25 years ago. Who had the bejesus scared out of them, and who laughed hysterically?

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Kenneth_Lay@reddit

The amount of people who thought this was real was amazing.

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Problematic_Daily@reddit

Ah, so it’s been 25 years since I last entered the woods.

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They all kinda got fucked. The filmmakers sold it for 1.something million to the distributor with no backend deal, movie when on to make $450million. Heard she changed her name and started working at weed grow-op, pretty sure none of them acted again, certainly not in the way that they had hoped at least I’d presume.

Got most of this info the The Rewatchables podcast which attempts to be accurate albeit armchair research with humor. They just did an episode on The Blair Witch Project

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Picmover@reddit

I think Heather Donahue was in an episode of Outer Limits in like 2000. I vaguely remember the show plugging her staring in an episode.

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Aigean333@reddit

They weren’t the only ones that got screwed on that deal.

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chamrockblarneystone@reddit

Soooo I went to see this early on when the line between documentary and movie was still debatable. I was watching it with my best friend who totally didn’t believe it was real, but at the time was desperately trying to quit smoking.

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bionicjoe@reddit

21 miles is a LONG way in the woods without a trail. Actually it's almost impossible.
People get lost for days all of the time only a few miles from roads or towns.
A woman got lost in Hawaii for 3 days on a very simple trail.

No one told him to shut up except me, but everyone was laughing along including myself. Still a great movie though

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Following moving water means you paid attention in HS history when they taught every civilization was near water. So if you are pre NCLB, (which these characters would be) you were still taught critical thinking in school and can extrapolate that if you are looking for civilization, follow the water.

Darkdragoon324@reddit

Pretty sure "actual scary witch magic" was supposed to be the takeaway, but it's also been a long time since i've seen it.

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arcxjo@reddit

That was one of the few pieces of life advice my grandfather ever gave me that remained not bullshit since the bicentennial.

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leadfarmer154@reddit

I grew up in Frederick MD. You're not getting lost out there. Although the theory was the witch was playing tricks on them.

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thewaytowholeness@reddit

No, but the term “conspiracy” is not one that Xennials throw around like other generations do in my experience.

Con means “with”

I had to leave in the middle to throw up.

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metachrysanthemum@reddit

Truth! Shaky camerawork makes me violently ill.

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ThatEvanFowler@reddit

Coming out of that movie is one of my favorite theater experiences. People looked genuinely shaken (I refuse to say "shook" when we still have "shaken"... but I will settle for "stirred"). Like, there were people who visibly appeared as though their entire conception of reality had been shattered and were now stumbling out, blinking and defenseless, like newborns, into a cruel and unknowable world that they no longer trusted, nor recognized.

I 100% did because beanie chick was annoying af

russellamcleod@reddit

It was such a big cultural thing though. I was definitely like 12 and my whole family had to go see it because it was the talk of the town.

I ended up loving it even though it was horrifying but I still find it funny that my parents took me and my brother to see an R Rated movie based on hype alone.

There are a couple of movies that you had to see the day it was released to really enjoy it. Blair Witch Project spooked me at the time. They even had the website that made it look like these people were still missing so if you tried to look up the story online afterwards, it still looked real.

The other movie you had to see when it opened was Snakes on a Plane for totally different reasons.

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MozartTheCat@reddit

What different reason? I've never seen snakes on a plane

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Not_Rob_Walton@reddit

You really had to be there. The marketing for Snakes on a Plane was out of control. After Samuel L. Jackson signed on to the movie, they tried to change the title to "Flight 768" or something, and he demanded the original title of Snakes on a Plane, or he was leaving the production.

The movie had a message board where the studio interacted pretty heavily with fans of the movie during production. The biggest example was someone suggested that Samuel L. Jackson say, "Enough is enough! I've had it with these mother fucking snakes on this mother fucking plane!" It got such a positive response that the studio brought Jackson back to the set to film the line, and they included it in the movie.

They also had a website where you could enter someone's name and phone number, and that person would get a call from Samuel L. Jackson to see the movie. It was pre-recorded, but you'd get a call like, "Listen, Mozart. This is Samuel L. Jackson, and you need to get off your ass and see my newest movie..." I don't remember the message, but it was super funny.

