FIRST TIME WATCHING | The Blair Witch Project (1999) | Movie Reaction | A Very Good Scary Movie?!?!

[@BrianMakesFilms]

The crazy thing about the Blair Witch Project is it literally is halfway between documentary and a fictional movie. The directors and crew planted actors in the town that the main actors believed were real town residents. The crew also would make noises in the woods and scare the actors at night, and they fed the actors less and less each day to make their moods worse. They also only had a very loose scripting of the film (basically very brief written instructions each day) so everything was basically improvised. So while the story of the Blair Witch was entirely fabricated, a lot of the emotions and frustration and fear on screen was actually pretty authentic. It's part of why it works so well as a found footage film, versus some of the more scripted bigger budget ones of recent years. The movie scared the hell out of me when I saw it as a young teenager. I lived in a pretty forested area of Washington State, and hated driving through the trees at night for a long time after seeing the movie.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Washington State, eh? Never mind the Blair Witch you could have run into the Black Lodge.

[@johncampbell756]

Josh had another gig so he had to leave. The crew were playing a recording of his voice on a boombox. The actors weren't sure where it was coming from. Then the actors had to stay out of the public eye until it was widely known enough to not be real.

[@MontagZoso]

I live in Washington State too and damn….we have a LOT of woods here. Scared the crap out me too. 😳

[@MrEd8846]

Yeah this movie came out and I was pretty young but I remember watching the fake documentaries they made for the movie before seeing it. And I also live in Washington and we did a lot of camping growing up. After watching this I was pretty paranoid whenever we went camping

[@Tedgieee]

Lmao, i too live in Washington state and have the same fear because of this movie lol. I also lived in a foresty area and there was an abandon house next to me in thick woods that looked exactly like the blaid witch's house. As a 10 year old i would force my mom to watch while i ran past it to the bus stop hahaha

[@robhax]

The fact they "don't show anything" is, in my opinion, what makes this solid.

[@MrParkerman6]

That's what she said!

[@robhax]

@@MrParkerman6 THANK YOU! GOODNIGHT!

[@cole_deatherage]

YES fucking thank you

[@ObiWanGinobiliTopFan]

I agree for the most part, but the filmmakers did plan to briefly show the witch one time in one of the scenes, but they screwed up and never got the shot. Kinda sucks. I think one quick view of the witch might've effectively made this movie even scarier.

[@robhax]

@@ObiWanGinobiliTopFan maybe... or less scary because, considering this was a "cheap" film, the witch might have been pretty weak... Would've been a gamble.

[@RicRenger]

That last scene with Mike standing in the corner gave me nightmares when I was younger. Such a well executed horror from the marketing to sell the style of film to the performances. Everyone thought it was real.

[@zephid11]

No they didn't, only morons thought it was real. The vast majority of people knew it was fake simply because of the fact that the movie was shown at film festivals and later shown in cinemas around the world. That would never happen with real found footage. Real found footage would be part of an law enforcement investigation, snippets of it might be shown on the news, but that's about it.

[@PianoMoverSmith1]

@@zephid11 Exactly. Didn't the actors have to go on Oprah or something to shut up the idiots who thought it was real?

[@kevjohn2006]

@@PianoMoverSmith1 IIRC they went on Oprah and did press junkets AFTER the movie had ppl believing it was true and became a huge hit. The film, actors, and filmmakers weren't Oprah-worthy or notable at all until the film started breaking records. But yeah, it's easy to call people back then morons now in hindsight. At least we weren't led around by the genitals by *influencers* 😆

[@kiillabytez]

Most of us could tell it was fake. There's a lot of fictional media in the world, especially YouYube, like Meat Sleep, OO390, NewsKin, etc had thousands of people convinced they were real, but if you actually put your emotions aside and look at them with a logical eye, you can see the tricks they use, and you realize they are just that: tricks.

[@kevjohn2006]

@@kiillabytez uhh, the movie came out in 1999. KZbin wasn't even launched until 2005. There were a lot of horror and fictional news sites a long time before then, so I can't attest to the other entities you mentioned, but I don't think people were as influenced by online sources back in the pre-2k world.

[@1nelsondj]

This was much more effective in a darkened movie theater, it was a hot topic for a short while. It inspired tons of copycats.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Yeah, seeing it new in a theater was an experience.

[@Blizzard0fHope]

and a bad sequel

[@kiillabytez]

Actually, it wasn't. Then again, I have an eternal hatred for ANYTHING "found" footage.

[@kiillabytez]

@@porflepopnecker4376 Yeah, a BAD experience!

