Important "what if" question.

[derick]

Say like before 1999, years before that, say like you were walking in the woods near your home and you found an old beat up VHS tape that still works, no label or nothing. Curious, you take it home put it in your VCR and its TBWP, minus the credits (before & after TBWP). and you saw the whole thing from beggining where Heather shows her home to the ending where Heather screams and that camera hits the floor. You never heard of this movie, in fact it wasnt a movie, it was a homemade video. What would your reaction be?

[captainspalding]

Call the police.

[Anarchist86ed]

sell it as my own creation.

[derick]

Apr 16, 2010 13:34:40 GMT -6 Anarchist86ed said:

sell it as my own creation.

And what would you do if whoever you were selling it to asks you where those filmmakers are?
Remember your in a "reality where this may or may not be real.

[Tweek]

I'd assume it was real and call the cops.

[derick]

Interesting answers from both Tweek and CaptianSpalding (although confused and amused by Anarchist, LOL) I think the point i'm trying to make in this thread was that was the main reason why TBWP scared me in the first place. Even though i knew it was "only a movie", i still went away from the film feeling as if i just saw an abandoned tape that featured real-life deaths of 3 filmmakers. that feeling alone, in my opinion, is what sold TBWP, and is the significant key on why it's the horror classic it is today. And also why when i do hear stories of actual footages real-life deaths on film like from JFK assisination (in which we seen over & over so many times till we're desensitized to it) to the Christine Chubbuck story and Bud Dwyer story, it disturbs and depresses me but it also makes me think of our favorite classic indy horror film and why i now look at TBWP as a comfort. This is really what made me take another look at this film, recently. Its hard to explain really. But i guess i always wanted to make that point..but i just didnt know how.
Someone once told me that psychology says our psyche's do not sort out visuals as being from fantasy; it is all recorded as real ...
Murder is murder to our mind's lens ... However in Documentery style horror like TBWP, its even more true...and more realistic.

[captainspalding]

In pyschology you may be talking about "Suspension of disbelief ".

Here's a good defintion I found.

The ultimate goal of audible and visual communication systems. The point at which our brains are tricked into believing that what we are hearing and/or seeing is not a reproduction but is, in fact, really happening in our own physical space and time

[derick]

I sorta made this point on another board which didnt get recieved too well. I sorta created a scenereo where you gave someone 2 VHS tapes and one of them was TBWP (decredited, like i mentioned before) and the other was the 1974 broadcast of the Christine Chubbuck suicide and you tell him/her that only one was real, he/she wouldnt be able to tell which was real and which was fake. That scenereo didnt really go down so good on the horror forum i was on.

[doctorwho295]

I would call the police, then try to forget it by watching "Airplane!" and the Naked Gun series over and over.

[terror93]

I would be very scared, but I probably wouldn't do anything. I wouldn't know what to think. I'd be frozen in fear and honestly would try to forget what I had seen.

[terror93]

I'm stealing this thread and posting it on IMDB too, if the original poster doesn't mind. (Not that he will ever find out because it looks like he hasn't been online in a while).

[xBlairWitchLegendx]

I would probley crap myself then call the police, I can only imagine what it would be like finding something like that in the woods.

[voke]

I'd probably cry for a few hours, and try and find as much information about the people that featured in the tape. There has to be some record of them missing, right?

[hannah]

First, I'd be frozen with shock and fear, then probably turn it into the police. I'd like to be a part of the search party, but I doubt they'd allow me that privilege.

[darktruth]

The police? No way, man - I'd get a passport, hop on a plane, and set out on a one-way trip to Burkittsville!

I'd bring a camera, o'course.