Blair Witch was different, unique for its time. The type of movie that never should have gotten sequels solely because Hollywood can't be trusted to make good movie series' very often.
Yeah but unless you make the sequel(s) you never know if they could have made a great series or not. It's the old sports cliche "you miss 100% of the shots you dont take". TBH I never thought this movie was all that great or scary. Stuff happened but...not really. And I was really disappointed we didnt see the witch at the end.
On one hand, your logical holes poking in the "the boys killed heather for their cult" is totally valid and I can't point out any real problems in it. On the other hand I can't imagine any film students I know NOT being capable of random acts of murder.
I think in the ending, all 3 of them were displaced in time to a point AFTER Rustin Parr was murdered but BEFORE the house was burned down. Possessed Josh was the one who killed Heather and Mike in the past.
If you play the PC game called The Blair Witch Volume 1- Rustin Parr, that is almost exactly what happened. Except it was almost a replay and it's the spirit of Rustin being now a slave of the witch.
I thought the lights were just the forest entity in its true form. The guy couldn’t see anything in the light because he couldn’t comprehend what he was looking at, and the lights were behind the door because it was in the process of taking the form of or possessing the body of the scary tall thing.
I was going to say those lights look a lot like the lights I would get from helicopters when I lived near a hospital that got copters in regularly. The sound and the pattern of the lights were just like that. I agree with the search party theory.
Well, the witch has him now. Yep, mind blown. When I saw the first film at the drive in, having viewed the supplemental faux documentaries, I totally bought into that all the events were the influence of the witch, and the ending gave me quite a chill. That the film has so much depth and is so open to interpretation really separates it from most of the found footage films that followed. The second film was a grave miscalculation, but an interesting concept undercut by studio interference. I think a greater mythos and presence beyond that of the folkloric "witch" definitely explains these films better that attributing it all to a single tortured woman's revenge.
The original film is a true masterpiece of horror. No other film in history has ever truly frightened me. I saw it opening weekend (I was in 11th grade) so nobody knew for sure if it was real or not. The theater was loud and packed but by that ending it was COMPLETELY SILENT and everyone left single file like a funeral.
It was amazing how many people thought this was real when it 1st came out. I admit, that notion crossed my mind as well. Not that there was an actual witch, but local townsfolk tormented and killed them.
Original materials and site indicated the search area is where the trio was walking in circles at the same times/places as the search party. So Spsce/Time warp is plausible. *except that if they went back to Parrs time the wouldn’t be rundown yet. It’s just a foundation in our present. BTW tapes were in WALL of the foundation not just completely open to the elements.
I love the Blair Witch Project. It set the benchmark for the found footage genre. I cannot count the number of times I have watched it. I see something different each and every time.
I can tell you something funny. Heather from the first Blair Witch movie. Grew up a few blocks from my sister. They were friends. And I met her when I was also kid visiting my sister. Also I had a few questions about the Blair Witch. 1. Did the Blair Witch or Rustin Parr have children? 2. Could they have killed Heather Josh and Mike? 3. Could TBW be a cosmic being(like Cthulhu is.) Where if you did see her you would go insane? 4. In Book Of Shadows TBW2. What was that yellow liquid they were using on the one patient? 5. In Book Of Shadows was the whole thing a flashback?
I have another theory about what those lights could have been, and I didn't come up with this until watching this video. But going with the theory that the Blair Witch was not actually the ghost of Elly Kedward, but an ageless god-like being that lives in the woods. What if the lights were a part of this being's true form?
I spent a good third of the video keeping an eye on the dark woods in the background, expecting a fleeting glimpse of some terrifying apparition like Pipes in 'Ghostwatch'. Good enough reason to watch again later.
I've always taken the scorched earth approach to those movies. I'm lost in the woods, a scary ass witch is after me, I'm probably going to die... Step 1. Pull out a pack of matches. Step 2 burn down the forest. If you start a fire and it starts burning down the forest then either the fire will kill you or you can just head steadily away from the fire and ideally survive to reach civilization. Sure you'll probably go to jail for arson but no one will mess with you when you told them you burned down a forest to escape a witch.
I thought the flickering could be time changing actually, with them being sent to the past or future. Also any appearance of the witch is actually her victims she's killed and transformed, Ellie, Ruston, and Heather. She's probably along the lines of what an eldritch abomination is in terms of Lovecraftian beast, being beyond human comprehension.
My interpretation of the 2nd movie has always been that, since in our real life Blair Witch was marketed as "real" with the fake documents that were on Sci-Fi and all of that, and actually having a surprisingly large number of people fall for that, thinking I was real found footage, they used that in the sequel. In Book of Shadows, The Blair Witch project was released in theaters AND was REAL found footage of actual people in that universe. The thing that always gets me in Book of Shadows is the ending. Is it that the video tapes are true and our characters have been hallucinating or manipulated by the witch, with their personal interpretation of events, OR is the twist that the witch can actually manipulate and change the video tape, (putting to question ANY footage in the series as a hole) and everything the characters saw and felt was real? If feel like it's kind of open ended for you to pick how to view it....but I feel like I'm the only way who thinks of it that way, or that much at all. LOL
I kind of took it that the footage was changed by the Witch but it makes more sense now that you mention it that the character's memories would be false rather than the tapes being false.
@@CeeJayThe13th See I thought that originally to. Then I watched it years later and was like, wait a minute I think it’s the then way around. Yeah, I real think it could be either way. At least I like to think of it as being that ambiguous anyway, lol.
