I Watch THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT For The First Time! (Horror Movie Reaction)
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The Blair Witch Project Movie Reaction First Time Watching - บันเทิง
I saw this in the theatre and I’ll never forget how afterwards my boyfriend and I stopped for gas. He got out to go inside and after a few minutes his seatbelt retracted… lord I just about jumped out of my skin 😂
I watched this in theatres too!! I remember feeling so scared walking home. My friends and I screamed when we turned the corner and saw a skeleton Halloween decoration. Hahaha. Good memories.
I went to see it with my sister. We drove home in complete silence. Younger generation doesn't realize how huge this movie was in 99. Everyone bought into it.
Goodness gracious you got me laughing so loud at 3 in the morning
the scene where they lose the map and start freaking out is actually scary as hell imo. that feels real. its unsettling af. people go missing all the time exactly like this. I’d be pissing my pants in this situation lol
"What is that? I'm scared to close my eyes, I'm scared to open them! We're gonna die out here!"
Fun Fact: The three leads believed the Blair Witch was a real legend during filming, though, of course, they knew the film was going to be fake.
Cost Saving Fact: One of the video cameras used by the actors was bought at Circuit City. After filming was completed, the producers returned the camera for a refund, making their budget money go even further.
Guerrilla Filmmaking Fact: The actors were requested to interview the townspeople, who often, unbeknownst to the actors, were planted by the directors. As a result, the expressions on the actors' faces were unrehearsed (See: Fun Fact). In a scene where the main actors are sleeping in a tent at night, the tent suddenly shakes violently and they all get scared. This was unscripted and the director shook the tent; the actors actually were scared. To promote discord between actors, the directors deliberately gave them less food each of the eight days of shooting. The directors kept in touch with actors via walkie-talkies, to ensure the three would not become lost during their trek. Reportedly, they got lost at least three times.
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@@BigGator5 i will for sure, you too! 😊
Love how the story comes full circle, in the interview in the beginning about how they’d lure the victims down into the basement and make one stand in the corner and face the wall and kill the other one. And that’s how it ends. It tells you in the beginning.
I saw this in the theatre in HS. The genius and why this was so special was the marketing behind it. There was no social media at the time. When this premiered, everyone thought this was real. There were no other found footage movies either so it was like nothing anyone had ever seen. They didn't even play trailers in the theatre - it just started, like you were really watching a real home movie. Not an empty seat in the theatre. Terrifying and def defined found footage. The actors also didn't have a script - directors just dropped instructions in the woods and told the scenario to "act it". They said a lot of the emotion and exhaustion was very real.
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@@DeltaAssaultGaming wow thank you. it's actually spelled either way but def worth a reply either way.
@evegriffin9771 it was and still is a fantastic film..I really don't understand some people's reaction when they say its a bad film or not scary..its haunting and as raw as you can get..with a sprinkle of supernatural to heighten the fear..this film did so so well what so many get wrong "less is more" they captured that perfectly..the actor's really sell it though..some of the most convincing performances to ever put to film.
Things I’ve discovered from this video:
1. Take a gun
2. Do not mess with random rock piles in the woods
3. If you find ominous rock piles outside your tent you run
4. Hide the map in discreet locations
5. DONT GO ON A WITCH HUNT IN THE FIRST PLACE
6. Climb a tree to see where you’re at
7. Set the whole forest on fire. If the witch is going to take me out, I’m taking her out 😂
@@Megan-ir3ze that’s smart af hella petty n I’m here for all of it😂😂 if I’m sinking, this ship will sink with me 😂
8. When your “friend” kicks the map in the river, you need to realize your friends are about to kill you and blame it on witch folklore.
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I usually don’t like found footage, but this is one of my favorite horror movies! It just feels so realistic and actually creepy than something with just jump scares.
It felt real because the actors were actually told they were filming a documentary and the entire time the crew were setting up scares and stealing their stuff to scare them. All the dialog were their actual conversations aside from the Blair with story parts.
@@alexangel4758true but they did an outline script and all of them just improvised ugh so good
There’s this great story about the scene when they’re running out of the tent and she’s screaming “what is that”. Apparently there was a person dressed up and the cameraman forgot to pan to the left. Had they remembered you would have seen the Blair Witch.
No, Heather caught it but they didn’t like how it looked so they didn’t show it.
When this came out, there was a website dedicated to it. This was pre-social media. The marketing team quite literally made everyone believe this was real. So, this is also why the hype is so big. I remember this going on. People in my school wanted to go to Maryland. It was such an innovation in cinema! The creators of this deserve mad kudos.
