The production of this film was both GENIUS and a bit Insane- The three of them were dropped in the middle of the forest. They were told spots to stop and to film a documentary with the equipment provided. They were told to record everything. Everything that went wrong (with the exception of the final scene) was caused by the production team- Heather was secretly instructed to lead the group in circles, and Michael was secretly instructed to destroy the map. Both of these instructions were given before the trip began. This is their real reactions. The true panic when a member (Josh) went missing, gives me chills to this day. The producers had him, and were instructing him when to scream. The noises outside of the tent on the different nights and the things they stumbled upon were all caused by members of the production team- hiding in the woods. The cast never knew they were there. These arguments are very, very real. There are MANY reasons you don’t see these actors in any other big films. There were times when they were genuinely terrified for each others lives. That is not kosher. Would YOU trust the industry if this was your first film? Even the final scene, they only took one shot of. The camera fell incorrectly, to the side. They had an actual witch standing next to Mike. The director only took seconds to decide that fate wanted to leave the witch OUT of the film. Like I said, genius. A little psycho, but genius.
Heathers “wtf is that” were the directors chasing the cast through the woods in white morph suits. The actors in the film were given a basic plot plan each day of things they should say and do. The cast had to follow gps which lead to these clues each day so they were never massively in contact with the crew. It’s such a well done film considering such a low budget.
yeah I also heard that when they were interviewing the people in the town at the beginning of the movie (who were paid actors) they were told those were real people so they believed there was really this legend of the witch going around the town for years.
A theory that I personally like about the "getting lost in the woods" part was that the woods themselves were actually being crafty and changing so the trio were doomed to be wandering around lost forever or until they started losing their minds from fear and desperation.
my favorite theory is that it was all their plan to kill heather, heather had the map but still the guys were always walking in front of her like they knew where they were going
I was ten when this came out and everybody said it wasn’t scary, so I watched it and damn I didn’t sleep for days after that ending! Truly a brilliant piece of filmmaking and marketing
I watched this when I was 18 and couldn't sleep or be alone for weeks on end 😂 I was scared even during the daytime. Absolutely horrifying plot and recordings.
I'm in Maryland. Yes, we have vultures. Lol. I'm old enough to remember reading all of Heather's diary entries online after dialing up the Internet. Lol. I totally believed it until the cast came on stage at the MTV awards. Haha.
I'm from Baltimore Maryland born and raised and I've never saw a vulture in my life. We have pigeons, seagulls, crows and ravens. Where in Maryland do you live where you see vultures all day?
@@angelminaj617if you get out of the city, you’ll see them. I live in PA, not far at all from the MD/DE/PA borders, and there are definitely turkey vultures in the area. I mostly see them out by the mushroom farms near Kennet square in Chester county.
The turkey vulture, a historic resident of Maryland and Delaware, and the black vulture, a recent immigrant, are present in these states throughout the year.
I think most states in America have some kind of vultures. Heck, I was in the middle of a big city in California stopped at a red light and I saw a massive vulture just sitting on the back of a bus bench a few years ago 😂
I almost hit a turkey vulture with my car a few weeks back (connecticut) because they hang out by roadkill and DON'T CARE about traffic. You gotta drive slow and go around them.
The way Dan very mindfully watches Jack as he sips during his cheers is so sweet and protective. Since we all know Jack has a lot of trouble… well, drinking liquids. And eating small candies. What a daddy, Dan.
Being from the PNW, may I offer one P.S.A? Never go hiking or camping without protection, a lighter/fire, water AND telling someone exactly where you plan to go. Too many people go missing in the woods and our national parks for many,many reasons. Sadly, many were preventable like taking protection and telling someone. Be careful out there everyone!☺️💚
Definitely agree! More people should also be educated on stuff like this, in case of emergencies (I've also heard that carrying bear spray can be helpful too, even if it's never used since loud noises can help keep their distance from bears and other dangerous wildlife).
Hey guys 👋 very much enjoyed. The Blair witch project started off my liking of found footage horrors. And now we are in the spooky season I look forward to seeing what movies you react to! Great video guys ❤❤❤
I watched Blair Witch in theaters years ago, on the film's premiere weekend and I had never seen a audience so creeped out as we all left the theater: while the film wasn't gory, it WAS unsettling - was it real or not? It wasn't like everybody had prime internet access and could 'deep dive' the cast/producers/script, look for spoilers or behind the scenes material and thankfully the makers of the film held their cards tight to their chests. This film, in this style, and coming out of nowhere and popping into the theater will never happen again.
Thanks so much for giving this a chance, having patience and for being so open minded!! I'm so tired of people thinking TBWP is "boring". A good quality horror movie has you feeling dread and suspence the entire time in my opinion (Heredity and The Witch also do the same). I enjoyed this immensely ♡
If you ever get the chance you should look into the marketing they did for this film! They sort of staged it as a real thing, they had a website that explained the myth of the Blair witch and the ‘mystery’ of what happened to the filmmakers, missing posters of the characters/actors were hung up, I think there was even a fake documentary! It’s regarded as one of the best movie marketing campaigns!
that's actually a pretty smart marketing campaign, must have really drawn eyes to this movie. I just hope none of the actors were impacted negatively by anyone who didn't like the movie characters! I'll have to check out this fake documentary as well!