The 1st time I watched it, I thought the witch changed the tapes.. After rewatching it a couple times I think they was hallucinating, and, they committed all those acts while being possessed..
2. NOTE: I do not believe that Josh and/or Mike had any malicious plans against Heather. 32 miles is nothing. I traveled nearly 50 miles each way from my home to college BOTH WAYS, twice a week for 7 semesters and thrice a week for my final semester! And I was far from the only student who did the exact same thing. Also, no, it is established in The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier that Heather and Josh were friends. Her journal says as much as well. 6. Nothing in Book of Shadows says that the original film was just a film. All that is said is that the film exists, which is does as that's literally the backstory of the movie. With just Book of Shadows, you can interpret it either way. 7. It is 100% Elly. The limb stretching part of the lore was created for the 2016 film
Not for nothing but in "Burkesville Seven" (I think), it was heavily implied that Parr didn't actually kill anyone. It was in fact, one of the kids who then, as the soul survivor, blamed him for the killings. Not sure how that effects any theories regarding him, just mentioning it.
In the game Rustin Parr, one of the kids (Kyle, I think???) helped lure the other children to Rustin's house and Rustin killed them as sacrifice to the witch spirit. I guess the lore is all over the place...
So I was watching your Blair witch video (this one) and an odd thought struck me. I was reminded of Liam Neeson in The Phantom Menace... "There's always a bigger fish " It made me wonder "The Blair Witch seems all powerful... What could smite/wreck her?" Anyway if you think theres an idea in it a neat video might be Top x "bigger fish" in horror.
I gotta say, it really seems like you should have more subs than you do since you actually put effort into making an interesting video. Have you thought of working some sort of audio ambience into your videos though? Even something as mundane as setting a keyboard to a string setting and holding a low E while it's running through a slow chorus effect would be sufficient I think. Just something to carry the creepy tone pretty much. Idk, maybe something to consider.
A lot of these question are ones I have asked myself (not so much about the 2nd movie as I've not seen it, as I heard it was garbage), as for the answers they work for me, most I had concluded myself (the long limb woman seen in the 3rd movie being Heather I had not thought of but I do like it better then it being the actual Witch). Yes I did think U.F.O when the light came through the window in the 3rd but I didn't take that idea seriously, it being a searchlight from the search parties is good as is it being slowed down lightning which also accounts for the sound, but I guess we'll never really know, and in the end isn't the mystery what we really want.
I have stopped 3 mins in to comment. Great video post so far thank you. Im upto the theory it was the lady in town. Only thing is - the guy Josh was lured out in the middle of the night. Presuming he was. Assuming an older lady couldn't sneak up and carry him out of his tent. Or trick him? He's within earshot of Heather and the 2nd guy. They shout him to guide him back but he doesnt. he seems scared out of his wits and assuming he didnt walk 100 feet to take a piss, or walk around investigating strange noises like a Friday the 13th character until being ambushed, but he's clearly sounding like hes calling from multiple directions in each cry before they zone in on him. That scene is already underway when it is recorded, and they are bewildered at him. Its like an auditory hallucination they are both experiencing yet in the real place if that was to be a physical trick he was somehow moving around his friends im the dark in an almost circular fashion between screaming - and doesn't come back, Ther is also the fact thst the woods seem to lead them in a circle, a full circle before they really start to loseit with eachother and themselves. Every step they take after this is when it seems like the spell or spells, power, or what have you closes in it seems. There are ways to rationalize this I know but it really seems like the witch is real when I consider Josh's disappearance as they are already heightened, fraught and scared at that point so unless there were other people in cohorts and they could go in grab a guy get him away all without him fighting back and rousing his friends - IN THE PITCH DARK through wild untamed woodland, that seems truly less believable than the witch being real, calculated patient, practiced, enjoying the different stages of the spells and getting their fear factor so high, for so long - like she gets stronger throughout - like she takes them emotionally first along with the woods taking them physically, its truly a creepy and brilliantly sinister notion that i find believable and fucking brutally terrifying. The possible ways to interpret this movie is way scarier than anything it shows which isnt alot. Genius film making but unbelievable greatly executed storytelling that plays on our fears as children, and our rational grown up ones simultaneously. And I love that. You're not supposed to use 'and' to start a sentence, but I just did.
This movie works best with the 45 minute special that came out before the movie about the legend of the witch . I hadn't seen the 2016 since the movies but I thought the thing was the witch and there was something to do with time and space. The land was on a dimension Gate or something
If we add in the next movie(not book of shadows) lore it would seem there had to be a killer that the witch is using probably josh or Mary Brown as the witch only kills those who look at her, Mike at the end is following that rule and Heather never sees her shes facing mike yet she is attacked from behind. Lets also examine the bundle of sticks Heather finds with Josh' hair, teeth , blood and clothing samples, this is not unlike creation of a Witches Bundle similar to a voodoo doll and is Used for various reasons in southern Hoodoo, one purpose of which is to can gain more power over a person via impregnating the bundle with there fluids, parts, and or personal items and yes even sometimes representing the binding of said person by binding the bundle with something personal, and would also give a reason for why his stuff alone was ransacked perhaps in search of personal items that could be used.
to be fair though, we don't really know if heather sees her. we know that she doesn't point the camera at her, but it's unknown where she was actually looking at the time, since we don't see her face. love the Hoodoo interpretation!
@@movietimelines true,she may have seen her. Heres another thing about part 3 could it have been influenced by the Book series Missing 411? It details strange vanishings in wooded areas, including reports of time space alterations, phantom lights, strange sounds, and explores many of the areas it occurs as being seen as evil or alive.
