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@a1superfantastic 9 месяцев назад

Fun fact: the original version of the film was shot on a budget of around $50K, then was shopped around at the Sundance Film Festival, where Artisan Entertainment paid about $1M for distribution rights. Ultimately, the film grossed $250M at the box office, making it one of the most profitable films ever made percentage-wise.

@baconatorrodriguez4651 5 месяцев назад

Wow. That is fun.

@xavvi 9 месяцев назад

Context is necessary for this movie - it was marketed in the infancy of the internet as a legitimate found footage documentary, with supporting TV spots and a website that made it seem real. In that respect, if you had gone to the theater under the belief that what you were seeing was real footage that had been found and cleaned up you would have shit your pants.

@simoneliashaddad 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, they had me in ’99 until the one guy said he threw away the map. By the end of the movie I felt tricked into buying the tickets.

@jademermaidmusic 9 месяцев назад

Exactly. I knew people who thought the movie was real footage

@marchammer1364 9 месяцев назад

I was young at that time and owned a pirated VHS Tape of poor quality and really fell for this masterpiece of innovative film making. Sure, kind of ridiculous nowadays but the mystery of the witch plus the perfect use of internet or even a book made it work

@justinrutledge822 9 месяцев назад

Came here to say exactly the same thing.

@dasta7658 9 месяцев назад

I saw this in 99 and I and many others never believed it was real. The only sh!t was I was bored sh!tless I couldn't wait for it to finish. Such a crap, boring movie and Dawn Marie did well to react to this rubbish.

@BouillaBased 9 месяцев назад

A lot of credit for the growth of independent film can go to this film, as well as the "found footage" genre as a whole.

@Philistine47 9 месяцев назад

Thankfully, the "found footage" fad mostly burned itself out pretty quickly.

@MrVvulf 9 месяцев назад

@@Philistine47 I mostly agree, but there were a few gems. "Chronicle" comes to mind.

@dr.burtgummerfan439 9 месяцев назад

(laughs in Cannibal Holocaust)

@BouillaBased 9 месяцев назад

Yes, Deodato had a head start of a couple decades on the popularity of "found footage" films. But it wasn't nearly as much of a financial success as Blair Witch. Even today, it's touted more as a film you should *avoid* watching, rather than being a regular suggestion for new viewers.

@Mark-xx3gh 7 месяцев назад

Except for the fact that “The Last Broadcast” did the exact same thing with the exact same plot first.

@Xervello 9 месяцев назад

This movie empowers the viewer's imagination to scare themself. If you don't participate, well, there ya go. Not for everyone. But still one of the best horror movies of all time.

@Utonian21 9 месяцев назад

Exactly. Similar to ghost movies; when you actually show what the demon looks like, it takes something away from the movie. The fact that the witch is never actually seem makes it scarier

@davidhuggan6315 9 месяцев назад

I agree 100%. Some people seem to have no imagination. Being lost in the woods with no mobile reception, and it is now day 2 is the scariest thing that can actually happen to most of us. It would be terrifying. Then actually hearing something at night - which would just be other people, but why aren't they coming to help?? - utterly terrifying. I mean, I can be walking along a bush walk with my kids in the middle of the day, and if an unusual group of people walk towards us, my heart rate picks up in case they are going to be a bit weird.

@GeeksaMusing 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely agree! Not for everyone, but one of my favorites as well!

@Agent.Bob58 9 месяцев назад

This film did something very clever at the time of release. They took full advantage of the infancy of the Internet, they put profiles on missing persons websites, and the three actors didn't even appear at the premier to maintain the found footage illusion. It wouldn't work today with all the social networking online but at the time there was only basic websites. Great reaction Dawn 👍

@adampare8088 9 месяцев назад

Excellent point Bob. I fell for it in the 90's thinking it was real. Also (brace yourself whoever's reading this)...I enjoyed Blair Witch 2 a lot as well.

@campusmartius8450 9 месяцев назад

@@adampare8088 They also listed the 3 actors as Deceased on IMDb which helped convince people it was real.

