The Blair Witch Project (1999) with George Daniel Lea and Elliot Chapman
My October odyssey through the Media Hauntological with erudite and enthusiastic pod-mates Elliot Chapman and George Daniel Lea continues and culminates with a consideration of 1999's terrifying, ominous, ineffable, and intensely freighted 'Found Footage' classic The Blair Witch Project, taking in digressions on The Terror, Stalker, Come and See, Salò, Cannibal Holocaust, Doctor Who, Peter Watkins, David Bowie, Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Lovecraft, and LeGuin.
We had some technical problems at the start and poor old George was a bit runny of nose with a nasty cold (rather appropriate given that BWP features some of the most celebrated snot-shots in cinematic history) but I've worked my usual folk magic and made it so listenable your ears will love you for the rest of their lives, and maybe even of yours.
As ever, you're getting it in advance of non-payers... though possibly not that much in advance because, let's face it, this has to go up on the 31st.
There's a substantial off-cut from the end of this conversation which you'll get as a separate extra.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project
Content warnings abound.
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Comments (2)
You have all blown my mind with the revelation that Stalker was pre-Chernobyl. I'd never really looked into the history of that brilliant movie because it just seemed so obvious that it was responding to Chernobyl. Wow.
There is another piece of media I would like for this group to go into - Anatomy by Kitty Horror show - it is a short horror game (1 hour or so.) which has a lot of similarities to the themes you have brought up repeatedly about a house which is haunted. $3 for a good thing which would be despite it being an interactive medium being exactly in line with the themes of this series. https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/anatomy