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Post by Craig on Jun 13, 2006 8:56:28 GMT -6
Hello Mandy, I'm Craig, Welcome to the forum
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Post by jeffenator on Jun 20, 2006 14:56:42 GMT -6
Hi I am Jeff. Iv'e been a member since Nov 05. I Like the second movie better. My favorite characters are Kim and Erica. I'm glad that there are others out there like me that are obbsessed with Kim.
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Post by madmartigan on Jul 27, 2006 15:19:56 GMT -6
hey i'm matt from milton keyens in england. im 18 and i love tha blair witch movies, espcially KIM from the second one
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Spider
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-Star of the Freak Show-
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Post by Spider on Aug 7, 2006 12:08:17 GMT -6
Hello. My name is a common one and I'm over in the Canadian off-spring state named Maine. I'm into urban exploration, gore, carnivals/amusement parks, and evidentally the Blair Witch Project! I also like to draw and write, but I don't really do that as often as I used to anymore. It just pissed me off because usually the way I write out the stories doesnt sound as good as it did in my head. Anyway, I'm sixteen if you can't tell. I really hate admitting that. At some point I like being "young", but in others..
To make this short, even though it isn't already, I'm just going to wrap it up with this. If anyone wants to chat. Feel free to catch me on yahoo messenger..since that's the only IM-ing thing I use. I'm not as stupid as I sound. I've got many stories. If anyone wants to hear..I'll be here.
-S
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mehr
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Post by mehr on Oct 6, 2006 14:31:12 GMT -6
hi,this is mehr.i live in pakistan n the only relation i hav with the bw is tht i hav all its books,but i wud really be interested 2 know more abt it.
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BlairDarkness
kicker of useless maps
Hello there, the angel from my nightmare*The shadow in the background of the morgue..........
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Post by BlairDarkness on Nov 3, 2006 22:40:38 GMT -6
HEY, everyone i don't know if any of you that have been here for over 2 years remember me. but i used to be on here everyday single day, i return today after not being on here for over two years. hello again to tweek and lunasea. i missed this place!
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grant158
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Sometimes the things we find mere sick dreams may be the work of a miracle in anothers eyes
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Post by grant158 on Nov 29, 2006 23:27:04 GMT -6
Hello my name is Grant Ryan Hoeft I regularily get high and i enjoy studying serial killers and strange myths. People have found me a dark person with troubled feelind and i tend to scare people quite be known that i am simply a person who sees things in his head you will never begin to understand in a million i have been also known to make people not want to sleep by directly understanding their problem and making them think deeply about what i mean once you people begin to understand me though it will all come into place. For many years of my life i have loved investigating things without actually getting down n dirty at the crime scene. The number one thing i love is mind games so dont mind me, i can also be a very fun person so thats my introduction i hope i have a good time on this forum...
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Post by Tweek on Jul 22, 2007 7:35:22 GMT -6
I see a lot of new faces on the board. Welcome everyone!
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ezekiel2517
crosser of fallen logs
Put your faith in the lord, your ass belongs to me !
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Post by ezekiel2517 on Oct 22, 2007 4:12:13 GMT -6
Ok, hi everyone I just joined here, I'm ezekiel 25:17, yeh you guessed it. If anybody wishes to chat to me about anything, not just the bwp, its cool as well, oh I'm from Britain, so I call life savers polos and spell colour with a "u"!
