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The Blair Witch Project
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The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. Notably shot entirely in the style of a documentary gone horribly wrong, the film has become one of the most successful independent releases of all time, and is also commonly credited as the Trope Codifier/Genre Popularizer of found footage horror, a subgenre that grew so prevalent in the decades following that it was driven into the ground over time.It revolves around three college students in 1994 — Heather, Mike, and Josh — who decide to make a documentary about the fabled "Blair Witch", which is said to haunt the forest near the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland. After interviewing the locals about several creepy and macabre incidents in the area, the trio eventually decide to journey into the forest where the legend is supposed to have started. Things ultimately take a turn for the worse.Apart from its revolutionary format, the film is also notable for having likely one of the most effective Viral Marketing campaigns ever, and certainly one of the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of Internet advertising. Fake online documents, footage, published dossiers, interviews, and even a couple of professional-looking television documentaries blurred the line between truth and fiction like few other campaigns had done before or have since. Many were convinced that the movie was based on a true story, or even consisted of actual footage. Even more were convinced that the "Blair Witch" was a real legend, as opposed to something the filmmakers made up themselves. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: When the group gets lost, Heather says that in the future they will look back at this moment as a funny misadventure. Their situation immediately gets worse that night after knocking over a rock cairn. | |
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All There in the Manual: The tie-in materials flesh out the Blair Witch legend and the back story, which makes the movie ten times creepier once you realize what a lot of things mean. Among the highlights relevant to the film: The three odd piles of stones they find around their tent one morning early on in their trip? Rustin Parr kidnapped kids to his house in the woods, murdered them, and buried them in the basement before making their graves with piles of stones. Heather was keeping a journal (visible in-film briefly at the start) that chronicles her declining mental state. Among its revelations is that she cut down one of the stick figures to take with her (which was actually a deleted scene), likely triggering further wrath from the Witch. Search parties were indeed out and searching for the trio within the timeframe they were still filming. One organizer of the parties swore they covered the same territory as the kids and should've found them.... The house at the end is identified as corresponding to that of Rustin Parr's. The catch? The house was burned down by the vengeful townspeople shortly after Rustin was arrested in 1941... Similarly, the recovered footage was found by an archaeological team buried in the foundations of a Civil War-era house, which was noted to be so naturally undistributed that the lead professor was unable to explain how they got there, unless they were actually buried within the foundation when it was built over a century ago... | |
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Kayfabe | |
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Kayfabe: The Viral Marketing campaign presented the film itself as genuine Found Footage of the events that was crafted into a movie in order to warn the public of what happened. The obscurity of the crew and the actors meant that many took it at face value, and it was several months after release that the actors were seen in public to discuss the film as a work of fiction. | |
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Say My Name: "JOOOOOOOOSH!" | |
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Fridge Horror | |
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If you look closely as Heather turns away from the open bag fashioned out of Josh's shirt, containing his teeth, hair and blood while breathing hysterically, she pauses for three-odd seconds looking at a stick carefully placed behind her horizontally upon two small plants. Not a METER away. Definitely not there when she walked behind the tent. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Arguably one of the reasons why they get lost in the woods in the first place. | |
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Horror Struck | |
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Horror Struck: Although the characters are this before they actually see whatever form the witch takes due to getting lost, they cross over into this in a huge way once they find the house. | |
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A House Divided | |
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A House Divided: Josh and Heather don't get on particularly well when it starts, and they aren't friends with Mike. Once they get lost, it gets so much worse. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Josh is the only one of the three main characters that doesn't actively do anything to worsen their predicament. Then again, were it not for one simple mistake he made, it's possible none of what they went through may have happened. See Unwitting Instigator of Doom below. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Though friendly and reasonable, Heather is also a very overconfident and egotistical person in the beginning. As soon as she begins losing control and getting scared she is on her way to a Despair Event Horizon. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Despite never even seeing the Blair Witch herself, or whatever the antagonist was, the way the film ends makes it obvious that she had won. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Unseen Evil: It is hinted that the Blair Witch is responsible for the strange events in Burkittsville's history, and none of the group's cameras ever catch her. | |