I was MySpace friends (anyone remember MySpace? lol) with Michael C Williams, the actor who played Mike. Really nice down to earth guy. He did another film in 2006 called ‘Altered’ with Eduardo Sanchez, the director of ‘Blair Witch Project’. That film is one of the most unnerving alien movies I’ve ever seen. If you can find a copy watch it, even if just for your own enjoyment. You know how you kept talking about putting guts back in? Well, watch ‘Altered’! Lol
This movie traumatized me as a kid because I lived in Maryland and behind my house was a forest. I was scared for my life, lol. Yes there are vultures haha. We have 2 or 3 kinds
I was on holiday in Cuba when all the promotion for this film was going on on US TV and I can't explain how scary and convincing it was. Getting back to the UK and being so hyped and ready to watch it, being scared shitless and then watching the mockumentary and reading the accompanying book just made this one of the scariest films I'd ever seen. Such clever marketing 👌🏻
This movie, more than any other, to me exemplifies the slow, inevitable descent into death. It's like the characters feel the pull and they reach the point of acceptance. That's the true horror in the movie, in my opinion.
Horror is subjective. And this movie definitely horrified me. My imagination is way more scary than what the movie could possibly show. So when the camera pans to the dark, Im legit greaked out!
The tent scare was actually unscripted (it was the film crew hitting against tent, genuinely terrifying the actors). When Heather was screaming "WTF IS THAT?!" she was seeing one of the crew members dressed in all white but this wasn't able to be caught on camera. This however was never reshot.
That's actually a really great idea i think when filming these found footage movies with some improv, but imagine being these actors in that moment. Must have been so bloody scary!
When this came out, *everyone* thought it was real. Which added to the fear and dread while watching it for the first time. But yeah, it was like the first viral marketing ploy. The director even paid the three actors to go on hiatus for a year so people really thought they weren't actors and were truly dead. It was brilliant.
I grew up 3 miles from where this was filmed. When the movie came out, I was working at a summer camp. A bunch of us went and saw it, and when we got back to camp, I made a bunch of those stick figure and hung them all over camp.
I love this film so much. I remember going to see it when it was released in the cinema (and now I feel positively decrepit) and the marketing campaign had people convinced it was a documentary. So good. Anyway, with Spooky Season here, at last, can I throw out a wee suggestion for Trick R Treat? It's a cute, wee movie and really fun
I always felt like seeing Mike in the corner WAS the scary reveal. At least that’s the image that sticks with me. If someone stood creepily in a corner like that when I came into a room I would lose my mind.
Ah, stoked to watch again! Mike and the map will never not boggle my mind. Also, we have vultures in Ontario, Canada, so vultures be vulturing loads of unexpected places. 😂
It does seem awfully fishy doesn't it 🤔 and what happened to that (i think it was a leaflet or something?) reading material on how to survive in the woods? 😂 Would have been so useful! I had no idea there were vultures in Ontario! I'm learning lots about vultures and i'm here for it 😅
@@JackDanReact the reading material leaflet on survival must have been used as kindling or something 😂 also, still down for a gaming channel where you play through Until Dawn again 👌😂
This movie commentary just triggered a deep memory of pissing my brother off on a rainy raptor-watching hike I made him go on. I think I’m gonna have to stop him from ever watching the blaire witch in fear it’ll activate him like a sleeper agent. Thank goodness his memory is so shit on its own
So cool that you shot the reaction using the same camera they did!! Dedication 🔥🔥 This movie actually ruined Heather's (now Rei) life and she even changed her legal name to distance herself from it. I love this movie a lot but it's a shame it didn't go well for her :(
Didn't know that, feel sorry for her! :( Were there some messed-up fans that went Perfect Blue mode on her, or was it from how taxing it was making the movie?
man i gotta say, i feel like you two deserve more followers than you have right now, great candor, reminds me of talking with my best friend from middle thru high school, good dude
Boys I have to admit it. I’ve been refreshing your page waiting for the new video for 3 days. I’ve never done that with any other RUclips channel. Keep up the good work! 😎
I’m not the biggest Blair Witch fan but watching it with you guys was fucking fun!! Gotta say I’ve been dealing with some depression issues lately and your videos have helped a looot with making me feel better, so thank you for that. Big fan of the both of you, greetings from Mexico
I cannot put into words how much this movie terrified me at 12/13 years old. I mean, literally writing on classroom whiteboards about how we were haunted because only a certain amount of us were in a room and lights flickered. While The Blair Witch Project doesn't scare me anymore, it's still a favourite of mine and started my love of found footage horror movies. I wish I had been older (and in America) when it first came out because the marketing was brilliant - missing posters and everything being circulated. The characters use the actors real first names and Heather's mum actually received condolence cards and letters after the movie was released from people believing it was real. Other films have also done things like this now, but I think The Blair Witch Project was one of the first, if not the first. The newer sequel 'Blair Witch' is okay. It's not the same as the original but sequels so rarely are, but I thought it was perfectly watchable. I would put other found footage movies above it though. Such as these found footage movies: Grave Encounters (definitely 1, 2 is meh), Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, As Above So Below, Hell House LLC (ALL OF THEM PLUS ORIGINS), Cloverfield, Chernobyl Diaries, The Tunnel, The Pyramid, , Savageland (documentary-style, very interesting), and The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan.
Blair Witch is such a classic found footage film and yes the end is definitely up to the viewers interpretation. The narrative of the film would have you believe that the Witch killed the three at the end but a prominent theory that many and myself believe is that Josh and Mike killed Heather and planned this whole thing out and that there was no witch in the forest. The only factor that goes against this theory is the forest and how it seems endless which implies that the forest changes around them due to the Witch's influence. However, this could come to down to Mike and Josh intentionally getting the trio lost. Whatever you may think about the end it is undeniable the impact this movie had on the found footage horror genre.
