Everything Wrong With The Blair Witch Project
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2015
- Found footage, paper-thin mythology, runny noses... yeah, there ARE going to be sins in The Blair Witch Project. It's a given.
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Does anyone else have a mini CinemaSins voice in their head that critiques movies whenever you watch them on your own?
jason graham It extends beyond movies too.
Yes!☺
jason graham Yes.
oh god when I watched Malificent I heard SO MANY SINS
jason graham Oh my goodness yesIt almost ruins them for me.
"having a useless map is still better than having no map"-agreed
It isn't too heavy,a bandage or a fire source
If the map is in fact useless it's actually worse than having no map.
you're wrong
@@calebm.614 If you have a map that's useless and you think it's a good map it just leads you astray, gives you a false sense of where you are and your surroundings, etc. It's better to have no map than a map that is wrong about everything.
@@Dankman9 I disagree. Tinder.
Legend says that Heather and Josh are still fighting for the map...
When its dark
I know you have it give it and let's get out of here
@@tangiblenoah2035 eA
GIVE IT TO ME HEATHER I KNOW YOU HAVE IT
@@stillwillkill730 sports it's in the game
"What killed this dead mouse?"
"Boredom, probably." 😆
Elizabeth Wagner - PRICELESS‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Redundancy, probably. Do you ever see anyone saying something like "What killed this living mouse?"
This is my favorite line in this video 😂
best line
Fun fact is when heather shouts “what is that” when they are running away, they were supposed to pan the camera over so you would get a quick glimpse of the Blair witch, but they forgot, someone was actually in costume stood there but never got recorded
Damn they probably never got paid either😂😂
@@ceciliagreendale4472It was actually the art director for the film so he definitely did lol
@@jaykhxn oh, thanks for telling me
@Danny Lix Kandi Imagination of the unknown can be the scariest thing of all. There's a small story I heard on the radio when I was a kid about a girl in a rowboat out in small cove and ending still scares the f*ck out of me. When she's in the rowboat she's writing in her journal about her day and whatnot, then there's a small knock from underneath the boat. She's startled but passes it off as a branch or whatever underneath the water but later on it happens again and again. Finally she thinks there's something underneath the boat that's caught so she puts in one of the ores trying to fish it out but it's grabbed out of her hand! It's dark out and the water is murky, she can't see anything underneath. She's scared so she decides to try her best to paddle away but the same thing happens and it's grabbed out of her hands! There's nothing she can do but right in her journal so that's what she does. The next day the boat was found washed up on the shore, and her Journal was the only thing that was left in it. On the last page muddy and badly scribbled was simply the phrase "I knocked first".
It's never explained what happened to her but my imagination has kept chills down my spine thinking about it to this day!!! 0_0
@Danny Lix Kandi Hmmm that's true. I just watch The Blair Witch Project recently (like last night currently) for the first time and I'm just now comparing it to the trailer to the remake/sequel and the new one seems a bit more showy and in your face. I don't know I'm just sitting here having chills up my spine thinking about how the witch was manipulating these three people from behind the shadows and messing with there minds. Like maybe she actually forced Mike to kick the map into the creek and they were laughing because of her influence and just acting all weird and crazy because of her? That's kind of a scary thought and they don't even know. Also someone said that on the website that was formed back when this movie came out (part of the marketing) that it was said that the footage was actually found by old stone wall and there was never a house.........it's kind of scary to think that maybe the woods were actually shifting and changing on their own with the witchs dark powers and things were just appearing and disappearing at her will......... 0_0 NOW I DON'T LIKE THAT THOUGHT AT ALL!!!!!!!!
For those of you who are may be a little younger, let me give you some context. I was a high schooler when Blair Witch came out. There were NO "found footage" films at the time, at least none that were mainstream. You couldn't google something online in the late 90s, so hearing word of mouth that this "really happened" seemed like something that might be true, as you don't see anything in the film that couldn't have actually happened to someone. There was just enough doubt to completely creep you out. And that is why this film was a great horror film at the perfect time in history.
+Josh Dukes The biggest problem with this film and other films which are found footage is the camera shakes all over the place if you get motion sick easily you might be vomiting on the floor after watching the movie.
Google existed when this movie came out. So yes, yes you could just Google it.
+NHK LM could you physically with a 1 yr old Google choose to google something? Yes. Did anyone do that at the time? We did not. Not your average teenager. Most of my friends only had a PC for about 2 years at this point. The lucky ones had AOL and everyone had dial-up service.
JOOOOSSSSHHHH! I can remember the actors not doing any publicity for the film, staying hidden and feeding the "real" myth of TWBP....until maybe a month before release when one got cast in another film or seen in a magazine. Myth busted.
@Venus Moon True! The Green Inferno was actually Cannibal Holocaust's original working title.
When ppl thought this was real my dad reckoned they were murdered by 'hill people'.
"That's racist"
Add another sin.
😬
Fun Fact: The “that” in the “what the f**k is that” sequence was in fact a crew member running along with the actors off to the left dressed completely in white. He had a white mask covering his face, so that he looked like a featureless white figure. When Heather shouted the line, the camera man was supposed to pan to the left, but forgot to. Therefore in the finished film, the audience are left to wonder what was scene.
This fr?
@@shryoder What does "fr" mean? Sorry, not completely up on abbreviation lingo.
Shryoda 420 yes this for real
@@sarahhales1505 It means "for real", but anyways my question has thus been answered by Esteban here
@@shryoder Oh, ok. It was just something I found on. IMdB and thought was interesting.
