Anybody actually believes that The Blair Witch Project was for real?

Do you believe in the Blair Witch? Do you think the kids got murdered?

I do not believe it but I thought the movie was creepy

 

er......no. do people out there think it's real?



yeah it was creepy. i almost peed my pants.

 

oh yes my roommate thinks it's for real

 

hahahahahahaha.....


is your roommate on crack?

direct him/her to http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/blair.htm

 

She believes a lot of bullshit Yeah that was interesting to read, I knew it was fake of course but I didn't know anything else

 

ive never seen it, but how could you think its real? why would they have people getting killed on tape and then show it off??

 

well no the point of the movie was that the 3 students made a documentary on The Blair Witch and died killed by her and people found their footage...

 

no, i don't believe it was real--although at one point i heard a rumour that they were sent out into the woods [and told to shoot this documentary], and then the producers were the ones who shook the tent and made the noises and everytign to see what would happen--and that how it got made

The first time i saw it, i think i was like in grade 7 or something--i watched it at noon, and i was scared out of my mind...now it is laughable, cause i could have so easily got out of the woods

 

hehe i thought it was before it came out, the hype and everything, and before seeing the actors of course but at the end of the movie there's a disclaimer saying basically that it's fake. so yeah, then i knew.

 

lol tigerlily, so you watch the disclaimer's after the movies ?

 

i'll admit it, that movie scared the crap out of me... it's way different watching it in a dark nearly empty theater, for the first time, with no one making fun of it than it is at home with your friends. i thought i'd have to scream a few times... lol. i even knew that it wasn't true

but yea, someone who did think it was true when she saw it was one of my aunts. i can't imagen what it would have been like if i thought it was true when i saw it. oh god i probably would have screamed and gone into a bout of psychosis. she was ranting about the fact that it happend untill someone was kind enough to explain hehe.

 

lol, not usually, but this was an exception... since i thought it was true, i wanted to see if there was any disclaimer. hehe...

 

The film was made for four thousand dollars and grossed 140 million domestically, making it THE most successful film ever made.

It was based on a French film with a similar premise, film students' film is found which is evidence they were murdered.

The filmmakers wrote no script, simply scenarios and quite often did things to surprise the actors that would cause a real reaction. This is not a new trick, they did it in Alien with the folks around the table (John Hurt was the only one to know about the chest-burst) and in Aliens (Lance Hendriksen was NOT told the face-hugger-in-a-tube he was looking at was going to move.)

What makes that film so effectively chilling is that you never see the Blair Witch nor have any inkling as to what actually happened. Often NOT seeing what's going on is far more frightening than what is. And frankly, some of the incidental details in the house were brilliant. The sigils on the wall were, enh, par for the course, but it's the bit upstairs where they find little children's handprints that is truly creepy.

And they made use of the Internet to generate buzz and rumor about the film before it was released. A LOT of people went into it with the Internet backstory in mind.

 

And by the way, the nitpickers who try and pick holes in the story can bite me.

"Why did she pack a book entitled "how to survive in the woods" and never read it?" Cause when you're scared out of your wits....

"Why did they keep their cameras on all the time?" Nobody asked how HP Lovecrafts' doomed characters could write about their own impending deaths in the past tense... but in this case, the cameras were providing light, and for christ's sake they were film students. If I was in it up to my knees damn right I'd be keeping the cameras rolling.
Even if only one of us made it out, the footage would have been worth the deaths.

 

they survived in the woods just fine. they probably didn't need to check the book. and who says they didn't do it off camera? it was all the crazy shit that wasn't in the book that fucked them up.

the chick kept her camera on because i was a way for her to seperate herself from the reality of what was happening. when you're in that much fear and shock, you'll most likely attatch to anything that will help you cope.

bah, these people just didin't pay enough attention. lol

(i only saw it once, btw)

 

I know. I just can't stand people trying to pick holes in it.

Believe it or not a film student WOULD keep a camera running in a darkened house after midnight.

 

that movie was filmed 20 minutes from my town in Maryland. The house they filmed it as is creepy as hell. It's illegal trespassing to go to it, but we do. Bloody hand prints everywhere. It's scary.

 

It was all a publicity stunt to get more people to watch a low budget film. I went to see it when it came out and that's money I'll never get back. What a waste.

 

RE: The house they filmed it as is creepy as hell. It's illegal trespassing to go to it, but we do. Bloody hand prints everywhere. It's scary.

Holy Christ. That would wig me out. Of course they're from the film crew, but Jesus.

 

That's nothing! There's this country below Canada with a population of 295,734,134 who believed that the Iraqis had weapond of mass destruction! Amazing how people will believe anything!