Blair Witch

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All the President's Men when I was 7. Found it a bit too complicated

Personal recollections of the 1999 Blair Witch release: meeting Heather (Upper Darby), attending advanced screenings in Philly/Jenkintown, and early internet reactions with some viewers treating it like a documentary or believing the actor was dead (e.g., "some people thought that shit was a documentary").

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4/15/26, 09:23 PM
First thing I was ever allowed to stay up past my bedtime for was to watch Space Ghost Coast to Coast with my dad
4/15/26, 09:23 PM
which did more for transgender cinema? castration movie part 2 or five nights at freddys 2
4/15/26, 09:22 PM
Duel Sugarland Express Jaws Raiders Of The Lost Ark Temple Of Doom Last Crusade Jurassic Park Catch Me If You Can (So many I haven’t seen in recent years, and so many I have unpacked childhood ish with, but this would be my Least Triggering 8.)
4/15/26, 09:21 PM
between the Roland Emmerich Godzilla movie and Lost In Space, 1998 was a ROUGH year to be the parent of an autistic monster-freak child (me)
4/15/26, 09:20 PM
Dad took me to see Vincent Price in THE TINGLER. Dad sat in one of the chairs that was hooked up to PERCEPTO that sent a shock when there was a cue. When Vincent Price yelled THE TINGLER IS LOOSE IN THE THEATER Percepto was turned on and Dad jumped from his chair...
4/15/26, 09:18 PM
The Matrix. I was like 6 when I saw it at home with my brother and father, and like 2-3 years later for Reloaded. It wasn't until I was 18-19 until I watched Revolution and I re-watched the other two before the fact. I guess being a kid and watching action scenes was still cool, but I obviously (+)
4/15/26, 09:17 PM
Too young or perfect timing! I saw Jaws in an over sold theater! They legit set up folding chairs/let people sit on the floor! 70’s man! I didn’t swim in Lake Michigan for the entire summer. My best friends bro convinced us sharks could get in thru the St. Lawrence seaway and adapt to fresh water 😅!
4/15/26, 09:11 PM
The Exorcist when I was around 8. That was an experience
4/15/26, 09:07 PM
Tzipporah made quite an impact on a younger me when I first saw THE PRINCE OF EGYPT
4/15/26, 09:05 PM
Scarface. Even though my mom closed my eyes during the chainsaw scene, it haunted me for YEARS.
4/15/26, 09:05 PM
Psycho probably. I think I was like 10. Idk, I think I turned out great..
4/15/26, 09:02 PM
About 5 years old watching full metal jacket with my dad
4/15/26, 09:02 PM
When I was 12 my mom rented Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle for movie night 😅
4/15/26, 08:59 PM
I saw Click at 7 years old... in THEATERS no less IDK that's the best I got
4/15/26, 08:56 PM
The Birds. Stand By Me. Thelma and Louise. Mom made me leave the room during the first graphic scene for that one. But I got to come back and watch their crime spree!
Oh but that's a GREAT movie. I loved all the animated "let's care about the environment in a very dark and scary way" fr...
4/15/26, 08:56 PM
there was a LOT of "wouldn't it be fucking terrifying to be a mouse or other small woodland creature" about and it definitely had an impact, watership down and animals of farthing wood also emotionally devastating but politically formative 😂
4/15/26, 08:51 PM
Walt Disney's Fantasia. I was removed, screaming, from the cinema.
4/15/26, 08:51 PM
Looks like I can still completely recite Kung Pow from start to finish even tho I haven't seen it in years 🤣 My brother and I were obsessed with this movie when we were kids lmao
4/15/26, 08:50 PM
My uncle showed me RoboCop when I was about 11 or 12. I couldn't make it through the scene where the guy crashes into the barrel of toxic waste and starts melting alive.
4/15/26, 08:48 PM
Caught the IT miniseries with Tim Curry when I was…7? Not cool!
4/15/26, 08:45 PM
Oh but that's a GREAT movie. I loved all the animated "let's care about the environment in a very dark and scary way" from that era 🤣
"Goal in life: force @thecybersmith.bsky.social to watch "Pink Flamingos" Clockwork Orange style."
4/15/26, 08:43 PM
We watched shit like "La Aventura" and "The Mirror". "The Draftsman's Contract" fucking fills me with rage. I hate that movie.
4/15/26, 08:38 PM
Salems Lot was mine. I was 7. The fuq were my parents thinking?!