*"What killed this dead mouse?"*
Okay, that question should have added one extra sin.
"I dunno, Heather. We *are* out in the woods. Not like there are any small-prey-predators in the woods."
It is supposed to be a joke.
TheWeirdNorwegianGuy
Well I was moreso pointing out the fact that she basically asked what killed something that was already dead, but you also make a good point.
jettythesunfish Had it been a person, I would get it, but who even asks what killed a small animal when located in the fucking woods?!
Geez, Heather. Get your shit together.
TheWeirdNorwegianGuy Yeah but wouldn't they have EATEN the prey and if it's a small mouse then what kind of larger animals kills a small one to eat then doesn't even finish it?
Made the video 13 minutes long but the outro is 3 minutes long
that's a sin
DING
DING DING DING DING DING
It's not even a funny outro
*hears infinite ding noise*
Firefly T00lz Mr Meeseks
Why didn't anyone in "The Blair Witch Project" try to climb any of the thousands of trees to spot their location? That would be one of the first things I would do.
Because "plot"...
@Pixis Princess exactly. if youre lost in the woods and find a creek, follow it downstream
to a tributary, then a river and you will find civilization. People build by the water.
@Pixis Princess They did. The witch is supposed to mess with the area they are in. They were basically going in a huge circle because she wanted them to.
European Colonist watch films theory’s video on the Blair witch and now I believe that the Blair witch wasn’t the killer in this movie but I’m not going to spoil who is the killer
It's shown on the Blair Witch (2018) what would happen
Shoulda been an 'everytime they said "map" bonus round'.
Cinemasins guy doesn't note that Mike's chest hair is in the shape of a Blair Witch symbol. *DING*
I don't see it. Neither did CinemaSins or this Sin would have been added to this video.
+Sypaka I guess that was his point ...
this movie period ding
I don't know?????¿
but.. it's not in the shape of a "Blair Witch symbol".
Supposedly during the "attack" the cameraman was supposed to turn and see the Witch standing in the distance on a hill. But he failed to do so and we thusly never got to see her at all.
I heard that the actors making the noises and such had a bet to not be seen by the cameras or else they'd buy everyone lunch. I think that's a cool concept because the actors (the main three) COULD have seen the witch unexpectedly
I remember the scene where Heather is filming Mike drinking water when she suddenly darts the camera to the left because they hear a sudden rustling in the leaves
Very short scene, but very creepy
The fact they actually messed with the actors during filming wasn’t desinned?
While it's cool and all, it's not nearly enough to make up for all the crap fluff and stupid map stuff this movie is full of. It's a really cool premise, especially for the time, but horrifically executed.
@@mycroft16 To be fair though, what else would you do whilst lost in the woods without a map except argue about the map and do fluff all but wander around until you get killed/get found/die? Being that it's a cinema verite-type project, they couldn't have the protagonists do or say what day-to-day people wouldn't do and say in that situation, plus you also want to avoid corny, on-the-nose, expositional, narrative-driven dialogue for a found footage verite project. You then kind of land up with very little to talk about, as anyone in that situation IRL themselves would likely find to be the case. The situation doesn't lend itself to Royale With Cheese dialogue or talking about the stars or the beauty of the forest or talking about anything really. You just get quiet and morose. But still, yeah, I do remember finding the map stuff tedious and them getting on her head about it tedious. Making art imitate life in a verite way can be pretty tough, regardless of the time.
@@spinblade6459 1. Stop arguing about the map and start getting your bearings. Plenty in the woods to make your own map with. You have the sun, you have streams/rivers, hills, etc.
2. Stop wandering and pick a direction and go. You know which way from the town the woods are, you know the cardinal compass points from the Sun. With the Sun it would not be hard to keep in a pretty damn good straight line even over terrain.
3. This is really basic boy scout level stuff here.
they could have been out of those woods in less than 6 hours had they just shut up and started walking intelligently using what nature provided them with. Fuck that witch.
@@mycroft16 They're college stoners shooting shitty documentaries, not boy scouts
Yes stop arguing about the map. It's useless anyways since the witch controlled where they would go. Also the same goes for orientation by the sun.
I used to keep a map of Antarctica in my glove box. Because you never know.
Lmao
My map collection isn’t quite that bad. Lol. I’ve bought maps of places I plan to visit, but just never got around to it.
I’ve kept lots of stuff in the glove box but never gloves
The Witch never appears, it could be anything. What if it's Nicolas Cage in a bear suit?
What if it's a bear in a Nicolas Cage suit?
What if Nicolas took the bears face off?
What if it’s a bear face with a in a cage
Jeremy would take off ALL the sins.
@@nathenhutchison6182 LoL
This move cost $60,000 to make it and made over 248 million. I say that is good for a low budget film.
How tf did this movie take 60k to make
Carter Zane because all they did was go into a woods and a house
Kaden Thornhill no I mean 60k even seems like too much
60k really isn't that much money all things considered.
@@Peanutifyer because the cast and directors had to get paid
Its so true about the snacks.
The director only fed them just enough to make them angry at each other.
It got down to one banana and a protein bar each for the last 2 days of filming.
When Heather and Mike were fighting, they were legitimately mad at each other where Heather bit Mike. It's brought up when Mike says something along the lines of "If you bite me again, I will throw you in the woods".
What if she got murdered by the two guys Instead of the “witch”... I mean think about it
It is a possibility... That Film Theory already suggested.
