The fact that this whole film was made with two cameras, no sound effects or back ground music, only three actors and in a wood with one old house amazes me. Great film.
@Bill Patrick Jones I think that Rustin Parr was possessed by the witch and so that MO of killing children is one and the same with the witch's, which is why the same thing happened IM ASSUMING
I think thats because heathers mic might have been unplugged, but she was scared shitless so she didnt notice or care, but they needed audio, so they switched to his, but your right it works well
The crew and cast were paid more to go back and film new endings that were never used and kinda sucked, than they were paid for the film itself. This was their original ending and I cannot imagine why on earth anyone wanted to change it. To this day this is the only film that ever truly frightened me.
Luke - very true, and the fact that we never see the witch.. there's nothing more frightening than being stalked/hunted by a villain that you can't see
Ya, I just wish they'd edited her sound into the presence of the video better...tho she might have been recording by his DAT device...? It just sounds non-local to me, whereas _feeling_ her scream would have seemed like we were _her_ ....screaming..... still, great job for what it was, fooled me since I lived near there, freaked me out.
@@timmarrier The reason Heather's screams were distant was because her camera didn't have a microphone. The one that did was Mike's so her cries became more audible when she reached the basement where the camera was dropped, but yeah I agree if her cries were direct and not distant it would have been more intense tbh.
Seeing this in the theaters in 1999 was an event. People really believed these actors died, and the footage was real. This is still one of my favorite horror films ever made.
It was the best movie Campaign ever because most of us had the internet already, and on the internet they were advertising the movie with missing people and it was the main actors
I don’t care what anyone says, that final shot of Mike standing in the corner with head down motionless not responding to Heather will always be one of the most chilling things I’ve ever seen.
This is scary cause the legend says that the witch "punish" one person by making him stand in the corner while she's killing the other one... The imagination does all the rest.
@payday64 yep, film theory did make an outstanding theory but we will never know what actually happened, i had to think of what happened to josh and boy was it gorey
When she comes around the corner and you just see him standing in the corner all the hairs on my back and arms stand up. It's not that it's particularly scary, it's just that no human would respond that way in that situation. It is completely unnatural and I think thats why it's so creepy. Just standing motionless in the corner in what would be a terrifying situation when just minutes before he was talking and moving. It goes completely against the fight or flight response programmed into us. He simply does neither. Just thinking about it creeps me out.
@Stan ezen I was pretty sure it was the witches but then someone pointed out that mike's camera is the only one recording audio which makes a lot more sense.
*Fun fact:* You didn't see the Witch at the end of the film, because she couldn't be seen in mirrors, cameras ect. like a vampire. So when that girl (forgot the name) saw Mike staring at the wall, she wasn't screaming because of it, but she actually saw the Witch aproaching her.
@@maddalonefarms One of the guys behind the production said that in an interview. He stated they haven't got budget big enough to make a CGI witch and didn't want to use a "guy in a suit", so they choose the option when it's left to your imagination. But also in the same interview he stated, that Heather really did saw the witch, but she couldn't be seen on the camera - like a vampire. He said there are hints through the movie that this was the case.
The most dependable sense in us humans is our sense of seeing. This film doesn't let us see anything. We know something bad is there but we can only hear it. That's frightening! That's what makes this an effective horror film.
It's not... I've seen my family hurt and I've never been afraid of it. If someone hurt my family I wouldn't sulk in fear. Not unless you're the biggest coward in the world. So you keep convincing yourself of that.
Mister Spade Wow, you know nothing of horror movies. Ever tried watching one without the music/sounds? It's not scary at all, actually quite boring. Sounds are what really make you jump in the horror industry.
No. I am not one of those. I despise gore. This is simply a terrible movie. Adrenaline was never once present; boredom was. It had a terrible storyline, incredibly moronic characters and too many loose ends. It gets a 2/10 from me. A 2 because I have to put it above The last airbender. Saw is the exception to the gore hatred. It is infinitely better than this pile of shit.
@@Silly-Gooses-Everywhere23 Not really a fan of the theory but you have to remember.... ITS A THEORY, just because producers never said anything about it doesn't make it fake, that's why its called a theory. If it was confirmed it would be called a fact.
I watched the 2016 version. Lights off, headphones in, home alone, like 2 in the morning. Literally wasn't scared at all. Watched the 1999 version with my family in my house, in the living room, at 3pm. I was scared shitless.
@@phishcatt It’s literally just jumpscares over, and over, if you find that creepy sure but it has nothing on the suspense of the first film in my opinion
@@DexgamingX As well as One Dimensional bland characters that constantly make one dumb decision after another. Oh and they made the egregious decision to show the witch
It was filmed in different parts of Maryland, USA. Don't worry, BoomtoJsak, you will only find insects, plants, rocks, ghosts, nature, abandoned cabins/houses maybe, hikers probably and unless there's a person practising witchcraft, a witch, but, not supernatural witches.
Saw this in a crowded theatre before the hype train, before everyone knew it was fake. People were leaving the theatre; I had never seen that before. When the camera came upon all the hands on the wall, I heard the whole theatre just shudder. One of the last times I felt genuine fear from a movie, I'm not ashamed to admit. What a great horror movie.
As much as Hollywood beat a dead horse, concerning the multiple inferior sequels, the first Paranormal Activity was also a theater pleasing experience.
There was a line of guys in front of me who had heard that I had watched it already (it was my second or third time watching it that week!). After the movie, they all turned to me and asked, "Was that real?" I almost didn't want to say anything and just leave, for them to decide. Then, I just said, "No." But the look of shock in their faces said it all because that's what happened to me after the first time watching it. Epic film, I don't care what anyone else says.
@@tonytheglytch I would be pissed of, if they had showed that. This movie is too real to see a stupid Witch and she did not catch the "supposed Witch" because is a movie for you to imagine the final. In my opinion, the one that killed them, is an Hermit following Rustin Parr legacy. However, I think that there is something "weird" in the forest because of the childrens scene and the real Myth 1:47 to 2:11 is the most terryfing thing here and Mike looking at the wall, of course
The sheer terror in the girls voice as the guy runs downstairs looking for josh leaving her behind is just so real; imagine you’re going through a house like this with your friends and all of a sudden your friends all start taking off running and you got left behind imagine the terror you would feel of being alone. In her situation the screams she is letting out is what I would be feeling too. Realism in this movie is what was achieved. As a kid I remember being afraid to even look at the VHS tape because my dad told me it was real 😭
It would be so much scarier for her than us - we see where the camera's nightvision show us, she is in that environment, walking through a pitch black house
Seeing this in theatres was a WHOLE different experience. It needs to be watched in the dark, loudly and with the mindset that this really is found footage. Then it's a very effective forror film. I'd rather they re-release this in cinemas rather than that stupid remake/sequel. This film is incredible especialy on the big screen. I remember watching it in 99' at the theatre and nearly pissing myself.
Same here. Saw it 3 times at the cinema. The first time was the distinctly non-scary time of 1pm as it was the first showing of the film and I popped into the local Odeon as I finished college early. I came out just wanting to tell everyone about it. I've never known a more divisive film. People either loved it or hated it, and I mean really HATED it. The ultimate Marmite movie. I kind of love that about it.
The idea that the blair witch brutally kills someone and then controls his/her soul to lure their knowns ones one by one to the same fate ran a chill down my spine when I first watched the film all alone at night
I don't care if it's just fiction, I'd NEVER go in some run down ol' ass house like that. The mere structure is scary as fk. The dark allys, the ripped walls, the hand stains, and I'm sure the smell was foul. Forget the supposed "witch", the house alone would make me piss my pants..
When I was in my late teens, I had friends who liked to go to "haunted" places. We went to one school that had been abandoned for decades. We're walking through and it's kinda cool, papers written in the 70s on the desks and stuff, but then, swastikas on the chalkboard. I believe my exact sentence was, "Sooo, I'm not scared of ghosts, but I'm totally scared of squatting skinheads." Later I separated from the group and stood at the end of a hallways until someone saw me, yelled, and then disappeared when he tried to show everyone. I then scared the entire group on the way out, that was fun. Also, they brought these million candle flashlights or some shit, makes the room look like there is electricity, what the hell is the point then? I had my trusty Mag Lite so I could whoop some ass with it if I had to.
pussy I crawl around creepy abandoned places all the time I have found alot of interesting things (never take I'm an explorer not a thief) but nothing yet has tried to kill me
Remember the story the old man said in the beginning? About how the hermit who owned that house kidnapped children, then took two in the basement at a time-- he would kill one while the other faced the corner because he couldn't stand the eyes watching him. That's why Mike is in the corner. He and Heather were the new victims, the kids. Man, some of you people need to pay attention to detail.
I saw this movie for the first time at my old boyfriends house when I was seventeen. His family lived in a wooded area and you literally had to drive on a dirt trail, through the woods, to reach the main highway. I was terrified to leave his house that night but my parents would have killed me if I spent the night. I remember literally doing 100 mph on that trail to get to the highway as quick as I could. I think I even cried while doing it. 🤣🤣🤣
If you payed good attention to this movie, then the ending will be much more horrifying. Mike was not possesed or under any "spell". He was in the corner because the Blair Witch TOLD HIM to do so. Even after knowing the story and what happened with the children, He LISTENED. Also, they never reveal the image of what the Blair Witch looks like. Which adds even more suspense. How powerful is this being? If a grown man will stand against a wall to await a horrible death, what is it capable of?
MY theory is that when Mike got to the basement, he found Josh and dropped the camera out of shock, not death, after finding him in a horrifying state. He was told by JOSH to stand in the corner, not the witch. If you remember from the beginning, one of the townspeople said that Rustin Parr had the children stand in the corner while he axed the other ones from behind. So if that's the case, then where was the witch you might ask? The answer: at the top floor, literally ESCORTING Heather down to the basement where she will meet Josh, as well as her horrific end. That explains why she was desperately calling for Mike, and why she was barely moving down the stairs. But still, the fact that the witch never physically appears DOES create suspense.
I think what makes this scene great is Heather's acting. You can tell she is terrified of losing Mike in this moment, and knowing he is impetuous and prone to rash decision making, he could do something dangerous in this very dire situation. He's screaming out to Josh and moving loudly through the house, while Heather trails behind slowly and cautiously, begging him to slow down and not expose themselves even more to the witch. When Mike vanishes to the basement Heather is now frantically shrieking out whereas before she was desperately yet quietly engaging with Mike. She goes from fragile to entirely broken down.
I just have tremendous respect for this movie because it’s simply a very authentic and creative movie that literally started its own MOVEMENT of the found footage genre etc. it’s honestly really really good for what it is. And. I feel it deserved the financial returns and so forth 😊
The fact that her screams stopped the moment the camera dropped to the ground and it's just...absolute silence. That's probably what made the ending all the more scarier.
Holy shit I get the ending now, when his camera fell to the grown before it cuts to the girl that's when that thing stopped him and pointed him towards the wall and waited for that girl to come to her own death. the fact we don't see the creature makes it that much more intense, the imagination is a scary place.