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Post by DanLaw83 on Oct 24, 2007 20:15:17 GMT -6
Hey everybody...SPREAD THE WORD on this board...Get the posting back up again...:-)
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ahdvnhay
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Post by ahdvnhay on Nov 23, 2007 20:10:03 GMT -6
hey. I used to post here a few years back as "benpadiah," but I'm retiring that account with 123 posts (my lucky number) and starting up this one. Just like "benpadiah" was a reference to Yeshuah Ben Pandera, the actual person the biblical character of Jesus was based on, so is "ahdvnhay" a reference to the "true name" of God (YHVH, the vowels, are backwards interspersed with ADNA, or Adonai, meaning "Lord"). So, "ben Padiah" returns as "AHDVNHAY." Of course, I'm really only one person, still the same old me. My "real" (Christian) name is Jon Gee (like the character in Memento, or so I'm told, I've never seen it). I'm an author of textbooks about arcane topics such as theoretical physics, ancient calendars, demonology and hidden history. One of my books, the MPDR (Metaphysician's Desk Reference) is available on amazon.com. All of my works are available as e-books at my site, either free on the forum, or for sale on my site, www.benpadiah.com . When I was here before as "benpadiah," I posted threads like "space weather," "QBLH/Gnosis/Thelema," and "my little book on metaphysics." These were all intended to build up to a point I never made as "benpadiah." I hope to make that point as "ahdvnhay." However, it is very difficult for me to express because, although I've spent a decade researching it, no school teaches what I've learned; my lack of credentials often distaracts people away from the possible legitimacy of what I'm saying. The "great work" of bringing my message to the masses has proven more difficult than I had at first hoped. I'll get straight to my point now: The Blair Witch Project is not only a movie. It is a temporal key. It opened the door to the new millennium. (The lock, now past, was an alignment of the seven "alchemical" planets on May 5th, 2000. The gateway to the future is the alignment of the earth and sun with the black hole at galactic core that will occur on December 21st, 2012. Between these dates all is in flux, a Matrix-esque "virtual" reality we call the present.) The nature of a key determines which lock it fits, and thus which door it will open. Consider Plato's metaphor of the Cave, and compare this to the movie theatre. The characters on the stage, or screen, are representative of our own, collectively-shared psychological processes as audience members; they are always archetypal. However, what is unique in the case of the Blair Witch Project is what archetypes were portrayed. The three characters in the film represent the archetypal trinity of the proto-typical past, the crucible of the present, and the transcendent future. Mike is like Adam, ancient father of mankind, Heather like the ever-present "holy ghost," Isis or Sophia, and Josh like Jesus, bringer of the New Age. The references to this are veiled, but obvious to those predisposed to look. The situation the characters were in was also representative of our own condition of being, essentially acting out the metaphor of the cave, describing the nature of the audience to the audience itself. But the characters we saw were not the only ones who played a part in the film. For each of the characters we saw there was a ghostly reflection, a "night-side," double or counterpart. For two of them these were the directors, the ones behind the scenes, who operated on the actions we saw from a distance where we could not see them. In the same way the three on-screen characters represented the concept of the triune God-head, the two directors off-screen played the role of the double-headed Satan and Moloch, in juxtaposition to their actors in every way. However, there was a third counterpart for the third character, who represented the true essence of God aside from the trinue nature and its shadow of dualism. The final character was the "Blair Witch" herself. As I have said, there is evidence for this to those with an eye to see it. Consider Heather's line "the evidence is all around us, etched in stone." Obviously this refers to the graves of the "unusually high number of children laid to rest here." However there is an implied double-meaning, refering as far back as to the late paleolithic period, when the first monumental petroglyphs were raised and the alphabet first formed. Likewise, the stream they crossed to enter the "dark forest" of our collective unconscious could be considered correspondent to the world-flood; "All our boots are wet," again, refering to the characters as representative archetypes. If we allow ourselves to continue this, apparently superfluous, interpretative mental excercise, we can even muse that the "piles of rocks" represented the pyramids and that the "stick-men" hung in the trees represented the constellations. The stick-figure itself is particularly meaningful seen from the angle of the 5 principle characters - 3 actors, 2 directors. Of course, as I have also said, these meanings are veiled and too easy to disregard. Now, we could look at the way the plot-line of the film progresses, like the free-form flowing of a stream of consciousness, and come to the conclusion that its mysterious ending is an equally well-designed and intentional metaphor representing a descisive symbolism for the end of time. I won't do that. Instead, I'd like to propose that the ending we saw was a cosmic lie. It has allowed movie-goers to confuse a key to understanding our entire universe with a simple horror film, and thus to overlook its breakthroughs in minimalist directing, low-budget production, cinema-verite camerawork, the best acting ever captured on a recordable medium, as well as the entire mythos created from its pre-release ad-campaign, not to mention the broader implications of it when taken as part of the concourse of historical theatre. The end left us hanging, and that is why the sequel was made. However, I propose that the universe in which the sequel was set was a divergent one based on the cliff-hanger ending of the first film. If we unveil the truth: that the ending was false, then we can entirely disregard the impact it had on the divergent sequel's universe. Let me put this bluntly because it won't be easy to digest: if the characters DID NOT DIE at the end of the first film, then their deaths being a prerequisite for the premise of the sequel's plot is entirely undermined. Let me restate that: at the end of the first film, the characters were only MISSING. Not Dead. Whether or not they were dead was the basis for having a sequel. And this is where we come to what has been my theory on the film all along. Why was the ending we saw chosen? We now know that multiple alternative endings were considered, and that at least one or two that were shot have survived until now, though remain, to my knowledge, as yet unreleased. It was chosen to hide something, a simple fact that some of us now, years after the fact, are beginning to realise may, just MAY, have been a possibility within the universe described by the original film: time-travel. I won't make any argument for this either, because, from what I've heard lately, one is already being made by others. I'll simply toss out the idea that the end of the first film intentionally tanked its initial premise as a "black-op," a cover-up for something it had been hinting at all along. Anyway, that's pretty much my take on the film. I'll try to elaborate further in future posts, should I choose to stick around. Either way, it's good to have come here and to have finally gotten that off my chest after so long. Hope to hear from anyone interested either here or by email. Thanks to all who took the time to read this. -Jon
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Post by Tweek on Nov 23, 2007 21:47:15 GMT -6
Welcome back
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Post by DanLaw83 on Nov 24, 2007 0:00:12 GMT -6
YES WELCOME back!