Hmm, i coldn't help notice that at one point you summed up the 2 dudes options as: either take off to *Canada* or *"head back to civilization"...* Lol, that's mean.
First video of yours that I’ve seen. Very impressed. Especially because you came up with some new stuff even though the first movie came out decades ago.
So a huge search party set out to find their bodies...... but didn't find the house ? Yet you expect them to find things smaller then a house, like their bodies ?........
these vids are great Spacetime...its not Space or time...space and time.....its just spacetime im sure all the Physicist watching are screaming at their respective screens
2nd time I've watched this! This is my favorite Movie Timelines series! So good! This episode especially felt like Movie Timelines Conspiracies😁 Will you do a "10 Blair Witch-esque Movies" list video? I dig The Blair Witch Project, but always preferred The Last Broadcast (I know, I'm in the minority...)
I know this video is a couple of years old, but I want to offer a theory of my own. Feel free to roast me if you think it's dumb. But I personally think it makes a weird sort of sense. Here goes! Pennywise exists in the Blair Witch Universe...and the supposed "Dark God" that is posited to inhabit that section of forest, IS actually Pennywise.
Would've liked to have seen you cover or add the game's story tie-in. The sheriff's car could be the explanation for the light scene & the monster looks like the 2nd toy tree monster😄
The videogame is on the canon too? Also,late 90,early 00s mc farlaine did some statues,one with the witch...oh..you did it ^^ I just seen some videos but he seems great,with a complex story.
I saw the original in the theaters & it was early days of the internet. People left the theater angry because they didn’t catch the witch & the ending was open ended. At least TCM ended with a final girl, but this just ended.
I always thought Josh just suffered a stress and paranoia induced mental breakdown and murdered both Heather and Michael,potentially believing he was the witch (or maybe he suffered from schizophrenia,and he forgot or left his medication at home or in the car believing he wouldn’t be in the woods for more than 2 or 3 days) also I don’t think it’s necessarily that the first movie is just a movie in the world of Blair witch,I think it’s just their was a Blair witch movie made prior to book of shadows in the Blair witch world that was based on the recordings we see in the first movie,this would mean that the first Blair witch Movie in universe wasn’t the one we saw and in the first movie the audience must be assuming the role of the writer of the first movie,watching the tapes and trying to make heads or tails of it,just a thought
I could see that Josh and Mike had the same intentions as Heather initially, to make a documentary. However, maybe they both had mental health issues that were exacerbated by being lost, starving and thirsty and became irrational. In that case maybe.
I swear to God I had those action figures as a kid, I had ghost face, Jason and Michael and I use to have to put them in a droor before I could get to sleep I was 9 or 10 what the fuck was my mom thinking when she agreed to buy those for me. I was fuckin horrified by scream because unlike other horror movies I believed that shit could happen especially to a kid who was stuck at home with babysitters and older sisters at night on a regular basis lol I seriously haven't thought of that shit in years, thanks guy lol
I want you to know about the backstory about her being a Blair witch of Maryland where is the documentary been made about girls in legends of Maryland and not just that the filmmakers made one of them selves known as curse of the Blair witch where it only covered not just the original movie but also the story behind it and here it is if you want to use this as One of your unanswered questions been answered by me if you want to use it in the future video and here it is You would have to Trisha back to the early 18th century of the Blair town and in those days there was a woman that went by the name of Alec Edwards where she was going about her life and accused of being watching the town which means that they accused her of the sickness that was going on she told them no that she has nothing to do with any of this and that she has to be innocent to it since they cannot find her guilty oh is enough of it they allowed her to go home but the several boys do not believed her at all they took her out in the woods and hopefully that she will die of exposure but they tied her to a tree and poking at her with sticks and putting their hands on her was bloody handprints on her then left her for dead so she would die of exposure and since then she haunted the woods and for those who disappeared was blamed on her Eli Kenwards was accused which but was found innocent but yet she Who was the ones that did it to her and no I don’t mean anything sexual about it no matter something that they killed her so she would die I was exposure so 17 kids and children all those days went missing because of her ghost but everything went silent over those ears until they switch the town around and this was around early 19th century mid 18th century in the 19th century that would have came later on or so and then the story of Russia part came into the picture around the 1920s I believe it was where he lived in that house in the woods and he killed and murdered children under the influence of the Blair witch and he was found guilty and he was hand for his crimes that he committed I believe that he did it around amount of them was the fact 19 of them only one escaped so it turns out that he actually killed and murdered only 18 of them under the influence of the Blair witch but he died by Haney then years later there was other encounters with the Blair witch and that is when she got that title for elite Kenwards a.k.a. the Blair witch of Maryland and her A child went missing and that little lake and then there was a search party and they went to coffin rock and thus they were found murdered Anson you know the bodies was removed after they were castrated supernaturally by Elie Kenwards also known as the Blair witch and what time does chef party came for them they never found the bodies the original send the BRIT Awards Ray dormant people stop going into the woods on the Blair witch until josh and mike and Heather Donahue are wearing about this in there college And they decide to make the film at the same time during the book of shadows Blair witch what’s happening at the same time so that some meds it Josh that the book of shadows the bread which was a fact around the same time just a few years later on and so was the third film To answer what it was that was being seen in that old house was definitely her house there Donahue and her ghost made me that they are still there some people assumed that they are still missing and I believe that too and I know it’s just a movie based on what really happened to them and nobody really knows that’s why it’s known as found footage people send letters to their parents Sent