No what was scary was we don't even know if she was the one holding the camera at the end. All thru the movie whoever was carrying the camera the person's voice was always right there at the mic, so you always heard them clear and strong. That final scene she is screaming at the top of her lungs life her life depended on it and her voice is waaay far off to back or side of the camera. Like she was far off from the mic. Not to mention as much as she was screaming the camera was steady the whole time. Like someone else was holding it and she was being dragged downstairs.
Actually, multiple times in the movie, they cut the visual footage from one camera with audio footage from the other camera. I watched it a couple of days ago with a group of friends and I thought the same thing you were thinking for a bit, but then we all realised that her screams were the audio from the coloured camera with video footage from the black and white camera.
job489 yeah so does the old one, it's coz the murderer guy who kidnapped the children would take them to the basement in pairs, make one of them stand and face the corner while he killed the other, and then kill the first one. But does the 2016 one explain why he did that?
I remember when I first seen this at the movie theaters at 13. I thought the whole damn thing was real and the guy standing in the corner freaked me out for weeks after seeing it. I think this was the very first "found footage" movie released, which added to the horror element.
Nope, not the first found film movie. The Last Broadcast (1999) was the very first movie to do it. The Blair Witch Project however, did popularize found footage films.
Eric McClain there is actually a theory that the real found footage was SO gruesome, the government actually kept the found footage and the directors had to remake it scene by scene based on the ACTUAL footage 🧐
I saw this movie in a theater and it gave me really bad motion sickness. Shaky cam used judiciously is a good technique; when you have an entire film of it, shot widescreen, you're asking for the audience to start hurling about 3/4 through. I ended up closing my eyes for the last part of the film because of the constant motion.
In this case, it had to be made in that way, aside from making it look as it was filmed by any person with a camera, they were actually doing that, it also was made in that way, before most and the mainstream films started to massively doing it. When big budget films do this, they even exaggerate that to the point you don't see nothing from the scene, e.g. Transformers, and depending on the person, watching at those scenes it can make you dizzy.
I think one of the great things about this scene is that the audio is coming from Mike’s camera, so when Heather is screaming and yelling it sounds distant and creepy until she gets closer to the camera on the basement floor.
that makes a lot of sense. when I first saw it I thought that Heather was somewhere else in the house. I really like how they played around with this video production. seeing the video from one person but hearing the audio from another isn't something I've ever seen implemented in a high budget movie scene, it's more like an outtake or something that would happen in real life. the authenticity of the whole movie is amazing.
This movie is such a masterpiece. No other movie has ever archieved anything comparable to this. This movie freaks out people because it plays with their imagination. It does not show us anything about what actually happened. It leaves it up to the viewers imagination. And we all know the biggest fear of humans is the unknown. I wish more movies would be this creative. Now it's all a braindead fest of jumpscares and cgi mosters....
Verbunden I only thought it was boring bc I wanted to see what was scary and leaving it to my imagination was pretty dark but nothing really to spook me about.
@@rhiannon5649 if you watched it with friends, maybe Horror movies are meant to be watched alone and with the lights out This is 1 of the movies that truly scared me because i was actually paying attention to their documentary at tbe beginning, its all psychological, genius movie
The house was the scariest part in the whole movie, Heather was so terrified to be alone in that house. The acting was so good it seems like this can happen in real life. I still refuse to watch this alone at night lol
The Blair Witch Project is one of the few horror films to still freak me out even after watching it a few times. I’m 16 and I still get chills at the part where Heather is screaming while Josh is just standing there in the corner under The Blair Witch’s influence
It's still extremely creepy. Her screams, the children's hand prints on the walls, Josh's disembodied voice calling for them, no music, and just your imagination to picture what is in the basement waiting for them. Perfect example of less is more in horror.
@@frankcortes6852 idk, there was originally supposed to be a shot showing the witch, but the camera man straight up forgot to pan in the right direction
@@nettle1217 While it is true that there was a missing scene where the witch is shown, the makers of the film decided not to reveal the ending because we (the audience) are not supposed to know what is actually going on in the forest. 🥶 The theory that makes the most sense to me is that the filmmakers went crazy and they did it all to themselves. 😬
This movie is scary if you pay attention to detail. I think a lot of reasons people don't find it scary is they become bored at the lack of blood and gore and cheesy effects rather than the detail of the plot. I find this to be my favorite horror movie because of how much is left to the imagination. If the blair witch was portrayed by some person in a costume with some added movie effects the movie would have bombed. The lack of knowledge on what they are running from, whats killling them, and whats playing with their minds, creates a much more horrifying atmosphere for the viewer. The movie built up suspense so well and was able to deliver at the end in this scene, tying in all the little details of the stories and rumors shown in the beginning, leaving the viewer thinking " holy shit" and just sitting there watching the credits while their mind patches together every little detail that seemed meaningless. I can say without a doubt this was the one movie I truly felt scared after watching for the rest of the night. As for people who played candy crush saga through the first 30 minutes, nothing will make much sense at all and they cant truly appreciate the movie. ten of ten, would throw my rotten tomatoes at people complaining about this movie.
I saw this in 1999 when it came out, 15 years old, or just turned 16. I hated horror movies, but this was the must see film. It terrified me, this ending is one of the scariest I've ever seen, and now I'm in my 30s, I've seen a lot. It stayed with me, never to this day, re watching it now for the 3rd time, and still gave me goosebumps. Brilliant film, but most people have some kind of stigma against it
The acting in this movie is sooooo much better than any horror movie I've seen. I was just rewatching it on Netflix and the contempt they have for each other and the feeling of absolute desperation and fear while trying to keep it all together comes across in such a realistic way. I don't think there's any point in the movie that feels cheesy or cliche. It really feels like a heightened version of real life.
part of the reasoning is half the time they arent even acting the director gives them basic things to work with but they are just supposed to react exactly how they would react to the info they are given. For example the directors told mike that he was the one who got rid of the map and that he could reveal it whenever he wanted to, so everyone's reaction to mike being the one who just screwed them over was real iirc heather was also too terrified to check what was in the "gift" the witch left for her and the directors had to tell her to check it on camera lol
Just seeing him facing the corner not moving or speaking is creepy, under the control of the witch since she didn't want him witnessing her killing Heather but once she killed her she'd take him out of the corner and kill him too. The whole thing is creepy as hell.
2:41 the sudden tone changes in her screaming suggests that she saw the witch (or whatever is hunting them) in the basement. But sadly, she didnt get a chance to film it before dropping to the ground. Chilling
1:47 to 2:11 The distress, panic, anxiety and whimpers in their voices, while they are calling for eachother, is one of the most terrifying parts of the movie and what makes the ending extremely real. One of the master key was that is filmed in first person, you don't know if there is someone or something, behind or next to him. In my opinion there is not Witch
@@tronlorne9328 shows apsolutely nothing??? hahahah thats the reason why its scary. Its all about your own imagination and mistery. That is what real horor need to be! U see nothing.. but tension , horor ambient and strange feeling is always here
Joey Bingham the very fact we’re still coming up with theories or we’re wondering wtf happened and who was the witch (if there even was one) is the reason why they decided to do it this way. The new Blair witch showed what it looked like but it’s such a forgettable movie because there’s no sense of wonder, imagination or the fear of the unknown. This one is still talked about 20 years later because of the BOLD decision to not even show the antagonist or monster which leaves the rest up to us, the fact that we don’t even know just as much as the characters. As an audience sometimes we’re Omniscient, Omnipotent & Omnipresent but here we’re clueless & lost & fearful like them. Think of how many horror movies have actually done that. You could probably count them on one hand, maybe two because I haven’t watched every single horror movie lol. But this was & is a cult classic & it defined a genre/ started the trend of found footage films.
Well remember this was one of the first found footage horror films, so all the scares rely on you thinking it's actually real. When you know it's all fake it definitely doesn't have the same effect. I still say it's way better than the sellout mess that is paranormal activity.
Throat Yogurt You already know this is fake. No one ever thought this was real and no one ever will. Paranormal Activity 1 is a lot better than this. PA 2 is somewhat better. The other PA's sucked just as much.
Paranormal activity was boring as hell, blair witch had me at the edge of my seat and still does cuz I've been out in the forest past 12, you have no idea how black it is out there, any sound you hear makes you jerk in paranoia. There's a guy named Edgar Alan Poe, and his stories were based on the idea of descriptions of fear, basically all your senses but sight. A scary movie isn't scary once you turn off the sound, but only play the sound and you'll be freaked out. This movie is about the implications of being lost and helpless to your own situation.
Mister Spade Well go back in time and tell that to an 8 year old me who thought this was straight up real. After that experience I have never seen a horror movie that scared me, because that was legit scar you for life fear. Haha
Mister Spade That's too bad, because I agree that watching it knowing it's fake makes it pretty comical. Looking back I'm glad I got the opportunity to experience a horror movie to it's absolute full potential in that way.
The ending alone had my eyes glued and completely locked in! My body felt like I was in that house with them! The feeling of no music or jump scares, is completely eerie and dark in its own fucking way. While watching this scene for the first time, I was expecting a lot of things to happen and how this film would end. I thought maybe the witch herself would make an appearance, or maybe Mike gets possessed and starts chasing Heather, or Heather gets scared and she runs out to the woods, all these guesses or predictions were rambling through my head. If an ending gets you guessing so many predictions and you don’t know what’s going to happen, then that’s a great movie in itself.
I thought that heather would get lost and then find mike’s dead body.Then she would have gone crazy and that night the witch kills her and makes an 1 second appearance in the film
I think one of the biggest parts that makes me feel gut wrenched as the movie progresses which no one talks about is being around people who make you feel alone. It's one thing to be lost in the woods with a group and being stalked. It's another when the people that you're with are upset, not listening to you, not on the same page, and acting on impulse. It makes you feel even more alone than you are, and it dashes hope much quicker. Although Heather acted in a very frustrating manner, got them lost, and didnt tell Mike about the teeth, I felt really bad for her when Mike was refused to listen to her and acted irrationally and when Josh started going crazy and blaming her. It just accelerated the cycle that this movie was going for. It felt like they lost hope and themselves much quicker because they weren't in it together. So when this scene came on it just felt horrible that as she approached her end, she was screaming to Mike a few feet away at the top of her lungs, but got no response. She was scared and full of dread and just needed his attention, but got none of it. But it was worse that she was effectively alone in an abandoned house even with her friend just a few feet away. There's no more of a horrible feeling than that.
for me that was part of the reason it was so scary, was having a girl be in charge of two guys who don't respect her and don't believe that she knows what she's doing. like you said the way it ends is like the perfect climax to that, where mike goes ahead of her not listening
I had a dream last night about this movie and how they could've easily survived. All Heather, Josh, and Mike could've done was walk down the river to the body of water where it empties out to. Then they could easily find their way out and just walked on the beach to someplace public.
Brockton Lazarus they would've probably just walked in a circle to the point of the river they started at. Since that's what happened when they tried to just walk in one direction
It wasn’t that, they knew what they were doing the whole time, they were leading her there to kill her and fake their deaths and make the perfect escape and cover up, the witch was just a scare tactic, they purposely got rid of the map and purposely made her scared and lured her to kill her.
