The Blair Witch Project (1999)

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Wikidata Q644554, film, IMDb tt0185937, TMDB 2667: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (marketing precedent): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ The Blair Witch Project (the host's read). The 'based on true events' opening was smart and was ripped off by Blair Witch in 1999, pre-internet.
    “We didn't know any better in 1999.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:17:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Obsession: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (forerunner): The Blair Witch Project ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Blair Witch is named a forbear of a word-of-mouth phenomenon among young people.
    “obviously the Blair Witch Project is a forbear here in a lot of ways.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:08:44 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40 sure it was them)

Connected to

Obsession: 2 lines industry ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. industry (industry): Obsession → The Blair Witch Project. Like Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity, the question for Obsession is whether it is repeatable rather than just sequelizable.
    “in the case of those movies, it's sequelizable without being repeatable.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:42:23 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 2 lines industry ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (feeling): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → The Blair Witch Project. Craig says watching Chainsaw on VHS left him asking 'was that real?' the same way Blair Witch did.
    “The same way I felt with Blair Witch, where I was like, was that real?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:03:42 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi → The Blair Witch Project. Jabba's snot-and-spit commitment to every take is compared to Heather Donahue in Blair Witch.
    “we just have to have some, like, Heather Donahue in Blair Witch Project.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:23:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Insider: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Insider → The Blair Witch Project. Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things.
    “I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi → The Blair Witch Project. Jabba's snot-and-spit commitment to every take is compared to Heather Donahue in Blair Witch.
    “we just have to have some, like, Heather Donahue in Blair Witch Project.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:23:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (marketing precedent): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → The Blair Witch Project. The 'based on true events' opening was smart and was ripped off by Blair Witch in 1999, pre-internet.
    “We didn't know any better in 1999.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:17:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Obsession → The Blair Witch Project. Like Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity, the question for Obsession is whether it is repeatable rather than just sequelizable.
    “in the case of those movies, it's sequelizable without being repeatable.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:42:23 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): The Insider → The Blair Witch Project. Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things.
    “I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (feeling): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → The Blair Witch Project. Craig says watching Chainsaw on VHS left him asking 'was that real?' the same way Blair Witch did.
    “The same way I felt with Blair Witch, where I was like, was that real?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:03:42 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (forerunner): Obsession → The Blair Witch Project. Blair Witch is named a forbear of a word-of-mouth phenomenon among young people.
    “obviously the Blair Witch Project is a forbear here in a lot of ways.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:08:44 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40 sure it was them)

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