The Blair Witch Project gives you the creeps every single time you watch everything. Great reaction as always, Mike. God bless you always.
What I especially loved about this movie was the lore behind the "Witch". There was a Sci Fi channel pseudo documentary that came out shortly after this film was released and it focuses on the lore and goes into how every few decades something horrible would happen in that town. The Witch was the first notable event, but the land was considered to be cursed long before the village itself was ever built. Native American guides refused to even go near those woods and warned against building anything there.
It was called "Curse of the Blair Witch" and you can still find it on-line to watch. I'd recommend watching it just because it's a nice, creepy little add-on for this movie. Plus, if you ever plan to see the 2nd film - which a lot of fans hate, but I personally loved. It's a very late 90s/early-early 2000s film, and it's a lot like Gremlins 2, except far less humorous in tone, and more subtle in its self-awareness - then you HAVE to watch it, because it contains actual interviews with Rustin Parr, the man whose house they ended up in at the end of the film - a house which shouldn't even be there as it was burned down after his trail....another thing about the lore is it goes into how the stick figures can be used to basically time travel and enter alternate dimensions, which pretty much explains both movies. The first one focuses on time travel while the second one is all about alternate realities and evil doppelgangers - and it's important to at least know what he looks like before watching the 2nd film.
The movie also had a book that came out shortly after its release which was presented like an actual true crime investigation into the case. They had journal entries from Heather and interviews that add a bit more to the first film.
I was a big horror fan already when this movie came out, and the amount of detail that's found within the external lore is what finally inspired me to begin my own career as a horror writer.
I only wish they'd come out with a box set that contained the book and The Curse of the Blair Witch mockumentary video, as far too many people just watching this movie today are really missing out on a lot of the story. It's especially necessary for the 2nd film.
I could spend hours writing about why the 2nd film is underappreciated and why it's actually a damn good sequel and that most people only hate it because of how different in tone and style it is from the first film, but I've already babbled on long enough.
If not messing with the compass, I do like the idea of the witch somehow rotating or shifting the woods around them. Heather is kind of a dick but I don’t think it’s her fault that they all got lost
In a scene where the main actors are sleeping in a tent at night, the tent suddenly shakes violently and they all get scared. This was unscripted and the director shook the tent; the actors actually were scared! If you get into more Found Footage Horror, I definitely recommend checking out the VHS franchise!
My parents and I watched this on VHS and it scared the hell out of us!
We thought it was a true story! Lol!
My mom couldn't sleep for a week!
I loved this film, really annoys me all the haters that go errrr you don't see anything, nothing happens, so boring. They just don't have imagination. I loved this how believable this film was and how it was shot, along with the acting and realistic reactions to what they are going through. I used to do a lot of long distance hiking and typically a few weeks after seeing this film I went on a long distance hike, and we misjudged how long it would take us to get through some woods to the next checkpoint and we ran out of light so we had to camp in the middle of the woods. All I could think about was this movie, safe to say I couldn't sleep much, every little noise got me right on edge, we tried to laugh it off but I knew my friend was just as freaked he just hid it better lol. I always think what you don't see is much much scarier. Which Is why I find most modern horror movies just don't work, as they just rely on jump scares and special effects, just give me realism all the way. When josh goes missing and Heather is having a breakdown is so how it would happen, to think that you can't find a stationary vehicle even tho you know where you parked it, but you lose you friend knowing your so not going to find him again. The feeling of helplessness and desperation would be extreme.
Yeah the amount of reactors that literally have no idea what's going on is frustrating 😂
I forgot how good this movie was! The actors do so well that you can occasionally forget it’s a movie. ✌🏻
“Doesn’t desecration mean shit”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As none of them knew how to read a map. The map, was as Mike said, "useless." Not to mention, it was a road map, which doesn't include hills, valleys, or streams.
The reference to Gilligan's Island: "a three hour tour," & "lost, and never found."
I can’t remember if you've reacted but do the movie [REC] 2007, it's found footage, it's 70 minutes and shit hits the fan so fucking fast and feels very real in how fast things went so chaotic
1999 - The Neptune Theater in Seattle's marquee: The Blair Witch Project - Go stand in your corner. "CHILLS"
@ 8:56 In best Bostonian (I’m guessing) accent and eyes raised…”The Blair Witch got the map?” Lol! I will never get that out of my head. Freaking hilarious!