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Don't Go in the Woods | |
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Don't Go in the Woods: Just to make it worse, once you go into the woods, you can't leave. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Due mainly to the improvised script. It's not Casino levels of bad, but you can tell it's the favorite word of the movie. | |
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Eerily Out-of-Place Object | |
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Eerily Out-of-Place Object: The house where the end of the movie takes place is smack in the middle of the woods. If anything, this makes it even creepier than the forest itself. If you look closely as Heather turns away from the open bag fashioned out of Josh's shirt, containing his teeth, hair and blood while breathing hysterically, she pauses for three-odd seconds looking at a stick carefully placed behind her horizontally upon two small plants. Not a METER away. Definitely not there when she walked behind the tent. | |
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Breaking Speech: Josh delivers a savage one to Heather when it becomes clear how hopeless their situation is. | |
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Found Footage Films | |
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Found Footage Films: The Trope Codifier for the genre, especially as far as horror is concerned, with it being the most popular movie to use this format before Paranormal Activity. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Everyone dies. This is, in fact, the premise of the movie. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: "Mike? There's something out here." | |
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Social Media Before Reason | |
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Social Media Before Reason: Of the "why don't they just drop the camera and run?" variety, and notably given a surprisingly nuanced justification. Heather keeps filming because the camera's screen distracts her from the fact that she's lost in the woods, and she would hit her Despair Event Horizon if she had to actually confront her predicament. It's hinted (and stated outright in the deleted scenes) that once the reality of the situation hits Heather, she keeps filming because she doesn't believe they'll make it out alive, and she wants to leave some kind of record behind. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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When creating The Blair Witch Project, the directors wanted the found footage to have an amateur aesthetic for realism since the film's protagonists were supposed to be student filmmakers with cheap recording equipment, hence the film's minuscule budget, real location, and rambling, unscripted nature. This movie later spawned plenty of imitators, especially in the late 2000s (Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, The Last Exorcism, and Unaware). However, those films all had pretty high budgets, slick editing, and plenty of scary CG monster/alien/whatever effects and also utilized professional film lighting and sound design, so The Blair Witch Project comes across as a grounded deconstruction of the very films it influenced. | |
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Daylight Horror | |
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Daylight Horror: While most of the more overt scares take place at night, the daytime has plenty of tension to go around. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: Downplayed. The beginning of the film notes that Mike, Heather, and Josh are currently missing, and the ending of the film implies that something or someone managed to incapacitate the trio although it isn't clear what exactly happened. | |
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Trope Codifier | |
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Trope Codifier: The film is this for Found Footage Films, even if wasn’t the first of its kind note That honor goes to Cannibal Holocaust. However, as noted in Unbuilt Trope, it does things quite differently from its successors in the genre. | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
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Alternate Continuity: The consistency of the various expanded universe. and tie-in material, is that the events of this movie or its lore has taken place. That all being said, there doesn't appear to be any continuity tied between these materials. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Josh. Everything bad happens after he accidentally knocks over a pile of rocks while filming at night. For the rest of the film, he in particular is targeted by what's after them. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The main characters remain trapped in the woods, and given the last shot of the movie they won't live long enough to regret their decisions. | |
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Genius Loci | |
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Genius Loci: One theory is that there's no witch and that the forest itself may be sentient, and responsible for all those people's disappearances. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: During the final sequence, Heather is heavily implied to have seen the antagonist, but drops her camera before she can get a shot of it. We never find out the meaning behind... well, much of anything, really. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: Heather calls this on herself in the apology scene for getting Josh and Mike into their predicament. | |
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Jitter Cam | |
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Jitter Cam: Helped popularize it alongside Saving Private Ryan, yet used it to such extremes that frequent cases of motion sickness were seen with viewers of the movie. | |
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Troubled Fetal Position | |
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Troubled Fetal Position: After Josh goes missing and they can't seem to find him, Mike has begins to break down and cradles up in a fetal position, rocking himself. Heather goes to comfort him. | |
