History of The Blair Witch Project
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
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Today, we’re talking about The Blair Witch Project. Let's go.
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Release: (7:06)
Lore/Secrets: (8:16)
Ending: (11:48) - Ігри
Kinda fun fact: Blair Witch was filmed in my home town, it was like a mile away from my elementary school and house. I’ve even walked around in the woods that they filmed at. One time I even said “HEY! I’ve seen that log!”
Go see if the Blair witch exists
@@hkayakh haha. I have a entire channel dedicated to making videos like that
Memento mori
@@mara7663 memento mori
@@hkayakh momento mori
The guy in gray must of actually been pretty terrifying. Considering how that wasn't actually apart of the crew it was literally some random dude in the forest. That's just creepy. What would happen if they actually caught up to it?
i think they actually did hire him, but just told him to literally walk around the woods at night with no direction at all
They did hire him
@@pjans2453 holy shit what if he got lost? They must have told him to try to circle in a radius.
Have. He must have. Not "must of."
Anyway, he was part of the crew and knew very well what he was doing.
@@kenhollis6197you sound fun, loosen up and those around you might enjoy the act more
Though I knew this movie wasn't real found footage I still felt deeply for the characters, the mental anguish they go through, the fear, the hate, it all felt very real to me. That's what makes this film so terrifying.
Yeah even if it's clear a film is fiction it can be realistic. Watching this reminded me of the "this house has people in it" because of the unconventional filming style, with that video being even more wacky. The security cameras filming everything misleads people because of how they're used for real-life purposes, unlike movie cameras filming fictional productions, identifiable with their smooth movement and high quality of video and audio. Knowing the media isn't real doesn't completely detach it from the real-life context. Also, the two films are made using a medium that makes the audience somehow involved in the context of the film, where this house has people in it is displayed as a video feed from the location, and the blair witch project is shown filming the events as they happen from their own camera's perspective. Movies usually act like the camera doesn't exist, even sometimes being removed in reflections.
(Also, this comment might not make any sense)
I came here for FNAF, but I'm totally loving all your content dude. Keep it up!
You read my mind, strong in the force......
Same here
This is literally the fnaf of movies. With all the extra stuff plus the actual movie/game it makes it more scarier. Yay or nay?
Same 🤙I just watched the FNAF documentary
i love the real life story around the movie so much, i actually wrote a whole ass paper about the marketing techniques and how it fit the vibe of the early internet culture
glad to see other people still look into that as well!
I'm assuming you got an A for it?
Honestly? Mike & Josh essentially making a snuff film of sorts with Heather as the movie star is far more horrifying than ghosts and witches.
I like to think it's both.
Mike and Josh planned to get 'lost' as a prank/murder plot but then walk straight into the lair of the Thing in the woods.
I remember my grandma had this movie in VHS when I was a kid, I wanted to watch it but my mom almost faints when she sees me trying to watch it... I guess she thought I was gonna get brainwashed or possessed
I was barely two when this movie came out and just wow
I wasn’t even conceived yet!
I wasn't even born.
So, it was trying to convince you it was real, that doesn't work anymore, and now nothing has the same impact
BUT, what if you could still get that impact by trying to convince people it's NOT real?
I was one of them who thought it was real, like I kid you not found footage movies have that effect one me. 🤣
You *FOOL*
One of my favorite things I learned watching panels with the actors was Mike talking about getting to the house. That day when they received their acting direction, his was something along the lines of "when you get there lead Heather up, then go back down leaving her behind". Obviously he was confused because they had only been in the woods this whole time and apparently this was the only time any of the actors used the walkies they had specifically to talk to the directors for clarification...and the directors brushed him off told him he'd know it when he'd see it. This lead to what Mike has said was his most in the moment line, him looking at the house and going "Oh shit. *It's a house*." because in that moment he realized what his direction met. This is why some people (for example MatPat with his theory on the movie) believe Mike was weirdly familiar with the layout of the house despite him never being there before.
This is the coolest behind-the-scenes fact I've ever heard about this movie.
You forgot that there is a scene in that film where if you listened closely you can hear children laughing those children are the victims of that man it was when the tent was soundly pushed
Another theory, one supported by various extra media as well as the new film, is that the with and Parr where simply victims of.. something.
