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Your Age In 1999?

posted 8 years ago by NeonManiac0
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When the original BWP came out in 1999, how old were you and what do you remember if anything from that time?

I was 12 in 1999 and remember the huge hype and hoopla around the original. I wasn't an internet user at the time but can remember the trailers and previews on TV and people raving about it and remember when the old Sci-FI Channel had their documentary specials. I remember when I finally saw it on cable later that year thinking it was lame. I rewatched it earlier for the first time since then months ago (I'm now 29) and I find it a pretty meh movie overall though I do like the lore and backstory of the Blair Witch.

[–] theOnlyOutsider 8 years ago

I was 8 or 9. I remember people raving about it. I remember the radio advertisements. I remember people saying that the witch never appeared.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVrzwXDdyuRnG6VMfoT2nyS0TdznlSDc

[–] Hitman84 8 years ago

I was 15 and started getting into "left handed cigarettes" lol, me and some friends smoked and went to the theater to see what the hype was about, I remember all the employees wearing Blair Witch shirt's and other employees walking down the aisles trying to scare people...I was bored and fell asleep and woke up towards the end, I later watched it on VHS though...it was still boring to me but I did think Book Of Shadows was better.

Plum near cut his head in two mmmmm hmmmmm

[–] theOnlyOutsider 8 years ago

the first film was supposed to present the idea that the film was recorded by real college students that went missing filming a documentary about the blair witch. It was first released as being found footage. If memory serves...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVrzwXDdyuRnG6VMfoT2nyS0TdznlSDc

[–] theOnlyOutsider 8 years ago

that was what was "scary" about it. People now always piss and moan about it like people are still considering it to be terrifying. IMO a horror film is more than just a film. Believing in the art is part of it. The idea behind it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVrzwXDdyuRnG6VMfoT2nyS0TdznlSDc

[–] theOnlyOutsider 8 years ago

I cannot stand an ignorant moviegoer. But thats not even true because if I had to stand them I suppose I would.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVrzwXDdyuRnG6VMfoT2nyS0TdznlSDc

[–] winstonsims431 8 years ago

the true events thing was spoiled when the supposedly missing kids appeared on one of the late night shows to promote the film

"Touchdoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooown Auburn"

[–] cheetosnguinness 8 years ago

This is accurate. It's impossible to go back and view it now like it was when it first came out. I first watched it thinking it was actual recovered footage, TOTALLY different experience.

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

17.

[–] justahero 8 years ago

I was 9 but I wasn´t allowed to see it.. I saw it much later :(

[–] Redhawkof2008 8 years ago

I was 9, and remember my older sister and aunt going to see it. I think my dad took me to see Iron Giant around that time instead. I didn't see it for myself until years later in high school with my sister's VHS tape of it.

Maybe that bloody dagger will lead us to the murder weapon.

[–] dklv-598-231167 8 years ago

28. BWP got a lot of positive buzz when it first came out more because it was a very low budget indy movie made by some kids out in the forest and the movie was pretty creepy. plus it was a "found footage" movie which was basically a non-existent genre back then which made it even more intriguing.

after that, the next wave of buzz was about how people were getting sick from the shaky cam.

one myth I'd like to dispel from back then. I've heard over the years that "everyone" thought the actors really died and BWP was real found footage. I don't know anyone or remember reading anything that thought BWP was anything other than a movie.

[–] Emm88 8 years ago

LOL I was 12 too... 1988?

[–] smakar 8 years ago

I was 41 in 1999. To be honest, I do not remember much about that year except, being a mainframe computer programmer, I was knee-deep in Y2K changes (I wonder how many reading this knows or remembers what Y2K was ).

[–] saulsx 8 years ago

22. I remember the website, the documentary, the buzz, having arguments with friends over whether it was real or not. Saw it at the theater a couple of weeks after it was released. Same impression then as I have now, after re-watching it recently. Overall, just boring, characters that I found annoying about 5 minutes into it, like half the movie being about the map, and there only being a couple of good & genuinely creepy scenes (kids laughing & the end in the house).

I wonder how many reading this knows or remembers what Y2K was

Yep. I remember the Y2K scare all too well. Had some prepper friends that were stockpiling canned goods & toilet paper in a trailer out in the country for months leading up to it. Then the whole thing just petered out.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCblhzhwdj1cKzh8s9xzVNtQ

[–] ElectricWarlock 8 years ago

I was about 5 or 6 years old. All I remember is seeing the images of Heather's apology on TV and on the posters. I believe my parents and older brother went to see it in theaters and spoke of how scary it was afterwards. Months later they ended up finding a used VHS tape of the movie at the local movie rental shop which is how I'd eventually end up watching it.

I didn't actually see the movie until I was about 10. It was about 5 or 6 in the morning and my dad and I couldn't sleep, so to pass the time I put a movie in the VCR which happened to be The Blair Witch Project. I loved it and couldn't get enough.

I also remember when I was about 8 years old, I found a Blair Witch action figure at a toy store. I hadn't seen the movie yet but I still thought the action figure was very neat and interesting looking. I asked my mom to buy it for me and she and my older brother thought it was unusual for such a thing to exist since you didn't even see the witch in the movie.