But where is josh and mike later? Okay they killed the girl then what? won't the law find them? Surely they didn't kill the girl only to die themsleves
@@LanaLiliyMoonI mean to be fair ppl could’ve just thought heather went missing. As for what they’d do after they’res a few different options I suggest reading up on theories bc a lot discuss why they would and such after.
@@ang3l724 I did read but everyone is making theories about the scenes shown in the movie no one explains why joshua and mike is still missing a year later when the footage is found
I don't understand how anyone fails to dismiss this ridiculous "theory" immediately. Sure, it "works" if you ignore literally every single thing onscreen during the entire movie. Like, hey -- maybe Josh and Mike were secretly giant wombats in human costumes the whole time! Works just as well. Makes just as ZERO sense. WHY would two guys who never met before go through this baroque, days-long plot to murder some girl? All while on film? And just to disappear themselves forever too? How did they travel in circles when Heather was the one with both the map and the compass? Did they plant all the stick figures? The piles of rocks? The bundle with teeth and blood? The sounds in the distance? How did they rebuild the house deep in the woods that had been demolished decades earlier? Like... how does anyone take this seriously?
You guys always drop a banger when I need one lol your proper little psychics. Love you guys shame about the video quality but hey ho it Blair witch why the f not lad. Can't wait for identity get it done for spooky month fingers crossed it will win the pole
So two things....first, I love your channel. Your reactions are very funny and genuine. I appreciate that. 😂 Second, Dan is very attractive. My best to you both. 🙏
Vultures are common. Any road kill in MD and you can look up to see them circling the dead animal. I was in MD when this movie came out in middle school and it was a lot of fun pranking eachother as kids about it. Also amazing to know the "back home when the street lights are on" idea crossed the pond. I thought it was always such an American thing
I truly had no idea that vultures were so common! Haha, i think it's great that we're separated by a huge ocean but we still both had the streetlights rule 😅
I can't express how impactful this movie was here in the States. It was so popular and personally I couldn't go camping for a very long time after seeing this movie.
Honestly for 360p there's a nice sharpness and cleanness to it, great job cleaning it up, and fantastic reaction!!! The video issues took NOTHING at all away from enjoying this! ❤
“For anyone asking, 360p is a resolution the cavemen used 10 thousand years ago” Me being ecstatic to watch a video in 240p because my internet is absolute trash: 😧
Hey guys! Loving your channel I’ve been on a huge binge since I came across you. I’m sure you’ve got a huge list of films to get through, but keeping with the horrors of course, I’d love to see you watch The Strangers (2008) if you’ve never seen it. A forever fav of mine ♥️ Keep up the great content bois xx
One of the best running theories I've heard is that Josh and Mike actually planned the whole thing to kill Heather. Lol. It makes sense when you watch it from that lens.
Thats a good read, especially when they both go for the camera and tell her to stop filming. and then Joshua gets a little too nuts and goes for michael too
Interesting take! But now I'm thinking, how would that explain the (supposed) children banging on their tent and the thing Heather saw when she screamed "WTF is THAT???"
That doesn't make ANY sense. Why would they? Mike didn't know either of them beforehand. Why such an elaborate setup? They spent days and days wandering through the woods? They planted weird figurines and piles of rocks? A bundle of teeth and blood? They filmed all of it? Why? They managed to run round in circles despite the fact Heather had the map and the compass? They rebuilt a house deep in the woods that had been demolished decades earlier? They then both disappeared themselves never to return? This "theory" is utterly ridiculous.
It’s always shocking to me to see older resolutions, when it was so normal for us growing up. I remember when HD first came out when I was in secondary school, and when I went to my friends house who had one on his TV I really hated it. Things were so abnormally, uncomfortably sharp. It looked like every individual thing on the screen had a border around it.
"In October of 2024, two RUclips film reactors disappeared in the woods on Hampstead Heath near the Westenra Family Burial Vault while reacting to a documentary about the Legend of the Bloofer Lady. A year later their 360p footage was found."
What made this so good back when it came out when I was in middle school is that everyone was spreading the rumor that this was real events and most of us believe them for a while
@@Thundernoob98 it wasn’t that it was a rumor spreading, that was literally the marketing. It was marketed as true that was the point. They wanted people to think that lol
i love this movie.. and I had a lot of fun watching you guys do this movie lol.. 'banksy of the woods' LOL.. 'she's going to put me in a pie, mum!' LMFAO endless fun.. ^_^
I saw The Blair Witch Project in theaters at the tender age of 13...and the way my spirit left my body when she came down those stairs and saw him in the corner. Little 13 year old heart attack.
This movie is a perfect example of 'less is more', of utilizing the fear of the unknown against the viewers. Not everyone agree but for me this remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, way scarier than in-your-face monsters or repetitive jumpscares. It's a very psychological movie and it's a shame it's always, always lumped in with the other found footage movies, when in reality the format IMO has little to do with how good the movie is. I think that for that reason it's severely underrated: people keep disparaging it and saying it's only worth watching because historically it's interesting since it's the first found footage movie which got popular. Also a lot of people attribute its scariness to the viral marketing campaign and the fact a lot of people believed it was a true story at the time. Yet I watched it only a few years ago, as an adult, fully aware that it was fiction, and it was still extremely effective at inducing fear. As you said in several occasions, it gives you chills, and the lack of reveal keeps you on the edge of your seat, your imagination running wild and filling the gaps. Compare that with the utterly formulaic bad-CGI-and-jumpscare-fest of a sequel (Blair Witch 2016). Also people don't often acknowledge the amazing acting of the movie, a lot of people conflating annoying characters and bad acting (for example). It's probably the most natural acting I've ever seen in a movie, and it's no surprise when you know the actors were literally role-playing the movie in the woods for a week.
