Now, with many critics proclaiming the handheld filming style old-hat, and a generational gap since the last film, many will be questioning the need for a second sequel.ĭespite this uncertainty, The Blair Witch Project certainly left lingering questions with its ambiguous ending. However, after the disappointing follow-up (2000’s woeful Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows), coupled with films like Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity claiming the found footage crown, the Blair Witch franchise has laid dormant for years.
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The film also pioneered using the internet as a prime marketing tool, as many people wrongly believed the movie was an assemblage of genuine amateur footage. It preyed on the audience’s imagination to create a terrifying monster in the shadows. Instead of costly effects work, the horror came from a believable sense of realism and an unseen menace. Revolutionary at the time, its style was a classic case of ‘necessity being the mother of invention’ using a very small budget to its huge advantage. It was way back in 1999 that The Blair Witch Project was first released in cinemas. Relentless and chilling, director Adam Wingard proves this popular subgenre of horror isn’t dead yet.
Resurrecting the same spirit of the found footage classic, Blair Witch develops a creeping sense of dread into intense scares. 16 years after the original graced our screens, The Witch is back, casting her nightmarish spell over a new generation.
Rewriting the rules of popular cinematic narration, these films encourage viewers to be suspicious of what they see onscreen, to be aware of the possibility of unreliable narration, or CGI and the “Photoshopped.” Urgent to film and cultural studies, “The New Reflexivity” suggests that these genres’ complicitous critique of new media is decidedly instructive for a networked society struggling with what it means to be digital.Covertly shot under faux title The Woods, the revelation that this movie was, in fact, a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, came as a rare surprise. Though a great deal of critical attention has been paid to both puzzle and found footage films separately, no lengthy critical survey has yet been undertaken that considers these movies in terms of their shared formal and thematic concerns. Writers and directors of these films treat recorded events and narrative worlds as reviewable, remixable, and upgradeable, just as Hollywood digitizes and tries to keep up with new media. The most basic narrative tricks and conceits of puzzle films and found footage films produce an unusually intense and ludic engagement with narrative boundaries and limits, thus undermining the naturalized practices of classical Hollywood narration. “The New Reflexivity” reads The Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project as reflexive allegories of cinema’s and society’s encounters with new digital media. Meanwhile, DVDs and online paratexts encourage cinephiles to digitize, to attain and interact with cinema in novel ways. Directors become image-writers, constructing photorealistic imagery from scratch. The industrial shift to digital media that coincides with the rise of these films in the late 90s reframed the cinematic image as inherently manipulable, no longer a necessary index of physical reality. This dissertation looks closely at these two films, reading them as illustrative of two decidedly millennial narrative styles, styles that stepped out strikingly from the computer-generated shadows cast by big-budget Hollywood. Though each might typically be classified as belonging to the horror genre, both the unreliable “puzzle film” The Sixth Sense and the fake-documentary “found footage film” The Blair Witch Project stood as harbingers of new narrative currents in global cinema. theatrical marketplace and enjoyed surprisingly massive financial success, just as news of the “death of film” circulated widely. Rodowick refers to as “the summer of digital paranoia,” two films entered the wide-release U.S.
In early August 1999, near the end of what D.N. “The New Reflexivity” tracks two narrative styles of contemporary Hollywood production that have yet to be studied in tandem: the puzzle film and the found footage horror film.
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