Holocaust (1980) was
I think you know full well what people mean by that and just like being “that guy”.
>I never saw any of the online marketing gimmicks.
I did and it added to the effect of the film on people because you could hear people discussing the movie and what they heard about it before it started playing. This usually never happens in a theater.
>This scene filled me with dread. That's when you realize it's all hopeless.
same. it's the point they realize the situation is unwinnable.
Yes it does, you're just a homosexual and likely moronic also
nah it holds up just watched it like 2 years ago
>It doesn't really hold up, by the way.
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Go fricking drown yourself you tasteless piece of trash
I've rewatched it every Halloween for about 15 years and it still holds up.
I found this one more unsettling than the original
I like the sequel a lot , shame the goth chick didn’t get her breasts out
very attractive phenotype
Dangerously attractive.
The redhead Wiccan is hotter.
i've seen her boobies
yuck. I don't get the appeal of goths
>It doesn't really hold up, by the way.
I know.
Since they were lost in a forest with no landmarks, how would a map have helped? Were special trees marked? Was the spooky house on that map? Couldn't they find a river to determine north or use the sun to determine west? If they had the map, would that have stopped them from going on spooky circles?
>Couldn't they find a river to determine north or use the sun to determine west?
They did. Why do homosexuals who haven't watched try to join the conversation?
I did watch it, it was just forgettable is all
At best, you watched a youtube recapp. You dishonest little homosexual.
It would be dishonest of me to say that
Because you didn't watch it at all.
I did though
why would a map matter? they could just use google maps on their phones
I hope you don’t lost in the woods
>t. another dead body found in the spring
It's supposed to be ambiguous duh. Only major hole is that they didn't just follow the river
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. They were supernaturally trapped in an endless loop by the witch.
Yeah I get it but part of the movies brilliance and authentic feel is it leaves room for them to just be lost. There's nothing in the film that actually confirms anything supernatural going on
The house they go into at the end shouldn’t exist. The official canon for the movie is that their footage and cameras were found buried in the foundation of the Rustin Parr house one year after they disappeared. It’s explicitly supernatural.
It’s also worth noting that they went back for some reshoots after the movie was picked up by Artisan with some more explicitly paranormal alternate endings filmed. Ultimately they decided that the 'in the corner' ending was still the most effective.
of course it's supernatural but the film works because it never shows it, so it feels real from beginning to end. Point being you never see anything in the film that's incompatible with reality
Well they do hear the ghostly laughs of children and something is pounding on their tent in the one scene. Plus the bloody bundle that was left by their tent when Josh disappears.
right, but it's still plausible it's just people fricking with them, like irl it was the directors with a boombox playing kid sounds. imo the movie wouldn't be what it is if they didn't frick up the shot that was supposed to show the witch. the tension is never released and you're constantly scanning the environment trying to get a glimpse of something but also hoping you don't it's just great
No RLM says that the two guys were going to rape and kill Heather from the beginning. There was no supernatural element.
This never made any sense. They didn’t lure Heather out there. The whole documentary was her idea.
Not exactly a slam dunk. If you want to go for the murder plot theory the film being her idea doesn't really negate it. Could have easily got the idea after agreeing to it
Yeah but this
That was a retcon. RLM talks about it in detail. The house could just be a legend.
No that’s not true.
Those guys are not smart enough to act like they're lost for that long.
Didn't creators already say that was bs
Most gen xers hate supernatural horror and try to make everything into a slasher.
Shove your generalisations up your ass, zoomie
They crossed a river, walked in a straight line all day, and then were back at the same river. They were fricked no matter what.
>Crossed the river
Why wouldnt they just follow the river? You could conceivably get turned around in a forest
Ah, you're being an argumentative homosexual. Sorry, I forgot where I was for a second there. Carry on with your shitposting.
He's right though? Those gays were amateurs and it's very easy to think you're going in a straight line in a forest but actually you're going in a curve.
Samegayging this hard lmao
Just take the L bro stop being so pathetic
>Just take the L
Black person zoomer speak
Yeah that's what you are.
>would that have stopped them from going on spooky circles?
No, but it gave them hope that they'd be able to find their way out eventually. The map getting thrown away is basically accepting that they're trapped there forever.
