Movies Of 1999: ‘The Blair Witch Project’
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Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is all about The Blair Witch Project, a 1999 film with a $60,000 budget and three unknown actors that made over $240 million.
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| 0:40.0 | All right, so we've been recapping movies of 99. We started with The Matrix, and today we are |
| 0:46.4 | recapping the Blair Witch Project, which none of us had seen before watching it for this recap episode. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, correct. |
| 0:57.0 | Is it weird? |
| 0:58.0 | Well, it's a little bit of a whiplash because last week the Matrix is a movie I've seen |
| 1:01.0 | a bit of a 10,000 times, |
| 1:06.1 | and commentary and making of documentaries. |
| 1:08.1 | So it was like, you know, I could have gotten a doctorate in Matrix Studies, and then it was weird to walk into a movie about |
| 1:14.0 | which I almost knew nothing except that it was very popular in 1999 and a big deal and I |
| 1:19.2 | avoided it because I don't like scary movies. |
| 1:22.1 | So if you are one of those very few people out there |
| 1:24.6 | who for some reason also has actually never seen it, |
| 1:28.2 | the title card of this film kind of says it all there. |
| 1:30.5 | Set up is in 1994, three young filmmakers went into a wooded area in |
| 1:35.8 | search of a legendary witch and a year later their footage was found. |
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