And if you look in Heather’s Diary it would support the fact
What about those noises they were hearing in the middle of the woods? What about the children banging on the tent? What about Heather opening that 'present' she finds outside of the tent which reveals blood and various parts of Josh? 😕
Adam Johnson
Watch the Film Theory about it. He raised a bunch of good points.
THAT IS THE PLOT! You had a better critique of this movie! The Diary is KEY!! This Cinemasins tool didn't even notice
Did you know that there is a scooby doo Version called the scooby doo project this is real
Yeah, it has a TVTropes page.
THERE IS
Whaaaaaaaaat 😲😲😲
Give me a link please
@@ultrakill69420 ruclips.net/video/SPZWfXLTDuo/видео.html a bit late but here it is
"I'm sorry about the map... I made a little boat with it."
+Pucadupr WOW WHAT A DICK. Actually nevermind that sounds pretty awesome.
I'm sorry about the map...I forgot the tp at home😕
I love how cleverly this was made. The cast were left in the woods with some crew and things happened that they didn't know about so most of their fear is genuine, they weren't even scripted 🙄 and the best part is, so many tried to copy and failed 🤣
A 'found footage' movie can be done.
The way it was shot was great, and the mistakes made it even greater. As for the movie itself, I didn't really find it all that interesting without theories from other people.
@@ArtisticallySpoken actually
Yeah
This is a really good description
(I still kinda believe matpats theory hardcore)
Could've been scripted
Umm actually most of it was scripted. The actors were told what was going to happen.
Nothings happening...
Nothings Happening...
They are in the woods, and the camera keeps on moving. And they seem to be looking for a witch for something, I wasn't listening.
Nothings happening...
Nothings happening...
Something I should know.
Nothings happening...
Nothings happening...
It's over. A lot of people look pissed.
Blair witch at the cinema in a fucking nutshell mate
Family Guy
lol brian’s family guy
It's the greatest horror film ever made
Pulp fiction next. No movie is without sin.
I can see it now.
"Does he look like a bitch?!"
"He does look like a bitch." *+1 Sin*
Except Jesus of Nazarath. Ha! See what i did there!
that one will be under 3min long, not worth it.
It will be one of the few times where "that's racist" can actually apply to one of the movies that they do
Except coralline
This is one of those movies that I personally really like but simultaneously completely understand why so many people think it's utter shit.
I agree. Love this movie from the bottom of my heart. Amazing film-making.
I understand why people don't like it, there's legitimate gripes, but a lot of the hate seems misplaced.
Andrew Rabon Because people have differing opinions. I found the entire movie quite boring, the acting overdone, too much 'movie suspence' not enough realism (i.e. filming the car for so long. 'Take a look kids, we won't see that car again. But WE don't know that, and yet for some reason, I'm filming it like we won't, which we won't, even though I don't know that.') It was poorly made imo.
Andrew Rabon you do not know what amazing means. or film-making. or legitimate. do you even own a dictionary?
The ending is still terrifying to me.
Same with me and Cloverfield.
"Hunted implies she hasn't found you yet. Fucked with is the phrase you're looking for" nailed it.
People thoroughly believed that this spooky story was real. That's how you know you succeeded in story telling.
Maybe a few but I'm sure the majority of people weren't gullible enough to believe a literal ghost/witch/demon story.
@@Edward-Not-Elric what matters is that it freaks you out during the night you're watching it
I fell for it 🤷🏾♀️
Anyone else watch these so they don't have to watch the real movie?
🙌me
+Eoin Newman If you watch this without watching the film first, then sir, you are a complete fu*king moron.
+Juan Pablo Lescano sure :)
Omg yes!!!! Except the movies I have seen and I just wanted to see how he reacts to it.
+Juan Pablo Lescano well I watched never say never one without watching the film first you saying that you a grown man watched never say never m8 ?
Does anybody else want them to do everything wrong with the human centipede just to see what he comes up with?
it being greenlit *ding*
The whole screen would have to be blurred out most of the time. And he's not that much of a masochist.
I can already tell you the biggest and most obvious sin from that film is how they managed to get from downstairs to outside with absolutely no problem, but when it came to it at the end it seemed like they'd spent the whole time downstairs and getting up was the hardest and most difficult thing they've ever had to do.
So I have NEVER seen that movie, not a single clip or scene from it. But I almost vomit just from the name. Hearing about that movie is more than enough for me, thank you very much =P That's one movie I'm gonna avoid like the plague my entire life
hylianchriss It's really not even that bad. Then again I've a strong stomach and visit BestGore on a regular basis so a pansy little film with next-to-no gore is easy for me, haha!
Since this movie had like no funding or money, there were only a few crew members and they actually spent weeks alone in the woods. It was psychologically very straining
They also only fed them enough to keep them alive.
Saw this when it first came out. The cinema audience remained noisy and restless and were making fun of the film, until they entered the house. Then everyone just went quiet :-D
I saw it a bunch of times in theatres and everyone was very quiet and tense because people thought it was real footage
I actually thought the final scene where Mike is standing in the corner whilst Heather gets knocked unconscious/killed was such a genius reference to the story the guy told in the beginning in which that murderer used to do the same thing to those kids. The fact that Mike is standing facing the corner somehow against his will - presumably alive - is what makes that scene so scary, not to mention the kid's hand prints all over the walls.
And yes, I understand that everything this guy is saying is just satire.
problem is that scene is literally the only good scene in this movie, which is what makes it even worse than PA
@@totalwartimelapses6359 Said by someone with a true lack of imagination
"What killed this dead mouse?"