[@kiillabytez]

@@Blizzard0fHope Actually liked the sequel because they weren't trying to pretend it was real.

[@zombiemom7378]

This movie is so impressive, honestly. I love how it was filmed with minimal direction notes from the filmmakers for the actors who were literally out in the woods for days recording. They would get general instructions of the scenes they should film that day, what their motivations were, and how their characters were feeling, etc., but that was it. The actors had a lot of freedom with how to accomplish what the filmmakers were hoping to get from them. There are some cool articles and behind the scenes information that have been published since the movie's release that talk about how they did it. I saw it in the theater in 1999 and left that night afraid to go home alone. There's not much to this movie, but it is extremely effective. This wasn't THE very first found-footage movie ever made, but it certainly can be given credit for being the one that popularized the subgenre and paved the way for a whole slew of similarly styled films.

[@Axess-sv8nq]

They also left less and less food out for them at the pick-up points. They wanted them to get more and more ragged and desperate as time went on. It was in the commentary track of the DVD.

[@zombiemom7378]

@@Axess-sv8nq Yes!!

[@mordicus420]

I was going to make this comment Many people didn't understand what the project of the film was & the improvisations of the actors

[@scipioafricanus5871]

The real heroes of this movie are the marketing hype people...

[@kiillabytez]

This actually scared you?

[@algomaone121]

I was the ONLY PERSON in a big theater watching this in 1999! Very creepy experience.

[@livingcorpse5664]

Geez. The only time I was alone in a movie theater was watching the new Mortal Kombat movie and that was because of Covid (don't at me, I had my mask on and took a shower and threw my clothes in the washer when I got home).

[@judehebert847]

DAMN... just imagining this on the big screen.... wholy fuck. You lucky little bastard.

[@SaltyWinchester]

@@livingcorpse5664 You really fall for this Covid crap?

[@fidelty2427]

@@SaltyWinchester i know when moderna patented the gene in 2016 lol. people are so stupid

[@Rufofeli]

@ksfhhnfan Don't even try it. You'll get dumber, it's not worth it 😅

[@JBthree24]

The part where they hear Josh screaming at night….that part scared the shit out of everyone in the theater….

[@xillianbro]

The way they marketed this movie is amazing

[@YouMeTheMovies]

Absolutely. The marketing was genius.

[@samr_-zi6zm]

@@YouMeTheMovies Plez reaction trailer the lady of heaven

[@corvus1970]

The marketing was more effective than the final product itself overall. The last 10 minutes, however, are quite good.

[@ernestovarela676]

@@YouMeTheMovies 28:31 what happened.

[@RenegadeSamurai]

spceially the clause in the contracts of the Actors, that they had to keep a low profile for another year, so the whole story seems more legit :D And the families of them all got condolences letters xD

[@boodahbass]

that scene where they're running and the chick stops her train of thought to scream "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!!!???" is the realest kind of hysterical screaming i think i've heard in a movie. there's so many solid moments where she's got these genuine reactions that feel too goddamn real hahhh

[@0lyge0]

I read an article about the making of this a few years ago. They said the filmmakers were really doing stuff to freak them out but they couldn't remember the specific thing that elicited that reaction. I remember that being the absolute nope moment for me. Whatever made her scream like that wasn't something I wanted to see or have anything to do with AT ALL.

[@allenharper2928]

@@0lyge0 it was one of the crew all done up in white shambling around nearby. Mike or Josh, whoever was behind Heather and holding the camera was supposed to turn and film it but forgot in his panic lol.

[@0lyge0]

@@allenharper2928 Do you remember where you found that out? I like reading/hearing about the behind the scenes stuff.

[@The_Rickest_Rick]

@@0lyge0 1 source is in the trivia section on IMDB. It is the 12th entry from the top.

[@vertigo7082]

If I remember correctly she screamed seeing one of the crewmembers dressed in plain white long johns.

[@MDelorean]

I had a sidejob as a 'ghost' for a spooky trail people could walk in the forest. After I watched Bair Witch I was more scared than the people I had to scare. A nearby rabbit almost gave me a heart attack. I have anxiety deja-vu just watching your reaction haha.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Nearby rabbit was definitely the Black Rabbit of Inlé...

[@kiillabytez]

Lol. Did it have "really big fangs"?

[@Salsadans123]

Ha ha I used to love to scare people to, but in reality I was more scared myself.

[@aquiresramires9355]

@@kiillabytez are you trolling?

[@kiillabytez]

@@aquiresramires9355 Monty Python ref...

[@thehunterxxnine1346]

The moment when Mike screams, "Tell us where you are Josh!" will forever be stained into my mind, his cry of fear is what makes that moment so haunting.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

Little do they know that voice that sounds like Josh.. ISN'T Josh! It's clearly a trap to lure them to the hermits house.