The map was just a symbol that they knew what they were doing. They were already doomed by now. The map was useless. Based Guy knew
This.They should have prayed to Jesus Christ to save them from the satanic witch.
This actually happened to me in the woods once and I'm not bullshitting, I got on my knees and prayed and the path just opened up like magic where before I was just going in circles. Shit's legit.
>find a river to determine north
does Cinemaphile think rivers only flow in one direction?
You should see some of the morons at Cinemaphile.
No one said anything about north moron, rivers do only flow in one direction though, try and figure out how that would help you leave the forest
Suppose if it had topography on it and the characters weren't moronic they could find their way. And it took place in Maryland. How do you get lost in such a small state? If you have a compass literally just pick a direction and you'll run into civilization within at least a day or two's walk.
have a nice day
fishtank season 0 was wild
imagine being dumb enough to not follow the next river when you're lost in the wild
>It's a dumb frick reddit zoomer episode
You've just listed 2nd most common way lost people die in the wilderness - going down an unknown stream or trying to find one in the first place, running circles and dying out of exposure, getting further and further away from actual help
The first is just exposure, but this one is exposure with (literal) extra steps.
that's the dumbest post i've read today, congrats
Just stop posting. Forever.
>t. 2nd lieutenants currently dying of hyperthermia
Thanks for reminding me of being the gunner and RTO for my PL that constantly got lost. We were the recon platoon and i had to explain how we were going the exact opposite direction. moron tried to use a compass in the commanders hatch of a stryker. Using a compass when you're on top of a 40 ton chunk of metal? That'll work!.
doesnt the stryker have a gps/its own compass?
hah get fricked recon gays
THIS was living the high life
Not in small semi-rural states in the US it isn't, and they aren't going to die looking for a stream if they already found one
I went to where the movie was filmed (Burkittsville Maryland).
Had they just walked in a straight path for 5 miles in any direction they would've eventually hit a road or a small town.
>Had they just walked in a straight path for 5 miles
Did you miss the part where they do walk in a straight path and they're looping? It's a major part of the movie.
>dude, why didn't they just leave the woods?
He's just another moronic reddit zoomer wiener sucker
Tons of people traveling in a "straight" line in the forest end up deviating majorly from their path. Having to constantly navigate around obstacles without a compass for reference will get you off-track eventually
Yeah but shit like just going due east with the rising sun in rural Maryland would be more than enough to eventually get to civilization, much less physically following a river. It was sick shit, Satanic black magic.
>It was sick shit, Satanic black magic.
This. Fricking queers.
All they had to do was ask for God to intervene.
>Had they just walked in a straight path for 5 miles in any direction they would've eventually hit a road or a small town.
The VVitch controls space and time in that area. she was maknig them walk in circles
>Had they just walked in a straight path for 5 miles in any direction they would've eventually hit a road or a small town.
I went camping with my dumb ass druggie 2nd cousin last summer. we were by a lake and he went into the woods to look for something. 30 min later all I could hear was
>ANON
>ANON
he was maybe 200 feet from the lake and I pissed myself laughing as quietly as I could for 20 min letting him think he was lost. and yeah reason I went camping with him was cause he promised he was clean.
The Witch twisted the reality. Didn't you see the movie. They walked south all day and ended up in the same spot
Silly anon, there was no witch. Didn't you know?
>I went to where the movie was filmed (Burkittsville Maryland).
liarrrrrrrrrrrr
>Myrick and Sánchez didn't film the Black Hills Forest portion of the movie in Burkittsville because it doesn't have a Black Hills Forest (those sequences were shot in Patapsco Valley State Park).They didn't even find real Burkittsville residents for the testimonials from "Burkittsville residents" -- those were shot back in Germantown. But even an establishing shot has staying power, as those directly and tangentially tied to The Blair Witch Project would eventually discover.
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/blair-witch-project-true-story-burkittsville-maryland
I love this film but this dude kicking the map is probably the weakest part of the story.
The witch made him do it, unironically.
The idea that the witch did it makes it even weaker than the idea of him doing it cause he's a dumb teen
>teen
Early twenties/Late teens same shit.