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Chewing the Scenery | |
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Chewing the Scenery: Heather Donahue's apology scene. She acted so hard that you could practically see the bite marks in the camera. She sobs, screams, and shakes so realistically that her acting convinced some people it was a true life account. Her scuffles with the other two were also unscripted, as was the entire infamous apology scene. | |
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Covered in Gunge | |
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Covered in Gunge: Their equipment gets mysteriously slimed near the end of the movie. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: The terror starts off fairly mundane, ghost stories from the townsfolk and creepy burial mounds. Then the three students start hearing noises in the distance at night. From there, they encounter things like similar mounds of rocks outside their tent in the morning and human effigies made from sticks decorating the trees. They realize they're lost and start breaking down. Then they realize there seems to be no way out, no matter what they do. And whatever is in the woods starts coming after them. | |
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Expanded Universe | |
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Expanded Universe: Tie-in short films, books, comics, even computer games... and a soundtrack. The album is billed as being a copy of the mixed tape the police found in the tape deck in Josh's car, consisting of goth music, industrial, and post punk. The fact that they were able to sell a soundtrack for a movie that has no music shows the marketing power of this flick. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: We spend a lot of time with Heather, Josh and Mike and getting to know their personalities, despite the fact that the premise of the film is that they all vanished in the woods and are presumed dead. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: Although it does fulfill more or less everything we heard previously about the witch, the final scene reveals a house that was supposed to burn down over fifty years ago. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Heather maintains her cheerful documentarian attitude at first, but the others conclude this is her coping with an incredibly stressful situation. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Mike, when he tells Heather and Josh that throwing the map away was no great loss because it had been doing nothing for them. It didn't matter whether or not Heather was reading it correctly — the moment the curse took hold, they were never going to find their way out. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: The witch could be this. | |
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Ghost Story | |
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Ghost Story: The whole movie (especially the ending) is like a scary campfire story put to film. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Creepy Doll: The group encounters mysterious stick-dolls hanging from trees. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: Aside from the interviews with the locals at the beginning, the only characters to be shown on-screen for the vast majority of the film are Heather, Mike, and Josh. | |
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Bloody Handprint | |
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Bloody Handprint: They could be ink or paint, but it's hard to tell. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: The witch. | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It is heavily implied that the three are being haunted because Josh accidentally knocked over one of the seven cairns they find in the woodland cemetery. Things only started getting spooky later that night and nothing happened when they camped the night before that. This never occurs to the trio, of course, since they are preoccupied with their current situation. In a greater sense, Heather. Were it not for her project and her eagerness to take things further well after the situation had escalated beyond her control, as well as going into the woods with no real plan or preparation in mind if something went wrong, she and the others would not have ended up as the Blair Witch's latest victims. Even she owns up to her own naiveté near the end. | |
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Eldritch Location | |
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When the three return to the log over the river that they already crossed hours earlier due to walking in circles, this could be due to a supernatural tampering with their compass and a shifting landscape, or it could be a simple failure in navigation skills among people under stress. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: "We'll all look back on this and laugh heartily." At one point, Heather says: "If I die without ever walking across another stream on a log again, I'll die a happy girl". That is the last log-over-stream she crosses in her life. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "FUCK! YOU! LOG!" A little easy to miss, but an underappreciated gem. The line, according to the feature-length commentary on the DVD, is actually "FUCK! YOU! GOD!" | |
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Improv | |
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Improv: The actors were given no more than a 35-page outline of the mythology behind the plot before shooting began. When filming began, they were for the most part only given deliberatly vague instructions on what to; such as trying to track down the other actors that had been planted amongst the Burkittsville citizens. All lines were improvised and nearly all the events in the film were unknown to the three actors beforehand, and were often on-camera surprises to them all. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Happens a few times, the biggest example being the transition from a shot of Mike eating a dry leaf and Heather laughing at him to Heather's famous apology scene. Or cutting from Mike and Josh sarcastically singing the national anthem together to the three coming across the log in the stream that they had already crossed hours before. Heather complaining about her shoes being wet while she and the others are all lost in the woods gets them all to have an awkward but relieving laugh. They immediately stop laughing when Mike confesses he kicked the map into the river. | |