[@prettykit4]

It’s heartbreaking. Had me tear up.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

@@prettykit4 and they just couldn't work out if it WAS Josh or the supernatural Blair Witch making the voice! I'm going for.. Blair Witch.. it was a trap to lure them towards the creepy ancient house in the woods.

[@prettykit4]

@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 Blinking terrifying

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

@prettykit4 Was first time I saw it in the cinema 🎥, especially when they encounter the house 🏠 😳.

[@ilugsays]

The last scene with Mark standing in the corner is what stuck with me the most since of first watched this movie back then, because of what that guy at the begging about taking the kids down the basement by twos, make one face into the corner, then killing the other one. A creepy, but great callback to the story.

[@wheelzbabyliz89]

His name isn't mark it's Mike/Michael

[@jw191]

Blair Witch Project is the most intense cinema experience I’ve had. Packed theatre, and no one made a sound the whole time. Over 20 years ago and I remember it vividly.

[@Tristan_Anderwelt]

The film perfectly plays with people's psyche and fears. I watched the film in the dark for the first time and have never felt so uncomfortable on the way from the living room to the bedroom

[@Kainlarsen]

Doubt, paranoia, fatigue, hunger, terror of the unknowable.

[@spiderliliez]

Hahahaha.. it was marketed as a found-footage, and people actually believed it. I did! HAHAHA. And it was thrilling that time. I remember I watched this with my classmates on a packed theater, and we were allowed to watch the entire film just sitting on the stairs because there were just so many people who wanted to see it. I only learned it wasn't real months after when I finally started using the internet. I searched the names of Heather and the two blokes and found they were very much alive hahahahah!

[@scipioafricanus5871]

A lot of people were taken for a ride, but what a ride it was!

[@kevjohn2006]

I've never been afraid of the "witch" or any fantastical creatures, but I HAVE been lost in the woods before and that sh*t was terrifying. It was only for a few hours, but I was just a kid (maybe 12 at the oldest) and knowing you're walking in circles and don't know how to get out... no thanks to that.

[@TJzWayyy]

Why were you camping alone at 12?

[@kevjohn2006]

@@TJzWayyy I wasn't camping. Just going for a stroll in the woods near my house.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Something about the woods man

[@FORkidHEAR2598]

Yea imagine seeing the witch

[@Malcontent-]

Promos for this movie ran constantly on the Sci-Fi channel. There were people who generally thought this was "real". A private investigator contacted the powers that be and volunteered his services because he believed that this was a real "missing persons" case. I was fortunate to have seen this movie in a dark theater and grateful for the experience. Iconic.

[@rory_pond1701]

When I saw this in the theater in 1999, the bulb in the projector went out about midway through, but no one in the audience could tell. There had already been so much 'blackout' footage we had no way of knowing there was a problem. The theater gave all of us free passes, but they could just as easily shrugged and told us that was the film.

[@JM-zo5me]

This movie was perfectly cast & believably acted.

[@bkeyser]

As a Marylander, they definitely got Marylanders in the opening interviews. The accents were accurate. Particularly the believer at the river.

[@clintonkildepsteen3982]

What about the old lady?

[@masonmatzker2285]

There was an hour long documentary that aired on PBS shortly before the movie hit theaters that went into detail explaining the history and lore of the Blair Witch, explaining everything in detail. Watching that documentary before the actual movie made it so much more terrifying because you roughly understood everything that was happening to them.

[@Krisgenx]

Before it was released, they aired a documentary a few week before on the history channel I think. It had interviews with the three actors families and friends, news clips from when they went missing, background on the Blair witch, more interviews with the town people and details on how they found the tapes. It really gave pause to the idea that it was real. It is called Curse of the Blair Witch and when I last checked, available on you tube.

[@allknee852]

The trick to surviving in the woods, when you have a book, you actually need to read the book to know how to survive.

[@aryanreddy6308]

True , i was angry while watching the movie instead of feeling the fear

[@Jalynfein]

Me while watching this movie for the first time: "FOLLOW THE GODDAMN RIVER YOU KEEP CIRCLING BACK TO, YOU MORONS!"

[@TheNordicVoyager]

boy scouts training 101

[@thegorn68]

LOL! I kept thinking, maybe they should just try lighting a big portion of the woods on fire as a marker but it had been raining on and off so maybe that wouldn't work either.

[@douglascampbell9809]

Yup. All former scouts think this. Follow the river downstream because it will always lead to larger waterways and civilization.