>17 is the same as 22
moron.
Your definitely under 25 if you think 22 year-olds are any smarter than teens.
I'm almost 40. If you didn't do some growing up over those 5 years you did it or are doing it wrong. Fricking infantilised zoomers
>almost 40
>still here
Doesn't sound like you grew up at all, loser.
Gen x and y made Cinemaphile, kiddo. You'll be "old" sooner than you think.
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>Wastes his prime years here instead of going out
Yep you'll be here forever.
You just wait homosexual, this is the last website in the world
Kids are dumb af. Doesn't matter if they are 22 or 17
>af
I can only assume you're talking from the position of a child. 22 year olds really shouldn't be considered "kids"
People who don't end sentences with punctuation don't get to have opinions.
If they aren't kids why do they act like them then? No adult is gonna say 22 year-olds are smart unless their trying to be cool and down with the kids.
Because each generation is more infantilised than the last. Its not about trying to be cool or down with the kids or whatever the frick. Culturally we've developed this prolonged adolescence but that doesn't mean a 22 year old isn't a grown man, sure he's a young man but of he hasn't developed at all from 5 years earlier than there's something wrong.
>than there's
Yep, I made a typo. Now you can disregard my argument and pretend there's no difference between 15 and 25.
No. A typo is when you mistakenly press the wrong key. You don't know the difference because you think that there book lernin' is fer gays!
He got one letter wrong. The E is close to the A on a kayboerd.
Is he your boyfriend? No? Then stop defending him homosexual. Wasn't your dad around to teach you how men act?
>admitting to being cancer
Yeah, I guess it would be hard to learn to operate a computer when you can't even figure out the difference between "than" and "then". Fricking hillbilly.
>Wasn't your dad around to teach you how men act?
You're squabbling on a Laotian Fishnet Trading Forum over a spelling error...
>...
More female behavior.
Stay mad kid.
>everything is about feelings
More female behavior.
I'm sitting here typing on my phone but if that narrative gives you some pleasure, enjoy.
A 22 year old is still dumb enough to kickaway a map. I mean really people in their early 20s look and act like teenagers. Maybe back in the olden days 22 year-olds were married with kids and a house but those olden days are long over and aren't coming back.
People can do the dumbest shit if they are low on blood sugar and stressed out with a weak psyche. Just look at all the old people who go and get themselves killed in national parks because they get lost a mile from the trail and die. It's not from a lack of age and maturity it's lack of experience, skill and a level head.
This is getting absurd. I think that the more obvious reason is because he is young and dumb. Saying he did it because of low blood sugar and a bunch of other shit is a stretch.
I guess you've never been out hiking a lot but I've seen people saying they just need to tie their shoes and the rest of us go ahead and then drop down and fall asleep on the ground. Or drop their backpack on the trail and say they'll come back for it later. We just had them eat a candy bar and they were fine both times. It's no joke. People can make extremely irrational decisions if they are tired and starving.
I go hiking all the time. The only time I made a mistake like that was I went the total opposite way after stopping for 20 minutes. However I was stoned out of my mind. From a narrative and story writing perspective as well as the way it is protrayed in this film. I would presume the guy did it because he was dumb and pissed off. That is the simplest and most logical answer.
Yeah people who are tired and malnourished tend to be irritable and make bad decision. Blood sugar is a major factor in that behavior is all I'm saying. It can make someone act like a completely different person.
>Blood sugar is a major factor in that behavior is all I'm saying. It can make someone act like a completely different person
I mean I've gone on a 10 mile hike whilst on the 2nd day of a fast but maybe I'm just built different.
10 miles is basically nothing so that makes sense. That's a 2-3 hour stroll or something. I'm talking about being actually exhausted and deprived of nutrition.
I don't think the kids in that film had been out there for more than a few days when they lost the map. I mean they wouldn't have hiked much more than 20 - 30 miles in 3 days off trail.
Ok i'm done with this back and forth. I understand your perspective but let's just accept they are some art kids who crumbled under the pressure and their lack of experience and preparation made them act moronic.
Yeah, yeah I mean i think only on Cinemaphile can such a minor point end up with a conversation this long.
People of any age can act like morons.