Lady, you're in the middle of the freakin' woods. Believe it or not, animals do tend to kill each other.
Brian Thomson The mouse could've died of natural causes as well. R.I.P. mouse.
"We will have to go in because I can't resist the smell of gingerbread. " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wonder how many people actually got that?
It is funny that they had her be a witch. She could have just been a ghost.
I couldn't get through this movie because I kept getting motion sickness. Also the first half would make a great documentary on trees.
The film is supposed to be realistic.
So there would be alot of arguing.
Idk, i really liked the movie. It started the found footage legacy. It was memorable
+SuperLemonadeGamer Both CH and BW has mentioned they where highly inspired by the 1930 swedish movie Häxan. The production company for the makers of Blair witch is actually called Haxan as a tribute to the old swedish flick.
+pekinobo Well look at it this way - I as someone who isn't big into movies haven't heard of them so whilst they may be found footage they didn't bring it to the mainstream in the way the Blair Witch Project did.
+jessevb Hey, it would be impossible to know everything.
Be safe.
+Hazy Nightmares Depends many people have a tendency to hate on found footage films, It's legacy seems to draw a lot of hate, some people like but if you watched older movies that are classic such as evil dead, you might get bored, also motion sickness is a thing.
1:20 "... most of whom died in the 1940s..."
Another sin because it shows a tombstone with the date 1907.
*ding!*
most is not all
Jack Crispy yes, but why show a year when talking about a different decade?
***** I mean I guessssssss
Jack Crispy It should get the sin for focusing on the grave of an infant from 1907, because they were discussing how an "unusual number of children died...in the 1940s." So while most is indeed not all, they should have at least put the right decade on there because of the age of the deceased.
I wish I was alive to see this in theatre when it released. That ending scene shook me in my living room during the day. I can only imagine just sitting in the dark after the tape ends and the silent credits roll. Fucking terrifying.
I was 19. I was scared for over a decade to set a foot into the woods. And I live right next to a big wood. Even had to cross a part of 10 minutes driving home from cinema! There was mumbling online that it was found Camcorders in the Woods and Film Students re-created it into a film. There were other voices it's staged. I didn't even care about that chatter. Alone the possibility to walk in circles in wood - there needs to be no fairytale witch with human males - never crossed my mind before and what it actually meant! In a time where there were just merely mobiles out and def no signal in woods!! Not even 15 yrs later!
The Blair Witch Project is a masterpiece
"They should've called this movie Maps,Lies and Videotape. " 😂😂😂😂😂
They were gonna go with lost but it's taken
Whys everyone dissing this masterpiece?
I like “The Let’s See Who Can Act Like They’re Not Acting The Most Project”
One of my biggest issues with this movie is the arbitrary switching between color and grayscale recording. It's like the film equivalent of Capitalizing random Words in a Sentence for No reason.
Obviously he doesn't.
+Robin Hood y u still here u obviously don't like this video (sorry I'm asd and ADHD if u don't know what it means google it 😐)
They were using 2 cameras, 1 colour and 1 b& w. It was probably due to the zero budget than an artistic decision.
@@wolfboyfilmsit also gives the audience an immediate visual cue as to which person is behind the camera. We know which camera is held by which person at any given time because the cameras show different colored images.
*JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!*
*Knocks over your camera*
Josh (ding)
Josh.
That's what I was about to comment! XD
Dev .... Josh! 😲
Cinema Sins doesn’t bring up that this was almost certainly the two boys killing the girl after scaring the crap out of her, because of the implied history?
nga what?!?!? explain please
I have mixed feelings about this movie, on the one hand I really admire the filmmakers for the simplicity and marketing to promote this film as reality. But on the other hand, the characters can be annoying, the shaky cam can really be annoying and I could see how someone would find it disappointing
That situation, when you're actually in it, would be annoying. The whole point of the movie is going through the same things as the characters, feeling annoyed when they are annoyed, so that when the climax of the film hits, you will have a connection to the characters and it will hit you pretty hard.
Paranormal Activity tries to do the whole "movie just ends on a sad note" thing where you want to know more, but it doesn't have any realistic, relate-able moments with the characters, so the whole "this could happen to you!" element completely fails, and you just don't care enough to wonder what happened.
Is Paranormal Activity a more casual viewing? Sure. But Blair Witch Project is art. It is an emotional roller coaster with great characters that makes you think long after it ends.
It's a lot like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I love cheesey slashers, but TCM is the best of it's kind because there's no emotional manipulation with the characters. There is no teen in the movie who is the "villain."
Leatherface just murders people. The story is about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, with realistic characters and unnerving atmosphere.
The elements in this movie possibly annoying you is a completely valid opinion to have, and I agree the movie can be grating, but it really depends on the kind of movie you're looking for.
+Oshikaru-Sensei *1st Blair Witch Project was the Original Mocumentry* that recognized A [than New] captivating genre.. It was Brilliant, an if you were there- Like Me on opening weekend. It Had EVERYBODY WONDERING IS THIS MAYBE REAL. Esp. if you had scene the SciFi Doc prior to.
+Porfirio Diaz Its Longevity Is predicated upon 2 things; It being the first "mocumentry" to receive center-stage spotlight & the word of mouth, from people like us! *People who shared A very unique & memorable experienced.* With that being said; Although I can't say it was The Best movie I ever scene, I can say it was probably the Best Cinematic- movie experience,, I ever had! A very memorable one, One I had with my family At an old-school theatre, with A breeze of wonder and the uncanny in the air. A strange lingering breeze, one that echoed through the lobby & the line outside. Making the Org BWP experience- happily, one for the (memory) record books!