@richardb6260 9 месяцев назад

The actors didn't make any appearances for weeks after the premiere. Their first public appearance was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The fact that they wanted audiences to think it was real didn't sit well with me. They basically marketed it as a snuff film.

@winstonmarlowe5254 9 месяцев назад

@@richardb6260that's not what a snuff film is

@richardb6260 9 месяцев назад

@@winstonmarlowe5254 didn't say it was one. I said it was marketed as one. They implied that viewers were going to see real people getting killed.

@miker.9138 9 месяцев назад

This is one of those movies where I feel you had to be there at the time. All the hype surrounding it, the (silly to think of now) belief by a lot of people that it was real footage, etc. played a big part into the enjoyment of the film.

@carm3d 9 месяцев назад

When I saw this in the theater I found it very creepy. The surround-sound effects were very discrete and in my opinion it adds to the overall effect.

@davidhuggan6315 9 месяцев назад

I still watch it every 2-3 years, and love it.

@danielcameron9857 9 месяцев назад

The aftermath was something that everyone knew because of the internet articles and news reports done across the country as a pre-setup to the movie. We were told the story of the missing hikers/college students that went missing in the woods. days later, they talked about the fact the students were there filming a documentary about the Blair Witch. Then we were told that police found the multiple tapes in a backpack at an abandoned house in the woods and that they were using a documentary studio to forensically restore and cut together the useable sections of tape into a cohesive image of what happened to them. Then the news about a theatrical release of the footage was in the works with a studio and that was how all the hype got built to begin with. When you said, "it was just getting good at the end", we all knew the gruesome details of the aftermath. The story about how it unfolded was so raw and so real... nothing had ever been released at this wide a scale before and so the effect was terrifying! I refused to go camping (something I loved doing) for years after this. BTW - the follow-up (Blair Witch 2) was more effects and story driven. It was more of a classical horror film with some really good specialFX and it brought the tale of the witch more into something easily imagined by the average viewer. I highly recommend watching it, if just to give this one a little redemption for the lore.

@jinyatta4103 9 месяцев назад

This brought back memories for me. I grew up 6 miles from Burkittsville and went camping and hiking in those woods all the time.

@PresentsCinema 9 месяцев назад

What I like about this girl is she's very honest and I appreciate it. it's not fake or the same type of rating other reactors do. She just shares her honestly

@kharma7755 9 месяцев назад

I'm FB friends with Heather and she's very much like that in real life... She's also a really great author, now

@AlderPeak Месяц назад

This is why she's my favorite reactor.

@floppyblanket2587 8 месяцев назад

I went into the theater thinking this was real. My friend had just told me about the documentary she saw about these 3 campers in the woods. So I was pretty freaked out watching it! I loved it.

@positivelynegative9149 9 месяцев назад

"Scotch hates you." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@wyldhowl2821 9 месяцев назад

This film was a bigger innovation at the time it was made, a sort of foundation of the "found footage" type of film. It was always really more like a glorified film student film, and it worked in that context (new ideas, very limited budget, sort of "film within a film" concept). I'd say it got more praise for that than it does today, and some things are definitely picked apart by people online these says (like 30 years of technology later). It spawned (at least style wise) many imitators in films, TV, and video games, so people retrocactively commenting on having seen some elements before is kind of lame. Lots of people found it entertaining, and lots of others found it slow and frustrating, even back then, but it caused a big stir at the time. I take the view that it was entertaining to see, but just once. You have to also realize it was made on a tiny budget, and then earned an absurd profit ratio as a result.

@artursandwich1974 9 месяцев назад

This film it was one of those I was genuinely scared during watching. I was even too scared to continue playing the game off it - I managed to play maybe half an hour.

@robertvenegas6113 5 месяцев назад

Hearing Dawn refer to a plaid/flannel shirt as "tartan" at 23:01 turns the Scottish-ness up to 11.