There was a movie review that said, "I don't know how to explain the phenomenon of Snakes on a Plane. The line for movie tickets is wrapped around the theater. There was a person that lifted his shirt over his head and started running laps around the theater yelling, 'Snakes!' What movie can cause people to act this way? Snakes on a Plane."

idleat1100@reddit

Yeah I saw it in an art house theater in Phoenix, shown to a smaller audience as a documentary (no artifacts though). But they had an emcee preface the nature of the footage as real.

Near the end we didn’t buy it, but man they had us going for most of the movie. Really fun and totally unsettling.

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deanereaner@reddit

Was that before or after they showed the trailer on TRL?

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PistachioGal99@reddit

I had a friend like you who insisted I go see it with him. I had just returned from 6 months overseas and still had jet lag and was told it was a doc. By the end, I figured it couldn’t be real, but I was very freaked out for a good 2/3 of it.

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karaloveskate@reddit

I was bored by it. I heard so many good things about it and I was severely disappointed.

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Bobbybobinsonbob@reddit

Definitely understand how you can be bored from it, for me though it was the movie letting your imagination do the work that made it good. The whole movie I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the first jump scare, always looking super close at my screen trying to see something in the woods.

It’s that feeling of being in the ocean and knowing something is below you but you can’t see it.

Was 15 when I saw it in the theater (I snuck in by buying a ticket for something else). Woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back, so I just waited until it started getting light out. Thank God this was released in the summer.

Saw this in theaters with my dad and step mom while I was with them for the weekend. My weekend room had a window above the bed and a tree outside… I stared at that tree for so long that night and was sure I was gonna get abducted.

TheSteving@reddit

I went on the website opening night before i bought tickets, so yeah. They had me going for a bit.

Til I went back online and realized I had been duped.

Worth it, I guess...

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Duskscope@reddit

I thought this was real the first time I watched it……

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TopProfessional8023@reddit

Never saw it

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I somehow missed seeing this when it was first released in theaters, but I remember my friends saying that it wasn't scary, just nauseating. I finally got around to watching it just a few years ago, and I really liked it a lot. watching it has become my Halloween tradition. I understand why some people don't like this movie, but I think it works really well.

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Lostarchitorture@reddit

A coworker of mine at Astroworld touted this as the greatest movie ever. I believe it was playing at River Oaks theater at that time.

The unsteady, constant shakiness of the camera, on a huge screen in a dark room, really gave such a headache for me. I had to look away or close my eyes every now and then because my head would hurt trying so hard to follow what exactly was going on on the screen.

Today it's pretty easy on the much smaller flat-screen in a brighter room at home, but first-time vibes in the theater gave such a pounder for my head trying so hard to follow along.

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CMFC99@reddit

Ha! You were probably there right around the same time I was! I think I caught it on the 2nd or 3rd night after it premiered at the River Oaks Theater. Did y'all have to wait in a line outside the theater for it? I remember we did and had a couple of flasks of vodka and a weed pipe, so we got our minds right for the show.

And yes! A huge shout out to Astroworld! RIP! I really used to love going to Fright Nights around Halloween 🎃

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Lostarchitorture@reddit

It was like a Tuesday or Wednesday night, mid October. Couldn't do any Friday/Sat/Sun showing because of hours working FrightFest at Astroworld.

I actually had a friend who got super obsessed with this before it came out and before it became a big deal and we saw it an independent theater on opening night. Technically pre-opening.

I was confused and weirded out and creeped out.

This was the first and only non-imax movie that made me motion sick. I do remember seeing it matinee with a coworker at lunch because we could. Then went to see something else that evening but can't remember what. I miss free time.

This guy asked me out, and he took me to see this movie for our first date.

I fucking loved it, and we seemed to really hit it off. I was therefore perplexed at first when I didn’t hear from him again. I guess I figured I’d been ghosted, although we didn’t use the term “ghosted” back then.

Fortunately, it turned out he hadn’t ghosted me! I later learned he merely killed himself at home later the same night.

So maybe he actually ghosted me after all?

Anyhow, I’ll never watch that movie again.

And now I’ll always be stuck wondering if he’d still be here if I’d agreed to accompany him home and have sex with him.

_Sympathy_3000-21_@reddit

Went with some friends from work, who in turn brought other friends. It was playing at the local indie theater in our beach town, so after work we met up for drinks, where some other friends of friends showed up.

We all stood around on the sea wall and smoked a joint before the movie, and one of the friends of friends goes, “do you guys think this movie is going to be really scary? I took like 5 hits of blotter.”

We’re all like, uh yeah, I think it’s going to be scary.