@@Nic_2751 false. They even intended to show the witch in the movie, but it didn't make it into the final cut. Plus the kids laughing and terrorizing them outside of the tent was a big clue that it wasn't Josh and Mike. It makes no sense as to why they would.
When they showed the witch in the new one it felt like the equivilent of my Dad telling me Santa doesn't exist. The whole point was that you never saw the witch!!!!
Albert Wesker That part confused me, but there was a scene where I think we saw the "witch" behind the main dude for a split second in the house and she looked like a big yellow spider thing with crazy hair. It was right before they killed him off. If it was her, it was nothing like the creepy story/description Mary Brown (crazy old lady) told in the original.
The good thing about this is that, from looking at the comments, there is a really unsure feeling with the end. Everyone seems to have their own theory and it makes it slightly creepier than if everything was just spelt out.
The story was about a man who would lure children into an abandoned house in the woods, he would kill one kid and put him facing a corner in the basement, when kids would go down looking 4 the dead kid, they would see him facing the corner the same way Mike was. The kids would be distracted long enough for the killer to sneak up behind them. This is just a rumor, but they hint at it in the movie with the child sized hand prints on the walls. I hear these stories all the time cause I live 5 hours from Blair, Maryland.
his comment is wrong.. my reply is correct... i repeat what one of the towns people said in the camera interview early in the movie.. centurion got it all wrong
John Doe Oh ok sorry. WELL, both are still scaryXD Lol, anyways, this is one of my favorite scary movies because it's so eery and awful, and we don't know what's going on with the man in the corner, and what's going to happen to the 2 people. So,I must ask, does this mean there is a killer in the house, and the man in the corner is willingly facing it so he will die? And the other two will never escape the forest?
I remember when I was little, I thought this movie was for real. Then I found out that all of this was fake. I gotta say this was a very well made movie, it seemed so real.
+TokyoQueen that is not possible because Josh died earlier in the movie and the other two students died at this part so that doesn't make any sense to me at all
And we don't see so much as a glimpse of the Witch in the entire movie. Not even for a split second do we see her. But the way it's shot, we know she's there. Brilliant movie.
Whenever i see this scene, I'm a little bit pissed by Mike's attitude. He's so obsessed with Josh's voice he runs to the basement and leaves Heather alone while she's HISTERICALLY calling out for him ... I understand he's worried about Josh but damn, doesn't he hear these screams ? He should just have grabbed Heather and get the hell out of this house ... I think Josh was under the witch's control from the moment he disappeared and trapped them following her orders.
The 11-year-old me believed I watched 3 people die when this film came out. Found footage is everywhere now so people who watch this today who never saw it find it rather dull. However, when this came out it was absolutely terrifying and nothing like it had been seen before
Yes the witch tricked them by using Josh's voice but mike and heather were both mentally gone by this point. Was easy to trick mike into the basement. Anyone with common sense would know u hear a person upstairs then hear the same person downstairs means some kind of trick/hocus pocus involved and heather kept screaming mike's name not because the witch had her and the witch wasn't holding the camera. Heather just wanted to know where he was so she knew she wasn't lost or alone. If the witch had heather wouldn't she scream something along the lines of "let go of me"?
Yeah you're right about that witch thing. But you can't blame mike for following josh's voice, no strength or power to think what is real and what is trick at this moment, fear and darkness around them so what do you expect? 😢
My God, How could you go down the damn stairs *IN the TOTAL darkness* when you dont know what the *HELL* is down there, Let alone the fact that there was *Something sCReaming* down there in the first place!?..
Why did people hate this movie so much? Heather was saying that people would come up to her and say they wish she was dead just because they didn't like this movie. This is such a fantastic movie! It seems so incredibly real
A lot of people felt "cheated" when this came out, because nothing really happens throughout the entire movie. But that's why it was effective, if we saw some hokey looking witch at the end, it would have ruined it.
Josh was the one that killed them. He was under the witches power from the first time he went missing, the screams were him pulling his own teeth out to try to bring the other two to him. The witch controlled the person that killed the kids in that one guys story at the start. And no, the witch wasn't the one holding the camera haha. The cam she had didn't have a MIC it was a dat cam. Mike's camera did, that's why you can hear her screams getting louder because she was getting closer to mike's camera!
Nope, If you look closely when the camera falls when Heather is killed, if you look closely you can see Josh's dead body lying in front of the camera with his face showing. It's very blurry but if you pause when the camera clears for a split second you can see him clearly
+Jessica Warford dios mio chicos ya basta.todos sabemos que esta pelicula no es real por dios...salio la chica en un programa de television admitiendo la pelicula...como el caso MCperson que es lo mismo pero con extraterrestres...y encima del mismo creador,dejen de hablar pelotudeses.
This movie just makes me wanna cry more than it scares me. The fact that they were just a group of students trying to make a project and that scene where she's apologizing to all of their mom's for getting them in this mess. I just wanna cry.
I agree I honestly do not get why in the hell people hate this movie? I respect the hell out of this movie and I never get bored throughout the movie everytime I watch it
What a true masterpiece when it comes to horror. There's no violence, gore, or anything. Its just really creepy and disturbing, especially during that scene where the tent shakes. The movie didn't really have a script, which shows how great it is. The acting is 100% realistic as heck. I also saw The Blaire Witch Project while camping!
20 years from now, this movie will still be regarded as one of the best movies of the genre for what it artistically achieved given the very small resources it had at its disposal.
not all horror movies should make since at first and it pisses me off when people say this movie is terrible. it was completely incredible. people say this movie is terrible just because people arent dying left and right or blood is not everyhere. the movie was ment for us not to understand but to just try to figure it out ourselves.
You can watch that idiotic show about "squatching" and get the same result with each episode of that as well. Plot: nothing's happening....nothing's happening...they're running after something....nothing's happening...roll advertisements please
I like movies that leave it up to the viewer to figure out, but this movie just plain sucked ass. Cigar Dave is right. It really is akin to some ghost hunting or bigfoot hunting show. It's garbage.
***** Yea definately, psychological horror is the best. John Carpenter's The Thing comes to mind too. The group being in a isolated cold place and you never know whos shape the thing had taken next makes it creepy. Just like here they are in the woods and dont know what is waiting for them.
Especially since you first hear his voice upstairs, yet there's no one up there. Then, his voice suddenly shifts to being all the way down in the basement. There's no way that's realistically possible. I wonder why the witch did it though.
Despite the lack of monsters and jumpscares, the atmosphere, acting, props, set, and suspense is what makes it soo terrifying. In my opinion I think it's a great movie.
When this first came out I was 13yrs old and remember going to see it with my older brother and I was so freaked out. I didn't feel right for the next few days and everyone was talking about it at school for a long time. Watching it now it's still pretty creepy... even though I find it dumb that they went into the house in pitch black darkness. Why not wait till day time? I guess I can spot flaws in it now that I'm older. But man do horror movies suck today... paranormal activity is HORRIBLE.
I guess they weren't thinking. When people are already anxious we tend to do stupid things. They probably just heard shouts and wanted to find their friend as soon as possible. But, damn... Everything about this movie creeps me out. I thought Paranormal Activity was boring as hell. This film kept me quite interested. Even during the day scenes I was on edge because I didn't know what would happen.
Horror movies are good when theirs a twist. Where so many things are thrown at you every second like "he's going to die, i know it" Then the next second you think "no their all going to, i think he's going to sacrifice himself" etc. The purge concept was pretty cool, otherwise their are not many good modern horror movies.
General Rainbow Dash I wasn't terrified out of my mind but I love the way this film built up the tension and desperation. It's great that it didn't go for a really terrifying scene like this until the very end because that made it all the more effective.
Lol. You had a different experience with this movie than me. I was 9 or 10 when this came out. I've seen freddy, halloween, night of the living dead ect. Before this so I guess I was a little more immune to the scary parts. I would get together with my brother, my cousin and a few friends every time we watched something like this. When we put on this movie we laughed at it. My cousin Erica and my friend Ben would keep cracking jokes about it. They all pretty much thought it wasn't as good or stupid. I thought it was ok. I still like it to this day. It's not scary. If it didn't scare me or my friends when I was 9 than that's saying something. It really depends on the person too. What other people find scary isn't scary to others. Like my mom for example is terrified of The Grudge and Stay Alive with Frankie Muniz. I don't think Stay Alive is scary at all. The Grudge tho does scare me a little. It's very creepy. I think Paranormal Activity is terrifying. Any zombie movie is terrifying as well. My scariest movie I've ever watched is 28 Days Later. Just thinking about it gives me the creeps.
@@THEdjpluto Nah people call it overrated because they watch it in the present day knowing it isn't real and are in the mindset of "If I can't see it, it's not scary". But you gotta think, when this came out, there was an entire website devoted to building up the story and a good percentage of people really believed it was lost footage from a real documentary (also keep in mind, the internet was still in its childhood stages and people weren't used to the internet being a source of misinformation), and that's the part that made this movie brilliant. It hadn't been done before, at least not on the scale this movie did it, and it can never ever be replicated again.
This movie was actually a pretty big deal when it came out, even as a kid I heard about it CONSTANTLY. Cartoon network even parodied it. Even today people always mention the Blair Witch whenever another found footage film is made.
I think what really heightened the scare factor of this was that (to my knowledge) it was the first mockumentary that made it big. Many people probably thought this was very real! It does help that they left this ending to the imagination rather than a continuous jumpy scare. We're just so used to the jumpy scares that this now seems less frightening. Can't wait for the next one!
I was one the these people who DID think it was real. It is the only time in my life that I've been three times to the theatre to watch the same movie. I was so scared, I really wanted to know & see the most I could, as images pass very quickly, I was unsure of what Heather found in the bundle of twigs so I wanted to see it again...!! Plus I did not get the play on cameras colour/b&w - which in the end is quite simple to understand.
One of the last films to actually terrify me, specially this scene. Have been searching for the feeling ever since, only a handful have matched / come close (first half of 'Sinister', 'Session 9', 'It Follows', are some of the few). Truly revolutionary film-making for its time.
In the end if u guys must know, while mike was looking for josh, even though he was already dead, ehat was happening was when the camera dropped for mike's, it was because he becamed possessed to make him stand in the corner and wait till heather was killed and she was screaming because she saw him standing in the corner like how the stories went how she killed the children in pairs; one facing the wall while the other was killed and thats why she was screaming because she knew she was dead
If your a true horror fan, you have to appreciate this movie. The fact that you didn't see the Blair witch or or some kind of paranormal entity but seeing them loose their sanity in the middle if the Forrest makes this movie more horrifying. I mean, if you're in that situation, you would be loosing your mind as we'll. And how is this movie a failure if it made a gross revenue of about $200 million for a low cost movie production?
I first watched The Blair Witch Project in my room in the middle of the night alone in the dark with only my 2 dogs to keep me company while it was playing from me watching it on my TV while streaming it on Netflix or some streaming service similar to that. Needless to say I could not sleep that night lol.