@Pjj3125 3 месяца назад

I was a teenager working in a cinema when this came out. Literally every showing there was someone running out of the theatre puking all over the place because of the motion sickness. Luckily I was busy manning a cash register, so I just got to stand and watch the floor staff cleaning it all. Fun times.

@Thewingkongexchange 9 месяцев назад

This was very effective at the time, especially the ending. Haven't seen it in years though, probably because the found footage stuff has been flogged to death since then.

@davidhuggan6315 9 месяцев назад

It still holds up IMO. My 16 year old daughter ranks it as one of her favourites and she has seen Halloween, Friday 13th, Paranormal Activity, Rosemarys Baby, The Fog etc...

@ryanje8147 5 месяцев назад

"Scotch hates you." LOL

@Otto42 9 месяцев назад

Agreed with the other commenters in that, in 1999, this movie was straight terrifying., watching it on a computer screen, pirated from the Internet. with no surrounding context. Without that context, this movie kinda doesn't make sense.

@Klee99zeno 9 месяцев назад

This horror film knows that what we DON'T SEE is more frightening that what we do see. I think we have become so accustomed to onscreen visual effects that there isn't anything we see in a movie that is really frightening anymore. A CGI monster with a gaping wide mouth is just too cliché now. We are more likely to just laugh at it.

@mikeydubbs8565 9 месяцев назад

That’s why this film and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are infinitely scarier than films like IT 2017 (even though it’s my second favorite novel of all time); the book was scary, the film was, meh

@godmagnus 9 месяцев назад

Movies aren't scary, but at least if they show something, then you get to see something cool

@sailinbob11 9 месяцев назад

The one, and extremely important, thing missing is the smell of death. Sure it's easy to sit on the couch knowing you're watching a movie but think about what bodies smell like especially in large numbers and extended periods of time. I'm not a adrenaline junkie, and not fond of drama. Got enough of that in my life. The old Dracula/Wolfman/Mummy/Frankenstein movies are Halloween enough for me. Wanna get scared ? Think of Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House of Representatives. That's horrifying enough.

@westcoast7429 9 месяцев назад

if you invest yourself in the story, movies can make you feel anything, including fear. not willing to invest oneself in the story could be considered a cowardly attempt at avoiding fear...

@lyndoncmp5751 9 месяцев назад

But she loved Jaws and that is what you don't see for most of the film. You can only get invested if the story and characters are good. In this film they are mediocre.

@samsquanch1996 7 месяцев назад

This film is amazing, it's famous for a reason! This wasn't the fist found-footage film, that credit goes to Cannibal Holocaust (terrible film, don't watch it), however Blair Witch was the film that turned found-footage into a genre instead of just a technique.

@dudermcdudeface3674 9 месяцев назад

Some things only work at a moment in time, because everything after is changed by it. This is one of those. It's a movie version of "Your favorite band's favorite band."

@averagejoe689 Месяц назад

"Scotch hates you." 😂😂😂😂 i knew you were gonna say that because of how much she was pissing you off 🤣😂🤣

@ScottGibbs 9 месяцев назад

I'm old enough that I saw this in the theater and that was an intense experience. All the extended scenes of total darkness and only sound were truly terrifying. I still remember the chills running down my back multiple times. lol

@alanh.7668 9 месяцев назад

It was a lot scarier in the theater.👍👍

@lyndoncmp5751 9 месяцев назад

I saw it at the cinema too. I thought it was so crap I wanted my money back. Not in the least bit scary.

@ScottGibbs 9 месяцев назад

@@lyndoncmp5751 "Agree to disagree." - Ron Burgundy

@lyndoncmp5751 8 месяцев назад

@@ScottGibbs Yes it's fine to disagree. Just pointed out my experience of seeing it in the cinema in my mid 20s was different to yours. Cheers though ✌

@Hellseeker1 9 месяцев назад

The one thing about these found footage things I can never get past is the bullshit excuses they use to keep filming.