[@kuhpunkt]

WHAT IF THE RIVER IS A CIRCLE?

[@karlaegley8210]

@@kuhpunkt then it's a moat, and that should have been easy to spot on the map. LOL

[@FlixCreEightR]

By far the scariest movie ever made. I lived in the woods when this came out. Being fcked in the middle of nowhere by something is truly terrifying.

[@kakkycoasties8670]

I can't even begin to imagine how scary that would be. I don't believe in ghosts or any of that shit, but when i'm in those kinds of situations my brain always tells me they're real.

[@Str4vv]

Fun fact: With a budget of only 60k $, it had a record shattering 414000% return on investment.

[@discardmyfriends]

And the three actors didn't see penny one from that money

[@MrMeddyman]

@@discardmyfriends Heather Donahue did win Golden Raspberry 1999 for Worst Actress so there is that

[@Aaron-ze1io]

​@MrMeddyman yeah because the industry was so offended that nobody's came along and absolutely blew the lid off of anything Hollywood could ever produce and make a return like they did, they had to make a show of the actor's, sad really. Her primal screaming through the film is hands down the best acted fear I've ever heard in any film I've watched..and I've seen my fair share.

[@Took2Much]

probably my favorite video on your channel rn. thanks markus!

[@RDRussell2]

Yes, this movie gets so much credit (rightly so) as the first "found footage" movie. There have been a number of others since then. What's gotten lost (for those too young to remember) is that this movie was a 'viral hit' before the term existed. There was no KZbin yet, no Instagram, no Twitter. But word of mouth spread on the nascent internet, with many saying "you gotta see this documentary...is it for real?" There was an official website {made by the studio or the filmmakers} offering more info about the legend of the Blair Witch. If you saw an ad for the movie in the papers, it directed you to go to their website to learn more. No hint was ever provided that "this is just a movie." With no such thing as social media sharing, this movie made its reputation on the internet, and you just had to see it for yourself to decide. So, yes, this movie changed the ways movies are made, in that "found footage" became legit story-telling strategy. But this movie also changed the way movies are marketed. Your movie had better have its own website, it better have "sticky" content that people want to talk about and share. Oh, and also, back then there was no such thing as a hashtag. Nowadays, the hashtag is a prominent part of any social strategy.

[@NeelTheSphynx]

Inside the bundle of sticks was human teeth, hair, and blood

[@DoctorNoon2717]

the worst part are that the props are real

[@gglovesgorillazmj7784]

@@DoctorNoon2717 wait frr????

[@DoctorNoon2717]

@@gglovesgorillazmj7784 yep, they got them from a local dentist shop

[@birsay123]

Dentures and wigs. 😂

[@Dyrnwyn]

@@gglovesgorillazmj7784yes they really killed Josh

[@MountainMan.]

The waking up to see the stones and the sticks, it gave a foreboding dark mood and a sense of dread. They're being hunted.

[@sierracindrell5775]

I’m obsessed with these reactions. There’s a Blair Witch fan theory that I love, and it claims the boys planned to kill Heather the whole time... throwing the map away, seeming carefree while she was terrified, announcing where they were running in the house at the end…There are some pretty convincing videos about it on KZbin. 😅

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Fan theories are the dumbest shit ever, and this is one of the dumbest

[@JBthree24]

That’s a good one

[@lavinder11]

What I've noticed about these reactions is women tend to ask that question right away.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

Seriously?

[@WHADATBOYNAMEIS]

that’s an old one but it doesn’t explain what happened to them though. they would’ve had to completely upend their lives and and disappear without a trace

[@2127EShelby]

Saw it at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, 1999. The Marquee, top line - Blair Witch Project ----------- below it: "Go Stand in Your Corner"

[@menotu000]

It really is a perfect film... Nothing else that copies this genre even comes close. Shoestring budget, impending sense of doom and isolation throughout the film, top notch acting, lost of natural feeling reactions, etc. It looks like genuine recovered footage... When this came out a tight lid was kept on the fact that it was fiction, so it added to the allure.

[@kiillabytez]

Maybe, but it created a horrible genre of film making by everyone with a cell phone, hoping to cash in on this films success. I really can't stand ANYTHING "found" footage.

[@Ezra_Malfoy97]

The fact that it was barely scripted and they actually had them camping and didn't tell them about the scares made it so much better like the crew making all the noises outside the tent, having Mike screaming off in the distance like that, it all worked so perfectly !