I had a good view of this dude during the movie, and watching him slink further and further down in his seat as things got crazier and crazier was almost as good as the movie itself.

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ouijahead@reddit

That’s a lot of acid to just be sitting in a chair watching a scary movie.

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_Sympathy_3000-21_@reddit

Yeah none of us thought that sounded like a good idea.

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on_off_on_again@reddit

Any amount of acid is a lot to be watching any movie tbh

Just enough acid always made me too analytical and watching Across The Universe left me feeling like the movie, The Beatles, and entertainment in general was entirely contrived and formulaic.

So, I was 19, and my boyfriend got a bootleg copy a month or so before it came out in theaters. It was really dark, grainy, hard to see- like a true home movie. I was TERRIFIED.

If arguing teenagers annoy you, Blair Witch is the most annoying movie of all time.

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Was this before or after the stars went on the entire talk show junket to promote it?

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Redrose03@reddit

There was also a mocumentary on the History channel of all places and I remember teenage me fully convinced explaining to my family how it was very real lol

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Weird_Cantaloupe2757@reddit

IDK, I was 14 at the time and me and all my friends were mercilessly ripping on the people that thought it was real.

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hey-girl-hey@reddit

The Coen brothers say that Fargo was based on a true story in the opening credits. It wasn’t. It’s fun to mess with people a little bit when you make art

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HighOnGoofballs@reddit

I lived it, and only the stupidest of people thought it was real

It was the super gullible friends who fell for anything who believed it

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I used to buy one of my friends gift certificates for her birthday. An adult. Not a child.

There was a time where she’d eat Micky Ds for breakfast on her way to work, lunch because it was close to her work and for supper on her way home from work.

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PerseusZeus@reddit

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Laugh?

I didn’t understand why this movie was scary.

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Affectionate_Try7512@reddit

Standing in the corner facing the wall still freaks me tf out! My ex did that to me and few days after seeing the movie and I was so scared!

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OregonResident@reddit

I still get a little scared in the scenes when they hear smashing rocks in the distance. Anyone who grew up in forested environments and went camping knows how bad of news it is to hear anything that distinct and aggressive in the middle of the night.

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zaxisprime@reddit

Ugh! 25 years ago, this film told Hollywood that what people loved was shaky cam footage and every fucker out there put it in their film and ruined cinema for like 15 years.

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

I was bored stiff.

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cmkenyon123@reddit

It was a fantastic movie but the only thing scary was how fucked they got on royalties! Comes from a horror buff so didn't even once think it was real.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/blair-witch-project-cast-robbed-financial-success-1236033647/

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evilandie66@reddit

Loved this

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BlueSky2777@reddit

I laughed!

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doocurly@reddit

Your math is off. It was 30 years ago they disappeared and 29 since the footage was found.

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PopcornDemonica@reddit

This one will get buried, but... I have a friend who knows someone famous. His famous friend gave him a copy of BWP, an early rough edit before all the hype had started. And it arrived on a battered VHS tape, with a shaky, hand-written label.

We watched that thing knowing nothing about the film, and I hugged a pillow like it was a teddy bear, and we blustered and laughed afterwards while pretending we hadn't been so scared our souls almost left our bodies. Shit, halfway through we turned the lights on, and pretended that was totally not an admission of fear.

People say that with movies you need to see things on the big screen to get the full impact. BWP, I believe the best way is on a shitty old VHS tape. With no foreknowledge of the film and a protective pillow.

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jbarn02@reddit

Oh yes the “Blair Witch Project”

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WholeLog24@reddit

Still haven't seen it. One of my friends was one of "those" fans, and she was absolutely convinced it was real and those kids died and nothing could change her mind. Drove me bonkers. I'm like, these mutherfukers have an IMDB page! They're actors! There's pictures of them taken since the movie came out!

My in-laws were working overseas for a year when the movie came out, so they completely missed all the news about it. They get back to the US, and go to a video store to catch up on the movies they’d missed. The clerk, discovering they hadn’t heard of Blair Witch, stone-face says “oh, it’s an interesting documentary about the history of witches on the East Coast…”

Scared the crap out of them.

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BullfrogComplete6985@reddit

Their acting was so bad

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javerthugo@reddit

I think it must have been scarier in the theater. When I watched on tape at 17 it was just a bunch of people swearing in the woods.

ihoptdk@reddit

With the exception of an inappropriate movie when I was 6 years old, horror has never scared me. And I love horror, I literally seek out horror that can, but just doesn’t.