@lifelover515 9 месяцев назад

The film is best watched in conjunction with its sister 'mockumentary', The Legend of the Blair Witch', rarely screened these days, which is 'professionally' put together and provides a lot of context. What I like about it is you never really see anything. It plays on your own imagination and is actually a study in the psychology of fear. It quite unnerved me back in the day. I watched it home alone in the dead of night with headphones on and it got to me, and I'm rhe type who regards all horror movies as comedies. Not this one.

@jpicard81 9 месяцев назад

Where can I find this sister mockumentary? I wanna see it. Is it called sticks and stones an exploration?

@richardb6260 9 месяцев назад

The documentary, which aired on The Sci Fi Channel the week the movie opened, was better than the actual movie. Much better.

@jpicard81 9 месяцев назад

@@richardb6260 name? Or link?

@lifelover515 9 месяцев назад

@@jpicard81 I saw it on VHS when the main attraction was released to video. The well made but lesser hyped mockumentary seemed to disappear from the rental shelves not long after. No idea if it was even made into DVD. Sorry that's all I know.

@robofwonder 9 месяцев назад

Within the context of its release and a brilliant viral marketing campaign it was pretty good, and the final minute callback to the opening interview really spooked me. Outside of being immersed in that, I don't know that it holds up particularly well. But certainly an icon of 90s popular culture for good reason. Lots of people going to see this really believed it was genuine found footage.

@o0pinkdino0o 9 месяцев назад

I was wondering how long it would take until Dawn stated she didn't like these people. This was a massive deal because it was the first "found footage" movie and had a campaign online (early days of social media) where they pushed the idea that it was real. Horror is subjective. What scares person A may not scare person B (like how we find different comedies funny.) Some people complained that this was the most boring film ever made. One professional reviewer was so scared that she had a panic attack in the premier. But essentially this is a film made on a shoestring budget (>$60,000) and grossed over $250 mil worldwide whilst launching a new genre of horror.

@Packard63 9 месяцев назад

At the time it was released it was one of those movies that hit the spot with a lot of people........ and fair enough some people just could not get into it........Dawn!

@stoneywankenobi 9 месяцев назад

Haha,yur preparing for the "Scary Movie" Comedy Spoof series of films,so hilarious 😂 Can't wait 😊

@josephmayo3253 9 месяцев назад

Scotch may hate the bossy girl, but I'm sure it loves Dawn and her reaction videos. The marketing of this movie at the time was amazing, and could never be replicated today. But the timing was perfect. Tiny production budget, huge box office. When this came out, I was skeptical, so I didn't bother to see it in theaters. I figured I would rent it when it came out on home video. By the time I saw it, I had heard that the actors appeared on MTV, so it never had the impact on me that it had on others. I was a bit disappointed. I couldn't believe there had been so much buzz over that. In the years since, I've come to appreciate the genius of the marketing campaign, and think that they did well with what little money was spent on it. But the actual movie itself is nothing to write home about. So I totally understand your reaction, Dawn. It was of its time only. This got referenced in Scary Movie, so I'm thinking that's what you watched it for.

@TheRManProds 9 месяцев назад

DAWN WAS SO FUNNY IN THE INTRO!

@EShelby2127 9 месяцев назад

Blair Witch Project marquee second line, at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle: "Go Stand in Your Corner"

@janetbaker645 9 месяцев назад

I learned a long time ago…if you don’t remember the direction you came from a compass will not help you find your way back…

@TheRManProds 9 месяцев назад

ONE OF THE BEST FOUND FOOTAGE MOVIES!

@louismarzullo1190 9 месяцев назад

9:05 That expression... I better stop there!🔥🦊

@dustyblack1855 9 месяцев назад

winning line, "Can you eat leaves? your poops might be a funky color."

@jsmithmultimediatech 4 месяца назад

The guy the lads referring to was think his name is Rustin Parr something like that, he supposedly had killed kids he thought the witch was telling him to kill and created like a network of tunnels under the house she was in or is meant to haunt, they all get taken out in at the end. The actual house is no more they used to film it in I think as well, before it got knocked down it was in really, really bad shape so I think they used another house for the 3rd one.