[@yummi4tunekookie]

"Found footage" films really took off after this movie (no disrespect to "Cannibal Holocaust," but it was THIS film that paved the way), especially considering its low budget (about $700k) & huge profit (roughly $250 MILLION). We'd probably have no "REC," "Paranormal Activity," or "Chronicle" had this little independent venture never been made! Lol, I was one of those suckers who initially thought the footage was real xDDD

[@lampad4549]

We would probably have better movies.

[@brownstarslots]

1:08 "its real". Thats exactly what i told everyone while working at the movie theater.

[@1rexrex]

The story isnt real but they did create webpages and other stuff so the legend looked real when you searched the internet for info. There used to be a bunch of fake evidence to make it harder to not believe the movie was real found footage.

[@brianlafrazia8237]

Yep, the marketing was phenomenal. They played it up as it was real found footage and they did not let on that it was a fictional movie with actors. Going in, I thought it was real. It made the movie-going experience insane. It was creep AF in that dark theater. Also, I lived next to a deep woods and my friends and I would venture through that woods occasionally when we were younger. That gave me a perspective and real fear of how it would feel to get lost in the woods. That made it 10x worse.

[@gustavmaki6658]

In college, our film club showed movies weekly for the students (real movie projectors with 35 mm reels, big screen, good enough sound, seated a few hundred), and the week before this one we "decorated" some of the trees nearby the walkway pretty much everyone used to get to the campus with these kind of stick figures...and this was when the hype and discussions whether it was real or not was still high...if I remember correctly, we had some "fun" reactions to that little stunt... ;)

[@DamonCzanik]

Watching it in a movie theater was great. One guy yelled, "Oh hell naw!" after a tense scary scene and everyone laughed. It was a great tension reliever. The acting wasn't scripted & felt natural. I was about that age and that's how my friends & I talked. Found footage/ shaky cam trend hadn't started yet. The website revealed nothing but made it sound like a real thing. Viral marketing and fake news in the very early days of the internet. The movie does so much with so little. 3 piles of rocks, rocks in a tree held up by sticks, hanging figures made out of some sticks... and a guy standing in a corner. That's it. No cheap jump scares. Everything is the actors. The movie's tension builds and holds you until the end. The movie costed nothing to make, made a ton of money and became a cultural phenomenon. Not for everyone but I feel everyone should watch it. I haven't seen Blair Witch 2016, so I vote that. Also how about something like Signs?

[@-M0LE]

Was is will Smith lol

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

yeah i think part of what made is so iconic is the documentary-style filming which wasn't popular or done before at the time of its release. nowadays in the age of cameras, vlogs, and social media, where everything is documented, it definitely loses some of its scare factor because it just seems like another recorded video.

[@Hotecce1]

when you said this film cost nothing to make, reminded me about the movie, Phonebooth, which only took 1 day to film.

[@bigkuriboh3814]

@@Hotecce1 phone booth took 10 days to film.

[@damagecontrol7]

cost

[@ravenlunatic8]

I remember seeing this on the latest showing one night. There were only a couple other people in the theater. I've never been so grateful for sitting in the back against the wall.

[@nayru1855]

i love that he told her that it was real beforehand, even though she denied it i feel she questioned it at times lol, which is the best way to experience it and wish i did. the marketing for this movie was crazy, i wish to experience something like that in theaters during a time where you really dont know and for some completely believed it

[@system0fadowner251]

I was 10 when this came out and totally fell for the marketing. Needless to say, I was terrified for days after watching it.

[@jakecleveland1051]

The only thing that truly scares me is what I can't see, and as a young kid when I saw this it really traumatized me at the time Lol

[@kiillabytez]

The only thing that scares me is the thought that people call me a naysayer when I have the uncanny ability to spot BS and they can't.

[@jjc5871]

I learned relatively young that it’s not the dark that people are afraid of. It’s what you can’t see the darkness that scares you.

[@livingcorpse5664]

I'd argue the cameras being dropped is a jumpscare. Something attacked them from behind off camera and it was very sudden.

[@fullmoonprepping4024]

She found a tongue and teeth. Some legends say a powerful witch can emulate a person's voice by way of a ritual involving removing the tongue.

[@Criticalthinking_]

This is by far one of my favorite horror movies ever made. People who dont like it seem to be people who cant get in to the mindset of how u wouldd feel in that situation, when it starts to get dark and u cant find your way out of there so u have to spend yet another night in there. Its hard to imagen the feeling u would have in their situation. Truly a terrifying movie.

[@momokol366]

If I remember correctly, the house at the end wasn't a set, it was just a creepy house they found in the woods.

[@williammatthews693]

"Before the internet was a thing." You got me thinking, you think this internet thing will ever catch on?

[@YouMeTheMovies]

One of these days.

