E4: The Blair Witch Project (1999)

09/08/21 • 40 min

Teen Horror Cast Episode 4: The Blair Witch Project
This movie and our discussion of it feature a bit of body horror and gore. As always, if that feels like it might be too much for you, you should head for the escape hatch and skip this episode. Additionally we will be hard core spoiling this movie! This film in particular is one that you should watch before we discuss it.

Released in 1999 and produced for around sixty thousand dollars, The Blair Witch project grossed over two hundred and fifty million dollars and was one of the first so-called found-footage horror films. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, the fictional documentary stars Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard each playing characters that share their actual names. It is presented as film and video that was discovered in the woods of Maryland while searching for the missing film makers who, it is stated early on, remain missing.

We talk about:

what the film reveals regarding human empathy
unstable friend groups and why three is a tricky group number
how the mona lisa is like the blair witch
broken bones, civilization, and packing well for camping
and much more!

We talk about:

what the film reveals regarding human empathy
unstable friend groups and why three is a tricky group number
how the mona lisa is like the blair witch
broken bones, civilization, and packing well for camping
and much more!

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E3: Ringu (1998) / The Ring (2002)

This episode will examine both the 1998 Japanese original and the 2002 American remake. We love them both. The original is a true horror masterwork and the 2002 version is that rarity among remakes: a great iteration on the original with some things it even improves on. We tend to think of these as two versions of the same film and because of the unique adherence of the remake to the shots, mood, and story of the original, we will be discussing both simultaneously. Where there are differences, we’ll discuss them.

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E5: Halloween (1978)

To celebrate Teen Horror Cast's first Halloween, we watched... Halloween! A 1978 genre classic that set the tone for slasher films for decades to come and established a raft of horror tropes, John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween launched Jamie Lee Curtis' career as the "Scream Queen."
We talk about our favorite parts of the movie, what Michael Myers and Socrates have in common, finding your inner Laurie Strode, and much more!
Content warning: gore, violence, substance use, and death!

Teen Horror Cast - E4: The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Transcript

Ethan 0:00
Yeah, close to the mic, right? Yeah. Hi. You do? Listen to this.
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Sage 0:28
Hello, and welcome to Episode Four of the teen horror cast, where we watch and discuss horror movies from a team perspective. I'm your host sage, and I'm joined by my co host and unpaid intern, my dad.
Ethan 0:41
Hi, everybody.
Sage 0:42
So before we go any farther for this episode, we wanted to talk about where we've been, because I know i