@warpath1911 9 месяцев назад

The thing that gets me is how many haters there are. I saw this in a fully packed theater. When the credits rolled it was dead silence for at least a minute or two. This was way back before everyone had access to the internet and you couldn't check the legitimacy of things you had to believe what you were told. So people really did think this was real. Nowadays people are so used to being spoon-fed everything it just doesn't hit as hard.

@aaronmurphy1485 9 месяцев назад

I thought this was stupid when I saw it in the theater back then, and I still think it is now

@markb742 9 месяцев назад

When The Blair Witch Project came out, there was all this hype about it among teenagers. When I got around to renting it, I thought it was confusing and boring. That Heather was a pain all the way through it, they didn't seem to have any real plans, and if they DID encounter this 'witch' they wouldn't know what to do anyway. I guess if they encountered hillbillies like in Deliverance, they'd at least learn how to squeal like a pig. 😙 I read that this movie was made for $38,000, or something like that, so since they made about 1 million profit on it, it was technically a blockbuster. There is a Blair Witch 2 out there, and it's shot in regular movie format instead of shaky-cam, but it's not worth watching.

@B-a-t-m-a-n 9 месяцев назад

For a person to watch this, you had to go through the whole internet hype I saw. We were told that this was found footage that was put together to make a full movie of this "project." I saw this movie alone, in a dark house, around this time of year, and my apartment was near some woods. The whole setup helped tremendously. Watch it in a brightly lit room and talk through it, and it loses most of the spice. Had I seen it in these conditions, I wouldn't have liked them either. The commentary was spot on, and you had me laughing, Dawn Marie, at your dislike of the girl.

@tareskisloki8579 9 месяцев назад

When this came out they made a big deal about how innovative it was, which personally I found frustrating because I remembered watching an alien invasion movie years before shot as found footage, and done almost complely in a single house, it was legitimately terrifying, but I've never been able to find it since.

@HonRevPTB 9 месяцев назад

OH MY GOD DAWN MARIE THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE WHEN HEATHER SAID SHE HATES SCOTCH WAS A LOOK OF PURE, I'LL EVISCERATE YOU!!!!!!! LMAO 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@patrickskramstad1485 9 месяцев назад

1:15 Well, since recently I have become old. I remember when this movie came out. To understand how different this movie was you'll have to understand what things were like with movies in general at the time. This movie came out in 1999. In the summer of 1996 it was declared to be the "billion dollar blockbuster summer." Now there are two perspectives of that statement that don't hold up today. One would be the term "billion" a billion dollars in 1996 was a ton of money, nowadays people are throwing around the "trillion dollar" term. Two: "Blockbuster" Blockbuster was a nation wide video rental store. It was common to rent a movie or a video game for the weekend and of course some movies and games had more hype. So in 1996 movies were getting bigger and bigger consequently more and more expensive. Independent film makers didn't seem to have a chance. The movie industry had something like a monopoly on entertainment. And, like many trends there was a backlash. People in general like to support the underdog. The budget for the "Blair Witch Project" was really small compared to other films and it broke the big movie trend. It was officially possible to make a film with unknown people and no expensive budget and get the audience to watch. This film made a ton of money. I hope this helps you understand the truth and if anyone wants to add anything to this conversation please do so. :)

@DevlinDomini 9 месяцев назад

This is what started me on reaction videos in the first place; horror movies in October. After a year of this, think I could do a pretty good Scottish accent by now.

@Stu-Vino 9 месяцев назад

The big question, Dawn Marie, is: who do you hate more? - Heather from Blair Witch Project - Princess Leia

@alecrichardson1949 9 месяцев назад

11:22 When you said "friendly ghost" I was expecting Casper. 👻🎃

@WOranos 9 месяцев назад

Found footage films have become commonplace since Blair Witch was released. They no longer carry with them that genuine documentary feel that this film had and audiences are very familiar with the genre. Modern audiences will never understand the impact Blair Witch had because they've seen it all before. I'm just glad that I was able to watch it 25 years ago when no one knew what to expect, instead of after I'd already become jaded.