Say what you will about Michael Bay or Adam Sandler but they don't manipulate you into seeing their movies.
Jacob Voronkov That's marketing for you
The thing I loved about this movie was how it never showed the actual witch/ghost, it was all psychological, and it didn't rely on cheap jump 'scares' (emphasis on the scare because theyre not actually scary) like a majority of horror film these days do.
i think jump scares are only good when you dont expect them and the dont really scare me as much but they surprise me
+Jay0253 but the children voices and their hands on the tent were not psychological.
+Tom Weschenfeller Yea, the tent thing was a jump scare. Besides, its hardly a psychological horror when its not scary at all. Idk about you but people walking through the woods with shaky cameras and arguing for 80 minutes is not scary.
Except it is. The entire point of the movie is to give you a first person account of being stranded in the woods, no supplies, and being toyed with and manipulated by a supernatural force that you can't see. Now, look at what I wrote, and then look at modern horror games and other media. Unlike those new ones, this movie doesn't just give it to you straight up, it puts it behind a veil. No jump scares, no shots of the actual threat, just strong implications. You are only limited by your own imagination, which obviously many people don't have.
Another good movie that doesn't rely on cheap jump scares is. The babadook and I highly recommend it
Anyone ever seen the obscure "fake" documentary 'bout the jersey devil that I swear inspired this, now that was scary
You mean Lost Tapes?
@@rowan5542 Lost Tapes was the shit!
it was probably cannibal holocaust that inspired thsi
LMAO the movie picture was scarier then the actual movie
Right. I want you to watch this and edit this comment. Please just do it.
"Hunted" Implies that she hasn't found you yet. "Fucked with" is the phrase you're looking for.
The thing with The Blair Witch Project is that it's either terrifying for you, or boring for you. It relies completely on the atmosphere and the fear of the unknown. I'm a huge horror movie fan and I found this movie to be the only move to ever actually scare me shitless. It creeps me out to watch these three people tumbling down into this abyss of fear and anxiety together, more than other horror movies. The fact that you know something is after them, but you don't what it is freaks me out even more. In the final scene, when you just see the guy standing in the corner and camera drops is what freaks me out the most. The fact that we don't know what happened to them; whether they're even dead at all, all we're left with is that they disappeared and this is what happened to them last. This movie uses the fear of the unknown to the best degree, it made people work and use their brains to become frightened rather than give them everything on a silver platter. It didn't rely on imagery, which is why it was praised by critics. I understand why people may dislike this movie, but to say this movie is "bad" or "shit" is obnoxious.
exactly, fear of the unknown is way more effective than the typical slasher movie. When they walked in one direction for the entire day and then ended up in the same place they started at, that was really unnerving. Knowing that they are never going to get out of the woods, running out of food, losing the map, how can you not feel the fear. The arguing is because they are all afraid and taking it out on each other. It builds the anxiety. I read that Halloween is the scariest movie ever, but that did nothing for me.
I thought this movie was great. I think what would scare me the most is hearing that children laughter at night. That is freaky!!
+JKalama Liked the way you explained why you loved it. Personally it was only when they come to that "bunker" that did scare me, got really spooked out I should add.
The thing about them walking around in the forest was boring and not scary. I grew up on the countryside with large woods everywhere (no witches close though), so I never had any emotional investments for the 3 teens and their wandering around.
I do also as you understand why people either like it or hate it. City folks seems to like it and find it scary - sounds like a cliché though.
Be safe.
Yea if you take yourself out of the movie turn the lights on, volume down its not that scary
I completely agree with your comment. it really does depend on what scares you. even if the witch doesn't exist, getting lost and losing a friend in the process, that's scary, finding body parts, scary... not seeing some computer generated monster isn't scary most times... WE know what scares us individually, so we are forced to imagine what happened to these people. it was really good to me, I see the flaws and this video is hilarious....but it was good and it changed the game when it comes to horror. I'm actually getting kind of tired of the "found footage" type films, but this one started it all.
9:24 it looked like she was talking out of her nose🤣
"What killed this dead mouse"
Me "How tf do you kill a dead mouse?"
Narrator "boredom"
"What killed this dead mouse?"
"Boredom, probably."
I seriously lost it. :') My cat is still looking at me like I've gone mad.
+Ciiah Kultti Maybe you have? Seriously worried here. Maybe the blair wirch has got you somehow?? Please reply back so I atleast see your keyboard is ok.
I don't know, man... I've been seeing things. Strange things. Yesterday, I saw a stick on the ground that I'm almost positive was not there the day before. Clearly, there's witchcraft involved. I think she's after me. Send help.
+Ciiah Kultti I´m calling my secret team of dog ninjas and they will find the witch and they will kill the witch. It´s their motto in life; Bisquits and milk. Be strong, help is on the way.
pekinobo
Is Pakkun amongst them? If so, I already feel safer. Bless you sir!
+Ciiah Kultti None of them wont reveal their true names, but the other ninjas names are Dr Snuggles, Inspector Gadget and Chewbacca
What if the witch was the protagonist of the film? What if she was doing the people of that world a favor by removing these idiots from the gene pool?
She's not the heroine we wanted, but she's the heroine we needed.