Another great video! If you guys enjoyed this one you should watch the third one (yes, there are 3 movies but just skip the second since it's so bad) I also suggest watching "Host" from 2020 it was made during covid lockdown, I think you guys might enjoy it as well!
Just a heads up... If you are trying to walk out of somewhere, walking in a circle is a very strong possibility if you don't have experience,as one of your legs is shorter and you will start to drift towards that side...
I saw this the first weekend it came out with my mom and sister. And it was so funny. At the end, when Mike and Heather were in the house, everyone was really quiet like they were holding their breath. Then the movie just ends and the lights come up. And people just groaned out loud. Half the audience loved it and the other half hated it. I remember one man just let out a "That sucked!" LOL!
The marketing for this when it came out was utter genius. Also, let’s stand together so we can see 360, “and take our clothes off” is a very different kind of video you probably can’t host on YT…. LOL
i was a kid in rural missouri when this came out on video. my friend had a sleepover for her bday in october and her farmhouse was waaaayyyy out in the middle of nowhere. we camped out in her living room with windows everywhere looking out on the woods to watch this film. let's just say the memory of a house full of preteen girls screaming their heads off at night in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere left a big mark on me. lmao not to mention the marketing for this film was unreal, the website, the additional documentary that made this look like a real thing that happened.. it was a horror phenomenon
It’s so awesome to have a lads who have good bants and a sense of humour watching horror and good films - too many Americans pogging at literally everything that happens and having no understanding of what’s going on. Watching every video!
I remember i watched this when I was 9 years old. We just moved into a house with a concrete, unfinished basement. I watched this down there the first night we moved in. Was pretty great. In grade 9 when we could choose any topic for 1 essay i choose to write about the lore behind this movie.
As someone from Maryland, my school took us to these woods when we were around 12 years old and we spent 3 nights camping. It was admittedly quite creepy, at that time the movie had only come out a few years prior
The production of this film was both GENIUS and a bit Insane- The three of them were dropped in the middle of the forest. They were told spots to stop and to film a documentary with the equipment provided. They were told to record everything. Everything that went wrong (with the exception of the final scene) was caused by the production team- Heather was secretly instructed to lead the group in circles, and Michael was secretly instructed to destroy the map. Both of these instructions were given before the trip began. This is their real reactions. The true panic when a member (Josh) went missing, gives me chills to this day. The producers had him, and were instructing him when to scream.
The noises outside of the tent on the different nights and the things they stumbled upon were all caused by members of the production team- hiding in the woods.
The cast never knew they were there.
These arguments are very, very real.
There are MANY reasons you don’t see these actors in any other big films.
There were times when they were genuinely terrified for each others lives. That is not kosher.
Would YOU trust the industry if this was your first film?
Even the final scene, they only took one shot of. The camera fell incorrectly, to the side. They had an actual witch standing next to Mike. The director only took seconds to decide that fate wanted to leave the witch OUT of the film.
Like I said, genius. A little psycho, but genius.
TBH, 360p for The Blair Witch Project seems sooo fitting it didn't even bother me through the video, lol
My thoughts as well! For the found-footage horror that popularized the subgenre, it's (albeit unintentionally, lol) a nice tribute to it! ^^
Totally!
Heathers “wtf is that” were the directors chasing the cast through the woods in white morph suits. The actors in the film were given a basic plot plan each day of things they should say and do. The cast had to follow gps which lead to these clues each day so they were never massively in contact with the crew. It’s such a well done film considering such a low budget.
yeah I also heard that when they were interviewing the people in the town at the beginning of the movie (who were paid actors) they were told those were real people so they believed there was really this legend of the witch going around the town for years.
Apparently the legend ia true my cousins in america live near the actual woods and have constantly experienced freaky things @@adrianaurbanska2641
I’m gonna need a “have a seat betwixt the bois” hoodie as soon as humanly possible, please.
😂
@@AtomicVampire1 hey AV hahaha
@@Hey_Jamie I’d buy that shirt
Hoodie, shirt and sweatshirt
and by the 'bois' we all know that means Dan's thighs amirite
Your video didn’t look too bad, just kind of soft focus. I’m glad you guys left the cackling in 😄
A theory that I personally like about the "getting lost in the woods" part was that the woods themselves were actually being crafty and changing so the trio were doomed to be wandering around lost forever or until they started losing their minds from fear and desperation.
my favorite theory is that it was all their plan to kill heather, heather had the map but still the guys were always walking in front of her like they knew where they were going
@@NKO_lindo lol wow just say what you mean to say
I was ten when this came out and everybody said it wasn’t scary, so I watched it and damn I didn’t sleep for days after that ending! Truly a brilliant piece of filmmaking and marketing
I was a kid too when it came out it was so scary haha good times
I watched this when I was 18 and couldn't sleep or be alone for weeks on end 😂 I was scared even during the daytime. Absolutely horrifying plot and recordings.
Jack's "Thoughts?" is an ICONIC soundbite and I've incorporated it into my daily conversations.
SAME
I'm in Maryland. Yes, we have vultures. Lol.