[@robhax]

When I was in Boy Scouts, we had those same tents. So those particular scenes impacted me more.

[@wfly81]

I was in high school when this came out, and was intrigued by it in the months leading up to its theatrical release. II grew up not far outside of Adams, TN, which has the most famous witch folklore in the country...the Bell witch (the inspiration for this movie, as it turns out). Because of my proximity to that area growing up, I assumed there were just as potent witch folklores across the entire country...so this really pulled me in. There was a "documentary" on TV leading up to the movie that was probably an hour long that spelled out the entire "history" of the Blair witch going back over a hundred years. It went so far as to say the film footage was found neatly packed in Heather's backpack under the foundation of an old house that was long gone. But the ground hadn't been disturbed since the foundation was laid, well over 100 years ago. So it was a backpack with cameras and film equipment under the foundation of a long gone house, and the ground around it hadn't been disturbed since the house was built...impossible without some strong paranormal power. At the time, I lived on a farm surrounded by woods, old dilapidated houses in the woods, and old forgotten cemeteries in the woods. And keep in mind, when this movie came out, there was no such thing as a "found footage" movie...this was the original. There were a lot of people who hated this movie because "It's not scary because you never see the witch." To those people... 1) You have no sense of imagination 2) You never lived in the middle of nowhere. Because I have a sense of imagination, and grew up in the middle of nowhere...and this movie absolutely FUCKED ME UP!!! It's funny now, noticing that the first credits are given to the writers. lol

[@wfly81]

Here's the "documentary". Watching it now, there are a lot of telltale signs that it's fake. But at the time, nothing like this had ever been done. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHbSiIasfp6jgMU

[@donutpredator4945]

There was 3 found footage movies that came out before this movie ever did

[@wfly81]

@@donutpredator4945 3 movies that almost nobody ever heard of.

[@maximillianosaben]

This made me think that you should watch The Mothman Prophecies. That's more of a suspense thriller, but it's darn frightening.

[@____K_____989]

Agree 100%

[@mem1701movies]

It’s not frightening because the MOTHMAN doesn’t wear pants and has no package...at all , according to his statue.

[@jdm1066]

.....C...H...A...P...S...T...I...C...K.......

[@karlmoles6530]

100% seconded, The Mothman Prophecies is awesome. I lived near Point Pleasant for years.

[@marcochavezjr9180]

Awesome movie

[@rydbthatsme]

The cast actually showed up at the MTV Movie Awards and that’s how people who didn’t research it found out it was fake

[@theofficialgreenkane]

The psychological horror is imminent from the start. The creepiest part is the thought of hearing your "dead" friends voice in the woods, at night, calling out. That just plays on our subconscious fears. And the anxiety induced from the black & white camera shining into the black abyss of the forest- *The darkness is unsettling.* 😱

[@SgtRocko]

When this came out, it was fresh and new - NOW it's old hat, but this is an OG found footage film. It's a slow burn, but that just adds to the building creepiness and tension. The characters are likeable and you grow to know them - they're very human, not the tropes present day movies seem to think are mandatory. I saw it the first time in a packed cinema for a midnight showing and people were FREAKED and we LOVED it. It still holds up as a very creepy, eerie film.

[@pamelawilliams3144]

This movie was so popular, they even referenced it in a MaryKate and Ashley movie 😂

[@GuamoKun]

What’s scariest is that it’s people lost in the woods and their final desperate moments. The whole “witch” and “murder mystery” aspects are honestly secondary reasons as to why the concept is so scary.

[@michaeltrevino7623]

Great reaction, by the way your wife is absolutely adorable and hilarious! Congrats, keep up the great work my friend!

[@YouMeTheMovies]

Thank you so much 😁

[@fointnikfraudulant]

31:06 it was his tooth…

[@maceomaceo11]

Mockumentaries began with "Meet The Ruttles" and took off with "Spinal Tap". For my money, "Best In Show" is the peak of the style. To anyone with the slightest experience in deep woods hiking, "Blair Witch" is a Keystone Cops slapstick dark comedy.

[@meganmangold1074]

The advertising for this was the best ever for a movie! I live in Maryland and believed the mockumentaries. Went to see it in the theaters and am never scared. Took me about 6 years too watch the very last scene. It was fantastic!

[@cole_deatherage]

"who eats ice cream with their pumpkin pie?" nobody, but it sounds bomb

[@marleinasmom]

Um, who doesn't eat ice cream with pumpkin pie? My heart breaks for those people.

[@Hawk170122]

When this originally finished in the theater, there were no credits. The film stopped and the audience just sat there for three minutes. Because it was supposed to be found footage, they would not have credits.