So we'll badly attempt to document her because she can take it. Because she's not our hero. She's a silent guardian, a watchful serial killer. A Blair Witch. *Hans Zimmer theme*
Still better than the original ending
@@IMmephiles It's canon
@@nimeshsingh4943 JOOOOSSSHHHHHHH
The motion sickness comment had me dying 😂
“Twig gift” physically cracks me up every goddamn time
Maybe I missed it... But I don't recall even seeing a witch in this movie
They went with the Jaws style of horror, where they don't show the threat for most of the movie. This movie never shows it.
+theguyshadows when you watch this movie with the extra audio comments the director says that there was a bet: make noises, try to not get caught on film. If we see you you have to buy the drinks tonight.
+theguyshadows so basically the way I see it is it could have just been some people fucking with them in the woods given that we didn't even see anything then pass it off as a witch movie
yeah, no witch, mostly noises. if you saw it in a theater, though, you could HEAR the damn witch all around you, like sometimes the back right, front left, right beside you. they did a fantastic job on the sound!! creepy as fuck
+Jigoku Shoujo (Jinx) that was the people snorting in the dark
The fact that she convinced those guys to go with her is baffling to me....couldn't convince me to go anywhere even remotely unknown with the notion that "we'll be ok"
You are everywhere :)
Pussy makes men do strange things, especially pussy that gets drunk and fucks you the night before.
Nerdy Blonde Yeah, he's kind of famous. Just no that famous.
AstrayPenguin
Maybe that's why Mike kicked the map into the creek. He didn't get any. xD
I don’t think enough people appreciate this film for its quality as a horror movie.
Through drama, desperation, isolation, and atmosphere, the film builds this tension and suspense where you are completely lost, there is no outside help, you don’t know what’s going to happen next, and no matter what you try, you are only delaying the inevitable. That buildup continues to grow more, and more, and more throughout the entire film until it finally culminates with an ending that leaves you with no definitive answer.
It’s a shame we only care about this film for it’s “Found Footage” style, because even though it isn’t perfect, or even that original, it’s still a d*mn good horror movie.
Actually, I belive that this wpuld be a pretty original idea for this particular movie. The found footage film was really made by this film if im correcf
That branch snapping sound is often one of two things: Deer rutting or old, dead branches falling off of trees. Really, I've done a lot of camping.
In this instance, that clearly was not the case.
"What killed this *DEAD MOUSE* ?"
That's an extra sin.
Yeah exactly 😂😂😂😂
Near the biginning of the video they say 'there are an unusually high number of childrens death in the 1940s' and goes on the say 'nothing strange happen over this time' erm...........
World War II
Oh yeah, fair point. My mistake. thanks
They never considered the fact it could of been from Influenza.
Probably got the Spanish Flu?
The spanish flu I know of is actually a virus brought to France by the american troops near the end of World War I. It propagated quickly among the malnourished opulation of Europe until 1921, and killed mostly young adults.
canadavatar Spanish flu hadn't been problem for 20 years at that point.
"JOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!"
- Josh *ding*
Characters: JOOOOOOOOSH!
Me: MAAAAAAAPPPP!
The summary of this movie.
I'm sure there are dozens of others that have already said it, but the footage was found buried under the foundations of a 100 year-old cabin by anthropology students. So when they find the house at the end of the film ,they've either been transported back in time (to when Rustin Parr murdered the children), or the house itself appears to travel in time. This also explains why their compass wasn't working and they walked in circles; they're basically in the witch's little bubble as soon as they found the first piles of rocks.
It just negates some of the sins is all. Still loved the video!
Ahhhhhhhhh, maybe that's the reason it sucks so badly!
Katherine DodgeReeves like a movie fake? You dont fuckin say!
Whether it's a fake movie or not, it's still shit.
i'm a fan of the story. It's fun to piece it all together which is why it's got two other movies and I believe some books. I actually wanted to make my own lol this movie was pretty inspiring back in the day.
it actually makes a lot of the sins even worse than they are and doesn't explain anything at all. Time travel does not remove issues about the compass and such. Film also degrades easily. specially when exposed to the elements and not stored properly in a very controlled environment so the footage would have been unwatchable. Amongst a whole other list of problems.
There's a lot worse films out there. Paranormal Activity makes Blair Witch look like an Oscar caliber film
paranormal activity is a comedy that documents a woman going insane from having a boyfriend with a silly name try to film them all the time
How is the blair witch project a bad movie?
***** how are you this dumb? now that's a question for the ages.
KainScion
Umm..What?
***** motion sickness introducing, nostril exams, and did you watch this sins video? there is this thing called accumulation
This is priceless! My sister rented the movie (or got it pirate...can't remember) when it was a thing. We saw the first 5 minutes, then paused it, grabbed a couple of beers and decided to pretty much sin it ourselves. I am amazed it got only a handful of sins. . . Well, then again, there is not enough of "it" to actually sin...
That blair witch website used to scare the hell out of me
Press X to Josh.
Well done XD
+ZarosianCabbage it's b to blow
+ZarosianCabbage X
Jason! SEAAAAN!
Jason? Jason! Jaaaaason!
...
SEAAAANNNNNN! SEAAAN!