I'm old enough to remember reading all of Heather's diary entries online after dialing up the Internet. Lol. I totally believed it until the cast came on stage at the MTV awards. Haha.
the viral marketing of this film was so visionary for its time crazy to think back about that
I was 7 at the time and i remeber i spent all my aol cd roms to follow this online. 😂😂😂 Needless to say my mom was pissed 😂
I'm from Baltimore Maryland born and raised and I've never saw a vulture in my life. We have pigeons, seagulls, crows and ravens. Where in Maryland do you live where you see vultures all day?
@@angelminaj617 oh, I don't see them all day. But I've seen quite a lot in my days. Haha.
@@angelminaj617if you get out of the city, you’ll see them. I live in PA, not far at all from the MD/DE/PA borders, and there are definitely turkey vultures in the area. I mostly see them out by the mushroom farms near Kennet square in Chester county.
It’s like you guys knew I needed something to watch while I eat
YES!!! My food didn't even get cold while I struggled to find something.
I too watch movie reactions for almost every meal lol
@@dewey70 It’s the little things😭✨
The turkey vulture, a historic resident of Maryland and Delaware, and the black vulture, a recent immigrant, are present in these states throughout the year.
having never seen this movie and just scrolling through comments at the top of the video, *deep breath* WHAT TF AM I GETTING INTO
I think most states in America have some kind of vultures. Heck, I was in the middle of a big city in California stopped at a red light and I saw a massive vulture just sitting on the back of a bus bench a few years ago 😂
I almost hit a turkey vulture with my car a few weeks back (connecticut) because they hang out by roadkill and DON'T CARE about traffic. You gotta drive slow and go around them.
I was gonna say, I lived in New Jersey and there were vultures there.
Came here looking for the comment verifying vultures 🫡
The way Dan very mindfully watches Jack as he sips during his cheers is so sweet and protective. Since we all know Jack has a lot of trouble… well, drinking liquids. And eating small candies. What a daddy, Dan.
Being from the PNW, may I offer one P.S.A?
Never go hiking or camping without protection, a lighter/fire, water AND telling someone exactly where you plan to go.
Too many people go missing in the woods and our national parks for many,many reasons. Sadly, many were preventable like taking protection and telling someone. Be careful out there everyone!☺️💚
Definitely agree! More people should also be educated on stuff like this, in case of emergencies (I've also heard that carrying bear spray can be helpful too, even if it's never used since loud noises can help keep their distance from bears and other dangerous wildlife).
Hey guys 👋 very much enjoyed. The Blair witch project started off my liking of found footage horrors. And now we are in the spooky season I look forward to seeing what movies you react to! Great video guys ❤❤❤
@@Scarshadow666 Agreed, yes to the bear spray too!!!
The witch cackles made my life. 😂 Very well done, I'm glad you kept them in.
I watched Blair Witch in theaters years ago, on the film's premiere weekend and I had never seen a audience so creeped out as we all left the theater: while the film wasn't gory, it WAS unsettling - was it real or not? It wasn't like everybody had prime internet access and could 'deep dive' the cast/producers/script, look for spoilers or behind the scenes material and thankfully the makers of the film held their cards tight to their chests. This film, in this style, and coming out of nowhere and popping into the theater will never happen again.
I watched it in my early 20’s in a small theater in Seattle and totally was freaked out.
The only time I've ever left a cinema at the end of a film and no one said a word. So creepy!
Thanks so much for giving this a chance, having patience and for being so open minded!! I'm so tired of people thinking TBWP is "boring". A good quality horror movie has you feeling dread and suspence the entire time in my opinion (Heredity and The Witch also do the same). I enjoyed this immensely ♡
If you ever get the chance you should look into the marketing they did for this film! They sort of staged it as a real thing, they had a website that explained the myth of the Blair witch and the ‘mystery’ of what happened to the filmmakers, missing posters of the characters/actors were hung up, I think there was even a fake documentary! It’s regarded as one of the best movie marketing campaigns!
that's actually a pretty smart marketing campaign, must have really drawn eyes to this movie. I just hope none of the actors were impacted negatively by anyone who didn't like the movie characters! I'll have to check out this fake documentary as well!
I was MySpace friends (anyone remember MySpace? lol) with Michael C Williams, the actor who played Mike. Really nice down to earth guy. He did another film in 2006 called ‘Altered’ with Eduardo Sanchez, the director of ‘Blair Witch Project’. That film is one of the most unnerving alien movies I’ve ever seen. If you can find a copy watch it, even if just for your own enjoyment. You know how you kept talking about putting guts back in? Well, watch ‘Altered’! Lol
This movie traumatized me as a kid because I lived in Maryland and behind my house was a forest. I was scared for my life, lol. Yes there are vultures haha. We have 2 or 3 kinds
I was on holiday in Cuba when all the promotion for this film was going on on US TV and I can't explain how scary and convincing it was.
Getting back to the UK and being so hyped and ready to watch it, being scared shitless and then watching the mockumentary and reading the accompanying book just made this one of the scariest films I'd ever seen. Such clever marketing 👌🏻
This movie, more than any other, to me exemplifies the slow, inevitable descent into death. It's like the characters feel the pull and they reach the point of acceptance. That's the true horror in the movie, in my opinion.
Dan’s thighs aren’t any less glorious in 360p, Jacky boy.
Hahaha, you never failed to make me laugh with these comments 😂
@@JackDanReact oh God well now there’s pressure!! Lol
Horror is subjective. And this movie definitely horrified me. My imagination is way more scary than what the movie could possibly show. So when the camera pans to the dark, Im legit greaked out!