Probably the most extreme was "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" when I was 10, thanks to unsupervised HBO...
"Probably the most extreme was "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" when I was 10, thanks to unsupervised HBO on the TV in the basement. I didn't understand how Gene Wilder could be in love with a sheep, but I thought the monster boob attacking people was hilarious. 😁"
4/15/26, 08:36 PM
I wasn’t going to bother posting but this was also my answer to the question
4/15/26, 08:36 PM
Day 13: Titan A.E. (2000) This is for the furries that aren't cowards. Alas, I'm not a furry, but I was surprised how much I liked this. It's not amazing or anything, but it had some good set pieces and designs. Hot take but I like this more than Treasure Planet, but not by much.
4/15/26, 08:35 PM
Brad Stoker’s Dracula. But I got a copy of it for Christmas when I was 8 anyways. It’s still my favorite movie of all time.
4/15/26, 08:35 PM
Probably the most extreme was "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" when I was 10, thanks to unsupervised HBO on the TV in the basement. I didn't understand how Gene Wilder could be in love with a sheep, but I thought the monster boob attacking people was hilarious. 😁
4/15/26, 08:34 PM
All of them. It was the 80s. PG13 didn’t exist yet and PG ran the gamut from one step above Disney to Freddy Kruger. I still carry the scars.
Dancer in the Dark with Björk. Watched with my family in middle school when it came out in 2000 and holy moly
"Dancer in the Dark with Björk. Watched with my family in middle school when it came out in 2000 and holy moly"
4/15/26, 08:32 PM
oh NO
4/15/26, 08:32 PM
A Clockwork Orange, a few weeks before my 18th birthday.
4/15/26, 08:31 PM
I remember my older sister introducing me to Speed (1994) when I was in the fifth grade All-time banger of an action flick
4/15/26, 08:28 PM
I saw "An American Werewolf in London" when I was 11 or 12. Gave me nightmares for years. And even now, as a grown man in his 50s, if I'm walking alone at night and I notice there's a full moon, I find images of werewolves leaping to mind and filling me with irrational dread.
Oh! I met Heather from Blair Witch right when it came out in 1999 at the old school movie theater in Jenkintown. She's f...
4/15/26, 08:27 PM
Blair Witch truly was our generation's "Train Pulling into a Station"
4/15/26, 08:25 PM
Event Horizon My parents were out of town at a conference and I was supposed to be staying at my grandmother's place down the street. She had a cat though and my allergies were going crazy. So I got permission to go home and stay the night by myself. I was maybe 12 or 13 at the time?
4/15/26, 08:25 PM
Robocop. At 3 or 4. Wasn't until I was much older that I realized why That 70s Show used to scare the crap outta me
4/15/26, 08:21 PM
RoboCop. I was two. It's one of my earliest memories.
4/15/26, 08:20 PM
Not a film, but a TV play: Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills, with a bunch of adults playing (eventually horribly traumatised) children. Disturbed me for weeks.
4/15/26, 08:20 PM
Aliens… I must have been 5 or 6 and saw it (some of it. Hid under my seat) with my dad and his swim team. Chest bursting scene traumatized me
Oh! I met Heather from Blair Witch right when it came out in 1999 at the old school movie theater in Jenkintown. She's f...
4/15/26, 08:18 PM
Lol, I saw Blair Witch at an advanced screening in Philly that year. Went in totally blind. It’s true!
4/15/26, 08:17 PM
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Also Faces of Death, though I'm not sure there's any appropriate age to watch Faces of Death.
4/15/26, 08:17 PM
Dancer in the Dark with Björk. Watched with my family in middle school when it came out in 2000 and holy moly
4/15/26, 08:16 PM
What movie did you watch too young? "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover," one of two films that all-but-directly led to the creation of the NC-17 rating.
4/15/26, 08:16 PM
I watched all of those erotic thrillers where Michael Douglas is a jerk and those "Sleeping with the Enemy" domestic thrillers I have no idea why these were always playing in my house
4/15/26, 08:15 PM
I watched Office Space as a teen thinking it was a comedy and not a horror pic
4/15/26, 08:15 PM
I watched Alien the evening of my graduation from kindergarten. We had Taco Bell for the first time that night.
4/15/26, 08:14 PM
I was 8 or 9 and our TV/VCR set-up was bad, even for 1983, so my experience of it was darkness, screaming, and a bell ringing. I lasted about 5 minutes and had shark nightmares for years. I still can't handle people even saying the word "shark" when I'm on a beach.