Something that's been in that forest for a long, long time and was never human..
Could you do the Scooby Doo Project? As a kid that movie/special really freaked me out
Can you cover the Duck Hunt VR game. It’s been a while since I watched it but I remember it as a terrifying vr horror game. I think it would be good to cover. As far as I can see you haven’t done it yet.
I agree, Chris McLean from the hit reality show Total Drama Island
When a 10 sec old vid shows up in your recommended
Aw man when my parents saw this film in theaters they saw it with a neighbor, and some people outside decided to mess with the theater and bang on the door during the part where she sees the grey man. Freaked the neighbor out so bad he threw up. A week later my parents decided to mess w him by making the little stick people and tying them outside his house and acting like they had no idea.
I love the FNaF 4 fun with plushtrap ambience, very good choice Sagan!
This is a great video, I had no idea the actors improv'd so much of the script. And I'm also glad we never saw the man in the suit. I'm curious about what you'd have to say about Cloverfield (if you haven't talked about it). I've seen the Blair Witch Project but Cloverfield is my favorite found footage film. But it does a lot of the same things that Blair Witch did, eg leave you with very few answers. And it had its own viral marketing campaign that was incredible and added new layers to its story!
The story behind the Blair witch is a folk tale from Leicester, England, in which there was a woman called black Annis and she would come and take kids at night if they lived close to her cave (which is a 15 minute walk from my house) and would like eat them and until recently it was a ritual site, but they blocked off the cave entrance so now it's not, look up "Black Annis Cave" on Google there's a whole wiki page about her and everything
Skulduggery Pleasant featured a short story about Black Annis.
was loving the fnaf videos but these are awesome too, horror based video essays and analyses make my day so much better
I'm watching it on Netflix and was curious about the film looked it up and it seems I'm no the only one on a blair witch project kick
I watched this movie all the way through for the first time this past October, on Halloween. I was in elementary school when it came out, and I remember all the hype. I always thought I would love it, and it surpassed even my high expectations.
Love when my favorite youtubers get that coin. You deserve it with the amount of work you put into this channel.
last time i was this early she got mad at me ):
Tuff
Even after it's all been shown as fake, I still think Blair witch is one of the scariest found footage movies I've seen, second only to Noroi, the attention to detail in making the actors all seem actually confused really helped it in my opinion
Also Sagan even though you don’t post really fast it’s worth the wait. Also I really love your creepy files and there’s more creepypastas now sooo yeah. love your content
Fun fact: my parents watched this when it came out in theaters and apparently most of the people in the audience got motion sickness and were puking everywhere during the movie :D I don't know if this is 100 percent real or not but it's a fun thing to think about!
Nah dude I think I saw it in a theater and I don't even remember hearing that as a rumor. I think one particularly sensitive person found the handhelf cameras off-putting, and the story grew for two decades. That or maybe an unsanitary popcorn machine in the theater.
Baller video, Mr. Hawkes!
I must say. I found you from that massive fnaf retrospective which was great because I wasn't caught up with all the lore. But I've stayed just because I enjoy your presentation. Your voice. And the content you make and cover. Really great stuff thanks for all your hardwork.
Mr. Sagan, sir
You've convinced me to go out of my way to watch the Blair Witch
Class video as usual
Only 20 comments? Yay! Love your vids btw you do a great job with retrosceprives, keep up the good work!
your content is always so well done!! i love your videos
loving the videos man. keep up the good work!
Good video. Loved Blair witch great to see you cover it.
I think the best part of the movie in my opinion was the that we didn’t know if the plait witch is real or is it girls friends
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Could you do a rechrospective on marble hornets
Pleaseee omg its so good
@@nephyxutune I KNOW RIGHT very under rated
@@slugtwins3688 I wouldnt say its underrated because its one of the most well known args on the internet. But it is good
@@nephyxutune true true i. Can agree with that statement but yeah seeing how well this guy did with his fnaf rechrospective I'd love to see him takkle marble hornets
You mentioned and showed Blair Witch Vol1 Rustin Parr game, so you get a like. I hate the fact that nobody will remember these titles and instead hearing term "Blair Witch game" they will think of that newest, poorly made walking simulator... Although Vol1 (out of 3) was probably the only good one, to be honest.
love the fnaf 4 fun with plushtrap music
So this movie was basically a scavenger hunt in the woods, but filmed.
