I don’t think I breathed again for the entirety of its hour and a half runtime, but in the best way.
#Blair witch project real footage movie#
Since I’m a sucker for a great movie watching experience, I turned off all the lights in my room, took a deep breath, and began what would be the first of many viewings of Blair Witch. I’d heard the basics of The Blair Witch Project from one of my older brothers, because he was a big horror buff, so I went with that one. Finally, I decided to bite the bullet and rent a scary movie, despite my brain telling me we wouldn’t sleep for weeks. Having never previously been a fan of horror movies, or even anything remotely scary, I very slowly began to work up the courage to rent something from the dreaded horror section of that Blockbuster. I have so many distinct memories of roaming those aisles, just browsing and taking way too much time to pick something out. I probably would have been around seventeen at the time, and so I began what would become a weekly cycle of making that drive to Blockbuster, renting a couple movies, and rinse, wash, repeat, etc etc. Monroe wasn’t exactly known for its variety of things to do, although there was a Wal-Mart and a Blockbuster about a twenty minute drive from our house. Ten years ago, to be exact, when I was living in the middle of nowhere in Georgia, out in the boonies (shout out to the city of Monroe, pronounced MUN-roe). Let me take you back in time for a second. It’s so difficult to imagine something that insane happening in 2019. Despite missing that aspect of the film, I’ve always loved reading all about the guerilla marketing behind the film and the fact that yes, many people did think they were actually watching a documentary involving real death. In 1999, I would’ve only been eight years old, and still many years away from actually enjoying scary things. There are very few instances in my life that I wished I was older than I actually was, but I really do wish I could have experienced the cultural chaos of Blair Witch at a proper age. This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the seminal found footage movie, and it just felt right to revisit my experience with the film that essentially created its own subgenre and spawned countless copycats, both good and bad. Since that fateful night, the film has remained one of my absolute favorite horror movie experiences. That movie, of course, is The Blair Witch Project, the famous horror movie that I first watched about ten years ago during my senior year of high school. Regardless of all of that, however, is the fact that every single time I go camping, certain scenes from a certain movie dominate my brain. Thankfully, I almost always have a pleasant time, even though I’m ready for my own bed by the end of it. I’ve learned that I love my comforts, and that includes things like air conditioning and beds, so camping is generally reserved for special occasions (birthdays, bachelor parties, etc). Camping is an activity that I do once every few years.
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