or I am sorry that this happened to Mike Waters oh I’m sorry about that Josh wings in Aurora‘s last name is or Sam oh I’m sorry to the Donahues that Heather went missing or maybe they still are still missing but it’s hard to know what is reality and what is not found footage films I should know that makes it awesome so now you’ve got the story now you have your answer down here and maybe you can use it for your next questions and unanswered questions been answered I hope that you do use this so I hope that goes up to out with this video and I hope that you do use this in your next questions and answers by doing to answer this for you I am thinking that Josh never made it back to the corner when the directors in the writers Toma head back maybe he never gone there maybe that is why he went missing the Blair witch wait until they are alone then get them I played the commentary to the movie where they said that they came across the same tree branch again and the guy said maybe that there is something going on with this woods and we told Josh to go back home but he never went home he never got home maybe that’s why he went missing and I’m gonna wait to the house and maybe that is what they were hearing the distant echoes of him and they cannot find anything until they found the poorhouse directions and part house running around in the house trying to find Josh but never found him so various answered that the Blair witch took them both because they looked and saw Eli kill words for in the face and I want to go with this as a Siri or as an answer feel free to use it but other than that Josh I hope that you do use it because this is new information I’m giving you and all that I would like to know what you think about this As if you might make another unanswered questions Blairwood questions been answered and I want this to be a part of it if you do decide to use it maybe this might give you some answers of what really could have happened by my own theory alone other than that I hope that you do this, and actually use it in answers and questions and unanswered questions of the the overwatch films so I hope that you do use it so I hope that you do And by the way I always will love you Josh as a friend
BW2 made sure not to talk about actors or feature any interviews with them from BW1. So i always make 2 in continuity with the rest of the series as in yes BW1 happened, yes it was real, assuming that somehow whoever released the movie got permission from the families to release it for one reason or the other. So BW1 happens. BW2 happens and most ppl think that BW1 was not real (sorta reversal of the real-life as the witch exists in the BW2 world). And BW3's witch appearance could be just an apparition or a shape the witch took specifically for the new generation of goobers ... Also there were 3 2000s BW video games in the continuity!
On question 6 I'll play devil's advocate. Why can't the movies be reenactments? What about all the Historical movies and documentaries that have been made. For example, the Battle of Midway and Battle of Gettysburg. Are you going to tell those two famous battles are just fiction? I hope you aren't that ignorant.
@@movietimelines concrete 2004 independently produced Japanese film that is based on the case of the murder of Junko Furuta. The girl next door another horrific one about Sylvia Likens I don't see why it can't be a reanactment we wouldn't know how close or lose it would. that being said Dana ain't no reason be calling my man ignorant like that we can all be friendly
Blair Witch was different, unique for its time. The type of movie that never should have gotten sequels solely because Hollywood can't be trusted to make good movie series' very often.
Like Boondock Saints. The first movie was awesome. The second was a travesty.
Not unique. The last broadcast came first.
Yeah but unless you make the sequel(s) you never know if they could have made a great series or not. It's the old sports cliche "you miss 100% of the shots you dont take".
TBH I never thought this movie was all that great or scary. Stuff happened but...not really. And I was really disappointed we didnt see the witch at the end.
@@lynnhathaway3755 a perfect example of why fans can't trust Hollywood
I actually liked the 2nd one better
On one hand, your logical holes poking in the "the boys killed heather for their cult" is totally valid and I can't point out any real problems in it.
On the other hand I can't imagine any film students I know NOT being capable of random acts of murder.
as a former film student....i see your point. lol
I thought the theory was good until they brought up the cult,which seems like overkill to me
Josh hating time-loop stuff reminds me of O'Brien on DS9. "I hate temporal mechanics." 🙂
I think in the ending, all 3 of them were displaced in time to a point AFTER Rustin Parr was murdered but BEFORE the house was burned down. Possessed Josh was the one who killed Heather and Mike in the past.
If you play the PC game called The Blair Witch Volume 1- Rustin Parr, that is almost exactly what happened. Except it was almost a replay and it's the spirit of Rustin being now a slave of the witch.
My theory about the lights is that they are the witch. Sort of like how pennywise is actually just some lights.
I thought the lights were just the forest entity in its true form. The guy couldn’t see anything in the light because he couldn’t comprehend what he was looking at, and the lights were behind the door because it was in the process of taking the form of or possessing the body of the scary tall thing.
I was going to say those lights look a lot like the lights I would get from helicopters when I lived near a hospital that got copters in regularly. The sound and the pattern of the lights were just like that. I agree with the search party theory.
Well, the witch has him now. Yep, mind blown. When I saw the first film at the drive in, having viewed the supplemental faux documentaries, I totally bought into that all the events were the influence of the witch, and the ending gave me quite a chill. That the film has so much depth and is so open to interpretation really separates it from most of the found footage films that followed. The second film was a grave miscalculation, but an interesting concept undercut by studio interference. I think a greater mythos and presence beyond that of the folkloric "witch" definitely explains these films better that attributing it all to a single tortured woman's revenge.
The original film is a true masterpiece of horror. No other film in history has ever truly frightened me. I saw it opening weekend (I was in 11th grade) so nobody knew for sure if it was real or not. The theater was loud and packed but by that ending it was COMPLETELY SILENT and everyone left single file like a funeral.
It was amazing how many people thought this was real when it 1st came out. I admit, that notion crossed my mind as well. Not that there was an actual witch, but local townsfolk tormented and killed them.
the rock pile doesn't say: "no tresspass." it says: "trespassers will not be harmed nor will trespassers harm."