This movie was way before it’s time. The whole concept of found footage was genius for a long ass time after this movie came out i believed it to be real lol.
They casted it perfectly; the over ambitious annoying heather who is taking this documentary far more serious than anyone else in the group .. and being lost in the haunted Forrest with a person like that is genuinely terrifying 😂
The 2016 sequel not only reveals who took Josh amd hit the both of them at the end, but also explains why Mike is standing in the corner ignoring Heather.
Ok here's the deal with this film if you wanna know the backstory
This film was sold in the name of "actual footage" giving everybody the illusion that all the 3 friends did die. Even though the film didn't have any budget and the movie is basically has no effect if you know that it's just a movie but due the marketing campaign people fell for it .
Also i should mention that some people say it's the first "found footage" film that let to it's popularity BUT THATS NOT TRUE . The actual first found footage horror film was CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST which has the same marketing campaign as Blair witch but was much less popular due to being an Italian film and overall subject matter . I would definitely recommend you CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST because it's one of my favourites and one of the most traumatizing films i have seen in my life .
Why did many people believe it was real?
No one had ever really seen a found footage film before and they did some great low key marketing of all these weird online links and I think even some of the "investigators" previous short footage, back dated missing person flyers etc.
You knew deep down it wasn't real, but they planted enough misinformation and little tid-bits before you even saw the film, it left just a tiny bit of doubt in your mind.
Plus (even though I do solo overnight hiking trips etc here in aus) the forest can be mad scary at night. This film defo put me off my solo trips for a couple years. Very easy for your imagination to get away on you when you have to get up in the night to take a piss 😵💫
Before anyone watches Cannibal Holocaust, please look up the controversy around the movie so that you can make an informed decision whether you would want to. For example, the making of the film was riddled with animal cruelty and real animal deaths are used in the final film. No judgement if anyone decides to watch it anyway, but I know some would choose not to if they they had all of the information.
There is also a cool story about the director actually being charged with murder after rumors started that some of the human deaths were real, too. That wasn’t true, of course, but talk about press for a horror film.
@@moniqueu.7983 yeah everyone should read this comment to know what they are getting into
I like the first film but when it came out I LOVED the second film, book of shadows.
Most people hate it but it gave me nightmares.
The concept of not knowing what's real, even if what you said and did really happened, still terrifies me because it's a real thing for people like me.
I have mental health issues that cause blackouts sometimes so this concept hits close for me which is probably why I favored it where most won't acknowledge it.
The vhs copy had a thing called the secret of esrever where things subtly change in the film that you can easily see once pointed out that gave me chills.
It was stupid but effective for me lol
I remember seeing this when it came out, the marketing for this film was ingenious! It was the concept for future found footage films.
No way Josh was calling them that was his tounge she found
This is the only found footage movie I get down with because when it came out, EVERYONE thought it was real. Which added a whole other scare factor layer to it. And the ending is so polarized. People either love it or hate it. I'm in the group of loving it. I don't think there is a way to show her/it without it being unbelievable or campy/corny/cringy/cheesy. You really just have to leave it to your imagination. (Which is why the interviewee's descriptions were so vague. It's to let YOUR imagination do the work.)
I agree with you 💯
It’s hard for people to go back and watch this and get the same feeling as when it came out because it was the very first found footage film, I remember me and all my friends thought it was real or something lol. So there was a lot of hype and curiosity around it, they marketed it like it was real so that made it scary at the time. Now found footage is a whole genre so it doesn’t have the same effect.
Good video. Never ever change the outro song. Its a bop.
This movie scared me like you wouldn't believe when it first came out. It was at a time when found footage movies weren't that common in movies & weren't overused like they are nowadays, so when it came out you weren't totally sure if it was real or not.
*A big ass moose just chillin"
"What the fuck is that!?...WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!!?!?!
The thought of it being just a moose got me 💀imagine.
I went to camp for a week with my school just outside of Burkitsville at the end of October a couple years after this came out.
Imagine the collective shitting of middle school pants when we were told there was a nighttime scavenger hunt in the woods on Halloween 🤣🤣🤣
The "behind the scenes" stories about the filming of this movie are better than the actual movie itself.
This movie was huge because it was marketed as a "true" story of "real" found footage. The only other found footage film to have this kind of hype was Cannibal Holocaust, and the production team of that movie was arrested and charged with murder (the charges were dropped when the actors and actresses they were accused of killing showed up in court to prove they were still alive).