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Post by horror4ever on Nov 24, 2007 15:24:43 GMT -6
[glow=red,2,300]Welcome Back![/glow]
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thebodyelectric
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Things Are Never As They Seem
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Post by thebodyelectric on Jul 23, 2008 16:59:09 GMT -6
Hello, my name is Mairi and I'm new. I know this site's not as hoppin as it once was, but I joined anyways. Umm, I am almost eighteen, and The Blair Witch Project is one of my favorite movies, so yeah. I want to get my bachelors' in fine art and then who knows. I like to bake, I like to take long walks in the woods.
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Post by Heather, taking a piss. on Aug 12, 2008 1:42:51 GMT -6
This is so strange. I always come back here, to the woods, by this time of the year. Something calls me, every year, each time with a different reincarnation.
I'm so excited for what's coming. The woods, feel like home.
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duraly
crosser of fallen logs
"I just got my whole sh1t wet"
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Post by duraly on Oct 21, 2008 20:47:43 GMT -6
Hey everybody, New to the site and man the few minutes I have been able to spend on the site(before the update....just my luck find the site and less than 12 hours later its getting updated)have really re-sparked my Blair fanboyism again. Love all the footage,docs,and journals that I have never seen before . Cant wait to see more!!!!! But anywho....Hello to all!!!!!
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Post by horror4ever on Oct 22, 2008 11:12:19 GMT -6
[glow=red,2,300]HEY, WELCOME!!!![/glow]
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Post by Heather, taking a piss. on Nov 8, 2008 4:49:44 GMT -6
Welcome basquet. A pink one.
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cmmaniac
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Post by cmmaniac on Nov 17, 2008 13:12:27 GMT -6
Hi, My name is Tiago, I'm a major movie fan (especially within the Horror genre, in the likes of The Shining, The Omen - 1976 -, The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 1974 -, The Amityville Horror - 1980 -, and so on), and recently I decided to make a review in a movies site which I am a member of - www.flixster.com/user/dralanstatham - that stood as a homeage to The Blair Witch Project, as most people I know, through internet or personally, seem to underrate it/overrate it for all the wrong reasons. I found no better place to paste it, and as this seems to be the proper place for those... here goes: ""As the characters run out of food, we started giving the actors less and less food..." "Besides the fact that we wanted to keep them safe, we wanted to push them as far as possible." Eduardo Sánchez, director "They wanted us to be hungry and tired, so they did the sleep depravation, and they stopped feeding us... which is a great way to create animosity, for future reference." Joshua Leonard, lead actor "By applying the same physical and mental stresses to the actors - lack of food, lack of sleep, walking them around, fucking with them at night -, we hoped by the time we really needed them to freak out, they would be able to tap into areas of their psyche they normally wouldn't be able to tap into." Gregg Hale, producer and former U.S. Special Army Forces linguist "There was actually a clause on our contracts about mental health..." Heather Donahue, lead actress "You're waking up out of an extreme tiredness... your mind isn't quite where it should be... I mean, you can feel the blood pumping out of your skin cause it's so eerie, the sounds and the noises." Michael C. Williams, lead actor "We were given our instructions upon coming up to their campsite - no talking, walk quietly. We pressed on for about another minute, then finally you could see the light coloring of a tent off in the distance. Everyone took his or her places. We created a triangle around the tent but from way out. On queue - the guys hit play on the three tape players, out comes the high-pitched screech of a child - then laughter, then children talking. The actors are waking up - you could hear them talking. Then the guys begin to do footsteps in the leaves. Then, some of the guys go up and begin to violently shake the tent. The actors begin to scream and eventually run from the tent out into the woods. Their cameras rolling." From the journal of Stefanie DeCassan, film crew member "...and the tent started shaking and we heard babies crying outside, and so I think that all of our first reaction was 'I'm not getting up... this is not happening...'" Joshua Leonard, lead actor There's something about The Blair Witch Project most people fail to realize. This is not just a movie trying to pass as a documentary with great marketing outcomes. This is the one of the sickest, daunting, barely legal human breaking experiences ever made in cinema. Haxan and Artisan really went off their way trying to pass this as a true story until their premiere at the Sundance Festival. But co-directors Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick also pushed things to the limits while trying to give the acting and shooting a sense of creepy realism. For that purpose, they hired three inexperienced and unknown actors with high improvisational skills, gave them a crash course on the filming equipment, sent them to the woods in Seneca Creek State Park, Maryland, and directed them remotely, giving them no