>Maybe back in the olden days 22 year-olds were married with kids and a house but those olden days are long over and aren't coming back.
You never know what's going to happen. No one is forcing you to stagnate for a decade. When I was 22 I got my first house and was working as a night shift team leader. There was nothing special about me. I'm sure there are 22 year olds born after me who have achieved far more by that point.
Most 22 year olds are morons. Doing what society tells you to do isn't a sign of intelligence either. Just a basic ability to follow instructions.
>Most 22 year olds are morons.
Because you say so? Including the ones of previous generations who were supporting a wife and family? Or current ones who were driven to achieve something?
>Because you say so? Including the ones of previous generations who were supporting a wife and family?
They literally had higher IQs back then. We are like 30 iq points down from where people were in the late 19th century. Its all the result of dysgenic trends caused by the industrial revolution. Also a small exception in a data set quite obviously doesn't disprove a larger trend.
Maybe you are. Like I said before, no one is forcing you to stagnate for a decade. israelites might push for this extended infantilisation but it's ultimately your decision to view yourself as a moronic kid when you're actually a grown man.
Someone's clearly 22, lamo.
HE WAS ONLY 26 YEARS OLD YOU SICK FRICK! LITERALLY A CHILD!
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Ermm your a perv and a total zero for bringing this up.... yikes
He's 48 and a survival instructor
How? The entire idea of the film is that the witch is a supernatural being. In the context of the film it's not a stretch to believe it may have some mind control powers.
Yeah but that's just your headcannon. It's not like the guy was portrayed as being smart.
>probably the weakest part of the story.
filtered
>itt: zoomers who were born decade after it premiered and never actually saw it insist it "holds up"
>while calling others dishonest, no less
I saw it in the cinema, with mum.
if you're lost in the woods without a map, do you
1. Look at the sun and travel East/West?
2. Find a river and follow it?
Is there any logic to these?
Follow the stream down - it will eventually lead to a river and rivers lead to civilization
Stay put and wait for search and rescue. If you have to move mark where you're going with stacked rocks or sticks or something so you don't get even further lost. Make lots of noise so you don't suddenly come upon animals and get attacked
Why would search and rescue come or even know where to look for them when they weren't even following a developed trail?
In real life if you're lost in a vast expanse of wilderness you're supposed to just stay put, because as you move you're exponentially increasing the search area required to find you. It's heavily implied in the movie that they are being influenced by the witch to make dumb decisions which ultimately lead them to the house to be murdered.
They were already trapped in an endless forest dimension by that point.
BWP was the first bootleg I ever watched and because of the shaky cam being hand-filmed from a theater I only ever watched it once because it made me physically ill. I don't know why I'm posting, I'm going back to my own time tomorrow so I guess I just wanted you to remember me a bit. See ya.
>I'm going back to my own time tomorrow so I guess I just wanted you to remember me a bit. See ya.
1999?
The cast and director are doing a convention appearance in Orlando soon. Cool they’re opening up to the movie again
>Cool they’re opening up to the movie again
and the still being ignored by the Production companies
This movie is fricking stupid.
It was fricking stupid then and it's fricking stupid now.
You're fricking stupid if you like this movie.
Don't @ me, fricking stupid idiot.
>better put every sentence on a separate line because i'm learning disabled
Ermm it created a whole genre. Your not about to tell me that found footage movies are stupid now are ye?
His not?
Reminder:
Studios always fricking things up.
What movie?
>all the fat nerds with diabeetus talking about blood sugar
lmao
Why does it matter if he got rid of the map? They already lost, they were in the witch dimension
Its like complaining someone got rid of your snorkel when youre already 100 ft underwater
>WHAT IS THE GOD-DAMN HOLDUP MR. SOBEL?
>A witch, sir! Um, God... a Blair witch!
>Oh, that dog just ain't gonna hunt. Now, you burn that witch and get this goddamn platoon on the move.
>dig massive hole near a river
>start a massive forest fire
>laugh as witch burns to death and is sent to hell
Was heather safer with men or a bear in the forest?
Witch wildcard, upends the whole deal. Damn contrarian witches
Maybe witch can't control bears and they would rip her to SHREDS
The men she was with were her FWB (as is implied by the whiskey scene at the hotel.) They loved her in their own way. They would never hurt her.