I remember watching this movie. When I was just 8 years old, my parents had bought it for me and they don't speak English so they didn't really know what it was about, and I did not know either. That's why I wanted to watch it. I know it was scary, but I didn't care, and so I started watching it, and I did not understand at all was about, but the people screaming just made it even more intense, and I didn't stop watching it. I watched the whole thing, and then I just was like, terrified after that, but now that I watched it again, I understand what it's about, and its scary as hell.
I don’t think this film is appreciated enough. The drama, isolation, desperation, and atmosphere all help create this suspenseful tension where you are completely lost, you have no outside help, there’s no sign of hope, and no matter what you try, you are only delaying the inevitable. That feeling of slowly descending into absolute despair builds up throughout the whole film until it finally culminates with an ending that leaves you with no answer. It’s a shame this film is only known for creating the “Found Footage” genre, because as an overall horror film, The Blair Witch Project is incredible!
For those of you too young to remember, when this came out there was a fake documentary released a month before the movie release. It was so well done that when people saw the movie, they thought it was authentic. Back in 1999, found footage films were virtually non existent. I saw plenty of people leave the theater in genuine fear. Burkittsville, MA saw a huge influx of tourists going into the woods. The directors did not have a script and even though they did have an outline, the actors really did get lost and the frustration on their faces is in fact real. When they get mad at eachother, that was real anger. They ad libbed the entire movie with the exception of the directors giving them scenarios to talk about.
And in 20 years they'll say the same thing about movies now. So sick of this "everything nowadays sucks" bullshit. There's a ton of great work in every single decade.
I tend to judge the scariness of movies by how quickly I scamper for a blanket to cover myself with (idk, to protect me from demons apparently?). The first time I saw this and the camera panned up to Mike standing in the corner, I grabbed my dog and covered my face because there was no blanket.
I always assumed that the witch got Heather the moment Mike runs downstairs to find Josh, that's why her camera (the black and white one) stays exactly in the room with the hand prints on the walls, because the witch is keeping her, and that would explain how frantically and horrific her screams are. However, when Mike reaches the basement, he's knocked by Josh, and the minute 2:16 Heather carrying her camera as the witch drags her to the basement, where she finds Mike facing the corner and being knocked down by the witch herself, or Josh, though i'd rather think it was the witch.
DreamingLara Nah the witch didn't get her, josh did. He was under the witches power from the first time he went missing, the screams were him pulling his own teeth out to try to bring the other two to him. The witch controlled the person that killed the kids in that one guys story at the start.
Okay, so here's my theory for the ending. Towards the start of the movie, when people we're being interviewed, one guy said that the Blair Witch would kill one victim, while keeping the other in the corner, so they would have to wait until they were killed. So, in this scene, after the camera falls to the ground the first time, the Blair Witch picks up the camera, and is the one who is filming at the end, showing her next victim in the corner, whilst we hear the screams of the girl in the background, her being the current victim.
Julia Darling The screaming is recorded from the camera that Josh dropped. She was still upstairs so it sounded very faint until she got closer to the dropped camera
The reason why the cast does a really great job in this movie is because they were completely unaware that it was staged, so this isn’t acting, this is genuine fear and dread from the cast
That's something rarely done in horror movies, but when done right, it can be great to capture their real life reactions. Like what happened in Alien and the bursting Xenomorph out of one of the crew's chest was never explained to the rest of the actors, so their reactions of fear are real.
The fact that this whole film was made with two cameras, no sound effects or back ground music, only three actors and in a wood with one old house amazes me. Great film.
They use a little money to make this film and they got 1 billion from making it.
Also hand-held shots. They claim their budget was $60,000 usd which to me is quite a bit of a lie but great film nonetheless.
Zoo Hair so half of what’s on youtube
And only 60k budget AMAZING
@@zoohair4084 $248.6M*
"One kid was made to face the corner and the other would be killed"
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Exactly! People say it doesn't make sense. I'm like tf you mean? That ending moment when it clicked brought my holy shitometer way up
@@daveyleeriot ''laughin shitometer'' 😂
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@Bill Patrick Jones I think that Rustin Parr was possessed by the witch and so that MO of killing children is one and the same with the witch's, which is why the same thing happened IM ASSUMING
Excellent example of how you don't need loud sinister music and jump scares to actually scare people.
yes exactly
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this is scary? good one
and gore...no gore just pure terror...this movie is so scary eben after all those years
Shame the remake didn't take that to heart.
Using Mike's camera-audio for the rest of Heather's camera-footage was genius. You can feel her approaching demise.
I think thats because heathers mic might have been unplugged, but she was scared shitless so she didnt notice or care, but they needed audio, so they switched to his, but your right it works well
@@the_openers_of_eyes8 nah b&w cameras didn’t record audio, mikes color camera did so they used it from that.
Mike was holding the DAT (sound equipment) through the whole movie. That was his job, while Heather and Josh were filming (up until Josh disappeared).
The crew and cast were paid more to go back and film new endings that were never used and kinda sucked, than they were paid for the film itself. This was their original ending and I cannot imagine why on earth anyone wanted to change it. To this day this is the only film that ever truly frightened me.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 No kidding? What was the alternative ending?
The reason this is scary is because none of it makes sense, and you always fear what you don't understand
Christ, someone finally understands my sense of fear
Luke - very true, and the fact that we never see the witch.. there's nothing more frightening than being stalked/hunted by a villain that you can't see
Luke Duke Bellamy hm
Ha you got that from Batman Begins.
Luke Duke Bellamy It makes a tiny bit of sense
i think the one thing that really gets me about this ending is the girl's screaming... like that is some true fear right there
Ya, I just wish they'd edited her sound into the presence of the video better...tho she might have been recording by his DAT device...? It just sounds non-local to me, whereas _feeling_ her scream would have seemed like we were _her_ ....screaming..... still, great job for what it was, fooled me since I lived near there, freaked me out.
@@timmarrier The reason Heather's screams were distant was because her camera didn't have a microphone. The one that did was Mike's so her cries became more audible when she reached the basement where the camera was dropped, but yeah I agree if her cries were direct and not distant it would have been more intense tbh.
@@timmarrier its exactly that, mike was the sound guy holding all the mic work on him
Yep
her screaming annoyed me throughout the whole film
Seeing this in the theaters in 1999 was an event. People really believed these actors died, and the footage was real. This is still one of my favorite horror films ever made.
me too I throught they really died in the film
Yep...its crazy they only spent 60k and it made 250mil
I didn’t, but it was great marketing and a great idea.
Yeah, stupid people.
It was the best movie Campaign ever because most of us had the internet already, and on the internet they were advertising the movie with missing people and it was the main actors
I don’t care what anyone says, that final shot of Mike standing in the corner with head down motionless not responding to Heather will always be one of the most chilling things I’ve ever seen.
Ikr!
Absolutely. It's perfect. How they pitched every moment of this film so precisely is a miracle. It deserved to be such a colossal success.
He was trying to take a piss.
@@Incel_81😂😂😂
Terrifying.
This is scary cause the legend says that the witch "punish" one person by making him stand in the corner while she's killing the other one... The imagination does all the rest.
It wasn’t the witch, there was no witch, there never was, it was all a scare tactic to murder Heather and fake their deaths to escape.
@@Nic_2751 that film theory episode was just a theory
@payday64 yep, film theory did make an outstanding theory but we will never know what actually happened, i had to think of what happened to josh and boy was it gorey
It wasn't the witch, it was Rustin Parr. They're in the Rustin Parr house.
@@Nic_2751
That's just a theory, nothing was confirmed. And I learned for a long time to not take theories to seriously.
When she comes around the corner and you just see him standing in the corner all the hairs on my back and arms stand up. It's not that it's particularly scary, it's just that no human would respond that way in that situation. It is completely unnatural and I think thats why it's so creepy. Just standing motionless in the corner in what would be a terrifying situation when just minutes before he was talking and moving. It goes completely against the fight or flight response programmed into us. He simply does neither. Just thinking about it creeps me out.
rawd man nice bait attempt m8
r8 8/8
he seems to be the murderer
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That wasn't the witch. The killer from the story was a man called Rustin Parr.
I think Heather's terrified screams really scare me the most about this entire scene.
But how can you tell it's Heather? It can't be because the screams are heard before she makes it downstairs and gets louder as she nears the basement.
@Stan ezen I was pretty sure it was the witches but then someone pointed out that mike's camera is the only one recording audio which makes a lot more sense.
@Stan ezen I always though it was josh from earlier. Screaming as If to warn the others
@@kailatiolais3569 wait the is more than one witch oooh dear
It was annoying tbh
*Fun fact:* You didn't see the Witch at the end of the film, because she couldn't be seen in mirrors, cameras ect. like a vampire. So when that girl (forgot the name) saw Mike staring at the wall, she wasn't screaming because of it, but she actually saw the Witch aproaching her.
Heather
How do you know?
Oh, woah. I never that about that.
@@maddalonefarms One of the guys behind the production said that in an interview. He stated they haven't got budget big enough to make a CGI witch and didn't want to use a "guy in a suit", so they choose the option when it's left to your imagination. But also in the same interview he stated, that Heather really did saw the witch, but she couldn't be seen on the camera - like a vampire. He said there are hints through the movie that this was the case.
And how do you know she scream because of the witch approaching? Were you there?
The most dependable sense in us humans is our sense of seeing. This film doesn't let us see anything. We know something bad is there but we can only hear it. That's frightening! That's what makes this an effective horror film.
Hearing my mom scream, seeing her severed head would anger me to no end.
Riiight. Keep tellin' yourself that.
It's not... I've seen my family hurt and I've never been afraid of it. If someone hurt my family I wouldn't sulk in fear. Not unless you're the biggest coward in the world. So you keep convincing yourself of that.
Mister Spade Wow, you know nothing of horror movies. Ever tried watching one without the music/sounds? It's not scary at all, actually quite boring. Sounds are what really make you jump in the horror industry.
No. I am not one of those. I despise gore.
This is simply a terrible movie. Adrenaline was never once present; boredom was. It had a terrible storyline, incredibly moronic characters and too many loose ends. It gets a 2/10 from me. A 2 because I have to put it above The last airbender.
Saw is the exception to the gore hatred. It is infinitely better than this pile of shit.
Notice how Josh’s screams move from the attic to the basement?
Something wasn’t right.
Ryan Blanche hmmm
How you sure that was Josh? 😂
I didn't think it even sounded like him until they got closer to the house
@@Silly-Gooses-Everywhere23 Why would Josh and Mike kill Heather? It makes no sense.
@@Silly-Gooses-Everywhere23 Not really a fan of the theory but you have to remember.... ITS A THEORY, just because producers never said anything about it doesn't make it fake, that's why its called a theory. If it was confirmed it would be called a fact.
Shaggy?? What are you doing in the corner?! IM SCARED MAN!!! LIKE SCARED!!!
lmao
Yasss you made my night this ending was dumb
I remember Scooby and Shaggy eating the snack in the concession
guy2008rules Like... Scoooooob!
