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37. The Blair Witch Project

Charon - 20
Inviso - 21
Johnbobb - 21
Snake - 27
JONA - 34
KBM - 35
Scarlet - 36
Genny - 40
Karo - 40

Charon - The grandfather of a genre, for better or worse, The Blair Witch Project excels at creating a tense atmosphere, realistic portrayals of confusion and hopelessness, even if there's never any grand payoff at the end. Before rewatching this film, I had a low opinion of it and found footage style horror films in general. This was the one that really popularized the subgenre and would go on to spawn multiple copiers in movies and even video gaming. While yes, the film really pales in comparison to others in terms of "scary monsters", it does in my opinion show the most realistic portrayal of a real-life scenario of being lost in the woods. The actors here are very believable and I found their interactions with one another pretty great as the film continued. It may be confusing, as to what the witch herself even is, but I think the atmosphere and mood are enough to make this one a memorable experience.

Inviso - Of all the movies on this list, I feel like Blair Witch has probably had the greatest cultural impact, both in terms of its influence on the horror genre overall, and its general use in pop culture (Mark Burnett has cited Blair Witch as one of the inspirations behind Survivor.) And for what it is, Blair Witch is acceptable. We watched several found footage movies on the last list, and they all struggled with pacing issues and just general lameness. Blair Witch starts out similarly, with far too much of its short runtime dedicated to bland scenes of traipsing through the woods. Admittedly, the woods arent a great setting, because theres only so much you can do therebut once spooky stuff starts going down, the film picks up. The general devolution of the cast as they succumb to sleep deprivation and hunger adds a raw element to their respective performances, BUT I do wish the film was a little less hokey in some of its scenes. Thats the major flaw is that this is almost TOO realistic, and most peoples home movies arent amazing. So yeah, decent, but not amazing.

Johnbobb - Basically the movie that sparked the found footage genre that we know today. Not sure if that's a good thing or not (Chronicle and Cloverfield are good at least) but there's no denying the influence this movie had on literally the smallest possible budget. I'm not gonna say it's incredible, because it isn't. It's alright. But it is creepy, and you can buy the panic in the actors, so it's hard to not at the very least admire what they were able to do with what they had. (Also I'm gonna go ahead and acknowledge that this isn't even remotely a unique take, but literally everything that can be said about this movie has been said already.)
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