I watched the Blair Witch Project a few weeks back and I studyied the credits and a few things came up to me.

Just the odd thing or 2 which made it seem like one big joke.


I also researched it months ago and found that it was something on a website just created as a joke.

Also - why would these people release a genuine video or some kids getting killed?


I hope I haven't confused too many of you.


- Peter. a.k.a MM

Of course its not real. That was a lowbudget college film. They did the publicity online, built up the support, etc etc. No one died making the movie bud. You can find the script online as well...

I am wondering, however, why you ever thought it was an actual video of an actual event?

I didn't think it was a reality thing.

Maybe when I first read about it I was probably about 15 and gullible enough to believe anything.

But now that I have watched and studyed it I realise how stupid it seems.

I just found a bit annoying after a while, the way they made the girl scream etc etc. It was like that little girl in the new War of the Worlds.

I'll have to have another research about it.

What's there to research? It's just a movie...

it is FAKE!!

So FAKE, and a bad movie at that

Faker then Progress in Iraq.

lol,its fake,but it still scared the sh** out of me

no, nothing is THAT fake.

I know somebody who got quite cauight up in it when it was all kicking off. Amazing jhow many people swore it to be a true story. Think we would get a good belly laugh if we went back at some old threads on the subject.
I had a friends wife who got very caught up in the story, she went as far as contacting the fellow who shot the film and he admited it all a publicity stunt to her.
Funny how so many want to believe stuff like this and will argue the point that it is real.

i was shocked that somebody actually thought this movie was real.bad script,lousy actors and all-around stupid!i'm also surprised it did'nt win 10 oscars,ha!ha!

the movie is fake there is however a history of a blair which from bakc in like salem times

the film is entirely fictional...

The Blair Witch Project

Everyone knows its fake buti remember it was pretty scary when i watched it in high school. Remember, there was even a sequel.

i saw like 30 minutes of the sequal and wanted to hurt myself it was horrible

yep fake....but part 2 was the S*&t!

I thought it was quite a good film... or at least a good idea! I love scaring folks when recounting that bit right at the end with the guy standing in the corner of the room! wooohoohoohoohoohoo... I also do a mean impression of the death rattle made by that Shinigami ghost in the Grudge remake (you know the sound ), not the original because it's more like a little creak, but in the American one it's a full blown death rattle!

RKD

What those college guys did was brillient, the way they marketed it the way the got everyones support the interviewing and all it was brillient.

Had me fooled at the start and then when i watched it i saw the credits and said PRIKS hahaha.

I had been fooled and i felt like a real tosser haha.

Other than that i believe they made alot of money out of it.

Cheers

BZRK

I know I am reviving this thread from 10 months ago, but I just finished watching the movie and wanted to know a few things...
1) If it is fake, does that mean they faked the new reports about the deaths of three college students?
2) Why would they leave such a poor ending if it was a scipted story?
3) For those of you who have seen it, at the very end when Heather is screaming for Mike, she travles down into the basement and sees him standing facing the corner... earlier it showed him getting knocked to the ground, so was he being hung or did he drop his camera and was he just facing the corner for some unknown reason? Or something else?
Finally, anyone who says it was a bad movie, I have to disagree. The acting was very real I thought and had me thinking it was a real event until I was corrected by Wikipedia
Any and all thoughts are appreciated.

I am sure you people have seen this motion picture (haha) so please comment, I need to know... and not from a website like Wikipedia either!

Wow, little bit behind, aren't we? No worries, it was just a movie. I got a good scare out of it back when it was first coming out, but it doesn't stand up to repeated viewings. You just kind of yawn and find something else to do.

I said I knew it was just a movie... I asked what the guy was doing at the end and saying it was not bad acting as I have heard others say.

You don't have to do a lot of acting when you're just running around screaming most of the time. And the dude was standing in the corner because that's what the witch made her victims do before she killed them.

I see... but I have seen plenty of movies where all people have to do is run and fail miserably.

I'm having trouble following your point, now.