script dialogues and only a brief guideline of what was to come. The result is a genuinely terrifying experience which proves to be like no other, if you embrace it as it should be embraced. This is getting more and more difficult to achieve, as some parts of the movie have now been spoofed beyond maximum tolerance and without deserving that treatment. But giving it the proper personal investment, you will be dragged into the woods with three people. And you will feel confused, scared, exhausted, hunted, haunted, and on the verge of physical and mental collapse. All these were felt by the actors at some point. You stretch your physical and mental limits, and you will end up entering a different, unfamiliar reality, where nothing's certain or safe anymore. The most eerie and haunting fear of all is the fear of the unknown. If you end up being led by the darkest places of your imagination, you'll end up seing the most frightening things under the dimmest light... For all this, and because I can truly feel that when I can create the right conditions upon viewing of this film, The Blair Witch Project stands in my book as the ultimate horror experience, side by side with the cult classics that gave me true nightmares when I was younger. Top notch. "This pretty much mirrors all my thoughts about this work of art. Not sure if this will ever reach anyone involved in the making of the movie, but nevertheless, I just wanted to show my deepest appreciation for this film. Last, and as contraditcory as it may seem, I'd just like to say I'm firmly against a Blair Witch 3. Don't get me wrong, I would truly like to see more of your work within the Horror genre, I definitely would. But not related to this movie. The Blair Witch Project is one of those rare movies that deserves to be alone, with no strings attached to it, sharing its superior uniqueness. Cheers, and thanks again for what you've brought to the worthy side of cinema.
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Post by Dan on Nov 17, 2008 14:35:09 GMT -6
Last, and as contraditcory as it may seem, I'd just like to say I'm firmly against a Blair Witch 3. Don't get me wrong, I would truly like to see more of your work within the Horror genre, I definitely would. But not related to this movie. The Blair Witch Project is one of those rare movies that deserves to be alone, with no strings attached to it, sharing its superior uniqueness. Cheers, and thanks again for what you've brought to the worthy side of cinema. cmmaniac, there have been several films since BLAIR, the first being THE STRAND in 2004, which is not horror but a narrative embedded within reality. In 2006 we made ALTERED, the first HAXAN feature since BLAIR WITCH. Other films already released include BELIEVERS (2007), SOLSTICE (2008) and THE OBJECTIVE (2008). Also in 2008, we are now shopping SEVENTH MOON which has been shot, edited and is ready to go. Personally, I think SEVENTH MOON is the closest to BLAIR in style and content than any of the others released so far. 2009 will bring on some new films that I have no doubt will get you excited.
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cmmaniac
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Post by cmmaniac on Nov 17, 2008 16:40:41 GMT -6
cmmaniac, there have been several films since BLAIR, the first being THE STRAND in 2004, which is not horror but a narrative embedded within reality. In 2006 we made ALTERED, the first HAXAN feature since BLAIR WITCH. Other films already released include BELIEVERS (2007), SOLSTICE (2008) and THE OBJECTIVE (2008). Also in 2008, we are now shopping SEVENTH MOON which has been shot, edited and is ready to go. Personally, I think SEVENTH MOON is the closest to BLAIR in style and content than any of the others released so far. 2009 will bring on some new films that I have no doubt will get you excited. Dan, I probably misexplained myself. What I meant to say is that I would truly like to see more work from you within the horror genre apart from what you have already made. I'm aware of those releases, which I've been really looking forward to see, although sadly, I still haven't been able to get my hands on them. I probably will soon though, and I am particularly looking forward to see Altered, The Objective and Seventh Moon. I have only expressed my feelings regarding the possibility of a Blair Witch 3 as in a movie somehow following the plot of The Blair Witch Project, which I appreciate is unlikely. If the movie shares the title with the first one, but follows a completely different path (as did, in a way, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2), my worries would obviously cease to exist. I will of course follow closely and with great interest your new offers for the upcoming year.
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Post by Tweek on Nov 17, 2008 18:17:42 GMT -6
Welcome to the woods, cmmaniac. Good to see you here!
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cmmaniac
crosser of fallen logs
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Post by cmmaniac on Nov 19, 2008 14:15:44 GMT -6
Welcome to the woods, cmmaniac. Good to see you here! Thanks Tweek. This is the only website pretty much dedicated to a single movie that I became a member of. That's the kind of impact Blair Witch had in my book. My only regret is I didn't join sooner, but I'm still in time for the 10 year anniversary!
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Post by Anarchist86ed on Jan 14, 2009 10:37:29 GMT -6
Get ready for what's coming.
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