I always just figured we never see the Blair witch because it doesn’t like eyes on it like the old folk tails in the interviews early on in the movie.
Legend says this movie inspired Oren Peli- who later made Paranormal Activity in the similar 'found footage' fashion
Yes! Check out the spanish movie REC. In my opinion, one of the single best films in the found footage genere. It is just a great overall movie.
I saw this (I can’t recall how) in the cinema when I was 11 with a girl friend. We almost shat ourselves. Loved it. Clearly I got a love for horror flicks young.
love how u pulled out ur welch’s gummies as I was in the middle of eating them HAHA also-this movie is terrifying
I agree. It's a very different and very good movie, not least because the acting is so well done. It feels real, unlike so many 'horror' films, which often feel so fake or badly acted. I've watched it several times now having bought the DVD a few years ago, and I never get tired of it. In short TBWP is a great study of gradual despair.
I was 18 when this happened and the Internet was still fairly new and we all fucking thought it was real and it was an awesome time and experience in the theater
The issue is you can’t really blame any of them. The witch is known to literally change the entire forest around you. Which is why they end up in similar places or according to them places nowhere near the starting point. The map is essentially pointless like mike says. Once they went too far in, they were at the mercy of the witch
Watch the sequel called Blair Witch (2016), it's a decent sequel and shows you abit of the Blair witch. Dont get it confused with the blair witch 2: book of shadows.
Mike was a Top G and total cutie. RIP to him in the movie. 💜💙🖤
The crazy chick at 2:05 wasn't an actress or prepped on what to say. The producers just asked her to comment on the Blair witch and she just went off with what you see. Haha. Crazy ass lady. I also saw this at Sundance when it wasn't super known if this was real or not. So I was terrified watching it. Plus it was the first internet marketed movie with a mockumentary on, I think, Discovery that really made the majority of the world think this was actually true!
As a kid I thought it was real until the cast was on stage to accept the mtv movie award . I thought it was gonna be the families or something lol
awesome reaction
It's been fascinating seeing recent reactions to The Blair Witch Project, now that the film is old enough that most of the people who see it for the first time today have little idea of just how effective its marketing was (so many people, including myself, thought it was real). Its more subdued approach to horror is so different from modern horror films, where the scares are loud and in your face, this film shows next to nothing, leaving it up to the imagination of the viewer. This, in turn, made it more believable than it would've been had it actually showed the witch. And the way the ending references what one of the townspeople said at the start of the film was genius. SO creepy.
Aaahhhhhhhh I'm so happy you liked this more than Paranormal!!
its a shame what this movie did to the actress, heather. it was wildly successful but it also caused the poor woman to be globally hated as the dislike for the character transferred to the actress to the point of ruining her entire career. Really speaks to how well her acting was though. It would have been amazing to see her in more recent stuff
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I was 9 when this came out...loved it then...love it now. I saw someone else say this movie its a litmus test on who has imagination and who doesnt. It feels SO real. I remember the debate on whether it was real or not lol. Btw...LOVE your frustration on them NOT having any guns. Too many movies where idiots dont take guns with them somewhere potentially dangerous...but Hollywood is ultra Lib so.. no surprises.
The Witch is a fantastic movie. I highly recommend. :) more psychological than action or jump scares but so worth it.
One of my favorite movies!
As someone who lives in Maryland, this movie and Slender Man scared me when I was younger
Gotta watch the sequel now!! Ppl hated on it. But i think it’s a good sequel. Same kind of intense scary as well
You gotta watch the sequel!
I like when you react alone.I feel youre not as negative constantly then .No disresoect to your friend.I hope you continue to react alone ! Also check out Blair witch (2016) !
Mary Brown is the Blair Witch.
I recommend [REC] (2007), it's honestly great, go in knowing nothing... other than it's a found footage. It's right next to The Blair Witch Project in terms of great found footage movie. Avoid the American remake Quarantine tho.... it's very very bad.
Yeah I saw this in the theater opening weekend b4 social media was a thing it was advertised as real and they sold it well and then after opening weekend that Monday they revealed it was not real.. everybody was so pissed off that they had been lied to lol
H E L L R A I S E R!!!!