And since I wasn’t scared, and I was a film buff at the time, I watched the credits and saw the work of fiction statement. So fake horror is even less frightening than unexplained real events.

25 years ago? sir 1994 was 30 years ago

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Principatus@reddit

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ghostlykittenbutter@reddit

I didn’t get this movie. People ran around a forrest afraid of something. Still not sure what. Then someone found some sticks and the movie ended?

Typical_Dweller@reddit

Supernatural stuff aside, I do appreciate how the film accurately captures being stuck in an emergency situation with a) other people who don't know what to do, b) people you don't know especially well, and therefore can't trust, and c) the spiral of panic, blame, spite, anger, desperation, and despair as these people accelerate each others' irrational decisions. People like to armchair quarterback "what I would do" in that scenario, without accounting for the social dynamics at play.

In some ways the scenario might be easier if any of the characters were alone... maybe. Or they'd just get picked off faster by the witch, I dunno.

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Brilliant_Decision52@reddit

I dont think there was surviving that scenario, they literally kept constantly looping while going in a straight line, they were dead the second they entered the forest.

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Typical_Dweller@reddit

It is mildly interesting thinking about the geography of the area and how much/how little the witch entity controls. Is there a clear "border" where its influence ends?

I have only seen the first and second films, not the latest one, nor have I played any video game spin-offs, so it's entirely possible this has been answered at some point.

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Brilliant_Decision52@reddit

I have heard the other films are pretty bad so I didnt wanna ruin the first one for me, but just from watching the movie, werent there certain idols and such strewn around the forest? Could be once you go beyond the boundary of those you are stuck looping forever.

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C4Sidhu@reddit

Honestly I don’t think there was any superstitious stuff going on in the movie. I’m pretty sure the two men conspired to kill her, or at least I am very convinced by Film Theory’s hypothesis.

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SpaceMonkee8O@reddit

I agree. The tension between them all was very realistic to me. They seemed like people I knew.

somewhat-damaged@reddit

Arrived at the theater having never heard of this movie. Left the theater wondering if it was real. Went to the website, which played into the movie. For a week I thought it was all real until coworkers told me it wasn't.

Best movie experience of my life.

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LasagnahogXRP@reddit

Legit spooky vibe regroups marketing mostly. The movie is ok.

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nrobfd@reddit

Watched this right before we took a bunch of young scouts on a backpacking trip. It was a great time.

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crossedx@reddit

My girlfriend made us leave early

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PromiscuousMNcpl@reddit

I watched this movie with three friends in the back of my friend’s parent’s van on a 15” black and white TV in the middle of the woods in October.

External-Animator666@reddit

I feel like this is one of the few horror movies that actually scared me a little that I've seen in theaters.

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GastonJ86@reddit

One of the worst movies of all time.

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Informal-Cobbler-546@reddit

I don’t like horror films (never have, never will) but a friend convinced me to go with her and her boyfriend. Hated the movie. Totally terrified me. Slept with the lights on all night. I think I was a junior in high school.

The next morning, my mom wakes me up in a total panic, asking if I know what happened to our front yard.

My “friend” had recreated those little stick figures and hung them up in our trees. She had her boyfriend carve symbols from the movie into our lawn. They left a sack of bloody meat on our doormat.

I should have taken it as a clue that she was a garbage person but for some reason I stayed friends with her for like 7 more years.

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Jack0Trade@reddit

I feel like this was a touchstone for how out of the loop you were in the 90’s.

You either got to experience it before everyone found out and could be scared OR you had to fake like you knew after someone else brought it up.

I apologized for suggesting it to my friends. Waste of money and a waste of time.

I laughed. Harder as we left the theater and a tree branch touched my friend, and she screamed, jumped, and did her danmdest to crawl outta her skin... 😅

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therealpopkiller@reddit

I went to the same film school as the Haxan guys. Still friends with a couple of them. Even have a stickman made by the original designer. I went to a 25th anniversary screening a couple months ago and really marveled over the achievement. Blair was such an incredible phenomenon that will never happen again, and it really kinda belongs to our sub-generation.

Marcapls21@reddit

I just saw this for the first time last night. 15 year old video goddamn that’s older than most people on Reddit

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wwarhammer@reddit

There's no such thing as a good "found footage" film. Because found footage means bad audio and unusable video.