4/15/26, 08:13 PM
Poltergeist 3. I watched it with a babysitter who repeatedly said throughout, “I don’t think we should be watching this” until it was “I don’t think we should have watched that.” For years afterwards I had recurring nightmares about my reflection trying to kill me. I still don’t really like mirrors.
I saw both Robocop and Neverending Story before I turned 10, but guess which one was way more traumatic? 😭🐴💀
4/15/26, 08:07 PM
Omg 1000000%
4/15/26, 08:06 PM
Oh! I met Heather from Blair Witch right when it came out in 1999 at the old school movie theater in Jenkintown. She's from Upper Darby. This was early internet days so some people thought that shit was a documentary and some people were like I thought you were dead. Lol. Simpler times.
4/15/26, 08:06 PM
I saw both Robocop and Neverending Story before I turned 10, but guess which one was way more traumatic? 😭🐴💀
4/15/26, 08:05 PM
Friday the 13th. It wasn't until a few years ago that I could walk in the woods without constantly looking behind me to make sure I wasn't being stalked by a supernatual psychopath.
When VTRs were still relatively new, one of my teachers was told to rent Watcher in the Woods, a Disney film, for the cl...
4/15/26, 08:03 PM
We saw RATHER A LOT before she came rushing back in to stop the tape.
4/15/26, 08:02 PM
When VTRs were still relatively new, one of my teachers was told to rent Watcher in the Woods, a Disney film, for the class to watch. Apparently confused by the alliteration, she instead got Last House on the Left and buggered off to the teachers lounge immediately after starting it...
4/15/26, 08:01 PM
1982 poltergeist My parents said It was rated PG and had a cute blonde girl about the same age as me in it
4/15/26, 07:58 PM
The Exorcist (1973) when I was 11 or 12... And I watched it dubbed in French which somehow made it worse... It's been over 30 years and I still think about it.
Omega Man with Charlton Heston when I was about 8 - The Fog when I was 10
"Omega Man with Charlton Heston when I was about 8 - The Fog when I was 10"
4/15/26, 07:31 PM
My Dad brought me to see ‘Jaws’ in 1975. I was five. Ticket guy tried to stop us and my father was having none of it. Funnily enough, the only bit that sticks in memory is the bit where Brody is making faces with his youngest.
4/15/26, 07:16 PM
Omega Man with Charlton Heston when I was about 8 - The Fog when I was 10
4/15/26, 07:08 PM
The only movie he said I wasn’t allowed to watch was The Matrix when I was a teenager and to this day I don’t know why that was the line drawn
4/15/26, 07:07 PM
Alien. My father brought home a film about what he called "a space dragon". I was 8 or 9 meaning my brother was 5 or 6. We were fucking traumatied during that scene.
4/15/26, 06:53 PM
I know a couple of cusp boomers/Xers that saw it as kids in theaters and ended up with a religious mom for the next decade.
4/15/26, 06:50 PM
Dallas writer: I still refer to "Dawn of the Dead" as "the best documentary about Dallas in the Eighties ever made."
4/15/26, 06:30 PM
When I was in the Coast Guard, it was Super Troopers. I film it's Living in Oblivion.
4/15/26, 06:27 PM
The exorcist absolutely petrified me, I was only 14
4/15/26, 06:26 PM
Snowfall, Rent, Pose and Boyz N The Hood are fundamental watches for me because they cover the epidemics that jacked up my family so bad that when I was born they projected those fears onto me. Like I don’t think a lot people understand what it’s like growing up in the aftermath of the 80s.
4/15/26, 06:11 PM
It was Quint going into the shark feet first that did for me. Still don’t like deep water now!
4/15/26, 06:00 PM
Yep, I was probably 11 when I watched The Evil Dead 😱
4/15/26, 05:57 PM
the Rocky Horror Picture Show! I remember my parents (and me!) watching it every Halloween from the time I was probably 6? They always made me cover my eyes during the part where Eddie's dead body is shown, but never anything else lol
4/15/26, 05:47 PM
I felt this way watching Wonder Woman 84, when she "flies" and they play that one track from Sunshine (I think) that was in every movie trailer for awhile. (Needless to say, I already didn't like the movie but that didn't help)
4/15/26, 05:46 PM
The Night of the Demon when I was about 11, and the Hammer Horror TV series
4/15/26, 05:39 PM
My dad insisted we watch The Godfather. It's his favourite film.
