I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times. And I'm Paul Shear, an actor, writer, and director. You might know me from The League, Veep, or my non-eligible for Academy Award role in Twisters. We come together to host Unspool, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits. Fan favorites, must-season, and case you miss them. We're talking Parasite the Home Alone. From Greece to the Dark Night.

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Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to what went wrong, special spooky months,

your favorite podcast, full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it is

nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a seminal classic of the found footage genre that punches well above its weight and held up remarkably well upon rewatch.

As always, I am Chris Winterbauer, joined by my diligent, tireless, fearless co-host who has not let me get lost in the woods yet. Thank you for that,

Lizzie. Lizzie Bassett. Thank you. You're welcome, first of all. We have gone camping together before.

Fun fact, Chris actually left that camping trip early. I did. David and I stayed behind,

and David and I did get lost.

Yes, you did. And I'll be honest, it was one of the scariest nights of my entire life. It is

horrifying to be lost in the woods at night. That is the closest this podcast has ever come to

not happening because... Yes, big old fight. Either one of you wasn't going to make it out, both of you weren't going to make it out, or the relationship wasn't going to make it out. Like, those were all on the table. But it was very scary. All the stronger for it. Yes. Well, and part of the reason I bring that up is because I had no idea how disorienting the woods are at night.

Yes.

And not like, you know, car camping, like there's some light and stuff.

Like the deep, we were deep in the Sierra Nevada's backwards.

And it's without anything going wrong, it is completely terrifying because nothing looks like it does in the daytime.

And I bring that up because today we are covering the Blair Witch Project. And special just for

you all, I have brought as much snot as Heather Donahue has in her famous shot because I am still

recovering from my child's daycare plague. So that's just an added bonus for you all.

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