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andsendunits@reddit

I missed out on the ad campaign saying it was "real". I saw it when it came out and it never crossed my mind that it was true.

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iqisoverrated@reddit

Neither.

overladenlederhosen@reddit

I recently showed it to my kids (teenagers and no strangers to scary movies) but I used a projector and Bluetooth speaker running off a car battery and projected on to a sheet in the middle of the woods.

It was promoted as found footage. They had an "FBI missing persons" website for the people in the movie - keep in mind this was in 1999 before the internet was really established.

It didn't come out that it was fake until maybe a week after the movie was released. If you saw the movie on opening night, the movie studio did a really good job of making you think it was real found footage with their specific, targeted marketing effort around the movie.

MartyFreeze@reddit

I was bored, myself. It didn't get interesting until the final sequence and then it suddenly ended.

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snakeoilHero@reddit

When they were booed off stage trying to accept their movie's award, I think the actors started to realize the "prank" may have been too good.

Some people sold sticks and twine trash on eBay as "official Blair Witch" merchandise. I remember peak hype era like it was Beanie Baby yesterday.

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I did listen to a pod that deep dived the making of the movie recently so I watched it for the second time and can appreciate a little more what they were trying to do. But it will never really work great for me.

Especially with how utterly fucked the actors were by the whole thing.

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greenwoodgiant@reddit

I saw this movie with my dad at the last showing of the night in a theater at the mall - when we got out we had to walk through the darkened closed mall to get to our car and it was so fuckin creepy. Loved the movie.

I’m not prone to motion sickness, but this movie taught me that shaky cam footage makes me throw up.

I saw this movie in the theater when I was 15. Walking out with my girlfriend, a dude was hiding just outside the theater entrance in a costume, jumping out and scaring people.

The true horror in this movie didn't hit until I was camping with my friends off-grid 3 weeks later. Suddenly, that movie went from creepy to fueling my nightmares of the unknown just outside of the edge of the campfire light.

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TechieGarcia@reddit

This was filmed in my county and I was in high school when it came out. I found it funny instead of creepy since I'd been in those woods in my life.

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pissboner77@reddit

Lamest movie I have ever seen.

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Glittering_Cook_5827@reddit

I was horrified and definitely thought it was real.

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Quite frankly. I was bored by that movie. Maybe because I had high expectations.

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quick_bread_artist@reddit

My favorite part was the toddler who kept trying to cover her mom’s mouth because, to her, Mom was telling a scary story about a real witch. You can’t buy that acting.

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Mindless_Stranger511@reddit

Still the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

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Dude-from-the-80s@reddit

I left the theatre with a headache. This was by far the most terrible movie I ever sat through.

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Careless-Village1019@reddit

Lame

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kalsainz@reddit

I remember seeing this with a girl who used to enjoy horror stuff which is never been my thing and when it ended, just thinking “that was it”

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RainWindowCoffee@reddit

That film was my first experience with getting incredibly nauseous from shaky cam. I legitimately did not realize the film was causing it at first, I thought I must be coming down with something. I rushed out of the theater to go throw up but once I was in the lobby I felt fine again.

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Reagannite1981@reddit

I just got motion sickness watching it. It was a neat idea, but I never watched it again after seeing it in the theater.

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GrantSRobertson@reddit

I kind of went to go see that movie just to see how terrible it could possibly be. I was absolutely shocked that it could be so much more terrible than I could possibly imagine.

The worst part about the whole thing was it proved that you could hype up a piece of crap and a bunch of people would fall for it. We've been living in THAT nightmare ever since.

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Hyperion1144@reddit

The truly scarey thing about that movie were the terrible, one-sided contracts the three stars got roped into.

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ThisIsFrigglish@reddit

I watched this when it was new. A good spooky "lost in the woods" movie, but I was absolutely baffled why everyone was so amped up about the ending. It just seemed to... end.

It was only earlier this year that I read someone talking about the townsfolk telling the story of the man forced to stand in the corner of the room while the witch tore his friend to pieces. I had completely forgotten that detail, because the interviews struck me as local folklore that would eventually be proven wrong when the kids tried to rely on it.

I think for it’s time it was genius. Their incredibly small budget, the way they marketed it and using actors nobody knew made it so believable. It was a different experience watching it as a kid and thinking it is real footage.

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CSWorldChamp@reddit

I was a Boy Scout growing up, and the stupid mistakes they were making in the woods really took me out of the film.