@vov.7397 9 месяцев назад

Agreed. I saw this in the theater and it's one of the very few movies that actually scared me.

@arnie019 9 месяцев назад

The way they did the PR at the time people didn’t know if it was a movie or actual found footage

@ric8806 9 месяцев назад

Watched this for the first time in 2015 when I was a freshman in highschool. I was home alone and wearing some good ass headphones. Best and creepiest movie experience in my life. Its a shame you didn't like it. Like the joker said, ''You wouldn't get it''

@blakewalker84120 9 месяцев назад

19:20 Same log, not the same log, doesn't matter. Walk downstream until it flows into Copper Lake or the Potomac - both of those places are full of campers and hikers all year round except in deep snow, and none of them are more than 14 miles (22 km) away from where they are now - maybe much closer. That little tidbit comes from the same map they are looking at all the time. Every single time they found ANY creek, they were anywhere from 15 minutes to 6 hours away from humanity, downstream, guaranteed.

@zaftra 9 месяцев назад

It's also supposed to be filmed by amateurs on 16 mil, which essentially it was, people seem to think it should be expertly filmed, not the idea of it.

@mikeydubbs8565 9 месяцев назад

“There are piles of rocks outside of our tent” Thats what ya get for camping near a hippie festival. Wooks are gonna wook

@lawrencefine5020 9 месяцев назад

This was made when "found footage" movies were hot. And this scared the crap out many people. It was a smash hit with all the camera shaking, snotty nosed, apologetic, glory. I liked it back in 99. But it hasn't aged too well. But your reaction was fun.

@joannesuzieburlison7128 9 месяцев назад

You are cheering me up!

@TomorrowWeLive 9 месяцев назад

I think the best 'found footage'/faux-documentary style movie I've ever seen is Zero Day. Not exactly horror (though the subject matter, a school shooting, is horrific enough), but without doubt the most 'real'-seeming film I've ever watched, and very underappreciated.

@Driverbillybrennen Месяц назад

One theory is that the guys got the girl out to the woods to do what happened to her. The guys were behind the whole thing .

@hld836 9 месяцев назад

Your face when that character said she hated scotch! 🤣

@fubarghost13akawoz44 9 месяцев назад

The thing that they did to film this that made it so different to anything ever made was the method of how they filmed it. They gave the cast drop boxes for each day shooting in the woods in that box was food drinking water a map each person’s script and batteries and film etc for the recording equipment. The crew consisted of ex military and expert hunters and tracker’s who’s job it was to be the cause of noises and movements and leaving the drop boxes and the rocks wood dolls etc. the cast was then dropped off and told to just follow the orders in the drop boxes and not to break caricature for any reason other than life and death. And as they filmed they progressively got more broken information and scripts there was less food and things was left in a frustrating way like batteries not being in bags but the bag left on top of the batteries etc so this caused actual stress between the cast and each having a script that might not match the others causing confusion and arguments. So the reaction’s are more visceral and real. The items left was not told to the cast before filming and wasn’t left in any script so was a real surprise they was kept awake by unseen camouflaged men hiding in the woods so they wasn’t sleeping well and they did actually walk paths left in the drop box instructions that had them in circles but they thought they was going somewhere. When they had a member of the group go missing they was taken by camouflaged ex soldiers silently so it was a actual shock. And just as they was close to breaking point they let them film the ending imagine how it brought the emotions to the film. Don’t forget this is the era of the over the top teen acting so to actually feel real it was a achievement but because how real it felt it actually made people believe it was real found footage not just a movie. I get it today it’s hard to appreciate it at its fullest but when I watched this with my mates and then we went camping in the woods that night at one of my mates nan and grandads farm it did put us on edge “and we camped out regularly wasn’t afraid of the dark watched horrors and was fine” so to put us on edge was huge. It was all down to that technique. 🤙🏻