I cant believe how many people I worked with couldnt grasp the idea it was all a publicity stunt for a movie.I did enjoy it though it was all a pretty cool idea and nice execution.
the guy standing facing the corner at the end kind of freaked me out,nice touch!!!
wont say much about the sequel it pretty much blew

I used to have to cut through a fairly large portion of forest preserve as a teen to get to a friends house and on the way home in the dark those woods were ABSOLUTELEY terriffiing..... one time there WAS some dude just standing in the middle of the path that I could barely make out until I was almost upon him , he was facing away.. when I approached he never moved and when I stiffly walked past him and got a few dozen yards ahead, I peeked back and he was gone....every time I see or hear something about the Blair Witch I think of that night!.... .....B

Jeez, dude, did you ever go back into those woods? Of course I would have said "hey" or something, but I'm very stupid.

I know that the movie is fake, and had seen the movie when it first came out and I had done research on the internet when the buzz first started and I knew it was fake, but it still got me. There was a blair witch website that had "logs/diaries" as well as video clips; it was wonderfully put together and the website alone was scary... I thought that from a moviemaking aspect it was pretty brilliant in that it was so low budget but they were smart enough to start the viral marketing and make such a buzz that a majority of the success was word of mouth and things that they didn't pay for.

The very last seen where the guy was standing in the corner didn't get me until a couple hours after I saw the movie... I had gone by myself and was updating my wife(she doesn't like scary movies) on the plot and in theem iddle of the sentence I said, "oh my god the guy was standing in the corner of the basement like the kids that were waiting to be killed!!!" and it hit me how that fell into the storyline and made sense...my wife didn't care to hear anymore after that. I didn't even get to the bloody teeth in the wrag...

I knew it was fake, but I still thought it was a good movie and I enjoyed it. I think a lot of people got turned off by the fact that they got burned by thinking it was a real movie and that the news reports were real and such...thinking that the legend of the witch was real... In my opinion it all comes down to whether you can suspend disbelief and get into the movie or not; I did and got a kick out of it. Some people didn't and thought it was silly.

You got balls, man.

I second that.


I liked the movie. I agree with everybody else, a lot of people didn't like the movie because they were hoping it was real. The acting was really good.

OMG Now every time I think of the Blair Witch, I'm going to think of Barek's story

That movie really ticks me off. Why? Simple. Here is what could have been a really cool mystery, and instead it was spoiled by a really bad publicity stunt of a movie. Entirely fake. I am not surprised many people thought it was real, hell some people will believe anything you tell them without even bothering to check out any of it. Still, if it had been a real story, it could have been really interesting. Now it's just junk, and the sequel is just a bad, if not worse. I could have done much better than that.

Good Journey.

Kyle Rajasthan.

I thought the ending was really scary. The guy was in the corner, facing the wall... that creeped me out.

YES on the woods because I'm very stupid, I actually ended up renting a house for a year that sat right on the edge of those woods ...... often makeshift alters and things were discovered along with rumors of rituals going on at night in those very woods......B

The movie was made when reality shows started to gain popularity. It was concieved as if it was a real encounter. Since many people questions whether it was real or not only tells me the creators did a good job to make it feel authentic.

Yes but it wasn't a real story. so If nothing. It was publicity for a movie, no point dwelling on it.

It wasn't a college film. It was a proper film played by proper actors.

But the film was made because there is an actual legend about the Blair Witch.

It's actually based on the real life Bell Witch hauntings in the US which occurred between 1817 and 1821. Here's the story -



The Bell Witch is a ghost story from American southern folklore. The legend of the Bell Witch, also called the Bell Witch Haunting, revolved around a series of strange events experienced by the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee between 1817 and 1821.

These events are said to have been witnessed and documented by hundreds of people, among them future President of the United States Andrew Jackson, and consequently the episode represents one of the most famous and documented instances of paranormal events in history.