Original materials and site indicated the search area is where the trio was walking in circles at the same times/places as the search party. So Spsce/Time warp is plausible. *except that if they went back to Parrs time the wouldn’t be rundown yet. It’s just a foundation in our present. BTW tapes were in WALL of the foundation not just completely open to the elements.
The lights are all the search party's over the last 100 years
The Josh killed Heather meme sprung up almost immediately when the film came out.
"Nay doesn't get enough use anymore unless you're a horse because...Hey!" I see what you did there.
Wow, not even five minutes in and this is exceeding my expectations! And I already have a lot of faith my mind will be blown....
I love the Blair Witch Project. It set the benchmark for the found footage genre.
I cannot count the number of times I have watched it. I see something different each and every time.
1:00 Should have added that Ferguson blue filter that totally looks like real nighttime. But I guess real night works too!
This video is up there with Josh being turned into a Gremlin. Fantastic job! Great way to start the afternoon portion of the day!
I can tell you something funny. Heather from the first Blair Witch movie. Grew up a few blocks from my sister. They were friends. And I met her when I was also kid visiting my sister. Also I had a few questions about the Blair Witch. 1. Did the Blair Witch or Rustin Parr have children? 2. Could they have killed Heather Josh and Mike? 3. Could TBW be a cosmic being(like Cthulhu is.) Where if you did see her you would go insane? 4. In Book Of Shadows TBW2. What was that yellow liquid they were using on the one patient? 5. In Book Of Shadows was the whole thing a flashback?
I have another theory about what those lights could have been, and I didn't come up with this until watching this video. But going with the theory that the Blair Witch was not actually the ghost of Elly Kedward, but an ageless god-like being that lives in the woods. What if the lights were a part of this being's true form?
This movie is perfect for your show because it deliberately creates unanswered questions, which is what makes it great.
Unanswered questions are my favorite type of your videos my dude. 👍🏼
I spent a good third of the video keeping an eye on the dark woods in the background, expecting a fleeting glimpse of some terrifying apparition like Pipes in 'Ghostwatch'. Good enough reason to watch again later.
Love what you do , you obviously have a lot of knowledge about horror
Did anyone else read The Blair Witch Files books when they were a kid? I read all of them and even still have the one called The Obsession.
I've always taken the scorched earth approach to those movies. I'm lost in the woods, a scary ass witch is after me, I'm probably going to die... Step 1. Pull out a pack of matches. Step 2 burn down the forest. If you start a fire and it starts burning down the forest then either the fire will kill you or you can just head steadily away from the fire and ideally survive to reach civilization. Sure you'll probably go to jail for arson but no one will mess with you when you told them you burned down a forest to escape a witch.
Might work except that it had rained heavily for a whole day. Wet or even damp wood is very hard to get burning.
I thought the flickering could be time changing actually, with them being sent to the past or future. Also any appearance of the witch is actually her victims she's killed and transformed, Ellie, Ruston, and Heather. She's probably along the lines of what an eldritch abomination is in terms of Lovecraftian beast, being beyond human comprehension.
My interpretation of the 2nd movie has always been that, since in our real life Blair Witch was marketed as "real" with the fake documents that were on Sci-Fi and all of that, and actually having a surprisingly large number of people fall for that, thinking I was real found footage, they used that in the sequel. In Book of Shadows, The Blair Witch project was released in theaters AND was REAL found footage of actual people in that universe. The thing that always gets me in Book of Shadows is the ending. Is it that the video tapes are true and our characters have been hallucinating or manipulated by the witch, with their personal interpretation of events, OR is the twist that the witch can actually manipulate and change the video tape, (putting to question ANY footage in the series as a hole) and everything the characters saw and felt was real? If feel like it's kind of open ended for you to pick how to view it....but I feel like I'm the only way who thinks of it that way, or that much at all. LOL
Book Of Shadows is like Disney's Star Wars
I kind of took it that the footage was changed by the Witch but it makes more sense now that you mention it that the character's memories would be false rather than the tapes being false.
@@CeeJayThe13th See I thought that originally to. Then I watched it years later and was like, wait a minute I think it’s the then way around. Yeah, I real think it could be either way. At least I like to think of it as being that ambiguous anyway, lol.
@@metalcoffie yeah I think the film intentionally leaves it ambiguous for sure.
The 1st time I watched it, I thought the witch changed the tapes..
After rewatching it a couple times I think they was hallucinating, and, they committed all those acts while being possessed..
Your videos keep getting better and bro,and I love how you put all the timelines together. Keep up the good work my friend!
What if what you think is “real life” is a movie universe where you are written as a character that analyzes movies within your movie?
2. NOTE: I do not believe that Josh and/or Mike had any malicious plans against Heather.
32 miles is nothing. I traveled nearly 50 miles each way from my home to college BOTH WAYS, twice a week for 7 semesters and thrice a week for my final semester! And I was far from the only student who did the exact same thing.
Also, no, it is established in The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier that Heather and Josh were friends. Her journal says as much as well.
6. Nothing in Book of Shadows says that the original film was just a film. All that is said is that the film exists, which is does as that's literally the backstory of the movie. With just Book of Shadows, you can interpret it either way.
7. It is 100% Elly. The limb stretching part of the lore was created for the 2016 film
Wow more! Where I'm going I don't need roads! Lol. I try to go back to watch from start to finish then I see more of my favorite things
Not for nothing but in "Burkesville Seven" (I think), it was heavily implied that Parr didn't actually kill anyone. It was in fact, one of the kids who then, as the soul survivor, blamed him for the killings. Not sure how that effects any theories regarding him, just mentioning it.