[@HeyywoodJablowme]

It would be awesome if you could react to the 2016 Blair Witch. We'll have fun, but the Mrs will hate it, I recently rewatched it & it's jam packed w/jump scares

[@3DJapan]

The girl in this, Heather Donahue, went to my school, University of the Arts.

[@darwynn17]

I still remember when this came out the marketing for it was insane. I specifically remember reading the in local newspaper something that looked like a news article that made it seem like it was real. Made me so scared to watch it. Still a classic!

[@newatlantisrepublic6844]

Fun Info Heather actress used to do Steak N Shake commercials

[@VadimBanev]

Loved this reaction! You guys are always fun to watch along with. :)

[@YouMeTheMovies]

Glad you're enjoying :)

[@theobserver2267]

I like how Markus told you its real. Although not true its what the producers did before this was released. I saw a pamphlet in a cinema about a month before the film premiered. It didn't mention a film, it was just information about the Blair witch and the stories surrounding it. I read it and it seemed real. When i saw the film i had that in mind. Imagination is key to this film. If you put yourself in their shoes, its terrifying. If you just watch it as a film most find it rubbish.

[@opalviking]

“Have you ever heard of the Blair Witch?” “Didn’t she go to Bel Air High?” 🤣 Great tip of the hat to the Bawlmer accent! My favorite moment lolz

[@ptsteelers]

I love the fact the Mrs. gets so scared she won't watch the screen, but at the same time I also hate that she doesn't watch the screen Hahaha. I just fear that when she does that she may miss something. Which I know is exactly why she does it :), As always, good stuff guys! And nice pick Markus

[@hissatsu4937]

When Heather say's she hungry. I wonder if you're actually hungry when you're scared out of your mind. Stress and anxiety usually makes you less hungry. Maybe I'm just looking too much into this haha. Anways I'm glad both of you like this movie. And I wouldn't mind to actually see you react to Blair Witch 2 and the one from 2016 as well.

[@norma580]

The Blair Witch terrified me. The last 20 min had me on the verge of vomiting! 😳😂 You al should watch the Relic

[@GrumpyOpinions]

I read once that apparently there was meant to be a witch in the film, but they never swung the camera around and caught the old lady portraying her. It was when they run out of the tent, you hear Heather say "What the f**k is that?" and apparently that was her talking about an old lady in a ragged dress standing on a tree stump waving her arms around.

[@dreaveronica6944]

Actually if I remember correctly, it was the director. He was the one outside the tent making all those crackling noises in the woods

[@BSAArklay]

It was one of the filming crew with stockings on his head. Hence her reaction. Also Mike's "its a house" line was legit they had no idea they were about to find a house.

[@dreaveronica6944]

@@BSAArklay they didn't know a lot of stuff from what I rememnwr. They were each given daily instruction left out in the morning on the general direction their character was suppose to go and behave and everything else was completely improvised by the actors

[@BSAArklay]

@@dreaveronica6944 Yeah that's right. There is a fan book all about it where the author gives a massive behind the scenes using film maker info. Its called 8 days in the woods.

[@venom7558]

Great reaction! This is one of my all time favorite films. Being a horror fan,I've seen lots of scary movies. But none of them has scared me like this one did. I had to sleep with the lights on for a week after seeing this. It still creeps me out. I think reason some don't like it is because people are so used to jump scares,tons of gore and endless CGI monsters. But this movie played on simple fears. The fear of the dark,of getting lost and being alone and all the fears you create in your mind. And people also forget that this was a small independent movie. The filmmakers didn't have a huge budget for much of anything. They used creativity and ingenuity to create and brilliant story. By the way,I think that for a while they did get lost,but ultimately the witch or whatever force out there really altered the forest in some way so that Heather,Mike and Josh would never find their way out. They were doomed from the start.

[@jefferickson5833]

My buddies wife made him go to this movie. He had seen 5-10mins of the "fake" documentary on TV earlier in the week promoting the movie. He thought it was a true found footage documentary. (This was before that was even a thing) He was so freaked out, his wife had to explain to him afterwards that it was just a movie.

[@flatcapman]

You can tell when they are driving on the highway its not found footage. it was supposed to be set in the early 90's but LOOK AT THE CARS. They are clear 1999 new models on the road. The film makers stuffed up on that one

[@davidtaigia6705]

I remember MTV had a special about the movie a year before. So I was excited about the movie for a whole year waiting. I also had some friends that lived in the woods and when they got home ran in to their houses. Haha

[@naturalandvalid8576]

I love that she found it impressive

[@youtubeistrash953]

I remember when this came out, I was like 9. Such a great movie and essentially the first of its kind to reach such success that I'm aware of. Been watching horror since I was like 3 and fell in love with it. There were rumors when this came out that it was actually based on true events lol. Such a classic !

