Movies Of 1999: ‘The Blair Witch Project’

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🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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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.

Listen as Peter, Tricia and Greta break it down, and then join us next week for Election ... just in time for the election.

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0:00.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdat Recaps.
0:07.9	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:08.9	I'm Trisha Bobita, and joining us, as always, is Peter Sagle.
0:12.2	I just want to apologize to Trish's mom and Greta's mom, and my mom.
0:19.4	But I also want to say, Greta's mom, thank you for the cookies.
0:22.5	They were great.
0:25.4	All right.
0:26.3	So we've been recapping movies of 99.
0:28.7	We started with The Matrix.
0:30.0	And today we are recapping the Blair Witch Project,
0:33.8	which none of us had seen before watching it for this recap episode.
0:39.3	Isn't that weird? Yeah, correct. Is it weird? Well, it's a little bit of a whiplash because
0:44.4	last week, The Matrix is a movie I've seen. I don't even think about 10,000 times, including
0:49.3	like the DVD extra scenes and commentary and making of documentary. So it was like, you know,
0:54.0	I could, I could I could have
0:54.9	gotten a doctorate in Matrix Studies. And then it was weird to walk into a movie about which I
0:59.4	almost knew nothing except that it was very popular in 1999 and a big deal. And I avoided it because
1:05.0	I don't like scary movies. So if you are one of those very few people out there who for some reason
1:10.6	also has actually never seen it,
1:12.9	the title card of this film kind of says it all their setup is in 1994, three young filmmakers went into a wooded area in search of a legendary witch.
1:22.7	And a year later, their footage was found.
1:27.3	Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Dun, dun, dun, dun.
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