Blair Witch Project Turns 24 Today

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THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was released 24 years ago today. One of the most influential horror movies of its generation, and made on a shoestring budget, the making of story is one of Hollywood’s most unique…

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- All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) July 14, 2023
- The Blair Witch Project was released 24 years

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[magnetic_rose92]

The marketing for this movie was sooooo smart with the way they made it seem like it was a true story. I remember everyone I knew was deeply fascinated by this movie.

[jojito]

Yeah. I remember my brother convinced me and my friends it was real found footage.

We were 11 and we rented it and we stayed up all night because no one wanted to turn off the lights or go to sleep after it ended. We were terrified.

[xtinkerbellax]

Yea I love when marketing creates a moment like Blair Witch had, it’s fun.

[jumelles_mach6]

I was a kid who grew up in a religious home. So I was terrified of this movie b/c it dealt with ghosts/witches. And I very much fell for it and believed that this was real. This movie terrified me when I was a kid

[trendsnational]

I live near the woods and slept with the lights on for month after this movie.

[belle_chouette]

lmao I live in the woods and last year a guy ended up at my doorstep at 3 am telling me he was running from someone chasing him with a hammer and he came to my doorstep because the lights were on!

[836am]

Don't leave us hanging! What happened next??

[belle_chouette]

I didn’t want to open the door at first, someone knocking in the middle of the night while I’m home alone was my worst nightmare, especially since the year before I already saw some guy going through our shed who ended up having rape/kidnapping charges.

But he wouldn’t stop knocking and my helper syndrome got the best of me so I opened the door. I saw a 6 ft tall guy whimpering, in socks, holding his bleeding thumb. He asked me to call 911, said he knows that is a creepy situation and that he would even wait on the porch if that was more comfortable for me. I ended up letting him in and he told me that he’d been sleeping in a friend's garage when he suddenly woke up to someone choking him because they thought he’d stolen their motorcycle. He managed to fight him off but the guy started chasing him with a hammer so he just took off into the woods. Mind you, we live in the woods woods, there are no street lamps but plenty of bears and mountain lions. He said he made it to someone else's doorstep and thought if he just hung out there

[nalaa1906]

I started watching this movie yeaaaars ago and thought it was so boring so I gave up. I should try to watch it again.

[hormones]

i think it's easy to feel this way if you didn't see it At The Time because back then it was truly revolutionary. kinda like idk my parents begged me to watch the Exorcist with them for yeaaaars because it was so terrifying yada yada so I finally did in like 2018 and I was like ".........okay...." bc horror had obv grown leaps and bounds since then

[anna_bea2]

I feel like people kind of talk shit about this movie now, but I think the shot of Mike standing in the corner while Heather screams and the camera falls and everything goes silent is legitimately one of the creepiest things ever.

[thispaintedlife]

truly one of the most iconic endings in horror, and I mean that genuinely

[slaughtermatic]

Whos talking shit I'll fight them in the parking lot

[saline_joy]

Yeah, I think people who only watched it in recent years don't understand how original it was at the time; they've already seen a bunch of the found footage films that it directly inspired.

[theoryofwar]

I went opening night with my aunt and uncle, we got there late in the ads, so we had to sit in the front row. That was a mistake, our necks hurt and we were so dizzy afterwards. It was such a fun experience though! I get a headache just thinking about it. I love found footage, but it can take me two days to watch it since they make me really dizzy.