I was working at a summer camp in Maryland when this came out. A bunch of us went to see it on our night off and when we got back, I made a bunch of those stick figures and hung them in the woods near the cabins
definetly feel yu on tht but i got super into this movie man it felt so real for me and not seing her was perff because im more scared of the things i dont see but i do understand ya theres a 2nd movie but ehhh and the game was prtty cooh too
15:26 imean that’s even scarier and realistic they didn’t show the actual witch and you don’t know what it is or if it’s really a witch etc
Imagine watching this as a 14 without context about this at all, alone at at midnight in totall darkness. Well it was not a fun time
Check out Willow Creek. Its made similar to this movie. Found footage style out in the woods....but with Sasquatches 💥🧠💥 also after watching make sure to look up the meaning behind the ending...its messed up.
One of my dads rules never go in to the woods without a gun never.
Desecration =\= defecation lol
Try Blair witch (2016)
Who remembers the hype and publicity from this film? 👋
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You were originally supposed to get a glimpse of the witch when they run out of the tent and Heather is screaming “What is that?!” And the guy was supposed to point the camera left where Heather was looking but he never did
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Tami Lynn from Ted?!?!?!
Such a good movie for the time! At the end, I would have just set the whole forest on fire😂
Is it sticking with you? How have you slept?
PLZZZ WATCH CHILDS PLAY 2 AND 3
Maybe I’m confusing this with a different movie. I thought this what I saw in the theater and people walked out because it was bad. Maybe it was something else
It was this. This movie is very divisive, people either love it or hate it. This guy was told it was great so he went into it expecting good things. I watched another guy react to this (Sebscreen maybe) and he was told going in that it wasn’t very good. He didn’t enjoy it as much.
Since you appeared to enjoy this I highly recommend watching the second sequel from 2016 called "Blair Witch". It's like they took the vibe from this original movie and amplified it with a much better payoff at the end.
@@kiwisoup how mature. People are allowed opinions
@@abrimfulofasha no they aren't. i'm in charge here and opinions that garbage are actually illegal
You should definitely react to the sequel, Blair Witch (2016). I loved it!!
Dude… the marketing for this… was insane considering there was no form of social media. And yet we were all convinced it was real with how they promoted the movie on TV, news articles, magazines, and online blogs.
Also, Heather was trying not to panic in that situation in the beginning (even if it seems like she’s in denial) and was hoping that they couldn’t possibly be lost because they still had the map. She was holding onto that hope. But once Mike admits that he purposefully kicked the map in the creek, her admitting that they’re lost is her losing hope in finding their way out.
Mark your trail and follow the river out. Try to stay calm. Easier said then done I know, but you have to try.
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The movie is goofy 🤪.
u gotta watch the second one where her brother goes w his friends to look for her
Wow😍😍😍so fine
If you really think of it and do some research on the marketing, this movie made catfishing mainstream. It was marketed as if the three leads really were missing and the directors made websites and flyers and made it everywhere with the website. I liked that the Blair which wasn't seen, adds more fear to the mind, you see in the sequel and it's a VERY disappointing, the 2016 sequel
Awesome reaction. Dude, you need to watch the recent sequel (don’t bother with Book of Shadows). But the recent one is a proper sequel to this set years later and you get some of the little glimpses you were asking for 😀
Important to remember that this movie was like, the first of its kind! Found footage wasn't a thing! This (and cujo and titanic) was the first adult movie I ever saw as a kid. Screwed me up. I thought it was real and my sisters told me it was real lol
@@kiwisoup sorry, I really thought it was thanks for the info
I like the theory that there was no witch and that it was all just a ploy by Josh and Mike to secretly kill annoying Heather... 😅🤭
You should try watching the remake
Trust me, they showed the Blair Witch in one of the sequels and it was hugely disappointing. This ending is so much better, imo because it leaves it to your imagination. There’s nothing scarier than not knowing.
the Blair Witch did not kill anyone, she influenced Josh to do so, just as she did to Rustin.
Totally love the theory that the whole time they planned to kill her.
Not a theory. Guy kicked the damn map in the river, among other hints. They did enough research on the Blair Witch to mimic it. They are absolutely the killers.
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This movie terrified me as a kid. Lol Whatever you do, do NOT watch the newest Blair witch. I've never been so let down in my life.
Ah, the found footage film that started it all, leagues and bounds better then the 2016 sequel.
I hated Heather so much. She was so obnoxious. 😁
Showing the witch would’ve ruined it. Just look at the piece of crap 2016 movie.
This movie is incredible. Terrified me when it first came out.
Yeah Heather always got on my nerves in this series, then she has the nerve to be like I feel bad in the end lol it's like you should feel bad girl. You're horrible I would have left her 20 mins in.