The tent scare was actually unscripted (it was the film crew hitting against tent, genuinely terrifying the actors). When Heather was screaming "WTF IS THAT?!" she was seeing one of the crew members dressed in all white but this wasn't able to be caught on camera. This however was never reshot.
That's actually a really great idea i think when filming these found footage movies with some improv, but imagine being these actors in that moment. Must have been so bloody scary!
I also stand by that you guys purposefully made the quality as such to match the film 😂
RUclips waiting 16 minutes to notify me… unacceptable.
When this came out, *everyone* thought it was real. Which added to the fear and dread while watching it for the first time. But yeah, it was like the first viral marketing ploy. The director even paid the three actors to go on hiatus for a year so people really thought they weren't actors and were truly dead. It was brilliant.
Still the most realistic acting out of the decades of found footage films it inspired.
Dan knows exactly what he's doing in those shorts.
Use whatever assets one has to get views and likes! Works for me!
@@eimz28 grey sweatshorts, at that
Are we just supposed to ignore Distinguished Mr Duck lurking in the background?
I've been thinking that for too many vids now, he's such an underappreciated part of the videos! hahaha
I kinda want a huge, Smithsonian-huge variant of it in my house now.
Like, bigger than my house even
I grew up 3 miles from where this was filmed. When the movie came out, I was working at a summer camp. A bunch of us went and saw it, and when we got back to camp, I made a bunch of those stick figure and hung them all over camp.
That's wild😅
I love this film so much. I remember going to see it when it was released in the cinema (and now I feel positively decrepit) and the marketing campaign had people convinced it was a documentary. So good. Anyway, with Spooky Season here, at last, can I throw out a wee suggestion for Trick R Treat? It's a cute, wee movie and really fun
So basically, they werent lost. They were going in circles and never getting out of the woods because of the blair witch.
Cheers for making me feel older than I've ever felt in my life with your intro Jack!🤣
Dan they're at uni! They're not 16!
Along with my “thoughts, Dan?” Hoodie, I now need a “have a seat betwixt the boys” as well please 😂
I always felt like seeing Mike in the corner WAS the scary reveal. At least that’s the image that sticks with me. If someone stood creepily in a corner like that when I came into a room I would lose my mind.
Ah, stoked to watch again! Mike and the map will never not boggle my mind. Also, we have vultures in Ontario, Canada, so vultures be vulturing loads of unexpected places. 😂
It does seem awfully fishy doesn't it 🤔 and what happened to that (i think it was a leaflet or something?) reading material on how to survive in the woods? 😂 Would have been so useful!
I had no idea there were vultures in Ontario! I'm learning lots about vultures and i'm here for it 😅
@@JackDanReact the reading material leaflet on survival must have been used as kindling or something 😂 also, still down for a gaming channel where you play through Until Dawn again 👌😂
You guys are my favorite react channel. You guys are so funny!
This movie commentary just triggered a deep memory of pissing my brother off on a rainy raptor-watching hike I made him go on. I think I’m gonna have to stop him from ever watching the blaire witch in fear it’ll activate him like a sleeper agent. Thank goodness his memory is so shit on its own
So cool that you shot the reaction using the same camera they did!! Dedication 🔥🔥
This movie actually ruined Heather's (now Rei) life and she even changed her legal name to distance herself from it. I love this movie a lot but it's a shame it didn't go well for her :(
Didn't know that, feel sorry for her! :(
Were there some messed-up fans that went Perfect Blue mode on her, or was it from how taxing it was making the movie?
man i gotta say, i feel like you two deserve more followers than you have right now, great candor, reminds me of talking with my best friend from middle thru high school, good dude
The witch cacklings, and then "Hey guyths!" "Th-omebody!?" 😂😂 That's some laugh-out-loud funny shit right there.
jack’s “let’s not do this” song slaps
Boys I have to admit it. I’ve been refreshing your page waiting for the new video for 3 days. I’ve never done that with any other RUclips channel. Keep up the good work! 😎
So glad you kept the "cackling" in. Hilarious!
I’m not the biggest Blair Witch fan but watching it with you guys was fucking fun!! Gotta say I’ve been dealing with some depression issues lately and your videos have helped a looot with making me feel better, so thank you for that. Big fan of the both of you, greetings from Mexico
hope you feel better soon and get help if you don't! no shame in it!
I cannot put into words how much this movie terrified me at 12/13 years old. I mean, literally writing on classroom whiteboards about how we were haunted because only a certain amount of us were in a room and lights flickered. While The Blair Witch Project doesn't scare me anymore, it's still a favourite of mine and started my love of found footage horror movies.
I wish I had been older (and in America) when it first came out because the marketing was brilliant - missing posters and everything being circulated. The characters use the actors real first names and Heather's mum actually received condolence cards and letters after the movie was released from people believing it was real. Other films have also done things like this now, but I think The Blair Witch Project was one of the first, if not the first.
The newer sequel 'Blair Witch' is okay. It's not the same as the original but sequels so rarely are, but I thought it was perfectly watchable. I would put other found footage movies above it though.
Such as these found footage movies: Grave Encounters (definitely 1, 2 is meh), Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, As Above So Below, Hell House LLC (ALL OF THEM PLUS ORIGINS), Cloverfield, Chernobyl Diaries, The Tunnel, The Pyramid, , Savageland (documentary-style, very interesting), and The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan.