>not the heckin mapperino !
Are the sequels worth watching? I usually hate horror but I loved this movie. Well, I wouldn't even classify this as horror. It was such a unique film. I don't know anything about the sequels but I get the vibe they are less special.
Book of Shadows is an extremely flawed sequel with some good ideas and it’s good for some late 90s nostalgia. Blair Witch 2016 is terrible.
sequels are not good and barely related. if you're the type to watch any old horror shit you might enjoy them
Book of shadows was completely different but had some cool ideas and wasn't bad for what it is. Some meta before it was common. That zoomer Blair witch was homosexual shit.
Despite being universally panned Blair Witch 2 is probably one of my favorite psychological horror films. I heard that the producers were constantly interfering with what the director was trying to achieve. Blair Witch 3 was unimaginative garbage, literally just a remake of the first movie but you get to see the witch at the end.
Yeah, it doesn’t help that it was cranked out in less than a year after the original movie.
Watch all the mocumentaries about the film. The Burketsville 7 is the only one I can remember. If you search it on IMDB you should be able to find the rest of them.
Curse of the Blair Witch is the name of the companion mocumentary that aired on Sci-Fi shortly before the movie came out.
Blair Witch is the most entertaining and effective the first time you watch it. It's a real fun movie to introduce people to if they haven't seen it and don't know anything about it.
I always figured they were no longer in their own reality from when they find the three cairns stacked outside their tent.
Why is this film so fricking comfy?
It's from a better time, before zoomers
The beginning where they're actually shooting the documentary is so comfy.
like a horse's fur
Man I just checked out some clips all the way to the ending, I cannot believe how affecting the ending still is. Hair raising, felt my blood pressure rise and heartbeat quicken. What a movie.
first saw it on ifc in 2014 when it was 15 and I was almost 12 and it did creep me out some but thought it was more cool. I like that it just seems like a video recorded in real life. Paranormal activity comes close but for some reason Blair witch just has that realness. The promoting for it was pretty cool and part 2 is pretty bad but fun and is pretty 2000. 3 was ok but like most other found footage ones.
If I was in that forest with my drinking buddies, it wouldn't have went down like it did.
There would have been a lot of witch blood in that house and then me saying "OK, we're going to hold a raging kegger here. Don't worry."
>OUTTA MY WAY WITCH FRICKING SHITS
>"OK, we're going to hold a raging kegger here. Don't worry."
Based. I bet the witch would have come out to get slammed both alcoholically and physically.
ZOG propaganda to make goyim afraid of nature
>NOOOOOO GOY DONT GET IN TUNE WITH YOUR ARYAN HERITAGE STAY AWAY FROM THE HECKIN FOREST ITS WHERE HECKIN SATAN DWELLS! STAY IN THE ~~*BIG CITY*~~ THATS THE ONLY PLACE YOU CAN FEEL SAFE!
Bit of a stretch. Witches are western cultural folklore, this movie only starts Whites, it's White culture. You would only believe that message to be the takeaway if you thought witches were real and magical. You don't believe that right?
Forget it anon it's Cinemaphile
>You would only believe that message to be the takeaway if you thought witches were real and magical. You don't believe that right?
We can't be too careful
every girl I watched this with hated the woman in the movie
also not sure if it's related but I got laid every time I watched this with a girl
loved this movie
>every girl I watched this with hated the woman in the movie
Why?
For me, it's the Blair Thumb.
A homie like me would have built my own symbols and put them in a straight path and just walk straight for as long as possible because the only way Im not getting out of the forest eventually is 1. I get off the path and 2. Im being looped by some magical prostitute. In the second case Ill see the landmarks that I made
They had no idea where they were on the map and there were no landmarks so it was useless anyway.
I saw this movie when I was 12. my older cousins had a ratty ass tape covered in dirt and told me they found it in the woods. shit scared the hell out of me and I couldn't sleep for the rest of the week until my mom got my cousins to come tell me that's it just a movie and that they're all actors and they're all still alive. it was truly a different time.
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Zoomies get confused about this movie because they think the internet didn't exist until after 2010.