looking forward to it despite the offensively long wait and horrible non sequel. I'm a sucker

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The trailer sold me. Apparently, people were scared shitless at the special screening during sdcc.

Plus keep in mind the director is one of the best young talents in Hollywood. While filming they actually avoided a lot of the built in hype and expectations with any Blair Witch associated film by secretly adding the title to IMDB as 'The Woods' with a vague synopsis. Then surprised everyone at Comic con with a special screening.

I tried to talk my wife into going with me in September. All she said watching the trailer was, "Nope, nope...nope."

Aforementioned trailer:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WDJNz7Xwfro

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Hopefully they have a good way to end it. Most horror movies do a good job building suspense for the first half then go over the top cg evil and monster to end the movie and it ruins the whole thing.

Yeah the director has relied more on practical effects in his previous films. I don't expect much, if any cgi. I think it would be cool to finally see the witch personally.

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Awesome. Hadn't heard about this.

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the original "blair witch project" is the single most haunting film i've ever seen and stuck with me for years. it was such a simple film, and that's what made it great. the actors were perfect; they didn't look like actors, didn't act like actors. it was like you were really watching actual found footage.

a lot of the subgenre of "found footage" horror is misfires. they don't preserve what it means to be "found footage". looking at bwp and "cannibal holocaust", they abandon what made them great and go for hollywood-stylized capers.

i like the director of this film (loved "you're next"), and it looks like this is again a stylized "found footage" movie. but i guess it'd have to be in order to be a major studio film. the actors look like actors, but i guess at this point i can't have what i want so i can only hope it's a good ride.

there's no way it can capture the raw chills of the original experience. and the thing was, i saw BWP opening weekend when the website was still the main outlet of media. i thought the kids were dead, until the end credits. and even then the film still had me.

W_Z, I know exactly the experience you're speaking on. MANY people don't understand the cultural phenomenon that was the month leading up to and the opening weekend of the original film. Even with the slightest inclination the movie was real your reaction to the film was amplified. It would be impossible to get away with that type of promotion today, but in the dawn of the Internet it worked on a large number of us. I catch a lot of hate for rating the original so high as a horror film, but idc. My friends and I went to the midnight showing opening night. 16 year old me did not sleep that night. Only movie ever to do that to me.

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Yep, we thought it was real. I remember we went to a theater that was far away, and we had to drive through some country roads on the way home freaked out as hell.

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sounds weird, but being that freaked out was kind of a cool feeling....trailer looks good.

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exactly. it's definitely something you can't duplicate and in this world, can't get away with. at that time in 1999, the internet was new and we believed everything on it. it was the first big internet hoax that i can recall. i was a little older than you but i had the same response. it took me a long time to get back on a sleep schedule. and i lived in a neighborhood surrounded by woods...and the kicker: an abandoned old creepy house along the country road outlying the neighborhood.

i was also maybe a 2 hour drive from burkitsville.

Saw the original Blair Witch in the theater with a live-in girlfriend. That night back at home, got out of bed a little after lights out/she fell asleep and stood in the far corner of the bedroom, head bowed, staring down. a few loud throat-clearings and a wall-thump and then silence and patience rewarded: A scream was heard, stuff was thrown. I didn't mind the couch so much that night.

Would've been better if we had had a basement at the time. But then I would have had to figure out how to get her to check in the basement. And also not do so armed.

that documentary they aired on cable added to the legitimacy, too

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Yep... different time... less cynicism.

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"curse of the blair witch". very well done. and had a sketch of what the blair witch "looked like":

I'm waiting for someone to post we are all pussies when they waited 3 months to rent the movie and watched it in their living room during the middle of the day.

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they will get to that once they're done catching Pokemons at the gym.

1999 was a good year for movies,

Matrix, Fight Club, Sixth Sense, Dogma, Office Space, Blair Witch, Toy Story, 3 Kings, Straight Story, John Malkovich, Election, American Beauty (a Todd Solondz 'Happiness' rip off, but with hotter chicks), Run Lola Run, Go, Magnolia, Green Mile (never saw), South Park Movie (first one, is there more than 1?), Happy Texas, Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick's last), Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Stir of Echoes, Arlington Road, Star Wars reboot, Payback, Any Given Sunday, Austin Powers, Cruel Intentions.

The Virgin Suicides counts as a 1999 film. Saw it before general release in its 'hometown' and throughout the showing we thought that was based on a true story. Somewhere near the end, shit gets too weird and we sorted that it could not have been.

The BWP was one of the last times I felt a little mystery to the world... that we hadn't explored every square inch of the world and modified it for our own purposes... that there were still things we didn't understand.

A week or so later, when I found out the footage wasn't real, a part of me died. I think it's how I ended up spending a good portion of my adult life posting on a message board.

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Stigmata + American Pie

I'm jealous of you guys. How did you not know it was fake before you saw it? The secret was out well before the film debuted, iirc. Completely ruined it for me and I thought the movie was dogshit.

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I was aware by the time I entered the theater to watch it that it wasn't what it purported to be, i.e., a quasi-documentary pieced together from "found footage" [NOT].

Still a good mind-fuck. Maybe buying into the PBS documentary and the idea of it being real and then only finding out the week of or whenever that it wasn't made it easier to suspend disbelief while watching it. Also, didn't the filmmakers actually fuck with the 3 main actors during the filming? Gave a cinema verite feel to their various pissed off, confused, lost, concerned, bitchy attitudes.

Also, the cinematography, going from primarily color to almost exclusively(? haven't seen it in more than a decade) black-and-white in the run up to the final scenes in the old house helps with the mind-fuckery.

no it wasn't. unless you're talking about the mass release, which was weeks later. you had to dig pretty deep to find a review to spoil the ending. and i didn't find one until after i saw it.

it was a perfect ruse. and like leash said, it's almost criminal that we had it spoiled at all.

Saw it on opening day with my wife on our first date. I knew it was fake, she did not. She was practically in my lap by the end of the movie she was so scared...or so she says .

The sidenote from seeing it is that sitting in front of us was an 8 or 9 year old. I'm sure that kid either hasn't slept since or is a practicing witch.

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I don't remember specifically which release it was since it was 17 years ago, but yeah it wasn't much of a secret by the time the movie was released.

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The sequel looks awful, but whatever... they are often surprising. Still gonna see it.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

My number one advice on dating: take a girl to a scary movie or amusement park. Gets the adrenaline going...

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I didn't care for the first one all that much.

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Next week.

I'm going to camp out dressed as The Blair Witch

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