Zoinks
I watched the 2016 version. Lights off, headphones in, home alone, like 2 in the morning. Literally wasn't scared at all. Watched the 1999 version with my family in my house, in the living room, at 3pm. I was scared shitless.
Nah the 2016 version was creepy af
@@phishcatt It’s literally just jumpscares over, and over, if you find that creepy sure but it has nothing on the suspense of the first film in my opinion
@@DexgamingX As well as One Dimensional bland characters that constantly make one dumb decision after another. Oh and they made the egregious decision to show the witch
@@RYMAN1321 Not to mention the meaningless sexual scenes
@@RYMAN1321 It's not like the original has layered characters.
Knowing that i live an hour away from where they filmed this movie just gives me even more anxiety
Where is this place at?
@@n4tto141 Why? You gon' do a documentary there?😂
Wheres it at!
It was filmed in different parts of Maryland, USA.
Don't worry, BoomtoJsak, you will only find insects, plants, rocks, ghosts, nature, abandoned cabins/houses maybe, hikers probably and unless there's a person practising witchcraft, a witch, but, not supernatural witches.
Dounin yeah but what’s the actual name of the forest they filmed it in
Saw this in a crowded theatre before the hype train, before everyone knew it was fake. People were leaving the theatre; I had never seen that before. When the camera came upon all the hands on the wall, I heard the whole theatre just shudder. One of the last times I felt genuine fear from a movie, I'm not ashamed to admit. What a great horror movie.
lol that's amazing mean it did it's job
As much as Hollywood beat a dead horse, concerning the multiple inferior sequels, the first Paranormal Activity was also a theater pleasing experience.
There was a line of guys in front of me who had heard that I had watched it already (it was my second or third time watching it that week!). After the movie, they all turned to me and asked, "Was that real?"
I almost didn't want to say anything and just leave, for them to decide. Then, I just said, "No." But the look of shock in their faces said it all because that's what happened to me after the first time watching it.
Epic film, I don't care what anyone else says.
People leave theatres due to boredom lmao
@@JD-re3cj nope, definitely scared.
at the end of scream sounds more intense as she saw something that the camera didn't catch it. damn this is truly horifying
what did she see iyo
She wanted everything on camera, but couldnt get the witch 🤦♂️
Her voice sounds louder because Mike's camera has a mic
@@tonytheglytch I would be pissed of, if they had showed that. This movie is too real to see a stupid Witch and she did not catch the "supposed Witch" because is a movie for you to imagine the final.
In my opinion, the one that killed them, is an Hermit following Rustin Parr legacy. However, I think that there is something "weird" in the forest because of the childrens scene and the real Myth
1:47 to 2:11 is the most terryfing thing here and Mike looking at the wall, of course
It was either the witch itself or one of her friends stretched out on a stick hehe
The sheer terror in the girls voice as the guy runs downstairs looking for josh leaving her behind is just so real; imagine you’re going through a house like this with your friends and all of a sudden your friends all start taking off running and you got left behind imagine the terror you would feel of being alone. In her situation the screams she is letting out is what I would be feeling too. Realism in this movie is what was achieved. As a kid I remember being afraid to even look at the VHS tape because my dad told me it was real 😭
It would be so much scarier for her than us - we see where the camera's nightvision show us, she is in that environment, walking through a pitch black house
@@hansolo631She was probably using the camera to see too. The whole thing is creepy af. Horror done right
Seeing this in theatres was a WHOLE different experience. It needs to be watched in the dark, loudly and with the mindset that this really is found footage. Then it's a very effective forror film. I'd rather they re-release this in cinemas rather than that stupid remake/sequel. This film is incredible especialy on the big screen. I remember watching it in 99' at the theatre and nearly pissing myself.
if only, if only!
that's your ideal story ending for every movie though...
Same here. Saw it 3 times at the cinema. The first time was the distinctly non-scary time of 1pm as it was the first showing of the film and I popped into the local Odeon as I finished college early. I came out just wanting to tell everyone about it. I've never known a more divisive film. People either loved it or hated it, and I mean really HATED it. The ultimate Marmite movie. I kind of love that about it.
The idea that the blair witch brutally kills someone and then controls his/her soul to lure their knowns ones one by one to the same fate ran a chill down my spine when I first watched the film all alone at night
i would have vomited after seeing that movie in theaters from being scared
I don't care if it's just fiction, I'd NEVER go in some run down ol' ass house like that. The mere structure is scary as fk. The dark allys, the ripped walls, the hand stains, and I'm sure the smell was foul. Forget the supposed "witch", the house alone would make me piss my pants..
did you notice the color of their skin? If they were the color of YOUR skin then we all know they would have NEVER gone inside that house lol
Floridaoutlaw84 hahah FACTS! Ain't no brothas goin in that house!
When I was in my late teens, I had friends who liked to go to "haunted" places. We went to one school that had been abandoned for decades. We're walking through and it's kinda cool, papers written in the 70s on the desks and stuff, but then, swastikas on the chalkboard. I believe my exact sentence was, "Sooo, I'm not scared of ghosts, but I'm totally scared of squatting skinheads."
Later I separated from the group and stood at the end of a hallways until someone saw me, yelled, and then disappeared when he tried to show everyone. I then scared the entire group on the way out, that was fun.
Also, they brought these million candle flashlights or some shit, makes the room look like there is electricity, what the hell is the point then? I had my trusty Mag Lite so I could whoop some ass with it if I had to.
+Christopher Thomas cool story bro
pussy I crawl around creepy abandoned places all the time I have found alot of interesting things (never take I'm an explorer not a thief) but nothing yet has tried to kill me
Welcome to the family, son.
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+Amv Frank No shit
Lol re7 Reference savage
João Guilherme say what? shit to you
Remember the story the old man said in the beginning? About how the hermit who owned that house kidnapped children, then took two in the basement at a time-- he would kill one while the other faced the corner because he couldn't stand the eyes watching him. That's why Mike is in the corner. He and Heather were the new victims, the kids. Man, some of you people need to pay attention to detail.
No, he was a distraction, while Josh killed her and faked their deaths to escape
@@Nic_2751 interesting theory
@@Nic_2751 thats not true at all.....complete bullshit theory
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@@Nic_2751 It's just a theory
I saw this movie for the first time at my old boyfriends house when I was seventeen. His family lived in a wooded area and you literally had to drive on a dirt trail, through the woods, to reach the main highway. I was terrified to leave his house that night but my parents would have killed me if I spent the night. I remember literally doing 100 mph on that trail to get to the highway as quick as I could. I think I even cried while doing it. 🤣🤣🤣
omg I even was scared reading your story 😆
Your ex couldn't even drive you home? Man what a bad bf he was, glad you get rid of him.
@@KendrixD lmaoo
@@KendrixD what a stupid thing to say 😆
Damn i would been tariffed too haha.
If you payed good attention to this movie, then the ending will be much more horrifying. Mike was not possesed or under any "spell". He was in the corner because the Blair Witch TOLD HIM to do so. Even after knowing the story and what happened with the children, He LISTENED. Also, they never reveal the image of what the Blair Witch looks like. Which adds even more suspense. How powerful is this being? If a grown man will stand against a wall to await a horrible death, what is it capable of?
MY theory is that when Mike got to the basement, he found Josh and dropped the camera out of shock, not death, after finding him in a horrifying state. He was told by JOSH to stand in the corner, not the witch. If you remember from the beginning, one of the townspeople said that Rustin Parr had the children stand in the corner while he axed the other ones from behind. So if that's the case, then where was the witch you might ask? The answer: at the top floor, literally ESCORTING Heather down to the basement where she will meet Josh, as well as her horrific end. That explains why she was desperately calling for Mike, and why she was barely moving down the stairs. But still, the fact that the witch never physically appears DOES create suspense.
Gabe Jones That's an amazing theory! Thanks for the input!
Gabe Jones Not quite. He wasn't standing there. His feet were dangling.
Either Mike is the Blair Witch or he was hanged.
Why do stupid people still defend this over-hyped piece of shit film?
Radio Ardilla Because they genuinely like it.
I think what makes this scene great is Heather's acting. You can tell she is terrified of losing Mike in this moment, and knowing he is impetuous and prone to rash decision making, he could do something dangerous in this very dire situation. He's screaming out to Josh and moving loudly through the house, while Heather trails behind slowly and cautiously, begging him to slow down and not expose themselves even more to the witch. When Mike vanishes to the basement Heather is now frantically shrieking out whereas before she was desperately yet quietly engaging with Mike. She goes from fragile to entirely broken down.
I just have tremendous respect for this movie because it’s simply a very authentic and creative movie that literally started its own MOVEMENT of the found footage genre etc. it’s honestly really really good for what it is. And. I feel it deserved the financial returns and so forth 😊
Es una estúpida que grita y llora, merecido que la hayan dormido, lastimo los otros 2 chicos que se fueron involucrados
She’s also moving slower because she has the bigger camera that’s shoulder mounted. Just a thought.
@@andrewjames7438also wider hips make it harder to run😂 but I get you
A lot of this movie was improvised and they were given very little direction on what was going to happen so a lot of the reactions were genuine
The fact that her screams stopped the moment the camera dropped to the ground and it's just...absolute silence. That's probably what made the ending all the more scarier.
Facts
Holy shit I get the ending now, when his camera fell to the grown before it cuts to the girl that's when that thing stopped him and pointed him towards the wall and waited for that girl to come to her own death. the fact we don't see the creature makes it that much more intense, the imagination is a scary place.
She is dead, she's missing.
No what was scary was we don't even know if she was the one holding the camera at the end. All thru the movie whoever was carrying the camera the person's voice was always right there at the mic, so you always heard them clear and strong. That final scene she is screaming at the top of her lungs life her life depended on it and her voice is waaay far off to back or side of the camera. Like she was far off from the mic. Not to mention as much as she was screaming the camera was steady the whole time. Like someone else was holding it and she was being dragged downstairs.
Actually, multiple times in the movie, they cut the visual footage from one camera with audio footage from the other camera. I watched it a couple of days ago with a group of friends and I thought the same thing you were thinking for a bit, but then we all realised that her screams were the audio from the coloured camera with video footage from the black and white camera.
The 2016 Blair Witch movie explains why he was standing in the corner.
job489 yeah so does the old one, it's coz the murderer guy who kidnapped the children would take them to the basement in pairs, make one of them stand and face the corner while he killed the other, and then kill the first one. But does the 2016 one explain why he did that?
I remember when I first seen this at the movie theaters at 13. I thought the whole damn thing was real and the guy standing in the corner freaked me out for weeks after seeing it. I think this was the very first "found footage" movie released, which added to the horror element.
Nope, not the first found film movie. The Last Broadcast (1999) was the very first movie to do it. The Blair Witch Project however, did popularize found footage films.