I saw a documentary about the 90s, and they said that this movie was the first commercial use of GPS technology. The director knew about it from some involvement he had in the Gulf War (filming stuff? I don't remember,) and he directed the movie solely through giving the actors GPS coordinates to get through the woods and then giving them each private letters about what they were supposed to do that day. For example, he'd tell Heather, "You have to stay in control of the group today as you get to your next location," and then the guys would get letters saying, "You have to take control away from Heather today." Really amazing use of technology at the time. I remember seeing this in the theater when EVERYONE thought it was real. It wasn't even released nationwide yet; we say it in LA during its initial limited release. Something having its own website was unusual at the time, and the very fact that there was a website connected to the movie made people think it was an actual documentary. I remember this big guy sitting behind me screaming, "What the f*ck?!" during the last half of the film. Pretty much everyone in the theater was scared shitless until the credits rolled and we figured out it wasn't true. My little brother hid in my room that night before I went to bed and stood himself in the corner like a little asshole, and it scared the crap out of me.
I like your little brother! :-P
You almost have to think the dirrector set this up to be sin worthy almost 30 years later...but the whole leaving notes for the actors to improve off of as a script turned out to be damn genius
This movie used to scare me....when I was 5.
When I was a kid this movie was scary as shit
When I watched it again as an adult I wasn't scared whatsoever
Thats when I realized just how ingenious and ahead its time this film was. They literally made a couple millions off of trees, sounds, and the use of monochrome
Oh, this movie suffered hard from "Paranormal Activity Syndrome"; where they rely heavily on jump scares and all the good stuff is always shown off film. Guess this is where Paranormal Activity got their inspiration from then. So maybe I should call it "Blair Witch Project Syndrome" instead. Wait, that's the name of the movie. What was I talking about again?
"Paranormal Activity"?
Bad News Everyone! The land of confusion :).
*****
I agree, Paranormal activity looks like you stole your neighbors recordings and edit them to look like that :).
Haha well paranormal activity suffered the Blaire witch project syndrome
Gcjv
All these years later, when the moon is just right on a cold, quiet night, you can still hear Heather screaming out for Josh...
Why does Heather try to sound like a news reporter with that weird deepness to her voice?
After watching this and film theory I'm convinced about the theory mat pat made
But the second movie kind of disproves everything and adds a lot to the universe. I mean the canon second one in the same universe btw.
Same.
without the sequels though, the theory is pretty solid. And you can't count sequels unless the story had already been set over the movies. If I remember right, the original creators expected the movie to stand alone, then a company bought the rights with the expectation of expanding the universe.
This means, the theory works with the original intent of the film and honestly, it makes more sense than the angle the company went with.
@@BustlingKiwi the second movie was created by a different group with different intentions for it.
same
This pairs so well with film theorists blair witch video. This one asks all the questions and matpat answers them awesomely
Bunny yup
Bunny has just watched that it was great!
my biggest problem w this movie is the lack of lighting I mean, at least a flashlight or two even If they wanted to make it more realistic
The legend says that you have to spend the night in the woods for the witch to get you. If they searched the woods during the day, they could find the footage, and not be affected. The witch changes the layout of the woods, that's why they couldn't find their way out, and kept walking in a circle, coming back to the same spots.
1:22 Heather says the unusually high number of children died in the 40s, but that tombstone reads "1907". Uh huh.
DING!
The woods where this was filmed, is a hour away from my house. Who wants to come?
I'm in :)
What's the name of the area?
And yell out JOSH !
Trinity Young I'm coming
Me too
"This footage wasn't found"
Yep. Ok I'll give you that
The well established genre "mailed footage"
"JOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!" Everything worng guy:"Josh" I died of laughter 🤣🤣😆
Who came here after watching film theory
me lol
Me.
Me!
me
Those guys suck. It's not even a theory, just a hypothesis
Ok. The ending part is what is great and people overlook it. Josh is a grown man. Yes, he is an adult male and is much more capable than the kids who were made to stand in the corner. Yet he stands there faced away from the witch anyway rather than fight or run. This mixed with the fact that the movie intentionally leaves out images of the witch tells us everything about the witch. That her appearance alone makes a grown man wait in the corner for his execution because he is that terrified. This movie is overrated, but dont talk shit about the great ending,
It's the best part of the movie, I'll give you that.
I'll agree that the ending is terrifying in its own right, and this is actually one of my favorite movies, overrated as it is. However, my personal interpretation is that it was the ghost of Rustin Parr who ultimately killed the filmmakers, still being forced in death by the witch to do her bidding.
I thought that was cause of magic... cause she's a witch.
How can an ending be great when NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENS
Please I would have socked it I'm dead anyway!
Interesting how the shaky camera made everyone sick. I never felt a thing from it.
This movie has actually grown on me. I thought it was just ok when it came out, and didn’t rewatch it for 10-15 years, but when I did I liked it a lot more. It’s a nicely paced, creepy story.
The actors in this movie legitimately believed in the Blair Witch and were legitimately scared in some of these scenes. Like, the tent scene, the director went up to their tent and scared the shit out of them. That was not scripted.
Almost the whole movie was improv anyway.
+WeActOnImpulse Official Do you have a source for that info? I'd like to read on.
+Wormy McSquirmy You can probably find the source on-line; I've come across similar stories.. the actors having their food stolen by the crew while they slept, having their tent shaken, their actual map replaced with a bogus one... etc. etc. lol
The Blair Witch Project was improv and ad lib. The film makers would drop food and supplies. The actors would use GPS to get to the different locations. They were given outlines as to what was generally happening on any given day with each character, but all of the acting and dialogue is ad lib and off the cuff.
Heather's famous confession towards the end was a bit of genius.
Not sure where you're getting your info from, but they are actors and this film was a work of fiction. Everything you see on screen was either ad libbed by the actors, or planned out by thr film makers. The actors were given outlines on their characters and situations, and they used GPS to get to various locations.