@neojc128 9 месяцев назад

this movie gets a lot of the found footage finer details wrong because they basically invented the genre as a horror movie style. That's why it was popular, they were the first to do it. But the shaky camera is a good example of the thing they later fixed in the genre because it would be a deal breaker for some

@psycloneranger2279 9 месяцев назад

movies arent real i never believed this movie was really found footage i watched it on halloween 99 and fell asleep during the first half however i got into the second half and it freaked me out as much as the ring , its about being able to suspend your beliefs for an hour or so . i still enjoy this movie. i am actually surpried by a lot of the commenters that say they watched this film believing it was actually found footage

@digitalassassin1 9 месяцев назад

Dog Soldiers is a must for spooky season

@trekranger 9 месяцев назад

This movie will either scare the hell out of you or you'll think it is stupid. It scared the hell out of me

@Chris_McC 9 месяцев назад

this wasn't the first "found footage" movie, but its the one that spawned the genre. Also, I notice it hasn't held up over time.

@MusicalBox 9 месяцев назад

I remember calling sick at work to go see the movie in the afternoon. The theater was practically empty. Considering that they made a very good marketing job at convincing us that it was "real events" and found footage, I confess that it was pretty scary watching it alone (or almost) in a very dark movie theater.

@danielcameron9857 9 месяцев назад

I got pulled in deep by the real-world tie-in/mystery surrounding this film. There was an internet campaign that discussed the disappearance of these college students. It included news reports with real local news anchors and on-scene reporters having recorded "news" spots about the incident. I, and many others, really wanted to believe this was a real story and a unique new form of investigation, drawing in people from across the country to assist in finding them. I ended up watching this in the theater twice before I found out it was fiction, and then went and watched it a third time after that. Besides that, I think you're planning to watch a found-footage spoof... Either Scary Movie, or the Scooby-Doo Project.

@danielcameron9857 9 месяцев назад

Also, this movie didn't have a script. They had recording equipment, a real map, a fake map, and each day-every actor got an envelope with a general plotline and list of things their character was to do for the day. They didn't know about things like the rock piles and the twig sculptures... Those were planted by the director and crew to augment the things the actors were supposed to say or do. It was really innovative and made a big impact on the concept of "found-footage" style movies.

@dvsreed 9 месяцев назад

With your love of comedy and Halloween coming you should watch Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. You would love her quit wit and sarcasm. And you would also love her big "personality"

@janetbaker645 9 месяцев назад

I saw it in the theater alone, my mother and daughter was watching Inspector Gadget….I was glad I didn’t get sea sick…if any motion makes you sick it’s not easy to watch… I never wanted to own it so I could rewatch it….like the 300 cds I have…

@earendilsenordelamuerte9963 7 дней назад

7:11 It was proved by the Police that certain group of people operated there.

@kimghanson 9 месяцев назад

What clearly exposes this as fiction is the map. If by the time they were heading back to the car, they didn't have the map completely memorized, then they were too stupid to use the map in the first place. Even the dullest dullard would know the map by that time. Whether they could correlate the map with their location is a different problem.

@verribarry 9 месяцев назад

"The Dawn WATCH Project"!

@mannygee005 9 месяцев назад

an awful movie? The phenomenon was that people convinced other people to go watch it. As people walked out of the theater they couldn't believe how awful it was but when they are asked about the movie they have nothing to say because they are shocked at how awful it was. Their silence convinces other people to go see it. When someone actually says it's awful, the people listening thinks to themselves how awful could it possibly be? And so they must see for themselves. What is groundbreaking is that an awful movie could be successful. It is actually many levels below awful.

@mannygee005 9 месяцев назад

the proper way to show this is with a documentary talking about that time in the world and people talking about how important the internet was to the marketing of this movie. They have to explain how they fooled people into going to the theaters. The movie itself has no value without the so-called context from that time. They can also edit the movie to do post processing to reduce a lot of the hand shaking and then edit the film to maybe 12 minutes long.