The Bell Witch was believed to be Kate Batts, an eccentric neighbor of Bell's, who had sued him for cheating her in a land deal. The stories of land sale conflict involving John Bell do have documentation, although in neither case is there any connection to Kate Batts.

Other paranormal theories are that the "witch" was actually a poltergeist, or that the Bell home had been built on a Native American burial ground. According to the legend, the first manifestation of the haunting occurred in 1817, when John Bell encountered a strange animal in a cornfield on his property. The animal, described as having had the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, vanished when it was shot at.

The events of the Haunting were used as the basis for the 2006 film An American Haunting and may have influenced production of The Blair Witch Project.

This incident was quickly followed by a series of strange beating and gnawing noises manifesting around, and eventually inside, the Bell residence. After this the Bell children said that their bedclothes were being regularly pulled off and tossed onto the floor by an invisible force.

The family then reported a voice choking and making low, guttural noises. Betsy Bell, the family's younger daughter and the only daughter still living at home, was soon after violently assaulted, her hair pulled and her face slapped by an invisible force.


An artist's drawing of Betsy Bell, originally published in 1894


These events continued for over a year before John Bell reported them to his neighbours, James Johnston and his wife, who later said they witnessed them. At this point the strange events experienced by the Bell family became well known in the Red River community, especially reports of a voice conversing loudly and clearly, singing, quoting from the Bible and accurately describing events taking place miles away.

Another major development in the story is the involvement of future U.S. President Andrew Jackson, who heard of the disturbances and decided to observe them in person, in 1819.

On approaching the Bell property, Jackson’s entourage encountered an invisible presence that stopped his wagon in its tracks, until he acknowledged that the witch was responsible, upon which the wagon was able to proceed unhindered.

One of the men in Jackson’s entourage declared himself to be a witch tamer who intended to kill the spirit. The man began screaming and contorting his body immediately after making these statements. Jackson and his entourage left the Bell property by midday the following day. He is quoted as later saying "I’d rather fight the entire British Army than to deal with the Bell Witch."

Betsy Bell’s engagement to a neighbour named Joshua Gardner was another focus of the invisible entity’s displeasure, and followed and taunted them whenever they were alone together, leading Betsy to break off the relationship on Easter Monday in 1821.

The disembodied voice continued to communicate its dislike of John Bell, and its intention to kill him. Bell was by then suffering frequent facial seizures, often rendering him speechless. The Bell family blamed John's affliction on the witch, but modern analysis of his symptoms indicates that he may have suffered from Bell's Palsy,[1][2] a paralysis of the facial muscles. The name "Bell's Palsy" comes from Charles Bell, the anatomist that discovered the condition. Charles Bell is no relation to the Bells of Adams, TN. The name is a coincidence, and Bell's Palsy was not identified until 1821, the year after John Bell's death.


An artist's drawing of John Bell's death, originally published in 1894

John Bell died on December 20, 1820. A small vial containing an unidentified liquid he had apparently ingested was found near the body. When the remaining contents were fed to the family cat, the animal died immediately – at the family said later they heard a voice say "I gave Ol' John a big dose of that last night, and that fixed him." Later, at Bell’s burial, funeral guests reported hearing a voice laughing and singing.

Bell’s death signaled the end of the series of events, but Lucy Bell later said a voice told her that it would return in 1828. During a three-week visit that year, John Bell Jr. reported that a voice communicated with him, predicting such events as the American Civil War, the Great Depression and both World Wars.

According to legend, after the entity last appeared in 1828, it said it would return 107 years hence, in 1935.