Actually, the first "found footage" movie is Cannibal Holocaust (1980) but i don't recommend you to watch it :D
last broadcast sucked though
@@hugobarrett63 Especially the uncensored bluray
Eric McClain there is actually a theory that the real found footage was SO gruesome, the government actually kept the found footage and the directors had to remake it scene by scene based on the ACTUAL footage 🧐
A lot of people complain about the shaky camera, but i like the shaky camera because it makes it more realistic
Thoeny65 yeah same I just don't like it in action movies... Shaky camera is so dumb in action movies
I saw this movie in a theater and it gave me really bad motion sickness. Shaky cam used judiciously is a good technique; when you have an entire film of it, shot widescreen, you're asking for the audience to start hurling about 3/4 through. I ended up closing my eyes for the last part of the film because of the constant motion.
In this case, it had to be made in that way, aside from making it look as it was filmed by any person with a camera, they were actually doing that, it also was made in that way, before most and the mainstream films started to massively doing it. When big budget films do this, they even exaggerate that to the point you don't see nothing from the scene, e.g. Transformers, and depending on the person, watching at those scenes it can make you dizzy.
Yeah who cares about a in focus camera when your being hunted down
Shaky camera with supposedly amateur film-makers such as these three makes sense. It adds to the realism.
I think one of the great things about this scene is that the audio is coming from Mike’s camera, so when Heather is screaming and yelling it sounds distant and creepy until she gets closer to the camera on the basement floor.
Exactly. A brilliant touch.
that makes a lot of sense. when I first saw it I thought that Heather was somewhere else in the house. I really like how they played around with this video production. seeing the video from one person but hearing the audio from another isn't something I've ever seen implemented in a high budget movie scene, it's more like an outtake or something that would happen in real life. the authenticity of the whole movie is amazing.
This movie is such a masterpiece.
No other movie has ever archieved anything comparable to this. This movie freaks out people because it plays with their imagination. It does not show us anything about what actually happened. It leaves it up to the viewers imagination.
And we all know the biggest fear of humans is the unknown.
I wish more movies would be this creative. Now it's all a braindead fest of jumpscares and cgi mosters....
I actually have to say I thought it was boring cause we couldn't see the witch
Verbunden I only thought it was boring bc I wanted to see what was scary and leaving it to my imagination was pretty dark but nothing really to spook me about.
I really like the this was done so cheap too, it’s one of my favourite horror movies and it didn’t cost millions
@@rhiannon5649 if you watched it with friends, maybe
Horror movies are meant to be watched alone and with the lights out
This is 1 of the movies that truly scared me because i was actually paying attention to their documentary at tbe beginning, its all psychological, genius movie
@@t_rexdiaz6778 I watched it alone at night... still think it wasn't as exciting as other horror movies I've watched
The acting is so good in this scene
oh i really wish like everyone here it's acted ... but it's not it's true and the video was found a year later
oh i really wish like everyone here it's acted ... but it's not it's true and the video was found a year later
+hpd Anous This is fiction, they were all interviewed afterwards
+hpd Anous lmfao
+Jessica Warford damn that ruined the movie for me lol at least its a month after so its okay
The house was the scariest part in the whole movie, Heather was so terrified to be alone in that house. The acting was so good it seems like this can happen in real life. I still refuse to watch this alone at night lol
The Blair Witch Project is one of the few horror films to still freak me out even after watching it a few times. I’m 16 and I still get chills at the part where Heather is screaming while Josh is just standing there in the corner under The Blair Witch’s influence
@@TallMasked0NE i live 3 miles from that house 💀
I JUST WATCHED IT ALONE. BY MYSELF. AT NIGHT. FOR THE FIRST TIME. IM 15
Heather's screams are what make this scene so terrifying.
some of these comments are way to short very disappointing no thought put into it whatsoever..
@@stephaniebergloff6860 lol as opposed to your comment here which is so thought provoking and interesting.
exactly what happened to her
@@elliewilliams8371 The Blair Witch killed her.
It's still extremely creepy. Her screams, the children's hand prints on the walls, Josh's disembodied voice calling for them, no music, and just your imagination to picture what is in the basement waiting for them. Perfect example of less is more in horror.
Agreed! The 2 things that still give me chills the most about this movie to this day is Josh screaming and Mike standing in the corner
The witch here is probably the coolest ghost ever, it didn't even make a single appearance throughout
I don’t think that there was actually a witch, I think that the filmmakers went crazy and they did it all to themselves.
@@frankcortes6852 idk, there was originally supposed to be a shot showing the witch, but the camera man straight up forgot to pan in the right direction
@@nettle1217 While it is true that there was a missing scene where the witch is shown, the makers of the film decided not to reveal the ending because we (the audience) are not supposed to know what is actually going on in the forest. 🥶
The theory that makes the most sense to me is that the filmmakers went crazy and they did it all to themselves. 😬
This movie is scary if you pay attention to detail. I think a lot of reasons people don't find it scary is they become bored at the lack of blood and gore and cheesy effects rather than the detail of the plot. I find this to be my favorite horror movie because of how much is left to the imagination. If the blair witch was portrayed by some person in a costume with some added movie effects the movie would have bombed. The lack of knowledge on what they are running from, whats killling them, and whats playing with their minds, creates a much more horrifying atmosphere for the viewer. The movie built up suspense so well and was able to deliver at the end in this scene, tying in all the little details of the stories and rumors shown in the beginning, leaving the viewer thinking " holy shit" and just sitting there watching the credits while their mind patches together every little detail that seemed meaningless. I can say without a doubt this was the one movie I truly felt scared after watching for the rest of the night. As for people who played candy crush saga through the first 30 minutes, nothing will make much sense at all and they cant truly appreciate the movie. ten of ten, would throw my rotten tomatoes at people complaining about this movie.
Jacob Myler .. i agree to Jacob Myler, blair witch project is one of the scariest horror movie and true documentary story,,
Jacob Myler Well said!
I saw this in 1999 when it came out, 15 years old, or just turned 16. I hated horror movies, but this was the must see film. It terrified me, this ending is one of the scariest I've ever seen, and now I'm in my 30s, I've seen a lot. It stayed with me, never to this day, re watching it now for the 3rd time, and still gave me goosebumps. Brilliant film, but most people have some kind of stigma against it
Angie Gatfield More scarier than a roomful of ghoses
Almost as scary as your English...
The acting in this movie is sooooo much better than any horror movie I've seen. I was just rewatching it on Netflix and the contempt they have for each other and the feeling of absolute desperation and fear while trying to keep it all together comes across in such a realistic way. I don't think there's any point in the movie that feels cheesy or cliche. It really feels like a heightened version of real life.
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part of the reasoning is half the time they arent even acting
the director gives them basic things to work with but they are just supposed to react exactly how they would react to the info they are given. For example the directors told mike that he was the one who got rid of the map and that he could reveal it whenever he wanted to, so everyone's reaction to mike being the one who just screwed them over was real
iirc heather was also too terrified to check what was in the "gift" the witch left for her and the directors had to tell her to check it on camera lol
Love to see Bane reenact this taunting the witch...
"Ah Blair Witch, you think the darkness is your ally!"
Tyler Rand add this to Ra's Al Ghul (Liam neeson) following him
I was born in it.....
LMAOOOOO THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT
istg, i hope i'm not the only one who read this in his voice
Tyler Rand bane would win
Just seeing him facing the corner not moving or speaking is creepy, under the control of the witch since she didn't want him witnessing her killing Heather but once she killed her she'd take him out of the corner and kill him too. The whole thing is creepy as hell.
2:41 the sudden tone changes in her screaming suggests that she saw the witch (or whatever is hunting them) in the basement. But sadly, she didnt get a chance to film it before dropping to the ground.
Chilling
😶
yep.
something was definitely coming at her.
something that scared her to madness.
poor girl.
she couldn't do anything but scream.
1:47 to 2:11 The distress, panic, anxiety and whimpers in their voices, while they are calling for eachother, is one of the most terrifying parts of the movie and what makes the ending extremely real. One of the master key was that is filmed in first person, you don't know if there is someone or something, behind or next to him. In my opinion there is not Witch
undoubtedly one of the best horror movie endings of all time, it's perfect.
Ridiculous ending. Shows absolutely nothing. If they showed a witch it would’ve been so much better.
@@tronlorne9328 shows apsolutely nothing??? hahahah thats the reason why its scary. Its all about your own imagination and mistery. That is what real horor need to be! U see nothing.. but tension , horor ambient and strange feeling is always here
thank god you dont direct movies , you would have ruined our childhood
It shows nothing at all it's such a trash ending
Joey Bingham the very fact we’re still coming up with theories or we’re wondering wtf happened and who was the witch (if there even was one) is the reason why they decided to do it this way. The new Blair witch showed what it looked like but it’s such a forgettable movie because there’s no sense of wonder, imagination or the fear of the unknown. This one is still talked about 20 years later because of the BOLD decision to not even show the antagonist or monster which leaves the rest up to us, the fact that we don’t even know just as much as the characters. As an audience sometimes we’re Omniscient, Omnipotent & Omnipresent but here we’re clueless & lost & fearful like them. Think of how many horror movies have actually done that. You could probably count them on one hand, maybe two because I haven’t watched every single horror movie lol. But this was & is a cult classic & it defined a genre/ started the trend of found footage films.
Well remember this was one of the first found footage horror films, so all the scares rely on you thinking it's actually real. When you know it's all fake it definitely doesn't have the same effect. I still say it's way better than the sellout mess that is paranormal activity.
Throat Yogurt You already know this is fake.
No one ever thought this was real and no one ever will.
Paranormal Activity 1 is a lot better than this. PA 2 is somewhat better. The other PA's sucked just as much.
Paranormal activity was boring as hell, blair witch had me at the edge of my seat and still does cuz I've been out in the forest past 12, you have no idea how black it is out there, any sound you hear makes you jerk in paranoia. There's a guy named Edgar Alan Poe, and his stories were based on the idea of descriptions of fear, basically all your senses but sight. A scary movie isn't scary once you turn off the sound, but only play the sound and you'll be freaked out. This movie is about the implications of being lost and helpless to your own situation.
Mister Spade Well go back in time and tell that to an 8 year old me who thought this was straight up real. After that experience I have never seen a horror movie that scared me, because that was legit scar you for life fear. Haha
Seriously? Even as a kid, I never bought it...
Mister Spade That's too bad, because I agree that watching it knowing it's fake makes it pretty comical. Looking back I'm glad I got the opportunity to experience a horror movie to it's absolute full potential in that way.
The ending alone had my eyes glued and completely locked in! My body felt like I was in that house with them! The feeling of no music or jump scares, is completely eerie and dark in its own fucking way. While watching this scene for the first time, I was expecting a lot of things to happen and how this film would end. I thought maybe the witch herself would make an appearance, or maybe Mike gets possessed and starts chasing Heather, or Heather gets scared and she runs out to the woods, all these guesses or predictions were rambling through my head. If an ending gets you guessing so many predictions and you don’t know what’s going to happen, then that’s a great movie in itself.
I thought that heather would get lost and then find mike’s dead body.Then she would have gone crazy and that night the witch kills her and makes an 1 second appearance in the film
What would have put the cherry on the cake is if Mike turned around but his face had become rotten and monster-like
@@cybernautadventurer I mean that would’ve been good if they did do it that way, but it wouldn’t be as realistic as this though.