Blair Witch is such a classic found footage film and yes the end is definitely up to the viewers interpretation. The narrative of the film would have you believe that the Witch killed the three at the end but a prominent theory that many and myself believe is that Josh and Mike killed Heather and planned this whole thing out and that there was no witch in the forest. The only factor that goes against this theory is the forest and how it seems endless which implies that the forest changes around them due to the Witch's influence. However, this could come to down to Mike and Josh intentionally getting the trio lost. Whatever you may think about the end it is undeniable the impact this movie had on the found footage horror genre.
But where is josh and mike later? Okay they killed the girl then what? won't the law find them? Surely they didn't kill the girl only to die themsleves
@@LanaLiliyMoonI mean to be fair ppl could’ve just thought heather went missing. As for what they’d do after they’res a few different options I suggest reading up on theories bc a lot discuss why they would and such after.
That is a good theory! It's like the movie, The Last Broadcast, a little bit.
@@ang3l724 I did read but everyone is making theories about the scenes shown in the movie no one explains why joshua and mike is still missing a year later when the footage is found
I don't understand how anyone fails to dismiss this ridiculous "theory" immediately.
Sure, it "works" if you ignore literally every single thing onscreen during the entire movie.
Like, hey -- maybe Josh and Mike were secretly giant wombats in human costumes the whole time! Works just as well. Makes just as ZERO sense.
WHY would two guys who never met before go through this baroque, days-long plot to murder some girl? All while on film? And just to disappear themselves forever too?
How did they travel in circles when Heather was the one with both the map and the compass? Did they plant all the stick figures? The piles of rocks? The bundle with teeth and blood? The sounds in the distance?
How did they rebuild the house deep in the woods that had been demolished decades earlier?
Like... how does anyone take this seriously?
You guys always drop a banger when I need one lol your proper little psychics. Love you guys shame about the video quality but hey ho it Blair witch why the f not lad. Can't wait for identity get it done for spooky month fingers crossed it will win the pole
Jack your cackles were fucking brilliant and not cringe at all. I can’t believe you could make those sounds, I’d have shit myself in the woods also
So two things....first, I love your channel. Your reactions are very funny and genuine. I appreciate that. 😂 Second, Dan is very attractive. My best to you both. 🙏
Lot of ceremonial rituals happening in this reaction lol 😂 as usual great video guys!
Vultures are common. Any road kill in MD and you can look up to see them circling the dead animal. I was in MD when this movie came out in middle school and it was a lot of fun pranking eachother as kids about it.
Also amazing to know the "back home when the street lights are on" idea crossed the pond. I thought it was always such an American thing
I truly had no idea that vultures were so common!
Haha, i think it's great that we're separated by a huge ocean but we still both had the streetlights rule 😅
I can't express how impactful this movie was here in the States. It was so popular and personally I couldn't go camping for a very long time after seeing this movie.
Jack, that cackle. 🧙🏻♀I'm dead. I'm officially dead. 😂🤣
The lower resolution quality does diminish the breathtaking glamour we’ve grown so used to with your videos, but one copes!
right when i’m about to have dinner thanks for keeping me company guys 😭
Honestly for 360p there's a nice sharpness and cleanness to it, great job cleaning it up, and fantastic reaction!!! The video issues took NOTHING at all away from enjoying this! ❤
“For anyone asking, 360p is a resolution the cavemen used 10 thousand years ago”
Me being ecstatic to watch a video in 240p because my internet is absolute trash: 😧
Hey guys!
Loving your channel I’ve been on a huge binge since I came across you.
I’m sure you’ve got a huge list of films to get through, but keeping with the horrors of course, I’d love to see you watch The Strangers (2008) if you’ve never seen it. A forever fav of mine ♥️ Keep up the great content bois xx
to be honest the resolution is fine just like how i see without my glasses and matches the movie perfectly lol
Great reaction like always guys!!!
Really liking the channel, you guys are hilarious to watch, can't wait to see this channel grow!
One of the best running theories I've heard is that Josh and Mike actually planned the whole thing to kill Heather. Lol. It makes sense when you watch it from that lens.
Thats a good read, especially when they both go for the camera and tell her to stop filming. and then Joshua gets a little too nuts and goes for michael too
No wait because that could actually make a lot of sense!?
Interesting take! But now I'm thinking, how would that explain the (supposed) children banging on their tent and the thing Heather saw when she screamed "WTF is THAT???"
That doesn't make ANY sense.
Why would they?
Mike didn't know either of them beforehand.
Why such an elaborate setup? They spent days and days wandering through the woods? They planted weird figurines and piles of rocks? A bundle of teeth and blood? They filmed all of it? Why?
They managed to run round in circles despite the fact Heather had the map and the compass?
They rebuilt a house deep in the woods that had been demolished decades earlier?
They then both disappeared themselves never to return?
This "theory" is utterly ridiculous.
the cut to the lower quality after the intro was absolutely hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
I love the way they made this movie. I also love that it's mostly improvised, aside from prompts.
I just got my power back after Hurricane Helene, and this is the perfect video to watch 😭
Omg, i'm glad you've got some power back! Stay safe over there!!
honestly lower resolution just looks like i'm not wearing my glasses so it isn't that bad
You can't see it. That's what makes this movie so good. I love a psychological horror.
It’s always shocking to me to see older resolutions, when it was so normal for us growing up. I remember when HD first came out when I was in secondary school, and when I went to my friends house who had one on his TV I really hated it. Things were so abnormally, uncomfortably sharp. It looked like every individual thing on the screen had a border around it.
