Why do you guys like this movie again?

Why do you guys like this movie again?

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Because 99.5% of it is people arguing in the woods.

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>little babby millennial detected
sounds like a a description of blair witch fans

the bwp is fucking shit

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It's like modern art. People pretend to like to look smart.

It's admittedly something of a 'you had to be there' movie. It was released right on the cusp of the internet age where they used viral marketing but there was no wikipedia or a way to find out everything about the movie's production.

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>first hand held found footage movie
>never showed the antagonist on screen
>first decent horror movie in a while
>extremely low budget, still had a high production value
saw it in theaters when i was 10; loved it. watching it now; it's shit.

OP has just 20+ years of big dumb blockbuster horror movies where everything is spelled out for the audience. It started withJaws and kept peaking until 1999. After the reset, horror movies went big again with less gimmicks

>he doesn't get the concept of suspense build-up and anxiety

It was the FIRST of its kind. It was marketed as a "found footage documentary". No one was sure what they were watching. Initially a lot of people thought it was real.

This. I'm sure someone is about to bring up Cannibal Holocaust but it wasn't the same thing approach.

>first hand held found footage movie
That was Cannibal Holocaust I'm pretty sure. Don't think there was one before it.

we're all thinking it; just no one wants to say it.

(me)
i was wrong

t. Retard that doesn't know what the millennial generation is

Five Across The Eyes is unironically better, lower budget, more "minimalist", and more indie/cult/snob cred.
Especially in Europe where generic north-middle-USA flavoring is exotic.

You HAVE seen Five Across The Eyes haven't you Sup Forums? You're not PLEBS are you?

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The difference is that Cannibal Holocaust was only partially a found footage movie. It also had traditionally scripted and shot scenes. BWP's entirety was presented as the recovered footage without any sort of framing device.

Okay then that one made for TV alien abduction movie. That has documentary-like interviews cut in between the hand held footage but I think it should still count.

BWP definitely was the one that popularized it though. Partially because of what someone was talking about above with its marketing campaign that permeated the talk back around when it was coming out. It came out at the perfect time for its marketing to work.

To be fair, I was 17 when BWP was released an I'm still considered a millennial.

>without any sort of framing device.
there were a couple of scenes shot in b&w that were "documentary" scenes; nothing really worth mentioning though.

>suggests a movie made 7 years after the bwp
bwp was great because it was the first that started a handy cam craze.

>to everyone in this thread
the poughkeepsie tapes is the best found footage movie with a close second being troll hunter; though neither came out before bwp.

>a couple of scenes shot in b&w

Are you talking about them interviewing the various locals? Those were of course there to establish the backstory and set up the ending but they were still all filmed using their cameras.

So like no country for old men?

I don't give a fuck about something being original because I watch movies to enjoy them, not to fellate the BRILLIANT DIRECTORS

How accurate is Wikipedia's plot summary?

>On their way home from a football game, five high school girls get lost in an area known as "the eyes". An ensuing accident with a parked SUV in a store parking lot causes the students to panic and flee the scene. A vehicle with one headlight starts to follow them until the driver traps them on a deserted road. The driver thinking that they wrecked her marriage forces the five girls from their vehicle, forces them to strip and urinate on their clothing at gunpoint. After letting them go the driver continues to pursue them throughout the film and performs several violent and sexual acts on them. The girls also discover that in the back of the driver's truck there are dead bodies. They get their revenge however, when they stab the driver multiple times with a screwdriver and light her corpse on fire. They eventually return to the store to find that the driver killed everyone in the store and drove off. The movie ends with the girls driving off into the night, one of them puking and then another girl who is driving tells her not to mess up her mother's car.

I remember I started watching this at a friend's house not long after it came out. Didn't make it through very much of it from what I recall, probably found it boring. Maybe I should give it another shot now that I'm older.

Almost entirely and...now you almost don't need to see the movie at all, literally gives away almost the entire plot right up front...thanks Wikipedia.

That summary makes it sound like softcore porn though, it's actually horror-horror.

Sounds interesting but I don't think it's actually a found footage movie. Just very, very low budget.