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Parallel Porn Titles | |
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Parallel Porn Titles: The Bare Wench Project and The Erotic Witch Project among others, both of which had more sequels than the film they're spoofing. | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
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It's hinted (and stated outright in the deleted scenes) that once the reality of the situation hits Heather, she keeps filming because she doesn't believe they'll make it out alive, and she wants to leave some kind of record behind. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: The group essentially wanted to dabble in the Blair Witch legend themselves, and wanted to find research regarding the eponymous Eldritch Abomination. Too bad the Blair Witch herself wishes to give them the cold, hard facts that they've been looking for, firsthand. The tie-in material The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier includes excerpts from Heather's journal, revealing that she secretly strongly identified with Elly Kedward, the historical figure who inspired the legend, and had been deliberately trying to invoke her and summon her for the film. Worked a bit too well. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Mike kicks the map into the river out of sheer frustration when they get lost. Not that it matters, since the witch can manipulate the woods to prevent them from leaving. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Who was hunting them? Was it really a witch? What was that ending all about? We'll never know. (Unless we take a look at the extended universe.) | |
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Fatal Forced March | |
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Fatal Forced March: Over time, the journey gradually morphs into this as the three students lose their map, their route, and all hope of escaping the area alive; in the end, they've no choice but to keep walking. | |
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Tuneless Song of Madness | |
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Tuneless Song of Madness: Heather's insistence that it's impossible to stay lost in America prompts Mike start sarcastically singing "The Star-Spangled Banner," growing steadily louder and angrier as time goes on. For good measure, the next scene features him and Josh still warbling the song. | |
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20 Minutes into the Past | |
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20 Minutes into the Past: The film's plot is set in 1994, five years before its release. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The filmmakers discuss Gilligan's Island, and when Heather and Josh refer to the Skipper as the captain, Mike irritably but humorously corrects them. After hearing strange sounds during the second night, Josh compares their current situation to Deliverance. When deciding whether or not to go west, Mike references the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West, before deciding to go east. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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The titular witch is never seen; instead, her presence is hinted through the wooden dolls and the rock cairns found by the protagonists. Because the camera never catches the witch's presence, it is ambiguous whether or not a supernatural being was truly haunting the group. This creative decision by the directors was partially due to The Blair Witch Project's aforementioned low funding; on the other hand, later found-footage films would have enough money for special effects to put their monsters on screen (though many believe that this makes the Witch a lot scarier than any of her successors, specifically because we never see her). Similarly, the Curse of the Blair Witch mockumentary, which was released as an ad for the movie, deals with the "found" in found footage. After the anthropology team discover the students' videotapes, there is some debate over what exactly happened. A few notable individuals, such as the Burkittsville sheriff and the folklore professor, believe the found footage to be a hoax as there is seemingly no evidence of an assailant on the tapes other than some "scary noises". | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: The entire movie is made of this trope. We can only see what the camera sees, so in places where the characters freak out like when running from the shaking tent to whatever gets Heather in the finale, we are only left to imagine. | |
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Alternate Reality Game | |
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The marketing for The Blair Witch Project is an early example of an Alternate Reality Game, but in retrospect, it plays out differently from later ARGs. While modern ARGs use kayfabe to make the experience more immersive for the players, they usually have cues or disclaimers that they are just works of fiction.For example The Beast ARG blurred the lines between reality and fiction by having its players scouring for clues both in the real world and online, but the ARG itself is upfront about the fact that it is just a promotional campaign for the upcoming movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. In contrast, the promotional material for The Blair Witch Project sold the movie as genuine found footage, even going as far as to listing the Blair Witch actors as dead/missing on their IMDb pages and instructing said actors to go radio silent to further deceive the public. In fact, the movie's creators admitted in an interview that they were pulling a hoax by not giving away the movie's fictionality. | |
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Regularly Scheduled Evil | |