I think one of the biggest parts that makes me feel gut wrenched as the movie progresses which no one talks about is being around people who make you feel alone.
It's one thing to be lost in the woods with a group and being stalked. It's another when the people that you're with are upset, not listening to you, not on the same page, and acting on impulse. It makes you feel even more alone than you are, and it dashes hope much quicker.
Although Heather acted in a very frustrating manner, got them lost, and didnt tell Mike about the teeth, I felt really bad for her when Mike was refused to listen to her and acted irrationally and when Josh started going crazy and blaming her. It just accelerated the cycle that this movie was going for. It felt like they lost hope and themselves much quicker because they weren't in it together.
So when this scene came on it just felt horrible that as she approached her end, she was screaming to Mike a few feet away at the top of her lungs, but got no response. She was scared and full of dread and just needed his attention, but got none of it. But it was worse that she was effectively alone in an abandoned house even with her friend just a few feet away. There's no more of a horrible feeling than that.
People can make us feel alone for sure no matter what the situation!
Yes couldn’t put it into words why this movie made me feel so uneasy , you explained it perfectly!
for me that was part of the reason it was so scary, was having a girl be in charge of two guys who don't respect her and don't believe that she knows what she's doing. like you said the way it ends is like the perfect climax to that, where mike goes ahead of her not listening
I had a dream last night about this movie and how they could've easily survived. All Heather, Josh, and Mike could've done was walk down the river to the body of water where it empties out to. Then they could easily find their way out and just walked on the beach to someplace public.
Brockton Lazarus they would've probably just walked in a circle to the point of the river they started at. Since that's what happened when they tried to just walk in one direction
The problem wasn't they didn't know how to return, they always were returning to the same place, it was a supernatural thing, a hex.
It wasn’t that, they knew what they were doing the whole time, they were leading her there to kill her and fake their deaths and make the perfect escape and cover up, the witch was just a scare tactic, they purposely got rid of the map and purposely made her scared and lured her to kill her.
@@Nic_2751 Exactly - there is no witch. That's the point of the (original) movie at least.
@@Nic_2751 false. They even intended to show the witch in the movie, but it didn't make it into the final cut. Plus the kids laughing and terrorizing them outside of the tent was a big clue that it wasn't Josh and Mike. It makes no sense as to why they would.
I remember watching this as a kid, we didn't even saw the famous ''Witch'' and yet it scared the hell outta me,
That is what makes the movie so scary, we dont see it.
Dont understand why movie people think we find constant gore scenes and jumpscares scary
Ice J well also the movie leaves us with creepy questions that we will probably never know
When they showed the witch in the new one it felt like the equivilent of my Dad telling me Santa doesn't exist. The whole point was that you never saw the witch!!!!
Raj Sihota I think the girl we saw in the room was the Witch true form, not sure
Albert Wesker That part confused me, but there was a scene where I think we saw the "witch" behind the main dude for a split second in the house and she looked like a big yellow spider thing with crazy hair. It was right before they killed him off. If it was her, it was nothing like the creepy story/description Mary Brown (crazy old lady) told in the original.
The good thing about this is that, from looking at the comments, there is a really unsure feeling with the end. Everyone seems to have their own theory and it makes it slightly creepier than if everything was just spelt out.
Budget: $25
Level of Horror: Off the roof
ONLY $25?
They made like almost 300 million after it, wow!
@@NotLxcy Nah, the budget was between $200,000 - 750,000
The story was about a man who would lure children into an abandoned house in the woods, he would kill one kid and put him facing a corner in the basement, when kids would go down looking 4 the dead kid, they would see him facing the corner the same way Mike was. The kids would be distracted long enough for the killer to sneak up behind them. This is just a rumor, but they hint at it in the movie with the child sized hand prints on the walls. I hear these stories all the time cause I live 5 hours from Blair, Maryland.
What does that have to do with a Witch? That sounds like a child killer.
Tornado1994 he said that a witch made him do it, so he could plea insanity
I didn't know why he was facing the corner until now. Thanks for the comment, also this is my favorite part of the movie because it's so damn creepy!
his comment is wrong.. my reply is correct... i repeat what one of the towns people said in the camera interview early in the movie.. centurion got it all wrong
John Doe Oh ok sorry. WELL, both are still scaryXD Lol, anyways, this is one of my favorite scary movies because it's so eery and awful, and we don't know what's going on with the man in the corner, and what's going to happen to the 2 people.
So,I must ask, does this mean there is a killer in the house, and the man in the corner is willingly facing it so he will die? And the other two will never escape the forest?
I remember when I was little, I thought this movie was for real. Then I found out that all of this was fake. I gotta say this was a very well made movie, it seemed so real.
GeoAl09 it's real dumbass
@@prekt134 It's not, dumbass.
Plot twist: one of the students was the blair witch the entire time.
+eammon wright The theory is not that Josh is the Blair Witch, but that he is being controlled by the Blair Witch.
eammon wright Haha aight friend
+TokyoQueen that is not possible because Josh died earlier in the movie and the other two students died at this part so that doesn't make any sense to me at all
Frank Baldassarre No, Josh never died, unless the witch killed him when after he killed the other two.
Frank Baldassarre
You do realize I was being sarcastic, right?
And we don't see so much as a glimpse of the Witch in the entire movie. Not even for a split second do we see her. But the way it's shot, we know she's there. Brilliant movie.
Whenever i see this scene, I'm a little bit pissed by Mike's attitude. He's so obsessed with Josh's voice he runs to the basement and leaves Heather alone while she's HISTERICALLY calling out for him ...
I understand he's worried about Josh but damn, doesn't he hear these screams ? He should just have grabbed Heather and get the hell out of this house ...
I think Josh was under the witch's control from the moment he disappeared and trapped them following her orders.
Either that or the witch killed Josh some point and mimicked his voice to lure Heather and Mike to the house and down to the basement.
+rippingtons60 I think that whatever malevolent spirit that took Josh's tongue was able to now use his voice.
+alex cobb this isn't dead silence! XD
+alex cobb I thought it was his jaw bone?
Leila7254 I think if you see Film Theory's video about this, you'd like it...
The 11-year-old me believed I watched 3 people die when this film came out. Found footage is everywhere now so people who watch this today who never saw it find it rather dull. However, when this came out it was absolutely terrifying and nothing like it had been seen before
Yes the witch tricked them by using Josh's voice but mike and heather were both mentally gone by this point. Was easy to trick mike into the basement. Anyone with common sense would know u hear a person upstairs then hear the same person downstairs means some kind of trick/hocus pocus involved and heather kept screaming mike's name not because the witch had her and the witch wasn't holding the camera. Heather just wanted to know where he was so she knew she wasn't lost or alone. If the witch had heather wouldn't she scream something along the lines of "let go of me"?
Yeah you're right about that witch thing.
But you can't blame mike for following josh's voice, no strength or power to think what is real and what is trick at this moment, fear and darkness around them so what do you expect? 😢
greenlee7smythe interesting notice of detail!
Uvisir thank you :)
heidi egy right! lol
You still there? So who was holding the camerea?
Props to the female actress, she had that scream down pat.
YES
My God, How could you go down the damn stairs *IN the TOTAL darkness* when you dont know what the *HELL* is down there, Let alone the fact that there was *Something sCReaming* down there in the first place!?..
Camera has a night-vision thingy. Kinda like the camera in Outlast
heather was the one screaming, mikes camera was the only one recording the audio
Will Frost Imagine you hear your best friend screaming for help.
Will Frost because the house appears under darkness only..the witch controls time in the forest.
Why did people hate this movie so much? Heather was saying that people would come up to her and say they wish she was dead just because they didn't like this movie. This is such a fantastic movie! It seems so incredibly real
A lot of people felt "cheated" when this came out, because nothing really happens throughout the entire movie. But that's why it was effective, if we saw some hokey looking witch at the end, it would have ruined it.
Josh was the one that killed them. He was under the witches power from the first time he went missing, the screams were him pulling his own teeth out to try to bring the other two to him. The witch controlled the person that killed the kids in that one guys story at the start.
And no, the witch wasn't the one holding the camera haha. The cam she had didn't have a MIC it was a dat cam. Mike's camera did, that's why you can hear her screams getting louder because she was getting closer to mike's camera!
Nope, If you look closely when the camera falls when Heather is killed, if you look closely you can see Josh's dead body lying in front of the camera with his face showing. It's very blurry but if you pause when the camera clears for a split second you can see him clearly
Jessica Warford screen shot it
+Jessica Warford dios mio chicos ya basta.todos sabemos que esta pelicula no es real por dios...salio la chica en un programa de television admitiendo la pelicula...como el caso MCperson que es lo mismo pero con extraterrestres...y encima del mismo creador,dejen de hablar pelotudeses.
+Jessica Warford i think your seeing things
+T00N I doubt that stupid witch could survive if the military decided to test nuclear weapons in that forest.
This movie just makes me wanna cry more than it scares me. The fact that they were just a group of students trying to make a project and that scene where she's apologizing to all of their mom's for getting them in this mess. I just wanna cry.
then cry bro
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@@gauravsaini6556 no mate
By far the scariest part was the split second you see mike standing in the corner.
That old house had some solid stairs...just saying, if the witch didn't kill them, termite damage and rot would have.
Genuinely the most overhated movie in existence. It's honestly very close to being a masterpiece.
I agree I honestly do not get why in the hell people hate this movie? I respect the hell out of this movie and I never get bored throughout the movie everytime I watch it
“Like I’m Scared, Man!!! like SCAAAAARED!!!!!”
- Shaggy Rogers, 1999.
I loved that short film. The Scooby Doo Project was an excellent parody!
What a true masterpiece when it comes to horror. There's no violence, gore, or anything. Its just really creepy and disturbing, especially during that scene where the tent shakes. The movie didn't really have a script, which shows how great it is. The acting is 100% realistic as heck. I also saw The Blaire Witch Project while camping!
Welcome to the Family, Son
I can tell you watched Jack's video.
THAT DEMO MADE ME SHIT
I love families with fists more than open arms
Omg that demo is creepy as shit
LARRY JOHNSON Yes me too:Welcome total Family .Bad Ending
20 years from now, this movie will still be regarded as one of the best movies of the genre for what it artistically achieved given the very small resources it had at its disposal.
I agree brother👌Its one of a kind!
not all horror movies should make since at first and it pisses me off when people say this movie is terrible. it was completely incredible. people say this movie is terrible just because people arent dying left and right or blood is not everyhere. the movie was ment for us not to understand but to just try to figure it out ourselves.
You can watch that idiotic show about "squatching" and get the same result with each episode of that as well.
Plot: nothing's happening....nothing's happening...they're running after something....nothing's happening...roll advertisements please
I like movies that leave it up to the viewer to figure out, but this movie just plain sucked ass. Cigar Dave is right. It really is akin to some ghost hunting or bigfoot hunting show. It's garbage.
***** Yea definately, psychological horror is the best. John Carpenter's The Thing comes to mind too. The group being in a isolated cold place and you never know whos shape the thing had taken next makes it creepy. Just like here they are in the woods and dont know what is waiting for them.
I don't mind people not dying, this is just fucking boring.
Progbassist "If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know it was me?"
How it should have ended. " SCREW THIS JOSH IS DEAD, HE IS DEAD LETS GTFO!" *Instantly leaves even though they don't know the way back to the car.*
Wouldn't matter anyway they where hex
*the find the car*
Especially since you first hear his voice upstairs, yet there's no one up there. Then, his voice suddenly shifts to being all the way down in the basement. There's no way that's realistically possible.
I wonder why the witch did it though.
@Captain Raid Chris you would get killed by the witch instantly you gay.
They wanted to leave a little before he disappeared, but, they couldn't,
they were returning to the same place over and over again.
Despite the lack of monsters and jumpscares, the atmosphere, acting, props, set, and suspense is what makes it soo terrifying. In my opinion I think it's a great movie.
Those screams - the terror of being left alone
When this first came out I was 13yrs old and remember going to see it with my older brother and I was so freaked out. I didn't feel right for the next few days and everyone was talking about it at school for a long time.
Watching it now it's still pretty creepy... even though I find it dumb that they went into the house in pitch black darkness. Why not wait till day time? I guess I can spot flaws in it now that I'm older.
But man do horror movies suck today... paranormal activity is HORRIBLE.
I guess they weren't thinking. When people are already anxious we tend to do stupid things. They probably just heard shouts and wanted to find their friend as soon as possible.
But, damn... Everything about this movie creeps me out. I thought Paranormal Activity was boring as hell. This film kept me quite interested. Even during the day scenes I was on edge because I didn't know what would happen.
Horror movies are good when theirs a twist. Where so many things are thrown at you every second like "he's going to die, i know it" Then the next second you think "no their all going to, i think he's going to sacrifice himself" etc. The purge concept was pretty cool, otherwise their are not many good modern horror movies.
General Rainbow Dash I wasn't terrified out of my mind but I love the way this film built up the tension and desperation. It's great that it didn't go for a really terrifying scene like this until the very end because that made it all the more effective.
after watching it the first time I was freaked out too :(
Lol. You had a different experience with this movie than me. I was 9 or 10 when this came out. I've seen freddy, halloween, night of the living dead ect. Before this so I guess I was a little more immune to the scary parts. I would get together with my brother, my cousin and a few friends every time we watched something like this. When we put on this movie we laughed at it. My cousin Erica and my friend Ben would keep cracking jokes about it. They all pretty much thought it wasn't as good or stupid. I thought it was ok. I still like it to this day. It's not scary. If it didn't scare me or my friends when I was 9 than that's saying something. It really depends on the person too. What other people find scary isn't scary to others. Like my mom for example is terrified of The Grudge and Stay Alive with Frankie Muniz. I don't think Stay Alive is scary at all. The Grudge tho does scare me a little. It's very creepy. I think Paranormal Activity is terrifying. Any zombie movie is terrifying as well. My scariest movie I've ever watched is 28 Days Later. Just thinking about it gives me the creeps.
Such an underrated movie. One of my favorites of all time for sure.
Xvnd3r overrated more like it.
@@THEdjpluto Nah people call it overrated because they watch it in the present day knowing it isn't real and are in the mindset of "If I can't see it, it's not scary". But you gotta think, when this came out, there was an entire website devoted to building up the story and a good percentage of people really believed it was lost footage from a real documentary (also keep in mind, the internet was still in its childhood stages and people weren't used to the internet being a source of misinformation), and that's the part that made this movie brilliant. It hadn't been done before, at least not on the scale this movie did it, and it can never ever be replicated again.
Agree. Strongly.
This movie was actually a pretty big deal when it came out, even as a kid I heard about it CONSTANTLY. Cartoon network even parodied it. Even today people always mention the Blair Witch whenever another found footage film is made.
It’s not underrated. It’s really popular
If there footage was found that means somebody went to the same creepy ass house in the same woods and didn't get killed or lost. Movie logic
You obviously didn't watch the movie
+avvvvvvvv ......Huh?
+Seth Gile they were cursed after touching the piles of rocks. they released something evil from the past.
+Seth Gile The Blair Witch dropped the footage off at the tv station.
You got that from the "Everything wrong the Blair Witch Project" video😂
I was 12 when I watched it cinema, our house being close to the woods didn't help, it didn't help at all.
Your parents let you watch this? Wow parenting fail
@@ERIN_198 😘
i could never watch this movie knowing I live 3 miles away from the blair witch house 💀
I think what really heightened the scare factor of this was that (to my knowledge) it was the first mockumentary that made it big. Many people probably thought this was very real! It does help that they left this ending to the imagination rather than a continuous jumpy scare. We're just so used to the jumpy scares that this now seems less frightening. Can't wait for the next one!
Spinal Tap?
this isn't a mockumentary, those are humorous. this is a horror film
I was one the these people who DID think it was real. It is the only time in my life that I've been three times to the theatre to watch the same movie. I was so scared, I really wanted to know & see the most I could, as images pass very quickly, I was unsure of what Heather found in the bundle of twigs so I wanted to see it again...!! Plus I did not get the play on cameras colour/b&w - which in the end is quite simple to understand.
@Unsung Songs hmm I see
One of the last films to actually terrify me, specially this scene. Have been searching for the feeling ever since, only a handful have matched / come close (first half of 'Sinister', 'Session 9', 'It Follows', are some of the few). Truly revolutionary film-making for its time.
Diego Rojas Sebastian session 9 was bloody scary, underrated movie
it follows wasnt that scary for me
In the end if u guys must know, while mike was looking for josh, even though he was already dead, ehat was happening was when the camera dropped for mike's, it was because he becamed possessed to make him stand in the corner and wait till heather was killed and she was screaming because she saw him standing in the corner like how the stories went how she killed the children in pairs; one facing the wall while the other was killed and thats why she was screaming because she knew she was dead
Having that guy standing in the corner after being very emotionally driven is so brilliant
If your a true horror fan, you have to appreciate this movie. The fact that you didn't see the Blair witch or or some kind of paranormal entity but seeing them loose their sanity in the middle if the Forrest makes this movie more horrifying. I mean, if you're in that situation, you would be loosing your mind as we'll. And how is this movie a failure if it made a gross revenue of about $200 million for a low cost movie production?
Pi Kay
Not at all. You sound incredibly pretentious and stupid.
But there were paranormal entities. They were attacked by something sounded like kids.
There was nothing scarier than sitting in a dark theater watching this. With no way out...
well.. I mean you could always just get up and leave.. but yea, no way out..
You mean with hundreds of other viewers, walkway lights, and two exits?
I first watched The Blair Witch Project in my room in the middle of the night alone in the dark with only my 2 dogs to keep me company while it was playing from me watching it on my TV while streaming it on Netflix or some streaming service similar to that. Needless to say I could not sleep that night lol.
I remember watching this movie. When I was just 8 years old, my parents had bought it for me and they don't speak English so they didn't really know what it was about, and I did not know either. That's why I wanted to watch it. I know it was scary, but I didn't care, and so I started watching it, and I did not understand at all was about, but the people screaming just made it even more intense, and I didn't stop watching it. I watched the whole thing, and then I just was like, terrified after that, but now that I watched it again, I understand what it's about, and its scary as hell.
I don’t think this film is appreciated enough.
The drama, isolation, desperation, and atmosphere all help create this suspenseful tension where you are completely lost, you have no outside help, there’s no sign of hope, and no matter what you try, you are only delaying the inevitable. That feeling of slowly descending into absolute despair builds up throughout the whole film until it finally culminates with an ending that leaves you with no answer.
It’s a shame this film is only known for creating the “Found Footage” genre, because as an overall horror film, The Blair Witch Project is incredible!
Alternate ending
Blair Witch: IT'S JUST A PRANK, BRO!
This thing gave me the creeps for weeks to come.
This is simply of the best horror movie endings
Truly a revolutionary film. This first of its kind in found footage genre
He was just urinating in the corner. Why does she has to be hysterical?
For those of you too young to remember, when this came out there was a fake documentary released a month before the movie release. It was so well done that when people saw the movie, they thought it was authentic.
Back in 1999, found footage films were virtually non existent. I saw plenty of people leave the theater in genuine fear. Burkittsville, MA saw a huge influx of tourists going into the woods.
The directors did not have a script and even though they did have an outline, the actors really did get lost and the frustration on their faces is in fact real. When they get mad at eachother, that was real anger. They ad libbed the entire movie with the exception of the directors giving them scenarios to talk about.
Damn, nature. You scary.
Lets be honest, this is way better and scary than most of nowadays movies
And in 20 years they'll say the same thing about movies now. So sick of this "everything nowadays sucks" bullshit. There's a ton of great work in every single decade.
@@JTidiotboyfinally! Someone is brave enough to say it.
I tend to judge the scariness of movies by how quickly I scamper for a blanket to cover myself with (idk, to protect me from demons apparently?). The first time I saw this and the camera panned up to Mike standing in the corner, I grabbed my dog and covered my face because there was no blanket.
Imagine if you went to grab your dog but got a bundle of sticks instead
I always assumed that the witch got Heather the moment Mike runs downstairs to find Josh, that's why her camera (the black and white one) stays exactly in the room with the hand prints on the walls, because the witch is keeping her, and that would explain how frantically and horrific her screams are. However, when Mike reaches the basement, he's knocked by Josh, and the minute 2:16 Heather carrying her camera as the witch drags her to the basement, where she finds Mike facing the corner and being knocked down by the witch herself, or Josh, though i'd rather think it was the witch.
DreamingLara Nah the witch didn't get her, josh did. He was under the witches power from the first time he went missing, the screams were him pulling his own teeth out to try to bring the other two to him. The witch controlled the person that killed the kids in that one guys story at the start.
Okay, so here's my theory for the ending. Towards the start of the movie, when people we're being interviewed, one guy said that the Blair Witch would kill one victim, while keeping the other in the corner, so they would have to wait until they were killed. So, in this scene, after the camera falls to the ground the first time, the Blair Witch picks up the camera, and is the one who is filming at the end, showing her next victim in the corner, whilst we hear the screams of the girl in the background, her being the current victim.
Julia Darling The second camera is being held by Heather dumb ass. Her camera has no audio
Old glory If it has no audio, then how could we hear the screaming at the end? And if Heather was filming, then who was the one screaming?
Julia Darling The screaming is recorded from the camera that Josh dropped. She was still upstairs so it sounded very faint until she got closer to the dropped camera
Julia Darling
@@Unmedicated_Moments lmao 😂
The reason why the cast does a really great job in this movie is because they were completely unaware that it was staged, so this isn’t acting, this is genuine fear and dread from the cast
That's something rarely done in horror movies, but when done right, it can be great to capture their real life reactions. Like what happened in Alien and the bursting Xenomorph out of one of the crew's chest was never explained to the rest of the actors, so their reactions of fear are real.