In the game Rustin Parr, one of the kids (Kyle, I think???) helped lure the other children to Rustin's house and Rustin killed them as sacrifice to the witch spirit.
I guess the lore is all over the place...
@@FreeOpenTruth probably.
So I was watching your Blair witch video (this one) and an odd thought struck me. I was reminded of Liam Neeson in The Phantom Menace... "There's always a bigger fish "
It made me wonder "The Blair Witch seems all powerful... What could smite/wreck her?" Anyway if you think theres an idea in it a neat video might be Top x "bigger fish" in horror.
I gotta say, it really seems like you should have more subs than you do since you actually put effort into making an interesting video.
Have you thought of working some sort of audio ambience into your videos though? Even something as mundane as setting a keyboard to a string setting and holding a low E while it's running through a slow chorus effect would be sufficient I think. Just something to carry the creepy tone pretty much.
Idk, maybe something to consider.
The old lady also had tied up sticks on her gate.
I got hooked on the Josh and Mike killing Heather theory after watching the film theory video about it
A lot of these question are ones I have asked myself (not so much about the 2nd movie as I've not seen it, as I heard it was garbage), as for the answers they work for me, most I had concluded myself (the long limb woman seen in the 3rd movie being Heather I had not thought of but I do like it better then it being the actual Witch).
Yes I did think U.F.O when the light came through the window in the 3rd but I didn't take that idea seriously, it being a searchlight from the search parties is good as is it being slowed down lightning which also accounts for the sound, but I guess we'll never really know, and in the end isn't the mystery what we really want.
So I kind of want to see the movie where Aliens land in the woods & the Blair Witch starts messing with them & possessing one of the
the Blair Witch Manhattan Project.
I have stopped 3 mins in to comment. Great video post so far thank you. Im upto the theory it was the lady in town. Only thing is - the guy Josh was lured out in the middle of the night. Presuming he was. Assuming an older lady couldn't sneak up and carry him out of his tent. Or trick him? He's within earshot of Heather and the 2nd guy. They shout him to guide him back but he doesnt. he seems scared out of his wits and assuming he didnt walk 100 feet to take a piss, or walk around investigating strange noises like a Friday the 13th character until being ambushed, but he's clearly sounding like hes calling from multiple directions in each cry before they zone in on him. That scene is already underway when it is recorded, and they are bewildered at him. Its like an auditory hallucination they are both experiencing yet in the real place if that was to be a physical trick he was somehow moving around his friends im the dark in an almost circular fashion between screaming - and doesn't come back, Ther is also the fact thst the woods seem to lead them in a circle, a full circle before they really start to loseit with eachother and themselves. Every step they take after this is when it seems like the spell or spells, power, or what have you closes in it seems. There are ways to rationalize this I know but it really seems like the witch is real when I consider Josh's disappearance as they are already heightened, fraught and scared at that point so unless there were other people in cohorts and they could go in grab a guy get him away all without him fighting back and rousing his friends - IN THE PITCH DARK through wild untamed woodland, that seems truly less believable than the witch being real, calculated patient, practiced, enjoying the different stages of the spells and getting their fear factor so high, for so long - like she gets stronger throughout - like she takes them emotionally first along with the woods taking them physically, its truly a creepy and brilliantly sinister notion that i find believable and fucking brutally terrifying. The possible ways to interpret this movie is way scarier than anything it shows which isnt alot. Genius film making but unbelievable greatly executed storytelling that plays on our fears as children, and our rational grown up ones simultaneously. And I love that. You're not supposed to use 'and' to start a sentence, but I just did.
That Miramax line made me lol. Another great video!
Yeah, the "witch" is more like Silent Hill a force that manifests in forms related to the people involved.
This movie works best with the 45 minute special that came out before the movie about the legend of the witch . I hadn't seen the 2016 since the movies but I thought the thing was the witch and there was something to do with time and space. The land was on a dimension Gate or something
How about 10 Unanswered Questions about Hellraiser
I think it would be interesting to see in the future
I subscribed.
thanks!
If we add in the next movie(not book of shadows) lore it would seem there had to be a killer that the witch is using probably josh or Mary Brown as the witch only kills those who look at her, Mike at the end is following that rule and Heather never sees her shes facing mike yet she is attacked from behind. Lets also examine the bundle of sticks Heather finds with Josh' hair, teeth , blood and clothing samples, this is not unlike creation of a Witches Bundle similar to a voodoo doll and is Used for various reasons in southern Hoodoo, one purpose of which is to can gain more power over a person via impregnating the bundle with there fluids, parts, and or personal items and yes even sometimes representing the binding of said person by binding the bundle with something personal, and would also give a reason for why his stuff alone was ransacked perhaps in search of personal items that could be used.
to be fair though, we don't really know if heather sees her. we know that she doesn't point the camera at her, but it's unknown where she was actually looking at the time, since we don't see her face.
love the Hoodoo interpretation!
@@movietimelines true,she may have seen her. Heres another thing about part 3 could it have been influenced by the Book series Missing 411? It details strange vanishings in wooded areas, including reports of time space alterations, phantom lights, strange sounds, and explores many of the areas it occurs as being seen as evil or alive.
Time Loop Question: Wouldn't the search party if they went into the house be stuck in the 40's?
Your so good at these. I hope you get more subscribers. You are too good
Im just imagining someone whose legs and arms have been pulled out of socket and the muscles torn trying to walk around or hold anything
Hmm, i coldn't help notice that at one point you summed up the 2 dudes options as: either take off to *Canada* or *"head back to civilization"...* Lol, that's mean.