[@bradforddillman7671]

I met and interviewed the cast at a horror con in the mid ‘00s. They were very nice and posed for a few photos The movie rated up there with “The Shining” as top horror movies with our reader poll. A master-class in film-making and marketing in the early days of the internet. My future wife and I even took a ride to Burketsville, Maryland back in 1999. We loved the movie then (we saw it during an early release) and still love it today. But it’s been well-known to NOT be real for decades.

[@cadycastle9957]

I love that you told her this was real in the beginning. As someone who was alive when this first came out and someone that lives in Maryland not that far from Burkettsville this movie sacred the crap out of me as a kid. They publicized this movie so well when it came out, even made the actors hide so people really thought they were dead, so much that police reports were actually made lol. This is such a good historical movie and the beginning of the found footage genre of horror movies.

[@richardbuckendorf1390]

I'm half tempted to donate to said "patreon" just so you BOTH have to watch "Pink Flamingos" 1972

[@wtfisditvoorbullshit]

This song was inspired by that movie: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJmtp2ivd7GYb8U

[@greglaplante7593]

I live in Georgia and with lots of woods around, We would hear and see weird noises and things

[@JonSebring]

You gotta watch film theories version of this movie. After seeing this the explanation Matt comes up with is great

[@clancyknox883]

There’s some contradictory evidence, but the theories still cool nonetheless.

[@Allexstrasza]

The one where the guys are supposed to be the killers? Don't particularly care for that one. I prefer the Supernatural element

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Trash theory

[@Thats_Andrew]

I'm obsessed with these movie reactions and this channel. I love this film. It's still one of the best found footage movies of all time. I remember watching this in the theater.

[@katsukirenka1629]

Still one of my favourite horror movies. I remember being convinced that the Blair Witch was going to get me when I was around 13 - started writing my proof on classroom whiteboards and everything for my friends xD

[@ResidentEvilWiz]

This movie scared the crap out of me but it was way after I watched the movie that it got to me. The fact nothin is shown is what’s so creepy about this movie.

[@timetravellerearthx8527]

GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 1&2

[@kathyk5319]

The first decent reaction that I have come across for this movie. Thanks. 👏👏👏👏👏

[@butterflyjessica1]

Its the scariest movie for me until today. Being in a forest, at night, not knowing whats out there? 😟

[@yelbastianannastasia9516]

When I watch the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT for the first time there was one seen when you hear the children laughing and making noise outside the tent, that scared the HELL out of me

[@douglascampbell9809]

A film that will be debated in marketing ethics classes from now until the end of time.

[@storchnbein2733]

I studied marketing and we had no ethics classes. :D

[@derekhill7307]

First off, I freakin’ LOVE you guys and love your movie reactions! I’m an independent filmmaker getting ready to shoot a “found footage” horror movie about a group of friends making a documentary about a (real) local legend, and would sooooo love to have you react to it after its release next spring.

[@TimDownsAnimation]

an old joke I've always loved about this movie: The moral of the story is that the real evil monster is film school students.

[@lynnwood1911]

I like how the actress thought she was walking into a snuff film shoot so she brought a combat knife just in case.

[@Pazuzu82]

1999 damn what a year for so many good films, fight club, the matrix, the sixth sense, American beauty, American pie, magnolia, this one was ok but I wasn't a huge fan of it, but as the years went on I've came to appreciate it more.

[@Hotecce1]

It wasnt the police that found the footage. It was an archeology team that discovered the footage buried (cant remember how far down). They also mentioned that it was a mystery as the soil had not been disturbed in decades.

[@willl793]

You guys are awesome!!! Fun reaction channel, new subscriber, btw that thing in the cloth was a bloody tooth!!! Wish the guy chimed in a little more but u guys are great watched lots of ur reactions x

[@YouMeTheMovies]

Welcome to the fam. Glad you are enjoying our content :)

[@donnybuoy]

One of my favorite films of all time! I watched it the first time when I was a kid, in complete daylight, and it still terrified me. The fact that it shows nothing and leaves it all up to your imagination is what scared me the most 😖 The story may seem barebones, but it expands far beyond this movie alone, into sequels and books and dossiers and video games that dive deep into the incredibly expansive lore. It's really quite fascinating!

[@DireAxis]

I was in 5th grade when this film came out, this was very early commercial internet days and the creators ran with an effective ad campaign. People really thought it was real, one of the earliest examples of effective viral marketing and the semi-birth of the handycam genre.