456 THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT Part 2

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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On this episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha continue their trip back to 1999 to reexamine and explore The Blair Witch Project, one of the most successful independent films of all time. A "found footage" pseudo-documentary and psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. The film stars Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard as three students who hike into the Appalachian Mountains near Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch and get so much more then they bargained for. Steve and John go thru the movie scene by scene and break down the direction, acting, storylines, cinematography, score, action sequences and more.

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0:00.0	I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom.
0:12.0	And my mom.
0:16.0	And I'm sorry to everyone.
0:30.2	Hello and welcome back to our Halloween exploration of the Blair Witch Project.
0:31.1	My name is Steve Morris.
0:33.9	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:34.8	Hello, everyone.
0:35.6	My name is John Roke.
0:39.0	I'm a writer, producer, host, and voiceover artist here in San Diego, California.
0:43.3	And if you thought Halloween was over, it ain't over, baby, until we say it's over.
0:48.5	Part two of the Blair Witch Project, which we did not anticipate would be a two-partners, Steve.
0:49.1	But here we are.
0:52.7	What's interesting is, is I've come back to the movie because every time before we talk,
0:56.6	I review my notes. And in this case, I'm reviewing my notes and then rewatching.
1:27.6	I rewatch the second half of the movie again with my notes because I want to get it really clear in my head. And I'm telling you every time I have looked at this movie again, I'm more impressed with it. But still upset at the filmmakers. So it must be an interesting conversation that you're having with yourself as you're watching the film because you're, you're appreciating the film more, but then you're not, you know, you're not 100% happy with how some of the stuff went down that the filmmakers' tactics they used in order to achieve the things that they achieved in this film. Well, it's funny you bring that up, John, because this is something, it's actually something I was going to address.
1:31.3	I was going to address it later on, but I want to address it right here because I fell into what I believe is one of the classic blunders, which is I expressed an extremely strong
1:37.0	statement right at the beginning of our last episode without actually setting it up by saying
1:42.3	what my reasoning is.
1:43.5	And so I actually, and maybe we'll revisit this a couple of times on the way.
1:48.7	Sure.
1:49.0	The first thing that's really important that I should have said that I didn't,
1:52.9	it's not that I think these guys are evil or had any bad intentions.
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