Re:List of Creepypastas
by bentcorner on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:00PM
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While it wasn't a creepypasta, The Blair Witch Project tried really hard to convince movie-goers that it was found footage and wasn't a scripted movie. I think it was certainly a product of its time and a similar effort today wouldn't be nearly as successful.
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Re:List of Creepypastas
by momentoftop on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:26AM
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Here's one crossover: the Blair Witch Project was marketed as an Alternate Reality Game, as were many of the later low budget found-footage horrors. It turns out that the top-of-the-list creepypasta "Slender man", in the form of the "Marble Hornets" youtube series, was mistaken for an ARG by the members of Unfiction.
Not to mention it was a one trick pony. I remember it was great when I saw it with friends in the theater. We rented it later on to see the extra scenes and couldn't get through half of it because of how boring it was.
The worst thing about The Blair Witch Project was its viral marketing campaign.
Because as someone that has first seen it just a couple years ago, it's my #1 favourite horror movie bar none. A true masterpiece of the underrated found footage genre.
Few horror movies can truly get under your skin you without ever showing the "monster", so they rely on cheap jumpscares and CGI.
If you've never seen it and want to be unnerved from start to finish, go watch it.
I don't know. I worked in the projection booth of a movie theater when that came out. I don't think anybody actually believed it was found footage.
But it was still pretty creepy shutting down for the night after it played.
Like the 1980 movie Cannibal Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust