blair witch
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25 Years After Electrifying Audiences, The Blair Witch Project Still Chills
Audiences at the time might have been fooled, but 25 year later, everyone knows The Blair Witch Project is a work of fiction. But even without that “true story” gimmick going for it, the movie remains surprisingly potent, both taken on its own and when considered in the context of not just 1999’s other horror…
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Seance’s Simon Barrett on Making Horror in Horrifying Times
Seance — a ghostly thriller about a boarding school that starts racking up a body count soon after a mysterious new student (Suki Waterhouse) arrives — doesn’t end up being the movie you think it’s going to be based on its premise; it has layers while also feeling like an homage to horror films from…
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In the Seance Trailer, Mean Girls and Ghosts Deploy Their Fiercest Scare Tactics
It’s easy to see why filmmakers love setting horror movies at boarding schools: they offer so many opportunities for unsupervised kids to endanger themselves with spooky mischief. As its title suggests, Seance shows what happens when a group of teens add “paranormal meddling” to their list of extracurriculars.
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I Kind Of Thought The Blair Witch Project Was Real
I believe your enjoyment of The Blair Witch Project is directly related to when you saw it. When the film opened in wide-release across the U.S. in July of 1999, it was beyond a massive success and yet, large chunks of that audience hated it. They wondered, “Why was this movie so hyped? Why did…