@metsdolphins82 9 месяцев назад

I remember seeing this movie in the theater back in the day. I was so bored.

@Billinois78 9 месяцев назад

I saw this at the theater. Don't know why, in hindsight. There were people getting sick from the shaky cameras.

@TheRManProds 9 месяцев назад

LOL THAT INTRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@TheRManProds 9 месяцев назад

GREAT REACTION!

@pencilquest9409 9 месяцев назад

Favourite reaction to this. "Hellooo... It's meee, the Blair Wiiitch" 😂

@theTemplar08 9 месяцев назад

Made the mistake in my 20’s of seeing this in an empty theater.

@whiterabbit1824 9 месяцев назад

Good job on the spooky ghost at 11:23. Shame you’re not dressing up this year. But at least your giving us a semi 😝

@davidbeck7615 9 месяцев назад

Created the found footage genre. Good or not: Budget $750,000 Gross $250,000,000 Simply put, you had to be there to get it.

@knowlzer 9 месяцев назад

It was a first found footage film I remember the marketing they made it like the people was miss for real to try scary u. I seen this in the cinemas with my collage friends. I was in college when this came out god i auld 😂.

@eschatological 9 месяцев назад

I went into this movie thinking it was actually found, real footage. The term "found footage" didn't exist yet in cinema. It was super scary in that context - but I agree it doesn't hold up today or on subsequent watches.

@sliceofheaven3026 9 месяцев назад

This film started the craze of having so many of these "lost and found" kind of horror movies. I am glad that this particular style of film making seems to have died down a bit.

@BryanH63 9 месяцев назад

Brilliant marketing at the time. From the documentary, website, the Police website with evidence... we saw it opening night, EVERYONE walked out of the theatre like "OMG!". Always SCOFF at those who dog on it, "knew it was fake"...

@KrazyKat007 9 месяцев назад

You would have to have been developmentally disabled to think this is real. Even at the time. If you had used your God given common sense, you might have asked if they would really use what’s supposed to be real video of kids getting lost and killed in the woods as entertainment to be selling tickets for. You do know snuff films are illegal right?

@3DJapan 9 месяцев назад

Remember this is before cellphone cameras, and cellphones really, so people weren't used to seeing selfie footage. This was also the first "found footage" movie.

@anthonygm85 9 месяцев назад

I remember when this came thought it was crap then still is, it did crazy good marketing, pre internet boom

@yournamehere6002 9 месяцев назад

Any excuse to watch Dawn Marie is worth it.

@VKobejitsu 9 месяцев назад

Witch running around the forest with drippy ankles. Has she no shame.

@meteordealer 9 месяцев назад

This is the only movie i ever went to the theater to see, and wanted a refund afterwards.

@cowboy1165 9 месяцев назад

I don't know which is worse, the acting in this film, or you only blowing one handed kisses in your outro. 😆

@mikemorse17 9 месяцев назад

No, this is not based on a true story, I saw Heather interviewed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno when the movie got popular.

@InlandDiscoEmpire 9 месяцев назад

The context of this film was then it was originally released, it was marketed as real. Also honestly, this is the best kind do horror. Not jumpscares, no monsters, just suspense and condensed dread of a situation you KNOW you can't escape. Just waiting for your moment to die. Imagination, some6thing women don't have I'm learning as I get older.

@jrny20 9 месяцев назад

The scariest thing about this film was paying six bucks a person(at the time) to see it.

@arifeannor9573 9 месяцев назад

Dawn needs better headphones and maybe a bigger screen. In the tent you could hear women/children talking and laughing, then they were slapping the outside of the tent.

@writerwade9241 27 дней назад

Compass, map, stream . . . Fun fact: the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. #themoreyouknow 😉

@joannesuzieburlison7128 9 месяцев назад

I saw it in a theater when it was just coming out and I hated it, both my friend and I hated it; then everyone else loved it and we were flabbergasted.