Not a horror movie, but an example of a really good crappy-found-footage is Chronicle. It takes the elements of the genre and really makes the characters in the story feel real, even if you know it isn't.
Amazing analisis great explication 10/10
Jeez this new videos are so well structured and scripted
Fun Fact: If you watch Blair Witch Project and Grave Encounters at the same time, they follow the exact same outline down to the minute things occur. GE is one of the best haunted house movies I've seen, and it's almost like a fanfic of Blair Witch.
I like the fnaf 4 soundtrack in the background the one when you are playing with plushtrap.
Commenting mainly to help the video circulate better (algorithm), but I was one of those people who found it to be boring. Not bad, just not scary. It's like the Exorcist: a good movie with an interesting plot, just a little dull. Of course, that's probably because I didn't watch it until like a decade later lmao EDIT: Also I really love the "it's the boys screwing with the girl" theory. There's just something even more realistic feeling about it? I dunno.
It's so revolutionary, though. Like I can't imagine what horror would've been like without Blair Witch existing. I mean, we'd probably have a lot less shitty found footage films, but we'd also be missing out on the delightful deceit that BW brought to the original viewers.
“ OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT “ oh i feel so bad for laughing this hard
I wish we still had VCRs. Wouldn't mind watching horror movies on tape.
I was a naive teen on the internet when this came out, and...I think modern retellings of the marketing overstate it. The hype wasn't "this is a scary documentary." The hype was "have you heard about this horror movie that pretends to be real? They even made a website about how their lore is real. The actors aren't even doing interviews!" There was some vagueness around if there might be a real urban legend the witch was based on, but everyone knew the film itself was fiction.
There were reports around the time that people had been taken in, but it seemed to be coming from the Marylin-Manson-is-causing-mass-killings crowd. It had that tone. The Blair Witch crew fooling people into thinking these kids died in the woods, was itself a boogeyman.
Someone was probably fooled--or more likely just unsure what to believe--but in reality that person was probably not in the theater with you.
Plot twist this is actually is found footage and all these people are being controlled by the Blair witch
I think you should do clover field
That yellow jacket, the cheerios racing one, where'd you get it
I read this as Blair white and thought “oh no not the mean girl witch”
you should check out yourlocalbreadman I think you'd like him.
This is a good ass video for a good ass movie
8:05 Molly from Sherlock?
I havent seen the orginal one but the remake isnt all that bad
I miss the 90s
bro cloverfield would be cool
Can you make a video about The Evil Dead (1981)?
Bro every time I hear "blair witch" my brain goes to vietnam mode bro jajajaj
This movie was cool.
Hey whens the next episode of your fnaf fan made show?
Plz do joy of creation
on god sweetie
Maybe instead of purposely killing her, they went a step too far, and she tripped and fell? Idk sounded better in my head
Nice.
Hello there
You should check out my analog horror series
epic
Ok
the hell
this movie fucked me up
As a horror film enthusiast and someone who went into this film genuinely wanted to enjoy this flick, this is perhaps the single most overrated horror film of all time. It's an opinion, but the fact that it is a film thst boils down to literally nothing happening throughout the film aside from some college kids being terrified and screaming at the camera out in the woods, I think it has credence given its impact. Especially considering that it inspired an entire GENRE filled with lackluster copycat films.
Regardless, good video as always Sagan.
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why does this have 2 veiws
Hey can you cover the Sally (play with me) creepypasta?
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Hey, Sagan! Do you want to cover more Battington? Or some more Walten Files? Also, how come you haven't covered Eventide Media Center yet? Because I recommend you check that one out! It is interesting, and it is made by the same creator behind Analog Archives! Check it out!
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Hi "first"
This movie was ass, I was disappointed.
Geez dude nobody cares about little nightmares
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You are lying.
sucks cause I was actually enjoying your channel..