"In October of 2024, two RUclips film reactors disappeared in the woods on Hampstead Heath near the Westenra Family Burial Vault while reacting to a documentary about the Legend of the Bloofer Lady.
A year later their 360p footage was found."
What made this so good back when it came out when I was in middle school is that everyone was spreading the rumor that this was real events and most of us believe them for a while
@@Thundernoob98 it wasn’t that it was a rumor spreading, that was literally the marketing. It was marketed as true that was the point. They wanted people to think that lol
They actually made missing posters for the actors!
yes in maryland we have alot of vultures. we also call them turkey buzzards
i love this movie.. and I had a lot of fun watching you guys do this movie lol.. 'banksy of the woods' LOL.. 'she's going to put me in a pie, mum!' LMFAO endless fun.. ^_^
Love your reactions guys. Hopefully you got to react to 3 movies a week someday. xD
You know it doesn't even look that bad with whatever you did to it, just looks out of focus. It's still a vibe because you actually have personality
I saw The Blair Witch Project in theaters at the tender age of 13...and the way my spirit left my body when she came down those stairs and saw him in the corner. Little 13 year old heart attack.
Surprised Dan still wears those short shorts after his previous wardrobe malfunction. 😂
@40:35 LMAO 🤣 Laughed at my phone
I saw this movie a while ago along with Cloverfield movie. Thank you for watching this movie!!! Peace.🤗😊😲😢
When Heather cried into the camera it was real because the actors thought they were really lost because the crew stayed away from them
@@wiljones3185 that’s not true. Lol
@@Hey_Jamie Yes it is watch the documentary they talk about it on there
This movie is a perfect example of 'less is more', of utilizing the fear of the unknown against the viewers. Not everyone agree but for me this remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, way scarier than in-your-face monsters or repetitive jumpscares. It's a very psychological movie and it's a shame it's always, always lumped in with the other found footage movies, when in reality the format IMO has little to do with how good the movie is. I think that for that reason it's severely underrated: people keep disparaging it and saying it's only worth watching because historically it's interesting since it's the first found footage movie which got popular. Also a lot of people attribute its scariness to the viral marketing campaign and the fact a lot of people believed it was a true story at the time. Yet I watched it only a few years ago, as an adult, fully aware that it was fiction, and it was still extremely effective at inducing fear. As you said in several occasions, it gives you chills, and the lack of reveal keeps you on the edge of your seat, your imagination running wild and filling the gaps. Compare that with the utterly formulaic bad-CGI-and-jumpscare-fest of a sequel (Blair Witch 2016). Also people don't often acknowledge the amazing acting of the movie, a lot of people conflating annoying characters and bad acting (for example). It's probably the most natural acting I've ever seen in a movie, and it's no surprise when you know the actors were literally role-playing the movie in the woods for a week.
Another great video! If you guys enjoyed this one you should watch the third one (yes, there are 3 movies but just skip the second since it's so bad)
I also suggest watching "Host" from 2020 it was made during covid lockdown, I think you guys might enjoy it as well!
Just a heads up... If you are trying to walk out of somewhere, walking in a circle is a very strong possibility if you don't have experience,as one of your legs is shorter and you will start to drift towards that side...
"I just wanna go home and play my PS 1" lol
I saw this the first weekend it came out with my mom and sister. And it was so funny. At the end, when Mike and Heather were in the house, everyone was really quiet like they were holding their breath. Then the movie just ends and the lights come up. And people just groaned out loud. Half the audience loved it and the other half hated it. I remember one man just let out a "That sucked!" LOL!
Taking my seat be 'Twix the boys and praying I'm not jostled by jump scares🤞😂.
Hahaha, mate it's a risky seat i tell ya! When these jumpscares hit me limbs do be flailing 😂
never a good camping trip when your group is getting tag teamed by a witch and the ghost of a dead serial killer
The marketing for this when it came out was utter genius. Also, let’s stand together so we can see 360, “and take our clothes off” is a very different kind of video you probably can’t host on YT…. LOL
i was a kid in rural missouri when this came out on video. my friend had a sleepover for her bday in october and her farmhouse was waaaayyyy out in the middle of nowhere. we camped out in her living room with windows everywhere looking out on the woods to watch this film. let's just say the memory of a house full of preteen girls screaming their heads off at night in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere left a big mark on me. lmao not to mention the marketing for this film was unreal, the website, the additional documentary that made this look like a real thing that happened.. it was a horror phenomenon
Honestly? The 360p was a trip to watch while high. Great work. XD
It’s so awesome to have a lads who have good bants and a sense of humour watching horror and good films - too many Americans pogging at literally everything that happens and having no understanding of what’s going on. Watching every video!
Yall gotta look into The Ritual. Rewarding visuals of wacky shit.
Great movie as well!!
Great reaction. Nice, wholesome camping trip.
Yall need to watch The Ritual. Group of friends go on a hike in the Swedish wilderness and things don't go as planned.
Good news, you guys are still funny in 380p :)
Not you two nerds making my evening with this reaction to the movie that FRIGHTENED my soul.
I just love the videos are 20+ minutes long❤
Super excited for this one!
coffee and horror movies in spooky season hehehe!
I remember i watched this when I was 9 years old. We just moved into a house with a concrete, unfinished basement. I watched this down there the first night we moved in. Was pretty great. In grade 9 when we could choose any topic for 1 essay i choose to write about the lore behind this movie.
As someone from Maryland, my school took us to these woods when we were around 12 years old and we spent 3 nights camping. It was admittedly quite creepy, at that time the movie had only come out a few years prior