4/15/26, 05:38 PM
I'm not sure when I first saw that. Young, but older than 4. I remember in the first video shop we used to go to, the cover scared the bjesus out of me. I saw the Italian horror, "Demons 2" at a silly early age and was traumatised, though.
4/15/26, 05:37 PM
Hoo boy. Where do I start? My dad's idea of bonding with me before going to secondary school was to put on 15/18 cert films on a Friday night, especially horror. I saw the original Alien Trilogy, The Shining, Nightmare On Elm Street, any Stephen King adaptation, Robocop, and Goodfellas.
4/15/26, 05:28 PM
The neverending story. Still haunts me.
4/15/26, 05:22 PM
Nightmare on Elm Street. The guy can get me in my dreams while I’m sleeping. There’s no escape and I struggled to sleep for about 4 years 😂
4/15/26, 05:22 PM
something something the trauma of seeing a war movie too young made me really interested in them as an adult?? is this anything??
4/15/26, 05:22 PM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978. My father took me to this movie! I was seven!! The scream at the end haunted me for years.
"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OQiQk8AJ0YI&pp=ygUaZGF2aWQgbHluY2ggbW92aWUgb24gcGhvbmU%3D I fucking love David Lynch"
4/15/26, 05:18 PM
I saw VHS version of Lost Highway on a tv in a basement in the middle of the night when i was a kid. That seemed like the ideal way to experience the movie. It was terrifying in a way that digital just can’t match.
4/15/26, 05:18 PM
Aliens. I'm not sure how old exactly I was, but definitely under 10 yo. Had to switch from top bunk bed to bottom because I was afraid the xenomorphs would come through the ceiling, couldn't go to the toilet alone for weeks because I thought a face hugger would come through the sewer 😅
4/15/26, 05:18 PM
really funny that i remember this movie being talked about when i was like 11 or 12 i think.
4/15/26, 05:18 PM
if anything I watched all movies too old. I was such a weenie kid.
4/15/26, 05:18 PM
Honestly, my dad wasn't really particular about the movies he took me to. He took me along to see "Montenegro" when I was about 13. In no way is a Swedish movie about a frustrated woman discovering the pleasures of dissolution appropriate for a 13 year old.
4/15/26, 05:11 PM
I downloaded an HQ 1080 mp4, but you can see it here, for free! If you loved the original Omen (1976) - you may enjoy this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eeo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eeo...
4/15/26, 05:11 PM
For some reason, I found the TV series "V" in the early 80s as quite disturbing. Not sure why, now, looking back! Frankly, now, I'd welcome our alien reptile overlords! Anything would be better.
4/15/26, 05:07 PM
When I was 12 or 13 I’d watch the Friday night film on RTE 2 (which was generally from the 70s/80s/early 90s) & involved tonnes of violence/nudity sitting in my grandparents kitchen while everyone played 41 in the sitting room.
4/15/26, 05:02 PM
This is really interesting. I've never seen advertising where "Once Upon a Forest" was titled as "The Endangered" before. Apparently, it had several names that were considered too scary for kids including "Beyond the Yellow Dragons" which is a much cooler title.
4/15/26, 05:00 PM
Think I was about 9 when I watched Alien and I fucking loved it.
4/15/26, 04:57 PM
My mind automatically goes to horror movies but, looking outside that genre, I'd say FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH as I was still in the single digits.
4/15/26, 04:55 PM
We used to visit family friends who had only one animation VHS, that one, and we would be parked in front of it ever time. We were at one point begging for anything else, anything
4/15/26, 04:52 PM
Saw Terminator 2 when I was like 15 and The Nuclear War dream that Sarah Conner has in it kinda messed me up
4/15/26, 04:52 PM
Silence of the Lambs I watched alone on a ferry to Denmark. It was a trip with the youth band I played flute in. I did not like the ending.
4/15/26, 04:51 PM
Mine was Elm Street 2: Freddy's Dead and my sisters rented it out when it first came out on video so think I was only about 7/8. Same reaction as you!
4/15/26, 04:32 PM
Speaking of Monty Python, I saw The Meaning of Life when it came out and a good three quarters of the (Catholic) audience walked out during the “every sperm is sacred” opening song lol
4/15/26, 03:58 PM
Poltergeist, I was about 6 at a friends where they could do what they want/watch what they want. I’ve never really been able to watch horror films since.
4/15/26, 03:56 PM
All the President's Men when I was 7. Found it a bit too complicated

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