I love the dig on Scream 3. Lol
First video of yours that I’ve seen. Very impressed. Especially because you came up with some new stuff even though the first movie came out decades ago.
My head canon is the creature in the 3d movie is some poor alien that landed in the woods and got possessed, and the light is its ship lol
Great video as always but what Heather saw was a crew member wrapped in gauze bandages. They mention it on the dvd commentary. 🙂
Missed the old video game set, one of which tied in with the action horror game Nocturne
Thank you for diving into this...I have always been into the lore of the blair witch 🧙♀️
So a huge search party set out to find their bodies...... but didn't find the house ? Yet you expect them to find things smaller then a house, like their bodies ?........
these vids are great
Spacetime...its not Space or time...space and time.....its just spacetime im sure all the Physicist watching are screaming at their respective screens
2nd time I've watched this! This is my favorite Movie Timelines series! So good!
This episode especially felt like Movie Timelines Conspiracies😁 Will you do a "10 Blair Witch-esque Movies" list video? I dig The Blair Witch Project, but always preferred The Last Broadcast (I know, I'm in the minority...)
I like the idea of the Blair witch being a cosmic horror entity
I know this video is a couple of years old, but I want to offer a theory of my own. Feel free to roast me if you think it's dumb. But I personally think it makes a weird sort of sense. Here goes!
Pennywise exists in the Blair Witch Universe...and the supposed "Dark God" that is posited to inhabit that section of forest, IS actually Pennywise.
I could just watch these unanswered questions all day
I like your sense of humor 😄
Would've liked to have seen you cover or add the game's story tie-in. The sheriff's car could be the explanation for the light scene & the monster looks like the 2nd toy tree monster😄
If you liked The Blair Witch, you should check out Butterfly Kisses. And maybe do a video about it.
i sorta did! check out Horror Timelines Lists episode 4!
@@movietimelines, I see. You are pretty good. How about "Savageland" from 2015? What are you thoughts on that?
The videogame is on the canon too?
Also,late 90,early 00s mc farlaine did some statues,one with the witch...oh..you did it ^^
I just seen some videos but he seems great,with a complex story.
It’s the boys from Cabin in the Woods performing a previous ritual before they died
I saw the original in the theaters & it was early days of the internet. People left the theater angry because they didn’t catch the witch & the ending was open ended. At least TCM ended with a final girl, but this just ended.
That was the point of the movie. Lol. It wasn't meant to be Friday the 13th.
LOVE YAH JOSH
This is an amazing video !
I love your channel thank you for making videos!
I always thought Josh just suffered a stress and paranoia induced mental breakdown and murdered both Heather and Michael,potentially believing he was the witch (or maybe he suffered from schizophrenia,and he forgot or left his medication at home or in the car believing he wouldn’t be in the woods for more than 2 or 3 days) also I don’t think it’s necessarily that the first movie is just a movie in the world of Blair witch,I think it’s just their was a Blair witch movie made prior to book of shadows in the Blair witch world that was based on the recordings we see in the first movie,this would mean that the first Blair witch Movie in universe wasn’t the one we saw and in the first movie the audience must be assuming the role of the writer of the first movie,watching the tapes and trying to make heads or tails of it,just a thought
the black god? like chernabog? that kind of makes sense, hes the god of darkness(its always night) and magic(the witch its self).
The lights are Deadlights, and the witch is like pennywise.
Did you ever played the Blair Witch Video Game from 2019?
There a time jumps and sort of different dimensions.....it is a pretty creepy game 😱💀
Todd MacFarlane has a Blair watch figure
you're so underrated
I stick with the Josh/Mike theory that they just wanted to kill Heather. Stuff like that happens all the time in real life
No it doesn't
@@misterpinkandyellow74 are you serious? Yes. It does. Especially here in Florida.
@@misterpinkandyellow74 I'd say ask my bestie but it happened to her so ....you'd have to use a oujia board
I could see that Josh and Mike had the same intentions as Heather initially, to make a documentary. However, maybe they both had mental health issues that were exacerbated by being lost, starving and thirsty and became irrational. In that case maybe.
When you did the time loop bit, you sounded like Boy from Little Monsters.
Not changes the lure of, but changes the "lore" of...
Do 10 more unanswered questions about the nightmare series
The two guys probably killed her and then the witch killed them that's a theory I like
Excellent
Book of Shadows BW2 is actually an awesome film.
the Blair Witch is Pennywise...It has to do something when it is not in Derry!!
to empasis a point, we never see him kick the map into the river he only said he did,what if he lied and still had the map after all!
I swear to God I had those action figures as a kid, I had ghost face, Jason and Michael and I use to have to put them in a droor before I could get to sleep I was 9 or 10 what the fuck was my mom thinking when she agreed to buy those for me. I was fuckin horrified by scream because unlike other horror movies I believed that shit could happen especially to a kid who was stuck at home with babysitters and older sisters at night on a regular basis lol I seriously haven't thought of that shit in years, thanks guy lol
In Blair Witch 2016, what the fuck was that thing in that girls foot?
Mary brown = the local log lady.
