The Blair Witch Project

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul take a hike through 1999's revolutionary found-footage film The Blair Witch Project! They praise Heather Donahue’s often maligned performance, revisit the film's enormously successful viral marketing campaign, and discuss the film's pioneering of immersive, hand-held horror. Plus: Should directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez be credited as the film's producers instead? Next week Unspooled’s Scaretober series concludes with Nightmare On Elm Street! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0	In October of 2021, two podcasters disappeared in the woods near Berketsville, Maryland,
0:05.6	while selecting the best films to shoot into space.
0:08.8	At the time of recording, Paul and Amy are still missing.
0:12.7	The film, 1999's The Blair Witch Project.
0:35.2	Hello everyone and welcome to Unspooled.
0:39.8	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:40.9	And I'm Paul Sheer and this is a podcast where you are endeavoring to find the
0:44.0	hundred best films of all time.
0:46.0	We are looking all around the world through all different genres and right now,
0:49.6	we're in the middle of our horror genre, our second horror genre.
0:53.5	Where we are exploring different types of films and this one that we're talking about today,
0:57.4	The Blair Witch Project really is a more important film than I think I even realized
1:04.5	when we decided to do it.
1:06.4	But Paul, you have no idea how much that chills and thrills me to hear that I have been
1:12.0	wanting to do this movie on the show for a very, very long time.
1:16.3	I cannot wait to talk to you about it, but I also want to talk about the reaction to Raw,
1:20.3	which was a very polarizing film.
1:24.5	A lot of people said that our conversation made them want to watch it.
1:28.9	A lot of people said that they watched it and were so repulsed by it.
1:33.8	There's a lot of comparison between Raw and Titan and people believe that Raw is better
1:38.8	than Titan.
1:39.8	There's a lot of conversation on the Discord.
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