Fitzhugh's relation of the Bell Witch legend concludes with a statement to the effect that many people believe that the spirit returned in 1935, took up residence on the former Bell property, and remains there to the present day. He notes that “the faint sounds of people talking and children playing can sometimes be heard in the area,� and asserts that it is “very difficult to take a good picture there.�



Published accounts
The earliest written account is in the Godspeed History of Tennessee published in 1887 by Goodspeed Publishing. No author is given. Page 833 reads:

“ A remarkable occurrence, which attracted widespread interest, was connected with the family of Garry Bell, who settled near what is now Adams Station about 1804. So great was the excitement that people came from hundreds of miles around to witness the manifestations of what was popularly known as the ‘Bell Witch.’ This witch was supposed to be some spiritual being having the voice and attributes of a woman. It was invisible to the eye, yet it would hold conversation and even shake hands with certain individuals. The feats it performed were wonderful and seemingly designed to annoy the family. It would take the sugar from the bowls, spill the milk, take the quilts from the beds, slap and pinch the children, and then laugh at the discomfiture of its victims. At first it was supposed to be a good spirit, but its subsequent acts, together with the curses with which it supplemented its remarks, proved the contrary. A volume might be written concerning the performance of this wonderful being, as they are now described by contemporaries and their descendants. That all this actually occurred will not be disputed, nor will a rational explanation be attempted. It is merely introduced as an example of superstition, weak in the minds of all but a few in those times, and yet not wholly extinct. â€�

The most famous account is recorded in the Red Book, the 1894 An Authenticated History of the Bell Witch of Tennessee by Martin Van Buren Ingram, which cites the earlier Richard William Bell's Diary: Our Family Trouble. Richard Williams Bell lists the following people as witnesses:

General Andrew Jackson
Joel Thomas Bell, son of John Bell, Jr.
Rev. Joshua Featheton
Dr. J.T. Mathews
Mr. E. Newton
R.H. Pickering
J. Gun
D. T. Porter
J.I Holman
Wm Wall
W.H. Gardner

wikipedia.org

The guy standing in the corner in the end did scare me, then when Heather got attacked you saw a face for a split second... ooh scary, lol
But you can tell its a fake because the actress starred in the Steven Speilberg sci-fi series, Taken, rather good i might add, several years later.

Guys, the urban legend the movie is supposed to be based on isn't even real. The filmmakers made everything up, including the legend.

The legend about the Bell Witch, as quoted above, wasn't made up by the filmmakers, that bit's 'real'.

The "legend" has been written about before, but people who say that hollywood filmakers diddn't or wouldn't embellish on a story need look no further than the movie "The Exorcist".....did SOMETHING happen? Yes. Did what happened in the movie happen in real life....No.

How can anyone expect to give a recounting of a ghost story that occured back in the 1800's and be SURE of 100% accuracy? Embellishments happen...and most likely have in the case of "The Bell Witch" as well...did SOMETHING happen? Most likely, but it's also likely that so aspects have been blown out of proportion, IMO...or were just inserted to make the story more interesting.

I was still in Europe when I watch the movie for the first time. I live in a rural area called Heiloo (means Sacred Woods) and it has indeed a vast woods which I crossed every morning to get to school. and just as Barek, I too have a strange event occured. In a very cold winter morning, about 6 am, I rode my bike to school, it was still so dark and the snow is falling. When I cross the woods, there was someone walks with a long winter coat and a hat in front of me and I can't see who it is ( it's a small village and everybody knows one another). When I got pass the man, I turned to saw the face and all I can see was a dark shadow of his hat fall over his face covering his face and it also reveals some part of his face. It has a huge scar on his left chin... I quickly dash my bike and tell some of my classmate and they say that he's actually a man that lives on the edge of the woods.

See, how such a lowbudgeted movie can create such fright especially if you prepare it well?
I agree it's a very scary movie. But I already know if it's a fake, because it was reviewed on a local Dutch TV...

And oh, I met the same man again, but this time it was on spring when I walk my hatred dogs! And he was feeding the birds and we talked a little bit, he was a very kind man!!

I thought it was real when I was little, at least the story. Thought they took a real story and adapted it to movie D:

I don't understand why Blackwhite is saying that it's based on The Bell Witch. The movie "An American Haunting" is based on the Bell Witch. Whom is actually a guy. The Blair Witch is a woman. The stories are way to far apart from each other to consider any similarity.

Lol this bit reminds me of another movie... Home Alone!