CaveJohnson82@reddit

I genuinely didn't watch it until about five years ago and it still spooked me.

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gatsome@reddit

Had to bribe an adult to buy us tickets since it was rated R. Then by chance we found another adult to pretend to be our parent/guardian since they had an usher posted at the auditorium door.

Worth it. That final shot still creeps.

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TopRedacted@reddit

I played an arcade machine in the lobby because that crap made me motion sick.

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

Both. "I, I. I kicked the map into the creek!"

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LurkeyHalleck@reddit

Opening week of the limited run (before the public even knew for sure it wasn’t a real documentary) I told my two friends about it and we showed up to the Tara Theater in Atlanta, where we were informed that every showing was wildly sold-out. On the way home on 285, a guy on a massive Goldwing was within arms-reach of me in the next lane and just ate shit out of nowhere. I looked back and watched the bike slide off the road and smash into the wall while the guy, clearly badly injured, tried to scramble to the shoulder and out of busy highway traffic.

A couple weeks later the movie opened wide and we went to see it at a massive stadium theater to a completely packed house…with broken AC. It was sweltering and miserable before the showing even started but the film was such a phenomenon by that point that the whole crowd stayed. Then the film started and the shaky-cam immediately started making people nauseated. If anyone puked in the theater I wouldn’t know because it already smelled so bad, but there was tons of noise and walkouts.

So, as far as horror movies go, it was as cursed as possible, 10/10.

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jmac11281@reddit

I didn't laugh. Nor was I scared. I thought the movie was incredibly boring.

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313SunTzu@reddit

I remember watching this at the movies and leaving so confused. I asked the ticket guy if it was the right movie cuz it looks like someone's VHS tapes.

I literally asked "did they accidentally show the rough draft? Is this the unedited version? Is there a final copy that's an actual movie?"

The dude looked at me like I was stupid and said "that's just how the movie is..."

I was so fucking confused. It wasn't until like 6 months later when the rumors and urban legends started swirling did I realize that was the whole point.

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Slept with my light on for four days.... Haven't camped since😬🙃

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NYK-94@reddit

That movie was awful.

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ItsCaptainTrips@reddit

Yea I was way too young to watch this. I was 9.

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Any-Effort3199@reddit

I laughed hysterically. This movie was not scary at all. I saw it with my husband and BIL and we kept looking at each other like, “when is the scary part?” The best was the end where the guy looks like he’s peeing in the corner! 😂

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neanderthalman@reddit

Neither? I immediately thought the entire premise and marketing was stupid and it shocked me at just how gullible people were.

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jambr380@reddit

Saw it with a couple of friends on opening weekend in a completely sold out theater. Every single person thought it was real footage. We were speechless. I imagine it made a huge difference whether or not you knew it was fake.

Blair Witch 2 is awesome btw if you haven’t seen it. Different format, but surprisingly well done

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Mobile-Boss-8566@reddit

A house in the middle of the woods? Let’s go inside 😳let’s not and say we did.

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donat3ll0@reddit

I remember watching it and not understanding if it was real or staged. It still scared me.

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PrincessMagDump@reddit

I was just confused at the end, I couldn't figure out what was supposed to be so scary about the guy just standing around in the basement.

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often_awkward@reddit

I went to school way up in the upper peninsula of Michigan. We went and saw this movie when I was a sophomore. It was four of us - two couples basically. None of us knew anything about the movie because we lived in the Yoop in the '90s so obviously we all got a good scare out of it.

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IamTroyOfTroy@reddit

I don't think I ever even saw all of it. I watched most of the second one on TV though, iirc.

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YarnBunny@reddit

I wanted to be scared, but the music from Run Away Bride was playing too loud

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Vargen_HK@reddit

When the movie came out my actual summer job was teaching the Wilderness Survival merit badge to Scouts at camp.

Feel-good comedy of the year. Those idiots made for some great examples of what not to do.

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yowza_wowza@reddit

It was a fun shared, cultural experience.

The last time Blair Witch came up in this sub I asked my husband and he said something along the lines that he and his friends thought it was real and went to the theatre to see it and were freaked out by it. My experience was different, my friends and I heard a ton about how scary it was and that it was real and expected something really frightening, but when we actually saw it, we walked away thinking that it wasn’t scary and definitely wasn’t real.

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My sister laughed at me for being terrified until she watched it a few days later in the theatre and made me sleep in her room for a few days.

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