So, my theory. There is no Blair Witch, nothing paranormal: Josh and Mike are killers who were screwing with Heathers head the whole time and in the end, they murdered her.
Maybe it's just a prank.
A year after this movie was let out the creators admitted it was fake and that it was a joke
Basically the directors put all of the actors (who are basically regular people, their names are the same as in the movie) and they put them through these experiences, basically they played with them and their reactions in the movie are real
I am completely aware of the fact, that this is a movie, not a true story. This is just my personal interpretation of said, fictional, story. It makes it more interesting, in my opinion, that there is no paranormal element, that the movie is actually about two serial killers tormenting their next victim.
I have a theory like yours. There's no Blair Witch. It's just their subconscious is playing tricks on them. Making them fear something is there when there's not. Which is why you never actually see the witch.
When Josh claimed to hear a cackling he was in fact joking, so I’m sinning cinema sins 1 sin for not paying enough attention to the movie.
Jeremy, the “hunted” line in this cubs video made me laugh so hard
If Blair Witch is responsible for a gazillion shaky cam 'movies', that has got to be a major Sin, surely?
Agreed!
Shit movie inspires an entire shit genre of shit movies.
best comment ever
Lol @ the moronic, if not utterly ignorant people that act like "The Blair Witch Project" in all of its glory is the first 'found footage' horror film couldn't be more wrong even if they tried... Um, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980) anyone? Despite its flaws, for a $60,000 budget only to gross 248.6 million dollars, THIS movie is actually rather successful to say the least.
nictheartist make it 1 million sins just because fuck it then another million for the shaky cam
Chronicle is the best found footage film ever made. Period.
It's not hard to be the best when all the others are steaming piles of shit..
Was it any good? Never watched it.
SuperLordGaming Amazing, you can find really cheap on dvd.
SuperLordGaming no it is not. I'm pretty sure the person is trolling, if not, yikes...
King Farticus True.
There's a theory that the entire movie was a story about how Mike and Josh murdered Heather by scaring her into thinking the Blair Witch was real before leading her to their murder house.
12:00 "*spits out* Geeze,you smoke too??" 😂
I don't know why people insist on posting comments about "omg this video sucks that's not even a sin" etc. On the assumption that they're not trolling, just take a look at all the videos in the channel.
They're meant to be funny. Not meant to be a bloody movie review.
Artyom! Are you still alive?
2035 confused me on that....
Well. They suck, its not even funny to me
Just lame thing they say over and over again
Well maybe its funny for 2-3 video i first watch
But after that i'm find it really repetitive
ashcoop17 only some of the things he says are repetitive and his awesome speaking voice make it better
I will admit the first time I saw one of these videos I had the same reaction. Thankfully, before I posted anything I watched other videos and realized it was all a joke. :)
The Barkspawn He's still alive because it's not 2035. c:
My only problem with CinemaSins, is the fact the nitpicking has made it's way into my brain and now I nitpick everything, I don't watch many movies anymore...
IKR? Man, it's hard to turn off my brains now for stupid movies...
I was doing that before I encountered CinemaSins
yup same here, doing this with games too since i started seeing reviews
GermanWehrmacht I think we're all here cus we did it before, now we have a community that does it, so we don't feel like "that guy who ruins dumb movies for people able to dumb themselves down to enjoy dumb movies.
Sure, it's badly acted and inevitably there will be flaws...but this is still one of the most daring, clever, subtle horror movies ever made.
Laugh all you like, but that final shot of a guy facing a wall scared me far more effectively than anything in any of the hundreds of crappy, jump-scary horror films I've watched since. It's genius.
I was 32 when I saw it, and it really creeped me out when I went to bed that night. A movie hasn't done that since I was a kid. Was the shakey-cam nauseating, the acting annoying and whole thing implausible? Sure, but it still creeped me out, so it was successful.
@@scottplumer3668 It's a brilliant film, given that pretty much nothing happens and you never see anything approaching a ghost or a monster.
It should be taught in film school as a lesson on how to manufacture tension, atmosphere and drama without any real resources.
I think because of the gimmicky aspects to its release: the fact that it was cheaply made, the fact that it was the first found-footage film that anyone had really seen, the fact that the studio half-pretended it was real...all of that has overshadowed what an original, subtle, clever film it is.
I've watched a lot of scary films, almost all of them have been much gorier and much more explicit than this. But none of them have really scared me in my bones, the way that final shot did.
There are flaws but it's definitely not badly acted, all three of them give good performances.
The reason Mike threw the map way is because of the witch controlling him. Initially it was supposed to be him that the witch took and Josh was supposed to be the nice guy, then the crew saw Josh bullying Heather and decided to take him out first instead. By that point Mike had already admitted to chucking the map away so it no longer really makes sense. It's a brilliant film and I'll always defend it.
It's a brilliant film on original idea which made excellent use of internet hype! Dishwasher to millionaires!
However I can't stand the 2 casted guys. Those 2 grunge punk asses had a rapist feel entire time. Despised them from start and then it gets hard to enjoy movie or feel sorry for them. Heather was on the contrary quite OK. She was a normal twen woman, emotional of a growing nightmare situation she can't control! She was rather believable. The guys were just highly fishy suspicious. Entire time I was doubting a witch and it was them. The ending is total open end. I don't even get who's standing in the corner? Josh or Mike and where is the other dude? Filming? So where is the witch?! I'll never want to re-watch this movie. Once was enough at hype height. Traumatized me enough to not step a foot in woods for over a decade!