I want you to know about the backstory about her being a Blair witch of Maryland where is the documentary been made about girls in legends of Maryland and not just that the filmmakers made one of them selves known as curse of the Blair witch where it only covered not just the original movie but also the story behind it and here it is if you want to use this as One of your unanswered questions been answered by me if you want to use it in the future video and here it is
You would have to Trisha back to the early 18th century of the Blair town and in those days there was a woman that went by the name of Alec Edwards where she was going about her life and accused of being watching the town which means that they accused her of the sickness that was going on she told them no that she has nothing to do with any of this and that she has to be innocent to it since they cannot find her guilty oh is enough of it they allowed her to go home but the several boys do not believed her at all they took her out in the woods and hopefully that she will die of exposure but they tied her to a tree and poking at her with sticks and putting their hands on her was bloody handprints on her then left her for dead so she would die of exposure and since then she haunted the woods and for those who disappeared was blamed on her Eli Kenwards was accused which but was found innocent but yet she Who was the ones that did it to her and no I don’t mean anything sexual about it no matter something that they killed her so she would die I was exposure so 17 kids and children all those days went missing because of her ghost but everything went silent over those ears until they switch the town around and this was around early 19th century mid 18th century in the 19th century that would have came later on or so and then the story of Russia part came into the picture around the 1920s I believe it was where he lived in that house in the woods and he killed and murdered children under the influence of the Blair witch and he was found guilty and he was hand for his crimes that he committed I believe that he did it around amount of them was the fact 19 of them only one escaped so it turns out that he actually killed and murdered only 18 of them under the influence of the Blair witch but he died by Haney then years later there was other encounters with the Blair witch and that is when she got that title for elite Kenwards a.k.a. the Blair witch of Maryland and her A child went missing and that little lake and then there was a search party and they went to coffin rock and thus they were found murdered Anson you know the bodies was removed after they were castrated supernaturally by Elie Kenwards also known as the Blair witch and what time does chef party came for them they never found the bodies the original send the BRIT Awards Ray dormant people stop going into the woods on the Blair witch until josh and mike and Heather Donahue are wearing about this in there college
And they decide to make the film at the same time during the book of shadows Blair witch what’s happening at the same time so that some meds it Josh that the book of shadows the bread which was a fact around the same time just a few years later on and so was the third film
To answer what it was that was being seen in that old house was definitely her house there Donahue and her ghost made me that they are still there some people assumed that they are still missing and I believe that too and I know it’s just a movie based on what really happened to them and nobody really knows that’s why it’s known as found footage people send letters to their parents Sent or I am sorry that this happened to Mike Waters oh I’m sorry about that Josh wings in Aurora‘s last name is or Sam oh I’m sorry to the Donahues that Heather went missing or maybe they still are still missing but it’s hard to know what is reality and what is not found footage films I should know that makes it awesome so now you’ve got the story now you have your answer down here and maybe you can use it for your next questions and unanswered questions been answered I hope that you do use this so I hope that goes up to out with this video and I hope that you do use this in your next questions and answers by doing to answer this for you I am thinking that Josh never made it back to the corner when the directors in the writers Toma head back maybe he never gone there maybe that is why he went missing the Blair witch wait until they are alone then get them I played the commentary to the movie where they said that they came across the same tree branch again and the guy said maybe that there is something going on with this woods and we told Josh to go back home but he never went home he never got home maybe that’s why he went missing and I’m gonna wait to the house and maybe that is what they were hearing the distant echoes of him and they cannot find anything until they found the poorhouse directions and part house running around in the house trying to find Josh but never found him so various answered that the Blair witch took them both because they looked and saw Eli kill words for in the face and I want to go with this as a Siri or as an answer feel free to use it but other than that Josh I hope that you do use it because this is new information I’m giving you and all that I would like to know what you think about this
As if you might make another unanswered questions Blairwood questions been answered and I want this to be a part of it if you do decide to use it maybe this might give you some answers of what really could have happened by my own theory alone other than that I hope that you do this, and actually use it in answers and questions and unanswered questions of the the overwatch films so I hope that you do use it so I hope that you do
And by the way I always will love you Josh as a friend
I think the guys saw Scream a few too many times
im sure you have been told before but omg your so so handsome
I love the movie and it's lore.
BW2 made sure not to talk about actors or feature any interviews with them from BW1. So i always make 2 in continuity with the rest of the series as in yes BW1 happened, yes it was real, assuming that somehow whoever released the movie got permission from the families to release it for one reason or the other. So BW1 happens. BW2 happens and most ppl think that BW1 was not real (sorta reversal of the real-life as the witch exists in the BW2 world). And BW3's witch appearance could be just an apparition or a shape the witch took specifically for the new generation of goobers ... Also there were 3 2000s BW video games in the continuity!
also, isn't the thing hair witch lady from BW1 an actual local crazy person they interviewed for the movie?
Oh yeah baby.
Am I the only one who finds the lore of Blair witch better and more interesting than the movies? (not hating the movies though)
no your not I'm with you 100%
Question number 1 is mary brown the witch this is a question i have asked myself
If she's not the witch she's definitely the witches sister 😂👍
On question 6 I'll play devil's advocate. Why can't the movies be reenactments? What about all the Historical movies and documentaries that have been made. For example, the Battle of Midway and Battle of Gettysburg. Are you going to tell those two famous battles are just fiction? I hope you aren't that ignorant.
there's a pretty big difference between recreating a historical battle scene and reenacting a recent murder of a specific individual.
@@movietimelines concrete 2004 independently produced Japanese film that is based on the case of the murder of Junko Furuta.
The girl next door another horrific one about Sylvia Likens
I don't see why it can't be a reanactment we wouldn't know how close or lose it would. that being said Dana ain't no reason be calling my man ignorant like that we can all be friendly
19:17 Clever.
I saw a toy that is said to be Blair witch