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Regularly Scheduled Evil: Though not operating on as tight a schedule as some other supernatural woods creatures, the Blair Witch likes to pull some freaky shit every fifty or sixty years or so. | |
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Wandering Walk of Madness | |
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Wandering Walk of Madness: Combined with Fatal Forced March; after getting lost, losing their map, being stalked by an unseen threat and finding themselves Going in Circles, the three filmmakers quickly lose all hope of ever escaping the woods. However, despite pretty much hitting the Despair Event Horizon and later losing Josh as well, they continue walking and filming - not because they still plan on getting out alive, but because there's absolutely nothing else to do. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
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Inelegant Blubbering: Heather's tearful confession to the camera is a totally broken sob-fest. | |
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Wicked Witch | |
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Wicked Witch: The titular witch has killed children, been responsible for the disappearance of many different people through history, and tortures, torments, and kills the protagonists. | |
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Going in Circles | |
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Going in Circles: It's the SAME LOG! | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen: The witch. Though there's been action figures, described by Cracked as looking "like Treebeard got it on with Swamp Thing". | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: When creating The Blair Witch Project, the directors wanted the found footage to have an amateur aesthetic for realism since the film's protagonists were supposed to be student filmmakers with cheap recording equipment, hence the film's minuscule budget, real location, and rambling, unscripted nature. This movie later spawned plenty of imitators, especially in the late 2000s (Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, The Last Exorcism, and Unaware). However, those films all had pretty high budgets, slick editing, and plenty of scary CG monster/alien/whatever effects and also utilized professional film lighting and sound design, so The Blair Witch Project comes across as a grounded deconstruction of the very films it influenced. The titular witch is never seen; instead, her presence is hinted through the wooden dolls and the rock cairns found by the protagonists. Because the camera never catches the witch's presence, it is ambiguous whether or not a supernatural being was truly haunting the group. This creative decision by the directors was partially due to The Blair Witch Project's aforementioned low funding; on the other hand, later found-footage films would have enough money for special effects to put their monsters on screen (though many believe that this makes the Witch a lot scarier than any of her successors, specifically because we never see her). Similarly, the Curse of the Blair Witch mockumentary, which was released as an ad for the movie, deals with the "found" in found footage. After the anthropology team discover the students' videotapes, there is some debate over what exactly happened. A few notable individuals, such as the Burkittsville sheriff and the folklore professor, believe the found footage to be a hoax as there is seemingly no evidence of an assailant on the tapes other than some "scary noises". Heather's insistence upon filming everything even when logic suggests she put the camera down for once, a staple of found-footage horror movies, is suggested by Josh to be her way of coping with the fact that she's lost in the woods — the screen on the camcorder all makes it feel less real. This also causes a rift between her and the rest of the group, with Mike and Josh telling her several times to turn the camera off and even attacking her over it. The marketing for The Blair Witch Project is an early example of an Alternate Reality Game, but in retrospect, it plays out differently from later ARGs. While modern ARGs use kayfabe to make the experience more immersive for the players, they usually have cues or disclaimers that they are just works of fiction.For example The Beast ARG blurred the lines between reality and fiction by having its players scouring for clues both in the real world and online, but the ARG itself is upfront about the fact that it is just a promotional campaign for the upcoming movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. In contrast, the promotional material for The Blair Witch Project sold the movie as genuine found footage, even going as far as to listing the Blair Witch actors as dead/missing on their IMDb pages and instructing said actors to go radio silent to further deceive the public. In fact, the movie's creators admitted in an interview that they were pulling a hoax by not giving away the movie's fictionality. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: The crew hear some little kids giggling out in the woods late at night. | |
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Dizzy Cam | |
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Dizzy Cam: The Trope Codifier, since the cameras are often handled by panicking users. | |
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Unnaturally Looping Location | |
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Unnaturally Looping Location: When you walk by the compass and still end up at the same place... | |
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Nostril Shot | |
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Nostril Shot: The apology scene is arguably the definitive example of this trope, as far as being a source of direct homage and parody. In the scene, Heather aims the camera at her face and only ends up filming the top half of her head, with her eyes and nostrils being especially prominent. Funnily enough, in spite of how famous and iconic that image wound up being, the DVD commentary reveals her actress thought she was filming her entire face. | |
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